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Erik Doernenburg on Software Visualization
Software visualization aims to provide a representation of artifacts at an intermediate level of abstraction, which provides enough information to be useful but is at a high enough level that you can perform broadly scoped analysis. In this interview Erik Doernenburg talks with InfoQ about different software visualization strategies using a combination of free tools and custom development.
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CBDI Publishes Service Architecture and Engineering Metamodel V2.0
Everware-CBDI announced recently the publication of their second release of ther Service Architecture & Engineering Metamodel which provide different views to capture the metadata associated to services. Salamander announced this week the release of a solution combining their leading MooD product and the SAE metamodel.
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KonaKart: Free Java-based online shopping cart
KonaKart, a free Java-based online shopping cart, just released version 2.2.0.7. InfoQ spoke with KonaKart founder Paolo Sidoli to learn more about this release, and how KonaKart fits into the online shopping cart space.
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Setting out for Service Component Architecture
Henning Blohm, Java EE Software Architect at SAP and Co-Chair of the SCA-J Technical Committee provides his perspective on SCA as a cross-technology programming model integration. He claims that for vendors SCA lowers the marginal costs of providing implementation or binding technology and for users it reduces the marginal costs of using them.
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High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?
Inconsistencies between the user interface and user’s expectations can be an important source of bugs. According to Leonardo Vernazza, this is due the fact that the user and the UI do not talk the same language. Using a DSL, characterized by a high abstraction level, would be instrumental for avoiding the risk of translation errors and would therefore reduce the testing burden.
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SOA Is Alive And Well?
ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer gives their take on the current life of SOA and why so many people may have been tolling the bell for it far too early.
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Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture
The Software Engineering Institute has published a new paper "Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture".
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InfoQ Japan Launches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.
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Gartner on Disruptive Trends in Platform Middleware
A Gartner Report elaborates how emerging Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture programming models, as well as the continued growth in adoption of key open source technologies (in particular Spring) have all combined to put significant pressure on traditional platform middleware vendors and may lead to disrupt the industry landscape.
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Adobe AIR Application: Spaz - a Twitter Client
Last week, arstechnica.com published an interview with Ed Finkler, the creater of Spaz – an open source Twitter client written using the Adobe AIR platform. In the interview, Finkler discusses Spaz, how and why he selected the AIR platform, and some of the challenges of upgrading Spaz to the latest AIR beta 2 release.
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IBM announces a broad set of new product releases, services offerings and the SOA Sandbox
IBM announced a wide update to its SOA product line and services offerings. In addition, it published a large collection of white papers, presentations and labs as part of the SOA Sandbox.
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Interview: BT's Chief WS Architect Paul Downey on "Loving the Web"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers.
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Top Ten Software Architecture Mistakes
Eoin Woods, one of the IASA Fellows has published an article about what he considers to be the top ten software architecture mistakes - mistakes that are too often learned the hard way.
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Article: Java Grid, why do we need it?
Investment banks have often set trends or offer the rest of us a glimpse into the future of our IT infrastructure. Today banks are investing heavily into grid technologies as they continue in their battle for profits. In this article, John Davies shares his experiences on technologies used in finance and why Grid technologies are becoming a new mainstream for high volume, low latency systems.
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Oracle Makes $6.7 Billion Bid For BEA
Today Oracle confirmed that it has made a $6.7 billion dollar bid to buy BEA, according to various news media. The offer is for $17 a share, a 25% increase over BEA's previous $13 a share price range. Shares in BEA were trading at an avg of $13 before the announcement and are now trading at nearly $18 (as of 10:20am ET).