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Fetching strategy implementation in a J2EE application using AOP

This article presents a fetching strategy that using AOP, optimizes the data retrieval process from a back end system on a use case basis in a modular way without bloating the lower level service or repository layers.

Manjunath R Naganna
on Mar 30, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Jaroslav Tulach's Practical API Design

Jaroslav Tulach's latest book Practical API Design covers the topic of API design of software projects. He brings his experience as the architect for NetBeans IDE project to the writing of this book. InfoQ spoke with Jaroslav about his new book, the main motivation for writing it and other topics. We are also making an excerpt from the book available for our readers.

Srini Penchikala
on Mar 24, 2009
Interview with the Book Authors: Brown, Laird, Gee, Mitra: SOA Governance

InfoQ had the opportunity to review the new book “SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility” and interview its authors Clive Gee, William A. Brown, Robert G. Laird, Tilak Mitra.Topics covered include the role of reuse in SOA, SOA governance tooling, Business/IT alignment, etc.

Boris Lublinsky
on Mar 20, 2009
Eight Isolation Levels Every Web Developer Should Know

In this article, James Leigh takes a look at eight different isolation levels that can be utilized within a web application, and explores the pros and cons of each level of isolation, ranging from read uncommitted to serializable consistency - the interactions between transactions at different isolation levels is also looked at.

James Leigh
on Mar 15, 2009
We Need to Create Information System Ratings

Pierre Bonnet, CTO of Orchestra Networks, argues that information systems are too opaque and not agile enough. He claims this is the main reason why "healthy" multinationals can collapse within months as they take on too much risk. He suggests that information systems be rated on how they manage master data, business rules and business processes.

Pierre Bonnet
on Mar 09, 2009
SharePoint Object Model Performance Considerations

In this article, Andreas Grabner analyzes the performance implication of using the SharePoint Object Model, specifically displaying and editing lists, one of the most used SharePoint objects.

Andreas Grabner
on Mar 04, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns

Today, InfoQ publishes an excerpt from Thomas Erl’s newest book, SOA Design Patterns, and used the opportunity to interview the author. Topics covered include the role of a patterns catalog, differences between service-orientation, SOA, and Web services, and the current state of the SOA world.

Stefan Tilkov
on Mar 03, 2009
What's New in Groovy 1.6

Groovy project lead writes about Groovy 1.6 changes and improvements, including include performance enhancements, integration of JMX Builder, and OSGi readiness.

Guillaume LaForge
on Feb 27, 2009
Staying Safe and Sound Thanks to MDSD

In this article, Andreas Kaltenbach explains how Model-Driven Software Development (MSDS) can help solving backward compatibility problems when creating a newer version of a software which can mean a new API or a new database schema that old clients cannot use. MSDS is used to negotiate the differences between versions to ease the upgrading process.

Andreas Kaltenbach
on Feb 25, 2009
Why Do We Need Distributed OSGi?

Recently, an early release draft of a Distributed OSGi requirements and design document has been published, long with a reference implementation as part of Apache CXF. In a new article, Eric Newcomer writes about the current status of distributed OSGi and explains the reasons for standardizing it in the first place, and its significance to the OSGi specification and community.

Eric Newcomer
on Feb 23, 2009
RGen: Ruby Modelling and Code Generation Framework

This article introduces RGen, a modelling framework inspired by openArchitectureWare. RGen uses internal DSLs for defining metamodels and offers a full modelling stack for Ruby.

Martin Thiede
on Feb 20, 2009
InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List

We recently had a conversation amongst the InfoQ editorial team about the books we would most recommend to InfoQ readers based on the books that we felt had most influenced us as programmers, architects and managers. Here is the resulting list of sixteen books that we eventually agreed on, plus a few other tips, with comments from the editors who originally suggested them.

Charles Humble
on Feb 17, 2009

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