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  • AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

    In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.

    Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
    on Sep 26, 2008

  • Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design

    In this article, Joshua Bloch, head of Java on Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.

    Joshua Bloch
    on Sep 22, 2008

  • Paradigm based Polyglot Programming

    Have you ever wondered why people talk about having "the right language for the right job"? Or why people talk about using more languages within the same system? Sadek Drobi explains why you should consider mixing languages within your system, how to think and what to consider.

    Sadek Drobi
    on Sep 19, 2008

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT

    Jeff Dwyer discusses his new book, GWT 1.5, and creating searchable Ajax applications.

    Scott Delap
    on Sep 17, 2008

  • Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison

    Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.

    Joel Confino
    on Sep 15, 2008

  • Quest for True SOA

    Alex Maclinovsky explains why his vision of Governance differs from those prevailing in the industry. Based on his precise understanding of what a SOA platform should do, he defines a unified view of SOA Governance which he claims "has the potential to take the imperfect SOA platforms and implementations ... and transform them into true Service Oriented Architectures..."

    Alex Maclinovsky
    on Sep 10, 2008

  • More Than Just Spin (Up) : Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS

    Cloud services, such as Amazon EC2, have helped bring virtualization to the forefront of the IT conversation. Its full power however, also includes benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid application provisioning. In this article, Contegix CEO Matthew Porter, discusses how virtualization can be used to bring these benefits to enterprise and Saas deployments.

    Matthew Porter
    on Aug 31, 2008

  • VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview

    VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide provides a wealth of practical insights into setting up virtualization in todays corporate environments. InfoQ is proud to provide both a book excerpt and an interview with the authors Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, and Mike Laverick.

    Scott Delap
    on Aug 29, 2008

  • SOA Governance: An Enterprise View

    SOA architect Michael Poulin explains the necessity for SOA governance to ensure an SOA initiative's success, and explains the role the OASIS SOA Reference Model and the accompanying SOA Reference Architecture assign to SOA Governance. Michael observes SOA governance specifics from the enterprise perspective and illustrates them with several examples of SOA Governance policies.

    Michael Poulin
    on Aug 20, 2008

  • Scalability Worst Practices

    In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring.

    Brian Zimmer
    on Aug 18, 2008

  • Book Review: Applied SOA

    Applied SOA is a new book on Service Oriented Architecture written by 4 leading SOA practitioners that aims at making you successful with your SOA implementation. In particular, this book is going to help you tie your SOA initiative with your Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Core Data and BPM initiatives.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Aug 04, 2008

  • Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid

    It was only recently that Amazon took cloud computing mainstream with the release of EC2. They are not the only game in town however. This new article takes a look at cloud server providers EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid.

    Craig Wickesser
    on Aug 04, 2008
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