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Business Benefits of OSGi
Many consider the cost of migration onto OSGi expensive, but frequently this is conflated with the cost of modularity itself. Modularising a large, complex and heavily intertwined library is an expense that has no immediate benefits to the maintainers. However, if left to rot, the system will become more complex, intertwined and larger over time and the maintenance cost will increase.
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Simple IT: SOA Done Right
In his new post, Steve Jones proposes the notion of Simple IT – an IT that can be defined as a series of easily describable business aligned elements each of which can be independently maintained- in other words a properly designed SOA system.
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US Government: Proposed Assessment and Authorization for Cloud Computing
Two weeks back the US CIO's office released a 90 page proposal entitled, Proposed Security Assessment and Authorization for US Government Cloud Computing. The document is the result of 18 months of work among the NIST, GSA, ISIMC and the CIO Council to evaluate security controls and multiple Assessment and Authorization models for US Government Cloud Computing.
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Amazon AWS receives ISO 27001 Certfication
Last week, Amazon was awarded the ISO/IEC 27001 certification for Amazon Web Services, AWS. The certification is significant in that ISO 27001 mandates specific management controls and requirements to be in place.
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Microsoft's Cloud Economics
Two weeks ago Rolf Harms and Michael Yamartino of Microsoft published a whitepaper entitled The Economics of the Cloud. In the whitepaper, they predict a seismic shift within the IT world away from client/server to public clouds, ala Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. The document clearly outlines their technical and business plan for a Brave New Microsoft.
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OASIS opens the doors on WS-I Member Section
OASIS announces the creation of a Web Services Interoperability Member Section to accept and take over the donations from the WS-I, which recently announced that it was closing. Although the structure of the group reflects the WS-I membership, they are calling for a wider audience to help drive the work forward.
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New Version of Bing AJAX Map is targeted for Mobile Devices
The new version of the Bing AJAX Map Control version 7 is one third the size of the previous version, a huge win for web sites that cater to mobile device users. Controls have been reduced in size and given HTML 5 support. There have also been performance improvements for multiple-point rendering.
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Evolve: Using Components to Improve on Dependency Injection
Evolve is a lightweight tool for creating, wiring up and executing Java components. Developers can use Evolve to graphically describe JavaBeans and also optionally generate Java code for setters and getters. InfoQ spoke with Andrew McVeigh about the tool.
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Implementing Partial Updates In RESTful Services
Alex Scordellis posted an article on how the interaction of a client and a service can be modeled and designed for updating partial resources. It appears that it is easily solved if we model the resources appropriately. Often times just thinking of resources as entities that support CRUD is the problem and modeling resources as “resources” and the services they offer.
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Ari Zilka on Ehcache BigMemory
Ehcache BigMemory supports in-process off-heap cache to store large sets of data closer to the application. Terracotta last week announced the general availability of BigMemory module for Enterprise Ehcache product. InfoQ spoke with Ari Zilka about BigMemory features and its use cases.
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Cloudstreams: The Next Cloud Integration Challenge
The potential for massive proliferation of Cloud service brings to the focus the necessity for integration between cloud services themselves and cloud services and enterprise. In his new post, Daryl Plummer introduced a new word into the cloud lexicon, a way to describe these interactions-: the Cloudstream.
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ZapThink on Enterprise IT Trends in The Next Decade
Zapthink 2020 was announced recently as Zapthink’s conceptual framework to explain the trends and crisis that will shape Enterprise IT over the next decade. Jason Bloomberg (Managing Partner, Zapthink LLC) announced the explained the birth of Zapthink 2020 to InfoQ.
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Four Decades of Software Engineering, are Changes Coming?
Jean Bezivin retraces the path that lead to our current software engineering practices and explore new avenues for the coming decade as, he notes, "there are some indications that we are currently crossing some new frontiers in technology and practices".
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Work begins on JAX-RS 2.0
JAX-RS is the standard for RESTful services in enterprise Java. It has been finalised since 2008 and part of EE6 since late 2009, with several implementations. Over the past couple of years there has been a lot of implementation experience and now Oracle have announced that JAX-RS 2.0 is in the works, as well as giving an indication of their current thoughts. But are they missing anything?
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Updated: Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
Apple have just announced that they will be working with Oracle on the OpenJDK project. As part of the deal Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for Java SE 7 on Mac OS X.