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Using Ruby Fibers for Async I/O: NeverBlock and Revactor

Rails 2.2 is schedule to be thread safe - but will blocking I/O libraries make it necessary to run multiple Ruby instances? We take a look at how non-blocking I/O and Ruby 1.9's Fibers help solve the problem. We talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock project and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor project.

Werner Schuster
on Aug 28, 2008
ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers

Often the hardest part of changing technologies is language syntax differences. This new article provides Java developers with a transition guide to Actionscript which forms the foundation of Adobe Flex and Air. Common constructs are covered such as interfaces, constants, operators, regular expressions and XML.

Jack Herrington
on Aug 25, 2008
Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 2 of 3)

This article, the second in a three-part series, expands upon the previous article by introducing RichFaces. It covers integrating RichFaces into the previous sample application, deploying a RichFaces portlet, and several features and capabilities of RichFaces.

Wesley Hales
on Aug 19, 2008
Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 1 of 3)

This article, the first in a three-part series, lays the framework for the rest of the series. It covers setting up a new project using JBoss Portlet Container and JBoss Portlet Bridge, configuring a JSF application to use JBoss Portlet Bridge, and the capabilities that JBoss Portlet Bridge provides to a JSF application.

Wesley Hales
on Aug 06, 2008
Silverlight and Java Interoperability

Robert Bell, Microsoft, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.

Robert Bell
on Aug 05, 2008
Spring 2.5: New Features in Spring MVC

Spring 2.5 rolled out a comprehensive set of annotations that can be used for auto-discovery of Spring-managed objects, dependency injection, lifecycle methods, Web layer configuration, and testing.

Rossen Stoyanchev
on Aug 03, 2008
8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail

If you want to start building software in a model-driven way you’ll need to devise some methodology based on ideas and practical experiences from others. In this article, Johan shares with us 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering. The article contains a rich set of references to help you go further in your investigations.

Johan Den Haan
on Jul 28, 2008
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An Overview of the eXo Platform

In this article, Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provide an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.

Benjamin Mestrallet Tugdual Grall
on Jul 24, 2008
Building Scalability and Achieving Performance: A Virtual Panel

Join our industry-heavyweight (eBay, Betfair, FiveRuns and Twitter) panel as they explore the cost of making their sites as scalable as possible, whilst tuning to get the most performance they possibly can. They explore the pros-and-cons of making their apps as awesome as possible - all the while under the pressure of their business requirements.

James Cox
on Jul 22, 2008
Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.

Nik Silver Mat Wall
on Jul 22, 2008
Debunking Common Refactoring Misconceptions

In comparison to Java, an emphasis on continuous refactoring is still relatively new in .NET. Besides having few ardent proponents, many myths linger around what refactoring really is and how it applies to the development process in general. Danijel Arsenovski, author of Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic, attempts to dispel some of these myths.

Danijel Arsenovski
on Jul 16, 2008
Virtualization and Security

While virtualization provides many benefits, security can not be a forgotten concept in its application. This new article takes a look at how virtualized servers effect data center security.

InfoQ Staff
on Jul 13, 2008

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