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Better Best Practices

Organizations often introduce Best Practices as part of a change program or quality initiative. These can take a number of forms, from cheat sheets to full-blown consultant-led methodologies, complete with the requisite auditing and accreditation. In this article, Dan North shows how best practices can not only fail to help, but even have a severe negative impact on your top performers.

Dan North
on Mar 11, 2008
Real-Time Java for the Enterprise

Simon Ritter explains the vision and capabilities of the Real-Time Java specification (RTSJ), if your Java app really, really must respond within a certain time regardless of what the garbage collector does, RTSJ is now a possibility rather than a probability.

Simon Ritter
on Mar 10, 2008
Deploying JRuby applications with Java Web Start

JRuby is built on Java - so it can make use of Java Web Start to make it easy to deploy JRuby apps. This article walks through the necessary steps for releasing a JRuby app with Java Web Start, including: how to handle signing, setting JRuby parameters and a look at using JRuby 1.1's coming AheadOfTime (AOT) compilation feature.

Mirko Stocker
on Mar 07, 2008
Improving Performance of Healthcare Systems with Service Oriented Architecture

This article, based on a chapter from the book "Service Oriented Architecture Demystified", discusses the benefits of applying SOA to heterogenous environments in the healthcare domain. Focusing on a domain instead of technology perspective first provides an interesting view on the business motivation for SOA.

Joe Natoli Blake Dournaee Girish Juneja Steve Birkel
on Mar 07, 2008
Java Object Persistence: State of the Union

In this virtual panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.

Craig Russell Carl Rosenberger Mike Keith Ted Neward
on Mar 06, 2008
High Performance Ajax with GWT

In a new article Ryan Dewsbury takes a look at how GWT assists developers in terms of Ajax performance by providing image bundling, caching, and application compression. It also includes an excerpt from Dewsbury's book, Google Web Toolkit Applications.

Ryan Dewsbury
on Mar 04, 2008
Architecture & Design

Architecture as Language: A story

Architecture is often described non-tangible in Word documents or entirely technology-driven. Both are bad, but what can be done? Markus Völter describes how to evolve a language around your architecture, a formal language that as a side effect ends up being a good base for generating important parts of the system.

Markus Voelter
on Feb 27, 2008
The Three M's - The Lean Triad

The discussion of applying lean principles to software development has largely focused on identifying and eliminating waste (in Japanese: muda). Lean Thinking equally aims to remove overburden (muri) and unnecessary variation (mura). Roman Pichler discusses the relationship of the "three M's" and proposes to eliminate overburden as the first step toward a leaner process.

Roman Pichler
on Feb 27, 2008
Securing a Grails Application with Acegi Security

This article discusses the integration of the grails-acegi plugin with a sample Grails application. As part of this integration, there are three major components which will be used – Groovy, Grails and Acegi Security.

Fadi Shami
on Feb 25, 2008
Interview and Book Excerpt: "Model Based Software Testing and Analysis with C#"

Recently published, Infoq was able to speak with all four authors about their personal views on Model Based Testing: Jonathan Jacky, Margus Veanes, Colin Campbell and Wolfram Schulte. Also included is a chapter excerpt with thanks to Cambridge University Press.

Wolfram Schulte Colin Campbell Margus Veanes Jonathan Jacky
on Feb 21, 2008
An Approach to Internal Domain-Specific Languages in Java

Alex Ruiz and Jeff Bay describe how it is possible to write domain-specific languages using the Java language and suggests some patterns for constructing them.

Alex Ruiz Jeff Bay
on Feb 19, 2008
NetBeans: Ruby Developer's New Best Friend (Part 3)

In the third and final article of the Netbeans Ruby series, Roman Strobl, covers quick fixes, RSpec support, and additional plugins of use to Ruby developers.

Roman Strobl
on Feb 17, 2008

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