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Kernel Comparison of Three Widely Used OS

This article briefly examines and compares the kernels of the three most widely used quasi-Unix operating systems using three axes of comparison: efficiency, evolvement, and user friendliness. The operating systems compared (kernel only) are: OpenSolaris, Windows Vista, and Linux 2.6.

Dingze Zhu
on Jul 17, 2009
FlexMonkey brings unit testing to Flex user interface developers

This article explores how Gorilla Logic's new, open source Flex user interface automation testing tool, FlexMonkey, can enhance the productivity of both developers and QA testers. FlexMonkey allows developers to incorporate user interface testing into unit test suites and continuous integration environments, and allows QA testers to expand those tests into comprehensive quality tests.

Stuart Stern
on Jul 15, 2009
Orchestrating Long Running Activities with JBoss / JBPM

Orchestrating activities that extend over very long periods (hours, days, weeks) is a common design issue. Although technically BPM engines are specifically design to ideal with this issue, they do so with standalone processes with corresponding issues arising from callback mechanisms. This article we will show one of the approaches to use JBoss jBPM for solving this problem.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 01, 2009
Communication Flexibility Using Bindings

In this article, we will look at an important feature of SCA - its support for a wide variety of communication protocols and how to use SCA bindings on services and references to decouple your business code from communication protocols. Finally we'll take a look at the SCA domain to see how bindings operate in and outside the domain.

Raymond Feng Simon Laws Haleh Mahbod Simon Nash Anthony Elder
on Jun 30, 2009
Architecture & Design

SOA Governance Maturity – an Architect’s View

This article presents a framework of SOA Governance processes, a maturity model, linked to the processes and a description of how architects should be involved in these processes. The authors provided some practical guidelines on how architects can lead or provide support at the various processes of the lifecycle and maturity levels.

Benedikt Kratz Tom Schepers
on Jun 23, 2009
Is PHP Ready for the Enterprise?

Although PHP boasts of being the most widely used environment for web application development, it has been traditionally considered as not suitable for the enterprise. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel regarding the evolution of the language/platform and its suitability in enterprise environments.

Dio Synodinos
on Jun 22, 2009
SQL Server Reporting Services and Working with Overlay Data

In this article, Grzegorz Gogolowicz and Trent Swanson tackle the problem of generating reports in SQL Server Reporting Services when the source is scanned images and other supplied formats yet a fixed layout report or pixel perfect report is the desired outcome.

Trent Swanson Grzegorz Gogolowicz
on Jun 11, 2009
Routing Messages in Mule

Jackie Wheeler discusses the use of Mule as a message routing solution for SOA middleware. The article covers key concepts, selection of a message style; passing, filtering and splitting messages; and, calling external services. Examples of messaging implementation are included.

Jackie Wheeler
on Jun 10, 2009
Top 10 Changes in Flex 4

This week, Adobe released their first official beta of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo. The release includes a number of major changes. This list gives a high level overview of the items that have changed in the latest version of the popular RIA framework.

Jon Rose
on May 31, 2009
Using JBoss ESB and JBPM for Implementing VMS Solutions

In a new article, Boris Lublinsky discusses how the JBoss middleware platform, specifically JBoss ESB and jBPM (JBoss Business Process Management) can be used to integrate both internal and third-party services to deliver composite services and content in customer-specific forms, including Web services, WAP, portals, and more.

Boris Lublinsky
on May 29, 2009
Metamodel Oriented Programming

In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray questions the belief that code and models are two separate worlds. He presents a unified view of Model Driven Engineering, Architecture and Programming models. In particular, he introduces a novel approach to specify execution element semantics in DSLs.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on May 26, 2009
Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 3: Running a Grid Application

In Part 1 of this series we introduced a design pattern for grid computing on Azure, while in Part 2 we developed a grid application in C#. This time we'll run the application, first locally and then in the cloud. In order to do that, we'll need some help from a grid computing framework.

David Pallmann
on May 25, 2009

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