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Mule ESB 3.3 Release and CloudHub

MuleSoft, the company behind Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product Mule, recently released version 3.3 of the product. The new version's focus is to combine data integration with Mule's application integration capabilities and to deliver a solution for on-premise or cloud integration for developers. InfoQ spoke with Ross Mason and Daniel Feist about the new features and product roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 15, 2012
Plastic SCM – DVCS at Enterprise Level

Building on his earlier article, “Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise”, Pablo Santos discusses his company’s product: PlasticSCM. While other DVCS systems were designed for the needs of the Linux open source community, PlasticSCM addresses the problems facing enterprise software developers, especially those using .NET.

Pablo Santos
on Aug 13, 2012
Don't SCIM over your Data Model

This opinion piece discusses three specific suggestions for improving the SCIM data model: 1. Both the enterprise client and cloud provider should map their internal IDs to a shared External ID, which is the only ID exposed through the API. 2. Multi-valued attributes of a resource must be converted from an array into a dictionary with unique keys. 3. 3 ways to improve the PATCH command

Ganesh Prasad
on Aug 08, 2012
A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google's James Whittaker

Cloud Computing is creating substantial changes to the usual way of doing business. How should organizations leverage this approach to improve testing and quality assurance of software? To get an answer, author Forrest Shull spoke with James Whittaker from Google about cloud computing testing.

Forrest Shull
on Aug 06, 2012
Defending against Web Application Vulnerabilities

In this article, authors discuss the security in software development life cycle and how to defend against web application vulnerabilities using techniques like white-box analysis and black-box testing. They also talk about secure coding practices based on the defense-in-depth approach using three lines of defense: input validation, hotspot protection, and output validation.

Nuno Antunes Marco Vieira
on Jul 27, 2012
Cloud Computing Described Through The Analogy of (US) Thanksgiving Dinner

This article explains Cloud computing using the analogy of US Thanksgiving dinner.

JP Morgenthal
on Jul 25, 2012
Exterminating Heisenbugs

Victor Grazi presents ten tips to keep in mind when architecting or developing concurrent applications in Java.

Victor Grazi
on Jul 24, 2012
Tackling real-world unit testing problems

All the information, books and tools are out there, just pick up NUnit, and you’re good to go, right? Not exactly. Even before deciding to start unit testing, we need to sift through real experience of others; good and bad, horror stories and miracles (“This one test saved me a week of work!”). Then, we take the plunge, and realize: There’s so much to learn!

Gil Zilberfeld
on Jul 23, 2012
Introducing: Restful Objects

Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
on Jul 19, 2012
Book Review: Java Application Architecture

Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

Alex Blewitt
on Jul 18, 2012
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2012

The first annual QCon New York brought together over 400 team leads, architects and engineering directors. This article summarizes the key takeaways from the event as blogged and tweeted by attendees.

Abel Avram
on Jul 17, 2012
What is CouchDB and Why Should I Care?

CouchDB, a NoSQL solution, is a document-oriented database and within each document fields are stored as key-value maps. CouchDB has some unique characteristics like advanced replication. This article covers getting started, unit testing, CRUD and query operations.

Leo Pryzbylski Warner Onstine
on Jul 04, 2012

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