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Interview and Book Review: Spring Integration in Action

Spring Integration in Action book, authored by Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici and Iwein Fuld, covers the Spring Integration framework which provides an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Spring programming model. InfoQ spoke with authors about the book, Spring Integration framework, its strengths and limitations.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 14, 2012
A Step by Step Guide to Lean ALM

Last time we looked at Lean ALM from a high level perspective. This article Dave West builds on that by discussing how one can gradually introduce Lean ALM to established teams.

Dave West
on Nov 12, 2012
Agile Performance Reviews

Why go an entire year before receiving feedback? Nothing else in the Agile world waits a year, why would feedback? Struggling to make feedback objective? Perhaps objectivity is the wrong goal perhaps reviews should be subjective. Ryan Hagan offers his approach to doing performance reviews with an Agile Team.

Ryan Hagan
on Nov 09, 2012
Introduction to Interface-Driven Development Using Swagger and Scalatra

Since it began life a little over three years ago, the Scalatra web micro-framework has evolved into a lightweight but full-featured MVC framework with a lively community behind it. Scalatra started out as a port of Ruby's Sinatra to the Scala language. Since then the two systems have evolved independently, with Scalatra gaining capabilities such as an Atmosphere integration and Akka support.

Dave Hrycyszyn
on Nov 06, 2012
Detection of Mobile Malware in the Wild

In this article, authors talk about new techniques for detecting mobile malware to help protect smartphones from security threats. The techniques include Static analysis, Dynamic analysis, Application permission analysis, Cloud-based detection, Battery life monitoring. They also discuss smartphone protection tips and best practices.

Hee Beng Kuan Tan Mahinthan Chandramohan
on Nov 05, 2012
The Architecture of Datomic

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, explains the architecture of Datomic - a new database designed as a composition of simple services, combining the capabilities of RDBMS and scalability of NoSQL.

Rich Hickey
on Nov 02, 2012
Julien Nioche on Apache Nutch 2 Features and Product Roadmap

Open source web-search framework Apache Nutch version 2 supports large scale crawling, link-graph database and HTML parsing. InfoQ spoke with Julien Nioche, VP of Apache Nutch project, about the framework new features and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Nov 01, 2012
Blueprint for a Big Data Solution

In his new article Jonathan Natkins explains how to use components of Apache Hadoop, including Flume, Hive and Oozie to implement a typical Data management system. He also gives a practical example of such architecture to measure Twitter user’s influence.

Jonathan Natkins
on Oct 31, 2012
Now is the Time for Lean ALM

In this article we examine why organizations need to transition to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and what we can learn from Lean thinking in transforming ALM from an inflexible, expensive, dogmatic approach to one more able to reduce waste and deliver measurable value.

Dave West
on Oct 30, 2012
Agile in the Defense Industry

The Defense Industry is often viewed as a very “non-Agile” culture. Teams, organized along strict hierarchical boundaries, seldom collaborate freely and are forced to communicate through the handoff of contract-specified artifacts. In this article, Jeff Plummer shares his experience with successfully applying Agile principles and practices to his team working in the Defense Industry.

Jeff Plummer
on Oct 29, 2012
A Detailed Look at The New File API in Java 7

Java 7 introduced a number of useful features to the language, including a new I/O file package which offers finer grained control over file system functionality, particularly for POSIX based systems. This article will first introduce the new API, and then explore it in more detail using an example of a web-based file manager project, called WebFolder.

Dmitriy Rogatkin
on Oct 24, 2012
So What Exactly is a View-Model?

So What Exactly is a View-Model? After being introduced to the term “view-model,” most developers start by using them as a dumping ground for everything. This article explores some of the many roles assumed by the view-model and asks the question, “What really belongs in the view-model?”

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 23, 2012

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