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Jetty Founder Proposes Asynchronous Servlet API
Jetty founder Greg Wilkins has blogged about the need for the Servlet spec to evolve into an asynchronous model in order to, among other things, deal with the new challenges brought on by Ajax. Greg proposes standardizing a coordinator which could be called by the container in response to asynchronous event and would coordinate the call of the synchronous service method.
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SOA 2.0
Not content with the SOA concept, Gartner and Oracle have created "SOA 2.0" as a label for a more advanced approach to service-orientation.
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Meeting the Challenge of Collective Code Ownership
The challenge: find the balance between pure practice and local compromise. Martin Fowler has brought us a story of a team in trouble, which took a step back to improve coding discipline and brush up on the basic practices that support collective ownership. In addition to the short-term gains of increased velocity and improved morale, the overall quality of the team's output improved as well.
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Discussion: "Decide as Late as Possible"
Lean Software Development says "decide as late as possible", but this goes against the grain for new Agile managers and team leads, who used to be responsible for careful up-front planning. Can this possibly be right? A group of ScrumMasters recently discussed the topic.
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Sign up for the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile 2006
The APLN Leadership Summit will be held at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis on July 26 this year.
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Agile vs. Formal Methods
Should you adopt an agile method or a more formal one? Which is right for you? Perhaps you should mix and match?
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Sun commits to open source Java eventually
At Java One this week Sun said that open sourcing Java is no longer a question of whether, but how. This marks a different tone from previous years, perhaps the Apache Harmony project is succeeding in slowly turning Sun away into a different direction. Community reaction to the news has been mixed.
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SOA Meets Web 2.0 at SOA Executive Forum
InfoWorld is holding an SOA Executive today at which an expert panel discussed Web 2.0 in the context of SOA, how businesses can develop composite apps outside the firewall using technologies typically considered Web 2.0.
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InfoQ Day: See the top 8 sessions Wednesday in SanFrancisco
If you're in SanFrancisco then you're invited to InfoQ Day on Wednesday. We have rented out the Thirsty Bear restaurant where we will host 8 presentations by some of the best speakers also attending Java One. The event is free to the public all day, and refreshments will be served. You're invited!
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on SOA in Practice
In an interview conducted by Jim Gray, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels provides background information on Amazon.com's service-oriented technology platform.
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Is the Feedback Loop Worth the Time?
John Brothers, on Indefinite Articles, blogged an interesting conversation last week between Mary Poppendieck and Robert Bogue. Drawn from the Agile Project Management newsgroup, it pointed out two different stances on the relative cost and value of "frequent feedback", a key component of Agile methodologies.
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Article: What is Agility, and Why Should You Care?
Business is moving faster than ever, there's no time for fads. But Agile has been around for decades, enabling businesses to be ever more responsive in these times of rapid change. This short article tells how it has helped two teams excel.
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1st Draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures Released
The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.
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Agile Unified Process v1.1 Released
The latest version of the Agile Unified Process (AUP) is available for download. This free, HTML-based product describes an agile instantiation of the Unified Process (UP).
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Using Agile Processes and Modeling To Build Enterprise Applications
The traditional approach of doing big requirements up front (BRUF) or big design up front (BDUF) results in significant wastage which can cause many software developments projects to be challenged and/or fail entirely. The article shows how to apply Agile Modeling (AM) practices when building enterprise Java applications.