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  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2008

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!

    Ryan Slobojan
    on Dec 12, 2008

  • SOA Agents: Grid Computing meets SOA

    Grid technology for improving scalability, high availability and throughput in SOA implementations. In this article, Boris Lublinsky explains how Grid computing can be used in the overall SOA architecture and introduces a programming model for Grid utilization in service implementation. He also introduces an experimental Grid implementation that can support this proposed architecture.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Dec 11, 2008

  • Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware

    Virtualization is more than just server consolidation. Advanced virtualization eases management, enhances flexibility, raises network throughput, and improves redundancy and uptime.

    Mak King
    on Dec 10, 2008

  • Contract Versioning, Compatibility and Composability

    Kjell-Sverre and Jean-Jacques revisit the principles of contract design focusing on the concept of compatible contract based on XML, XML Schema and WSDL extensibility to foster service reuse and complement Governance. The article includes a novel approach to manage message types in relation to an enterprise data model.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi
    on Dec 09, 2008

  • 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.

    Tom Fennelly
    on Nov 26, 2008

  • Harvesting Service Orientation

    In this article, Wil Leeuwis explores lessons that can be learned from a historical perspective when thinking about SOA. He argues there's a lot of old, well understood and practically applied theory that can help us harvesting the profits of the innovation part of the services-world.

    Wil Leeuwis
    on Nov 22, 2008

  • Composite Oriented Programming with Qi4j

    The goal of modeling domain concepts through objects set by OOP has for a long time been handled in insufficient ways. In this article we introduce the concept of Composite Oriented Programming, and show how it avoids the issues with OOP and reignites the hope of being able to compose domain models with reusable pieces.

    Rickard Öberg
    on Nov 19, 2008

  • Java FX Technology Preview

    JavaFX represents a significant shift in the way Sun engages with the Java product market. Rather than focusing solely on the underlying technology, Sun is looking to provide a complete solution for an individual market. With the 1.0 release imminent InfoQ takes a look at the platform and talks to Sun Staff Engineer Joshua Marinacci about the upcoming release.

    Charles Humble
    on Nov 10, 2008

  • Why BPEL is not the holy grail for BPM

    In the Business Process Modeling world there is still an ongoing standards debate. In this article, Pierre Vigneras of the Bull BPM team, discusses problems with one of those standards - BPEL. Pierre walks us through a simple parallel process and discusses the numerous issues practitioners face in trying to express an unstructured flow based on a structured model.

    Pierre Vigneras
    on Oct 21, 2008

  • Implementing SOA Governance

    The hardest thing about a successful adoption of SOA is not the technology, but rather, the culture change. In this article, Todd Biske offers his perspective on using Governance to drive this culture change. The article covers the establishment of policies, defines the role of a CoE and look at techniques to help with the enforcement of these policies.

    Todd Biske
    on Oct 20, 2008

  • How to GET a Cup of Coffee

    In this article, Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson show how to drive an application's flow through the use of hypermedia in a RESTful application, using the well-known example from Gregor Hohpe's "Starbucks does not use Two-Phase-Commit" to illustrate how the Web's concepts can be used for integration purposes.

    Jim Webber Savas Parastatidis Ian Robinson
    on Oct 02, 2008

  • 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.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Oct 01, 2008
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