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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
Model Driven Development Misperceptions and Challenges

MDD provides many benefits by improving communication, business-alignment, quality, and productivity. The authors argue that as the tooling support has vastly matured in the past few years, it might be a good time to take a fresh look it. The article reviews 10 common misconceptions.

Lee Ackerman Bertrand Portier
on Jan 21, 2009
Getting Started With Spring Integration

In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.

Joshua Long
on Jan 20, 2009
Schema for Web Services – Part I: Basic Datatypes

Most web service developers rely on a data binding conversion layer within a web service to work directly with data structures in their programming language of choice - but this causes a number of problems. In the first of a series of articles that look at these problems, Dennis Sosnoski starts at the most basic level, looking at simple data types and the issues that arise from mapping them.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Jan 15, 2009
Book Excerpt and Interview: Rails for .NET Developers

Ruby on Rails has seen spectacular growth over the recent years with many PHP and Java programmers learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails to help create faster solutions to business problems. This leaves out group of developers discovering Rails, ASP.NET developers. These are the developers writing C# and VB.NET ASP.NET applications for all those Microsoft shops around the world.

Robert Bazinet
on Jan 13, 2009
SOA Contract Maturity Model

This article shows how recommended contract versioning design policies relate to a SOA Maturity Model. The goal is to provide a roadmap for achieving the full feature set of versioning and composability as part of SOA Governance.

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi
on Jan 13, 2009
Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for Adopters

Mark Levison observed that, after solid classroom training, teams in larger companies still struggle to adopt TDD. To better understand the problem he surveyed team members. In this article he shares the problems he uncovered and his own comprehensive strategy, designed to help anyone introducing TDD into an organization.

Mark Levison
on Jan 05, 2009
Development Platforms for Mobile Applications: Status and Trends

In this IEEE article, authors Damianos Gavalas and Daphne Economou discuss four application platforms for mobile devices. The platforms discussed are Java Mobile Edition (Java ME), .NET Compact Framework (CF), Adobe Flash Lite, and Android. The article also includes a mobile-game case study to compare these platforms with respect to development effort and time as well as technical issues.

Damianos Gavalas Daphne Economou
on Jan 01, 2009
Workflow Orchestration Using Spring AOP and AspectJ

This article demonstrates how to build and orchestrate highly configurable and extensible yet light-weight embedded process flow using Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) techniques. The current examples are based on Spring AOP and Aspect J, however other AOP techniques could be used to accomplish the same results.

Oleg Zhurakousky
on Dec 29, 2008
Rapid Application Development using Naked Objects for .NET

Domain driven design will help you build the core of an application, but then you still have to develop the presentation layer, duplicating the validation logic as you go. For internal applications where functionality really is more important than form, Naked Objects can be the answer. With proper annotation, Naked Objects can automatically generate a matching presentation layer in Java or .NET.

Richard Pawson
on Dec 23, 2008
Describing RESTful Applications

If servers control their own namespace without a fixed resource hierarchy, how do clients, and more importantly client developers, get to learn or discover URIs of resources? In a new article, Subbu Allamaraju discusses how to describe a RESTful API, focusing on using hypermedia instead of an out-of-band description format such as WADL or WSDL 2.0.

Subbu Allamaraju
on Dec 16, 2008
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

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