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Structured Event Streaming with Smooks
Smooks is best known for its transformation capabilities, but in this article Tom Fennelly describes how you can also use it for structured event streaming.
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LHC Grid: Data storage and analysis for the largest scientific instrument on the planet
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that aims to revolutionize our understanding of our universe. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project provides data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
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AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two
In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 3 of 3)
This article, the last in a three-part series, expands upon the previous articles by introducing Seam. It covers integrating Seam into the previous sample application, deploying a Seam portlet, Bridgelets, Single-sign on between Seam and JBoss Portal, and several new features and capabilities of JBoss Portlet Bridge.
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More Than Just Spin (Up) : Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS
Cloud services, such as Amazon EC2, have helped bring virtualization to the forefront of the IT conversation. Its full power however, also includes benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid application provisioning. In this article, Contegix CEO Matthew Porter, discusses how virtualization can be used to bring these benefits to enterprise and Saas deployments.
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VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview
VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide provides a wealth of practical insights into setting up virtualization in todays corporate environments. InfoQ is proud to provide both a book excerpt and an interview with the authors Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, and Mike Laverick.
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Using Ruby Fibers for Async I/O: NeverBlock and Revactor
Rails 2.2 is schedule to be thread safe - but will blocking I/O libraries make it necessary to run multiple Ruby instances? We take a look at how non-blocking I/O and Ruby 1.9's Fibers help solve the problem. We talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock project and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor project.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 2 of 3)
This article, the second in a three-part series, expands upon the previous article by introducing RichFaces. It covers integrating RichFaces into the previous sample application, deploying a RichFaces portlet, and several features and capabilities of RichFaces.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 1 of 3)
This article, the first in a three-part series, lays the framework for the rest of the series. It covers setting up a new project using JBoss Portlet Container and JBoss Portlet Bridge, configuring a JSF application to use JBoss Portlet Bridge, and the capabilities that JBoss Portlet Bridge provides to a JSF application.
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Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid
It was only recently that Amazon took cloud computing mainstream with the release of EC2. They are not the only game in town however. This new article takes a look at cloud server providers EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid.
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An Overview of the eXo Platform
In this article, Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provide an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.
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Virtualization and Security
While virtualization provides many benefits, security can not be a forgotten concept in its application. This new article takes a look at how virtualized servers effect data center security.