
- Architecture,
- Java
- Topics
- Enterprise Architecture
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex, a new porfolio management system, to meet the challenges it faces and why BGI chose to combine mainstream, boutique and open source Java technologies, including Oracle, WebLogic, Spring, Swing, JIDE, Flux, CPLEX, MVEL and XStream, to create an architecture with some interesting variations on the standard J2EE form.

- Java
- Topics
- Web 2.0,
- Javascript
Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.

- .NET,
- Java,
- SOA
- Topics
- Java plus .NET Integration,
- Interop,
- Web Services,
- Messaging
.NET and Java interop can be made really simple using a REST documentcentric approach. This article compares a REST and SOAP approach to interop as well as the advantages of using HTTP POST vs. GET for REST invocations.