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  • Web Services Guru Dr. Frank Leymann on SOA

    Frank Leymann is a full professor at the University of Stuttgart and co-author of many Web Service specifications, including WSFL, WS-Addressing, WS-Metadata Exchange, and the WS-Resource Framework set of specifications. He was one of the driving forces behind BPEL4WS. InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov talks to Dr Leymann about SOA research, REST, Web Services and other important topics for SOA.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Aug 14, 2006

  • Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?

    .NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."

    Stephen Chu
    on Aug 11, 2006

  • Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring 2.0 and AspectJ

    This article reviews Spring AOP support in 2.0, and walks you through an adoption roadmap for AOP in enterprise applications, with plenty of examples of features that can be implemented simply using AOP, but would be very hard to do any other way.

    Adrian Colyer
    on Aug 10, 2006

  • Executive summary - An Adaptive Performance Management System

    Traditional thinking has turned budgets into fixed performance contracts forcing managers at all levels to commit to specified financial outcomes, although many of the underlying variables are beyond their control. In this Cutter Executive Summary, Jim Highsmith offers an alternative for the adaptive organization: a project performance management system and a team performance management system.

    Jim Highsmith
    on Aug 09, 2006

  • Using Logging Seams for Legacy Code Unit Testing

    Using logging seams you can easily create unobtrusive unit tests around legacy classes, without needing to edit class logic as well as avoiding behavior changes.

    Ian Roughley
    on Aug 01, 2006

  • Agile: The SOA Hangover Cure

    Author Carl Ververs who is an expert on SOA Integration and Distributed Systems writes about the application of "Agile" development philosophies that ensures that organizations can overcome architectural paralysis and get moving on those important SOA projects, while at the same time ensuring that the architecture is sufficiently flexible and adaptable for future growth.

    Carl Ververs
    on Jul 31, 2006

  • From Java to Ruby: Strategies for Pilots

    The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing mainstream languages like Java--even for one project--and the overall technical landscape of Ruby's capabilities.

    Bruce Tate
    on Jul 27, 2006

  • Annotation Hammer

    Annotations in Java 5 provide a very powerful metadata mechanism. Yet, like anything else, we need to figure out where it makes sense to use it. In this article we will take a look at why Annotations matter and discuss cases for their use and misuse.

    Venkat Subramaniam
    on Jul 25, 2006

  • Book Excerpt: Practices of an Agile Developer

    This book collects the personal habits, ideas, and approaches of successful agile software developers and presents them in a series of short, easy-to-digest tips. Practical and focused, it offers proven and effective agile practices to make the reader a better developer. InfoQ.com brings you an excerpt, "Chapter 7: Agile Debugging," as a free pdf download.

    Andy Hunt Venkat Subramaniam
    on Jul 24, 2006

  • Top 8 SOA Adoption Pitfalls

    Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author. He has written two books on SOA. Understanding the pitfalls others have fallen victim to will help you chart a safer route down your own SOA roadmap. To this end Thomas has collected the eight most common SOA adoption pitfalls of last year.

    Thomas Erl
    on Jul 20, 2006

  • EJB 3 Glossary

    An essential glossary of new terms and concepts introduced in EJB 3. The glossary demystifies buzzwords like (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection, Embeddable Object, Interceptors, and more. This glossary will constantly be updated.

    Oliver Ihns Stefan M. Heldt
    on Jul 13, 2006

  • ESB Roundup Part two: ESB Use Cases

    This is the second part of InfoQ's ESB series, an exploration of Enterprise Service Bus, or ESB technologies. The focus is use cases required by companies deploying this technology, such as protocol bridging, security intermediation and service virtualization. The article references analyst commentary, survey research results and comments on part one of the ESB roundup.

    Miko Matsumura
    on Jul 12, 2006
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