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Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?

.NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."

Stephen Chu
on Aug 11, 2006
Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring 2.0 and AspectJ

This article reviews Spring AOP support in 2.0, and walks you through an adoption roadmap for AOP in enterprise applications, with plenty of examples of features that can be implemented simply using AOP, but would be very hard to do any other way.

Adrian Colyer
on Aug 10, 2006
Using Logging Seams for Legacy Code Unit Testing

Using logging seams you can easily create unobtrusive unit tests around legacy classes, without needing to edit class logic as well as avoiding behavior changes.

Ian Roughley
on Aug 01, 2006
Agile: The SOA Hangover Cure

Author Carl Ververs who is an expert on SOA Integration and Distributed Systems writes about the application of "Agile" development philosophies that ensures that organizations can overcome architectural paralysis and get moving on those important SOA projects, while at the same time ensuring that the architecture is sufficiently flexible and adaptable for future growth.

Carl Ververs
on Jul 31, 2006
From Java to Ruby: Strategies for Pilots

The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing mainstream languages like Java--even for one project--and the overall technical landscape of Ruby's capabilities.

Bruce Tate
on Jul 27, 2006
Annotation Hammer

Annotations in Java 5 provide a very powerful metadata mechanism. Yet, like anything else, we need to figure out where it makes sense to use it. In this article we will take a look at why Annotations matter and discuss cases for their use and misuse.

Venkat Subramaniam
on Jul 25, 2006
EJB 3 Glossary

An essential glossary of new terms and concepts introduced in EJB 3. The glossary demystifies buzzwords like (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection, Embeddable Object, Interceptors, and more. This glossary will constantly be updated.

Oliver Ihns Stefan M. Heldt
on Jul 13, 2006
ESB Roundup Part two: ESB 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.

Miko Matsumura
on Jul 12, 2006
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?

Francis Cianfrocca
on Jul 11, 2006
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.

Miko Matsumura
on Jul 05, 2006
Application Failover using AOP

This article shows how a large project with 6000 classes and 500 tables used AOP with AspectJ to implement specialized cross-cutting error handling & recovery logic transparently.

Debasish Ghosh
on Jul 04, 2006
Book Review: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse.

Anil Hemrajani relates Agile practices to Java and several open source toolsets (Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse) designed to make Java development simpler. It's a high level overview of some free technologies used in web app development. Matt Morton liked this book, recommending it to technical managers and intermediate developers in small Java web development shops.

Matt Morton
on Jun 28, 2006