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Beyond SOA: A New Type of Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - Part II

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Governance,
Business Process Management,
SOA Platforms,
Enterprise Architecture

In this second part of their article, the authors explore the architecture of Dynamic Business Applications and introduce the concept of a Resource Container. They demonstrate how this architecture can be layered on top of JEE and how it impacts implementation productivity.

News about JBoss

Releasing JBoss AS 5: Q&A with Project Lead Dimitris Andreadis

Community
Java
Topics
Application Servers

After a rather long development cycle the JBoss AS 5 RC1 is only a handful of days away from its release. InfoQ caught up with project lead Dimitris Andreadis to discuss the new features and release timeline. Dimitris also comments on Java EE 6 features, the advantages of JBoss AS with respect to competition and their choice of having a pluggable components model instead of sticking just to OSGi.

JBoss Operations Network 2.0 launched: An Integrated Management Platform

Community
Java
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Software Troubleshooting

Red Hat launched JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that aims to simply application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. It includes a new agent with command-line interface with remote agent configuration, extensible APIs for interoperability and true SSL encryption and authentication for bi-directional server-agent communications.

Comparing JEE Servers

Community
Java
Topics
Application Servers

When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Recently Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, coming up with surprising results as well as informative comments.

Articles about JBoss

Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy

Community
Java,
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Interop,
XML Databinding,
Web Services

InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.

Introduction to JBoss Seam

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks

JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB3, Portlets, and BPM. This article is an editted excerpt of chapters 1 and 2 from the first (to-be-released) book on Seam by Michael Yuan and Thomas Heute. It explains what Seam can do and grounds the concepts with a HelloWorld example.

Casestudy: Brasilian National Healthcare System

Community
Java
Topics
Stories & Case Studies

This casestudy takes a detailed look at the implementation and architecture behind the Brasilian National Healthcare System, a 2M line of code, truly mission critical Java application. Lessons learned, best practices, and details down to the interaction diagram are covered

Interviews about JBoss

Peter Kriens discusses OSGi

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Technology,
Embedded Devices,
Enterprise Architecture,
Application Servers,
JCP Standards

InfoQ recently sat down with Peter Kriens of the OSGi Alliance to learn more about OSGi. Kriens discussed OSGi's origins in the mobile space, it's integration with Eclipse, the current integration work with Spring, and the future R5 specification. He also discussed the ongoing debate over OSGi and JSR 277, and gave his perspective on what an ideal solution would be for modularity at the JVM level.

Presentations about JBoss

Java EE Class Loading Architectures

Community
Java
Topics
Application Servers,
Deployment / Datacenter

Ernie Svehla, Chief Architect of IntelliObjects reviews Java Class Loading basics, comparing the class loading architectures of the Sun's Appserver 9, BEA WebLogic 9.1, and JBoss 4.0.2. The presentation concludes with a discussion of best practices for packaging JEE applications followed by techniques for resolving common class loading problems such as ClassNotFoundException, or NoDefFound Errors.