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Enhanced Detection of Malware

This article, from Intel, discusses significant new threats to host agents, outlines a generic architecture for malware detection, based on enhanced cloud computing, describes how Intel platform technologies can be used to enhance computing solutions, and ends with a threat analysis of the approaches presented. Malware that masks its presence from traditional security agents is the article focus.

Hormuzd Khosravi and Yuriy Bulygin Divya Kolar Sunder Carlos Rozas
on Sep 30, 2009
SOA and Service Identification

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been widely accepted as an approach that facilitates business agility by aligning IT with business. In this article, Rathina Dhandapani, highlights key best practices in an SOA initiative to identify, validate and verify service inventory content well before implementation.

Rathina Dhandapani
on Sep 29, 2009
OOPSLA Debate: Cloud Computing for the Wrong Reasons

Cloud Computing will be a central topic at OOPSLA 2009. This article states that the usefulness of Cloud Computing is highly overrated and the primary objective is to make (more) money. Whether you agree or disagree, please voice your opinion here at InfoQ so we can take it with us to OOPSLA for further debate. Better yet, join us on the 25th and 26th of October at OOPSLA 2009 Cloud Workshops!

Ruth Lennon Morten Udnæs Lars Arne Skår
on Sep 28, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Mark Richards' Java Message Service 2nd Edition

Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, by Mark Richards, covers JMS topics such as the two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book. Topics covered in the interview include EJB 3.0, Spring Message Driven POJO's (MDP)and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 28, 2009
Encrypting the Internet

The authors, from Intel, offer a three pronged approach to providing secure transmission of high volume HTML traffic: new CPU instructions to accelerate cryptographic operations; a novel implementation of the RSA algorithm to accelerate public key encryption; and using SMT to balance web server and cryptographic operations. Their approach, they claim, leads to significant cost savings.

Satyajit Grover Michael Kounavis andFrank Berry Xiaozhu Kang
on Sep 22, 2009
Patterns from "SOA Design Patterns" by Thomas Erl, Part 2

Patterns from Thomas Erl’s book, “SOA Design Patterns”. Today, we present Chapter 16, Service Governance Patterns, comprising a number of 8 patters. Compatible Change, Version Identification, Termination Notification, Service Refactoring, Service Decomposition, Proxy Capability, Decomposed Capability, and Distributed Capability.

Thomas Erl
on Sep 21, 2009
Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Werner Schuster
on Sep 18, 2009
Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

Joern Barthel introduces the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and illustrates it's useage with Ruby-based client and an EDA-style app. The open source RabbitMQ server is used on the backend (which is written in Erlang).

Joern Barthel
on Sep 13, 2009
Book Review: Understanding SCA

Four years after the publication of the first SCA specification draft, SCA remains a technology that is not well known or understood. Yet IBM and Oracle have built key product suites with it.Jim Marino and Michael Rowley, both co-authors of the SCA specifications, have published a practical guide to get started with SCA which covers the entire programming model from persistence to presentation.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 10, 2009
Book Excerpt and Interview: Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection by Dhanji R. Prasanna is a book that tries to explore the DI idiom in detail, and present techniques in Spring and Guice. Dhanji is a Google software engineer who works on Google Wave and also contributes to Guice, MVEL, and other open source projects.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 07, 2009
Patterns from SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, Part 1

In this article we present 3 Inventory Governance Patterns from chapter 10 of the book SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl: Canonical Expression, Metadata Centralization, and Canonical Versioning. They are part of an 85 patterns catalog that serves enterprise architects and developers to find and build strong SOA solutions based on tested and proven SOA practices.

Thomas Erl
on Sep 01, 2009
Creating Highly-Scalable Components in Java

This article presents a library supporting the development of highly-scalable applications that take advantage of an underlying multi-core hardware. The library is part of the Amino Library Project. One example: ensure scalability of applications by using , java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap to replace a synchronized HashTable.

Raja Das Zhi Gan Xiao Jun Dai
on Aug 27, 2009

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