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In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:45 +0000

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a company's data management environment. In an exclusive interview with DZone, Ari Zilka, the CTO and co-founder of Terracotta, Inc., explained how his company can solve scalability...

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

stephenrpalmer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:19 +0000

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development books and forums, few actually know much about it. However, if you need to apply agile to larger projects and teams, it is worthwhile taking the time to understand FDD a little more

SOA and Cloud

PaulFremantle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:05:34 +0000

Following on from my post about our WSO2 Cloud announcements, I felt it was important to talk about how I see Cloud intersecting with SOA.References Reference: SOA and Cloud Masoud Kalali

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

Getting REST Right in Spring 3.0

sduskis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:37:30 +0000

I've been working on getting a REST + Hibernate application using the goodies found in Spring 3.0 for my upcoming book - Spring Persistence with Hibernate.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:36 +0000

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this week's PDC conference where Microsoft is promoting their Azure cloud services. Microsoft says that the Azure cloud will come with marketplaces for online apps

CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:40:47 +0000

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009. Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed caching. The Terracotta 3.1.1 server is already extremely fast, but Terracotta is trying to make it even faster. DZone recently spoke with Ari Zilka, the CTO of Terracotta, Inc., in an exclusive interview about the features and...

From ESB to BPEL - Continuing with the RiftSaw-JBossESB Integration

ldimaggi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:08:10 +0000

In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the RiftSaw-JBossESB integration; invoking a RiftSaw BPEL process from an ESB service.Invoking a RiftSaw BPEL Process - From the JBossESB's Perspective, it's a Web ServiceReferences Reference: ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

Transfer Obejcts vs Business Objects - Which Approach Works Best?

alvarovilaplana — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:50:23 +0000

I would like to get the community's feedback on a common technical discussion about what is the best approach, Transfer objects or Business objects (JPA entities) across the tiers. I don't believe there's a golden rule. It depends on the use case, the complexity of the application in terms of architecture and frameworks used.

The Benefits of Testable Code

jsugrue — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:25:27 +0000

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why it's a good thing, it's often left slide in favour of adding functionality to reach deadline, or just to "save" time.

Impression on Scala

riho — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:31:50 +0000

I have been hearing quite a lot of good comments about the Scala programming language. I personally use Java extensively in the past and have switched to Ruby (and some Erlang) in last 2 years. The following features that I heard about Scala really attracts me ... * Scala code is compiled in Java byte code and run natively in JVMs. Code written in Scala immediately enjoy the performance and...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

Inside the New Apache Solr

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:36 +0000

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project. Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. It harnesses the popular Apache Lucene Java search library, which has over 3,000 installations. With the recent release of Solr 1.4, DZone conducted an exclusive...