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Customizing Tables in MonoTouch

Tables are a staple in many iPhone applications. Although not a new invention in terms of application development, tables in the iPhone are very specific, given the constraints of the size of the device. Fortunately, Apple offers an easy way to customize tables, and this article explores working with the UITableView and UITableViewCell controls to create highly customized iPhone tables.

Bryan Costanich
on Apr 01, 2010
REST and SOAP: When Should I Use Each (or Both)?

Web developers today have a myriad of technologies they can choose from; for example, the two approaches for interfacing to the web with web services, namely SOAP and REST. Both approaches work, both have advantages and disadvantages to interfacing to web services, but it is up to the web developer to make the decision of which approach may be best for each particular case.

Mike Rozlog
on Apr 01, 2010
A Discussion with Allard Buijze on CQRS with the Axon framework

The Axon framework is a Java implementation of the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. InfoQ talked with its creator, Allard Buijze, to find out more.

Josh Long
on Mar 24, 2010
Authorizing Process Access and Execution with JBoss jBPM

Centralized BPM deployments can greatly benefit from the ability to control access to process definitions and instances ensuring that users can use and monitor only a set of processes that they are authorized for. In this article Boris Lublinsky shows how to extend JBoss jBPM to define and support process access authorization.

Boris Lublinsky
on Mar 19, 2010
How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

Peter Lubbers makes an introduction to HTML5 Web Sockets explaining how they interact with proxy servers, and what proxy configuration or updates are needed for the Web Sockets traffic to go through.

Peter Lubbers
on Mar 16, 2010
SOA Manifesto - 4 Months After

It is four months since the SOA manifesto was announced; InfoQ interviewed the original author’s and in some cases pulled in their comments on the manifesto from the web to get a broad understanding of the manifesto, as well as provide insight into the goals of the participants, individually and as a whole, and provide transparency to the mechanics involved in putting together such an initiative.

Dilip Krishnan
on Mar 09, 2010
Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency

Memory barriers, or fences, are a set of processor instructions used to apply ordering limitations on memory operations. This article explains the impact memory barriers have on the determinism of multi-threaded programs. We'll look at how memory barriers relate to JVM concurrency constructs such as volatile, synchronized and atomic conditionals.

Dennis Byrne
on Mar 08, 2010
SOA Strategy and Spline Tactics

In this article, Michael Poulin discusses agility-to-market changes that IT can gain using a strategy oriented onto the services. Using concepts of service-orientation as the major construct of the technical product portfolio, accompanied by a techniques he calls Spline Tactics, he examines how businesses can achieve strategic agility.

Michael Poulin
on Mar 02, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

A new book by David Linthicum, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide, describes how to get the enterprise ready for cloud computing by carefully modeling enterprise data, information services and processes in a service oriented manner to make the transition to providing and consuming cloud services easier.

Dilip Krishnan
on Feb 25, 2010
Business SOA Governance

Business SOA governance is about the long term transformation of IT to align with the business. This means establishing a clear business architecture and then creating a business SOA governance group who will ensure that vision is followed. This is a powerful group and needs to act in the same way as a judiciary. Their role is not to undertake the work but to enforce the boundaries and rules.

Steve Jones
on Feb 16, 2010
Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring

Scout is an extensible server and application monitoring service which focuses upon ease of installation and configuration. Scout offers default alerts to help administrators understand how the application is behaving under various loads as well as allowing developers to create plugins to extend Scout.

Robert Bazinet
on Feb 16, 2010
A Comparison of Spring MVC and JAX-RS

SpringSource's Rossen Stoyanchev introduces the Spring MVC REST features available in Spring 3 and relates them to JAX-RS, highlighting the similarities and differences between the two programming models.

Rossen Stoyanchev
on Feb 10, 2010

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