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OASIS Announces OpenCSA Webinars
In a further attempt to help spread the message about the SCA standardization effort and educate the community, OASIS has announced a series of webinars around the various OpenCSA specifications.
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Naked Objects adds Java 1.5, Injection, Hibernate
Naked Objects is an architectural pattern and a framework for developing applications where domain objects takes a central role. Naked Objects recently released version 3.0 with support for Java 1.5, injection, an alternate UI, Hibernate object store, integrated security and contributed actions. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Richard Pawson, inventor of the Naked Objects pattern.
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Tight Coupling and its Unintended Consequences
As we transition from component architectures to service oriented architectures, the balance between natural, efficient asset reuse and independent, decoupled systems is a real battleground. Neal Ford recently posted some thoughts about high coupling and it's unintended consequences, and we revisit a great InfoQ interview with Jim Webber about tight coupling as it applies to service architectures.
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Interview: Paul Fremantle on the State of WS-*
In a new InfoQ interview, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder co-chair of the OASIS committee that standardized WS-Reliable Messaging, talks to InfoQ about the state and relative importance of web services standards, the role of open source software for SOA, his views on the eternal REST debate, and WSO2's business model.
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Understanding the ActionScript Virtual Machine for Java Developers
The ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) executes ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) bytecode in the Flash Player 9 runtime. ActionScript 3 is an Object Oriented programming language, used by developers to build Flash based applications in Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Data Services in SOA: Issues and Possible Solutions
Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures. David Webber wrote an article detailing some of the difficulties to define contracts for AWS and some of the solutions using the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM).
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Google's Android SDK Bypasses Java ME in Favor of Java Lite and Apache Harmony
Today Google released the Android platform SDK for Open Handset Alliance devices. Android contains a custom Dalvik virtual machine for running applications written in a subset of Java.
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Scaling Web Applications using Cache Farms and Read Pools
Exploring a couple of lesser known tools in the architects' scaling toolkit.
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Interview with Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET
In the first we hope to be a series on .NET in the open source world, we interviewed Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET. Mads discusses how a focus on simplicity and an avoidance of third-party dependencies differentiates his project from other ASP.NET based blog platforms.
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Does the rise of Service Oriented UI (SOUI) means the death of server-assisted MVC?
Nolan Wright thinks server-assisted MVC implementations are a thing of the past and that Services, Ajax and DHTML can greatly simplify the way we build web applications.
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Agile Meets Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing is a product management methodology for the technology industry which seeks to apply values and principles similar to those of agile software development. So what happens when the pragmatic marketers meet the agile developers?
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Is a picture always worth a thousand words?
<p>Is a picture always worth a thousand words?</p> <p>In his recent article, “Why we write code and don’t just draw diagrams”, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true. </p>
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Microsoft Releases Managed Services Engine (Repository)
The topic of virtualization has been heating up in the SOA space as more and more enterprises look for ways to harvest their existing IT assets towards new service infrastructure. Microsoft's recent silence on the issue has now made way for a community focused release of a meta-data driven service repository.
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InfoQ Presentation: Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design - Putting the Model to Work
Why bother with models? Eric Evans explains that the most critical complexity of most software projects is understanding the business domain itself. In this talk Evans talks about the foundations of Domain-Driven Design and how to make a domain model truly pull its weight and positively transform a project.
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Preserving flexibility while using Active Record pattern
Bob Martin believes that Active Record pattern that maps data structures to objects may be a source of confusion. Even though it appears to be an object, it actually is a data structure, vulnerable to the addition of new types. To preserve the flexibility, Bob Martin suggests separating Active Record from the application, so that the latter can be designed and structured solely around objects.