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Defining RIA, Web 2.0, and AJAX
Christopher Keene, of WaveMaker Software, attempts to define common web development terms in a blog post earlier this month. He offers a detailed overview on the terms and how to view them together. In a separate, thread former Adobe Executive, David Mendels, discusses how the term RIA came to be, and the value it has today.
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Article: Best Practices for Model-Driven Software Development
Model-driven software development no longer belongs to the fringes of the industry but is being applied in more and more software projects with great success. In this article, experienced MDD practitioners pass on some best practices based on the experiences gathered over years of development.
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Agile Cloud Computing?
Almost a year on from their initial announcements around grids and cloud computing, Arjuna Technologies have released more details of what they're working on: a new Cloud-platform called Arjuna Agility that emphasises a non-invasive approach to getting the most out of your IT investments as they migrate to the cloud.
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Is Enterprise Data Management the Third Face of the SOA/BPM Coin?
Fred Cummins, an EDS fellow, and SOA veteran, wrote an essay last week on "Data Management for SOA". He is looking at how some of the key tenets of service design ("loose coupling" and "autonomy") relate to enterprise data in the context of achieving reuse and enabling change.
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Opinion: When Designing Your SOA - Taste is Everything
Dan Creswell claims that "taste is everything" when it comes to putting together the pieces that make a good SOA. Dan says that picking the technology stack for distributed services, how you layer the service "units", etc, are a matter of taste as well as consideration of a number of guidelines, as opposed to just taking a cookie cutter approach to SOA as some seem to claim is possible.
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Interview: Mark Little on Transactions, Web Services, and REST
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2008, Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the SOA platform Mark Little talks about extended transaction models, the history of transaction standardization, their role for web services and loosely coupled systems, and the possibility of an end to the Web services vs. REST debate.
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Einstein: an Experimental 4GL for SOA
SOA implementation typically requires usage of multiple technologies for implementing different SOA aspects. Such implementation is a daunting task, requiring, at a minimum, understanding different technologies, involved in typical SOA implementation. One of the possible solutions to this complexity is developing Domain Specific programming languages for SOA.
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UNO, OpenOffice, and MonoDevelop
Microsoft Office developers have long bragged about their ability to control pretty much anything in Office via COM automation. But unbeknownst to most, OpenOffice developers have a few tricks up their sleeve.
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IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
The IcedTea project has passed the Java Test Compatibility Kit, becoming the first 100% open-source licensed Java implementation to be completely verified as Java-compliant.
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Merge, Replace, or Patch: How Astoria Handles Changing Data
Using REST, what should happen when you perform a PUT operation to update existing data? The Astoria Team asks that question and explains their answer.
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OpenFlux Component Framework for Flex
OpenFlux offers Flex developers an open source component framework based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture. The library has a set of components that currently includes Buttons, Lists, and ScrollBars. The goal of OpenFlux is to make it easy to “dramatically” customize components within a Flex application, without fear of breaking other parts of the component
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Agile Practices with the Highest Return on Investment
Return on Investment is a critical factor for decision making pertaining to following a particular software development practice. The post summarizes the ROI benefits of Agile and the inexpensive practices which lead to highest return on investment.
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Railo joins JBoss.org
Swiss software house Railo have announced that they are joining JBoss.org and will be releasing their Java based ColdFusion Markup Language engine for free under the LGPL.
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Interview: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java
Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0. Johnson also alludes to the SpringSource Application Platform, which was announced a month after this interview was filmed.
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Composing SCA Solutions and SCA’s Approach to Policy and Bindings Presentations
SCA continues to gain momentum, becoming a dominant SOA programming model adopted by many commercial SOA products. Several recently published presentations explain capabilities, inner working and usage of SCA.