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  • IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 Featureset and New TeamCity Product Announced

    Jetbrains has just announced the full featureset for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0. Included are JEE, Swing, and refactoring enhancements as well as integration with their new team enviroment product TeamCity.

  • ESB Roundup Part Two: Use Cases

    This is the second part of InfoQ's ESB series, an exploration of Enterprise Service Bus, or ESB technologies. The focus is use cases required by companies deploying this technology, such as protocol bridging, security intermediation and service virtualization. The article references analyst commentary, survey research results and comments on part one of the ESB roundup.

  • InfoQ Article: EJB 3 Essential Glossary

    InfoQ is hosting an EJB 3.0 glossary of new terms and API elements introduced in EJB 3. It explains buzzwords like Inversion of Control (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection etc, etc. The glossary is an ongoing work in progress. Updates will continue to be made to it.

  • Is Ruby Ready for the Enterprise?

    Brad Banister of Enterprise Open Source Magazine takes a look at whether Ruby is ready for the enterprise in an article focused at developers and IT managers who are considering using Ruby in an enterprise environment.

  • Richard Monson-Haefel: It's too late to save Java EE

    Richard Monson-Haefel's recently released analyst report predicting the demise of Java EE has set off a storm of controversy. But what did Richard Monson-Haefel, well known for his popular books on EJB, actually say? InfoQ summarized the main points from a podcast with RMH.

  • SOA Link Adds Testing/QA Partners

    The SOA Link initiative, started by SOA Registry vendor Infravio in May, expands to include testing and QA vendors iTKO, Mindreef, and Solstice.

  • BEA updates Aqualogic Service Bus

    BEA has released its AquaLogic Service Bus v2.5. The update features a host of smaller feature updates including improved standards support for UDDI and SAML 1.1

  • Six Ruby Presentations (with slides) from European Ruby Meeting Now Online

    The audio and slides of six presentations made at a recent Ruby on Rails meeting, hosted by Greenpeace in Amsterdam, have just been made available. Topics include integration with legacy Java apps, CMS development, and Unicode.

  • InfoQ Article: Will the Enterprise change Ruby, or will Ruby change the Enterprise?

    Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. Are we missing something fundamental for widescale adoption of Ruby in the enterprise?

  • ThoughtWorks Responds to $43M Lawsuit Rumours

    "We are not for sale; we are not closing our doors," ThoughtWorks told InfoQ. For the last 3 years TW has been in negotiations in and out of court over $43M owed to Schroder Venture Partners. Rumours circulated over the weekend that TW would have to sell itself after a Dow Jones article claimed that a recent court order 'forced' TW to repay Schroder.

  • Contracts, Expectations, Agreements and Processes

    Contract first development isn't a new idea, but has some followers in the SOA domain. Recently, the W3C has extended the WSDL to include semantic annotations, enriching the basic contract with more metadata. Contracts are also explored in more detail in the development of processes by Steve Jones using tools like Eclipse and NetBeans.

  • Summary of TSS Future of Enterprise Java Panel

    Cameron Purdy, Rod Johnson, Bruce Snyder, Bruce Tate, Floyd Marinescu and Ari Zilka participated in an annual 'what is the future of enterprise java?' panel at the last TSS Symposium, which was just published in video by TSS. The panel covered hard issues such as 'will EJB 3 matter?', open source Java, web 2.0, scripting languages. Read InfoQ's summary.

  • ESB Roundup Part One: Defining the ESB

    A healthy debate has arisen in the SOA community around the Enterprise Service Bus. Is an ESB needed? What is the best definition of an ESB? When should an ESB be deployed? What is its role in SOA? In the first part of a series, InfoQ explores this vital topic.

  • InfoQ Newsletter is now being sent out

    InfoQ is now sending out a weekly newsletter by email. To get the newsletter, just register to the site. The newsletter is a quick and easy way to keep up to date with all new content and major headlines on the site. In future, the newsletter will be personalized to the communities you're interested in and also have other rich features.

  • WebLogic Server 9.2, Portal 9.2, Workshop on Eclipse Released

    BEA last week released the WebLogic 9.2 platform family of products including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal (which now runs on WL 9.2), and Workshop for WebLogic (now built on Eclipse for the first time).

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