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Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ

Posted by Niclas Nilsson on Jun 15, 2008 03:24 PM

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
AOP,
Portal/CMS,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Community
Tags
AspectJ,
Spring,
JSR 170,
WebWork,
Qcon London 2007,
QCon

InfoQ.com is a next generation web app/portal implementation combining the latest advancements in portal technology (JSR 170) and web development (WebWork, Spring, AspectJ). In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com; from initial requirements (or lack theoreof), designs, implementation choices, and deployment issues, and all the lessons learned along the way.

In the talk, they examine some of the most interesting features of the site and show their implementation in the web layer, domain model, and DB of a modern tag-driven CMS approach that is the foundation of InfoQ.com.

From the presentation:

Our experiences with JCR

  • Pros

    • storage schema (JCR doesn’t impose a fixed schema)
    • Search built into the spec (Jackrabbit ships with Lucene)
    • XPath query language
    • Support for versioning
    • Support for locking
    • Data portability - import/export between JSR 170 implementations and storage systems
    • Hierarchical schema makes i18n easy
  • Cons

    • Lack of tooling - no SQL Explorer/data admin tools
    • Lack of convenience frameworks (ie: Hibernate, etc)
    • Very different and unusual compared to common stacks
    • No established, documented best practices / patterns
    • Lack of trained developers / resources

Set aside 50 minutes and find out how InfoQ.com really works.

11 comments

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I am having problems viewing this video/presentation by Ali Motaz Posted Jun 4, 2008 5:09 AM
Re: I am having problems viewing this video/presentation by Diana Plesa Posted Jun 4, 2008 6:44 AM
Re: I am having problems viewing this video/presentation by Philip Luppens Posted Jun 5, 2008 12:45 AM
Re: I am having problems viewing this video/presentation by Philip Luppens Posted Jun 5, 2008 1:07 AM
Re: I am having problems viewing this video/presentation by Nazish Ali Rizvi Posted Jun 6, 2008 7:06 AM
Please create a link for download by Alireza Tajary Posted Jun 6, 2008 11:48 AM
Re: Please create a link for download by Colin Jack Posted Jun 11, 2008 2:35 PM
Re: Please create a link for download by Anup Jindal Posted Jun 16, 2008 1:57 PM
DownLoad Link by hu jinliang Posted Jun 7, 2008 6:45 AM
Re: DownLoad Link by Yang quarph Posted Jun 10, 2008 4:29 AM
Downloadable Video by Tabrez Iqbal Posted Jul 30, 2008 10:42 PM
  1. I click play, but the video never really starts, it seem to freeze at the screen of the big play thing image/button

  2. Hi Ali
    Did you try clicking the big Play button?
    if that doesn't work i suggest closing all your browser windows and opening the page again.
    i just tested it on both IE and Firefox and it works :)
    Diana

  3. Actually, I have the same problem as Ali M.: the video never starts playing (neither in FF nor Opera). It might be a proxy issue.

  4. I stand corrected - it does work, but streaming doesn't work (meaning I have to sit through the complete download of the file), due to the proxy I'm behind (as I suspected).

  5. Please install Latest Real player version.On the screen it will appear a tag Download Video.So,video will be available for off line also.I have downloaded many video using real player.

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    Please create a link for download

    Jun 6, 2008 11:48 AM by Alireza Tajary

    please make a link to download videos. thanks

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    DownLoad Link

    Jun 7, 2008 6:45 AM by hu jinliang

    i agree with Alireza Tajary ,it's better if i can download it and see it on other device.

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    Re: DownLoad Link

    Jun 10, 2008 4:29 AM by Yang quarph

    i wanna download the ppt. where can i download it or send to quarph@gmail.com thank u very much

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    Re: Please create a link for download

    Jun 11, 2008 2:35 PM by Colin Jack

    Being able to download the movies would be very useful, especially so I could view them on a portable devide (e.g. IPod touch). Are there any plans to allow this?

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    Re: Please create a link for download

    Jun 16, 2008 1:57 PM by Anup Jindal

    I am also intrested in the ppt..

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    Downloadable Video

    Jul 30, 2008 10:42 PM by Tabrez Iqbal

    Yes, downloadable videos please!

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