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Enhanced Detection of Malware

This article, from Intel, discusses significant new threats to host agents, outlines a generic architecture for malware detection, based on enhanced cloud computing, describes how Intel platform technologies can be used to enhance computing solutions, and ends with a threat analysis of the approaches presented. Malware that masks its presence from traditional security agents is the article focus.

Hormuzd Khosravi and Yuriy Bulygin Divya Kolar Sunder Carlos Rozas
on Sep 30, 2009
Interview and Book Excerpt: Mark Richards' Java Message Service 2nd Edition

Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, by Mark Richards, covers JMS topics such as the two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book. Topics covered in the interview include EJB 3.0, Spring Message Driven POJO's (MDP)and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 28, 2009
Modular Java: What Is It?

Over the last few years, modularity for Java has been an active discussion topic. From the (now defunct) JSR 277 to the recognition of JSR 291 and the ongoing JSR 294, modularity is seen as a necessary step in Java's evolution. Even future JVM-based languages like Scala are considering modularity. So, what does modularity mean, and why should you care?

Alex Blewitt
on Sep 23, 2009
Encrypting the Internet

The authors, from Intel, offer a three pronged approach to providing secure transmission of high volume HTML traffic: new CPU instructions to accelerate cryptographic operations; a novel implementation of the RSA algorithm to accelerate public key encryption; and using SMT to balance web server and cryptographic operations. Their approach, they claim, leads to significant cost savings.

Satyajit Grover Michael Kounavis andFrank Berry Xiaozhu Kang
on Sep 22, 2009
Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Werner Schuster
on Sep 18, 2009
Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

Joern Barthel introduces the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and illustrates it's useage with Ruby-based client and an EDA-style app. The open source RabbitMQ server is used on the backend (which is written in Erlang).

Joern Barthel
on Sep 13, 2009
Excerpts from an Interview with James Bach

Following are the most relevant excerpts from the interview with James Bach at Oredev 2008. He covers topics like: engineering, why we should be telling success stories, opening our minds to other scientific domains, automated testing and exploratory testing.

Abel Avram
on Sep 12, 2009
Book Excerpt and Interview: Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection by Dhanji R. Prasanna is a book that tries to explore the DI idiom in detail, and present techniques in Spring and Guice. Dhanji is a Google software engineer who works on Google Wave and also contributes to Guice, MVEL, and other open source projects.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 07, 2009
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Virtual Panel: The evolution of bug trackers

Bug (issue) tracking systems have become a standard tool for any organization that develops software and have evolved greatly in the last years. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with people from JIRA, FogBugz, Basecamp and MantisBT about this evolution and the future developments in this field.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 03, 2009
Creating Highly-Scalable Components in Java

This article presents a library supporting the development of highly-scalable applications that take advantage of an underlying multi-core hardware. The library is part of the Amino Library Project. One example: ensure scalability of applications by using , java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap to replace a synchronized HashTable.

Raja Das Zhi Gan Xiao Jun Dai
on Aug 27, 2009
Orchestrating RESTful Services With Mule ESB And Groovy

In this article, David Dossot, co-author of Mule in Action, examines the power of Mule RESTpack and Groovy in orchestrating RESTful services in the Mule messaging platform. The article detail the interactions for each of these steps and will consider what particular Mule moving parts and Groovy features we have used to achieve such an interaction.

David Dossot
on Aug 25, 2009
Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster

FlightCaster, a realtime flight delay site, is built on Clojure and Hadoop for the statistical analysis. The web frontend is built with Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. We talked to Bradford Cross about Clojure, functional programming and tips for OOP developers interested in making the jump.

Werner Schuster
on Aug 20, 2009

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