BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Topics

Choose your language

InfoQ Homepage Infrastructure Content on InfoQ

  • HATEOAS as an engine for domain specific protocol-description

    Explaining HATEOAS is notoriously tricky, In an effort to make it easier, Nick Gall explores the idea of describing it as an engine for domain specific protocol-description.

  • Interview: Eric Nelson on VS 2010 and .NET 4.0

    In this interview Eric Nelson talks about what’s coming in VS 2010, the C# – VB.NET convergence, the introduction of Parallel as a library, and Azure cloud computing.

  • Presentation: AtomServer: The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

    In this session recorded at QCon SF 2008, Chris Berry & Bryon Jacob presented the Atom Syndication Format, the Atom Publishing Protocol, the Atom Categories, the Atom Stores, the AtomServer and how they can be used by giving a concrete example.

  • IBM Announces the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance

    BM recently announced its WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance a device that facilitates the creation, deployment, and administration of private WebSphere cloud environments. The appliance offers virtual image from which complete WebSphere Application Server topologies can be constructed to create patterns as representations of fully functional WebSphere Application Server environments.

  • CRISPY, a New Remoting Framework

    With the multiplicity of existing remoting mechanisms it is often necessary to build clients in a way that allows to swap/introduce new protocols with no/minimal impact to the client’s implementation. A new framework – CRISPY - provides support for such implementations.

  • Wrapping Stored Procedures in .NET Languages

    Creating wrapper functions for pre-existing stored procedures is surprisingly difficult in .NET. Stored procedures have certain calling conventions that aren’t generally used in the .NET Framework and many of them are not supported at all. For example, C# doesn’t support optional parameters and neither .NET language supports optional parameters on nullable types.

  • Towards Generics Support for OSGi

    OSGi's APIs are based on Java 1.1 support to allow it to run in VM-constrained devices such as J2ME mobile phones. However, with Java 1.4's end-of-life, all development systems are capable of handling generics and language features like for-each. Peter Kriens and BJ Hargrave present the results of some experimental investigation of how the OSGi APIs might end up being able to support generics.

  • QCon San Francisco Nov 18-20 Tracks and Conference Announced

    The tracks for the third annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-20) have been published and QCon is now open for early registration. Last year's QCon SF survived the downturn in November with over 450 attendees, this year we have reduced the price and are offering special early registration with savings of $800 until June 17th.

  • Flex Open Source Data Visualization Framework: Axiis

    A new open source addition to the Adobe Flex world is Axiis, a data visualization framework released in May under the MIT license. Data visualization is a term frequently used to describe graphical views of application data, such as charts and graphs.

  • Interview: Ruby in Practice with Jeremy McAnally

    InfoQ’s Robert Bazinet and Matthew Bass had the opportunity recently to talk with Jeremy McAnally about his new book, Ruby in Practice. Jeremy gives readers insight about the book but goes into detail about Ruby’s use in the enterprise.

  • Sun Launches Java App Store Beta at JavaOne

    During the first General Session of JavaOne 2009 Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and James Gossling launched the public beta of its new Java App Store.

  • .NET 4 Cancellation Framework

    .NET 4 will have new types to support building cancellation-aware applications and libraries. The new CancellationToken, CancellationTokenSource, and cancellation exception types provide a cooperative cancellation framework.

  • LINQ to SQL Changes in .NET 4.0

    Damien Guard of Microsoft’s Data Programmability has posted a rather long list of the changes to LINQ to SQL. While they are still committed to Entity Framework over the long run, this will do much to alleviate the fear LINQ to SQL will be completely neglected in the mean time.

  • JRuby Roundup: GitHub:FI, JRuby on JBoss with TorqueBox, EngineYard with JRuby Support

    GitHub now offers an installable version of the service for users who want to keep their code inside their network - and it's built on JRuby. TorqueBox is a new solution for running JRuby on Rails on JBoss, complete with integration for job queues and SIP integration Also: EngineYard announced it will start providing JRuby as a hosting option in July.

  • OpenJDK 7 / JDK 7 Milestone 3 Released

    A new milestone of the next generation JDK has been released, which includes several new features and enhancements in many functional areas, like garbage collection, NIO and more. This is also the first version where OpenJDK and JDK will have (almost) identical code-bases.

BT