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  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns

    Today, InfoQ publishes an excerpt from Thomas Erl’s newest book, SOA Design Patterns, and used the opportunity to interview the author. Topics covered include the role of a patterns catalog, differences between service-orientation, SOA, and Web services, and the current state of the SOA world.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Mar 03, 2009

  • What's New in Groovy 1.6

    Groovy project lead writes about Groovy 1.6 changes and improvements, including include performance enhancements, integration of JMX Builder, and OSGi readiness.

    Guillaume LaForge
    on Feb 27, 2009

  • Staying Safe and Sound Thanks to MDSD

    In this article, Andreas Kaltenbach explains how Model-Driven Software Development (MSDS) can help solving backward compatibility problems when creating a newer version of a software which can mean a new API or a new database schema that old clients cannot use. MSDS is used to negotiate the differences between versions to ease the upgrading process.

    Andreas Kaltenbach
    on Feb 25, 2009

  • Why Do We Need Distributed OSGi?

    Recently, an early release draft of a Distributed OSGi requirements and design document has been published, long with a reference implementation as part of Apache CXF. In a new article, Eric Newcomer writes about the current status of distributed OSGi and explains the reasons for standardizing it in the first place, and its significance to the OSGi specification and community.

    Eric Newcomer
    on Feb 23, 2009

  • RGen: Ruby Modelling and Code Generation Framework

    This article introduces RGen, a modelling framework inspired by openArchitectureWare. RGen uses internal DSLs for defining metamodels and offers a full modelling stack for Ruby.

    Martin Thiede
    on Feb 20, 2009

  • InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List

    We recently had a conversation amongst the InfoQ editorial team about the books we would most recommend to InfoQ readers based on the books that we felt had most influenced us as programmers, architects and managers. Here is the resulting list of sixteen books that we eventually agreed on, plus a few other tips, with comments from the editors who originally suggested them.

    Charles Humble
    on Feb 17, 2009

  • Mainframe Integration with JBoss ESB and LegStar

    In this article we look at how the open source JBossESB has been used to integrate legacy COBOL CICS applications without necessarily having to rely on XML and Web Services stacks.

    Mark Little Fady Moussallam
    on Feb 16, 2009

  • Blaze Data Services or LiveCycle Data Services?

    This article, by Ryan Knight, compares two similar products: Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) and Open Source Blaze Data Services. The comparison is necessary to know the differences between the two products in order to choose the right one for a certain situation.

    Ryan Knight
    on Feb 16, 2009

  • Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen on Open Source ESB

    InfoQ has published a sample chapter from the book “Open Source ESBs In Action”, authored by Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen, and took the opportunity to interview the authors about their experience in using open source ESBs in real-world projects.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Feb 13, 2009

  • Distributed JBI

    Officially, the JBI (Java Business Integration) standard is limited to a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance. In a new article, Sun's Derek Frankforth describes and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses two different styles of setting up a distributed JBI topology using OpenESB, and shows how they complement each other in the end.

    Derek Frankforth
    on Feb 10, 2009

  • A Message Type Architecture for SOA

    This article proposes a new Message Type Architecture based on two DSLs to help manage the message formats in a SOA. The approach promotes reuse via the Enterprise Data Model referenced in message type definitions. It also helps aligning the Data and SOA governance processes.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Feb 09, 2009

  • 2009 Trends and Directions for WebSphere

    In an exclusive InfoQ article, IBM's WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo outlines the 10 top technology direction he envisions for the WebSphere product line in 2009, including Business Mash-ups, a Middleware-as-a-Service offering, cloud support, WAS.NEXT and REST support in multiple products.

    Jerry Cuomo
    on Jan 21, 2009
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