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Creating dynamic web applications with JSF/DWR/DOJO

JSF, DWR, and Dojo are all popular technologies in their own right. Integrating them into a portal environment can prove an intimidating exercise however. This article looks at how one developer implemented such a solution using custom JSF components.

Ashish Sarin
on Oct 04, 2007
SCA Interview

SCA has been the subject of many heated discussions since it was released to the public in 2005. In 2007 the specifications went to OASIS and created the OpenCSA forum. The OpenCSA members held their first plenary recently, coinciding with the first face-to-face meetings of the standards groups. We caught up with some of the attendees to ask them about SCA, standardization and adoption

Mark Little
on Oct 03, 2007
WPF Unleashed - Review and Sample Chapter

WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan has been leading the Amazon charts in positive reviews, so we thought we would take it for a spin. Turns out, the book lives up to the hype. In addition, InfoQ was able to obtain the most important chapter of the book. Chapter 3 includes coverage of WPF's property and event system, a system that is unlike anything else on the Windows platform.

Jonathan Allen
on Sep 27, 2007
The Box: A Shortcut to finding Performance Bottlenecks

Finding performance bottlenecks can be a difficult task and it can get even more difficult as our applications grow in size. The Box is a methodology tool that focuses us efforts to improve performance.If you want to be consistent and predictable, getting rid of the guessing is a must.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Sep 21, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Smart (Enough) Systems

Smart (enough) Systems is a book about Enterprise Decision Management. To make your systems smart enough, your core problem is knowing what's the right decision to make and how to make it when required. EDM is becoming a strategic area in IT as many organizations have found a gap between gaining insights from business intelligence and taking action to exploit that insight in operational decisions.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 19, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Filthy Rich Clients - Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications

Desktop Java developers have long lacked resources on pushing the graphical appearance of their applications. The new book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications attempts to fill this void. InfoQ is privileged to provide both a review and an excerpt of Chapter 14 detailing the Timing Framework library that makes Java animation easier.

Andy Roberts
on Sep 17, 2007
Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop

InfoQ's lead Java editor, Scott Delap, recently caught up with Hadoop project lead Doug Cutting. Hadoop is an open source distributed computing platform that includes implementations of MapReduce and a distributed file system. In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project.

Scott Delap
on Sep 12, 2007
Book Review: The Responsibility Virus Helps Fear Undermine Collaboration

Do "empowered" organizations outperform their command-and-control competitors? Business school dean Roger Martin saw this promising approach fail too frequently. His diagnosis: he calls it the Responsibility Virus, and offers tools to help those who would treat the Virus in their own workplace. Reviewer Deborah Hartmann found this book a good explanation of why process is not enough.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss
on Sep 10, 2007
SOA Governance - Long-Term SOA Implementation and Management

In this article, Wolfgang Keller explores the challenges in SOA adoption and discusses the commonalities and differences of SOA governance to overall IT governance. He discusses why SOA initiatives frequently get bogged down, and how the anchoring of SOA in an IT governance can help make SOA a success.

Wolfgang Keller
on Sep 10, 2007
Interview: Dino Chiesa on Microsoft's SOA strategy

Microsoft has intensified its marketing efforts on SOA with the launch of a new web site, a series of webinars, an ebook, “SOA in the Real World” and the “SOA & Business Process Conference 2007”. In the next couple of months Microsoft will also be releasing .Net 3.5 and an ESB Guidance. InfoQ talked to Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for .Net to better understand Microsoft's SOA strategy.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Sep 04, 2007
An Introduction to Apache ODE

In this new InfoQ article, Paul Brown introduces Apache ODE, an open source implementation of the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard. ODE differs from other BPEL engines in that it is delivered as a component rather than a framework for developers looking to add orchestration functionality to their systems. Paul introduces ODE's features by showing how to deploy and execute a simple process.

Paul Brown
on Sep 03, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server

With SQL Server 2000's hitting its end of life date next April, many shops that have been delaying the upgrade to SQL Server 2005 need to start looking at it seriously. This is why we have chosen to review the seventh edition of William Vaughn's Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server.

Jonathan Allen
on Aug 27, 2007

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