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Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework

Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Dan Allen to talk about the framework features and its future roadmap.

Srini Penchikala
on May 14, 2012
MongoDB, Java and Object Relational Mapping

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This article builds on Brian's real world in the trenches experience with MongoDB and includes "gotchas" like "Don't treat MongoDB like an RDBMS...", how to "design your indexes carefully", and more.

Brian C. Dilley
on Apr 30, 2012
Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka

Michael Slinn examines how to benchmark JVM concurrency options for JVM-based langauges including Java and Scala.

Michael Slinn
on Apr 26, 2012
Rejection of Social Media API by JCP Expert Group Members Sparks Debate On Innovation

When the JCP rejected JSR 357 (Social Media API) in an 8 to 5 vote, members criticised it for being too broad in scope and not taking sufficient account of security and the mobile space. However, members favouring the proposal indicated this was a political move and impedes innovation.

Charles Humble
on Apr 11, 2012
Grails Best Practices

Basic best practices for Grails projects gathered from mailing list, Stack Overflow, blogs, podcasts and internal discussions at IntelliGrape, categorized under controller, service, domain, views...

Amit Jain
on Apr 03, 2012
Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts

The popularization of the Scala programming language and the comparisons with other languages has greatly increased the amount of posts in blogs and social nets, many of those containing many claims that can be outdated, superficial or biased. This article explains the common issues about the language and its environment, favoring a more accurate and balanced assessment.

Julio Faerman
on Mar 29, 2012
Tips to Developers Starting on Large Applications

You've just started working on a large Java application. How would you go about understanding the code base? In a typical enterprise Java team, most of the senior developers who can help you are likely to be quite busy. Documentation will be sparse. You will need to quickly deliver and prove yourself to the team. How would you resolve such a situation? This article offers some suggestions.

Choudary Kothapalli
on Mar 26, 2012
Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE 7

Java EE 7 specification includes support for cloud computing to help developers build applications that are portable across Java EE PaaS platforms. InfoQ spoke with Anil Gaur, Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, about cloud computing support in Java EE 7, project road map and timeline, cloud API in Java EE 7, and cloud development and deployment tools.

Srini Penchikala
on Mar 21, 2012
Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala

In this interview with InfoQ's Editor in Chief, Michael Floyd, Martin Odersky draws the comparisons between F# and Scala, discusses the future of Scala, and addresses once and for all the question of breaking binary compatibility. He also discusses his current work on the implementation of the value class proposal, how Java might support functional programming and the new Typesafe Stack 2.0.

Michael Floyd
on Mar 12, 2012
Book Review and Interview: Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John

Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. Specifically, it provides information on performance monitoring, profiling, tuning HotSpot, and Java EE application performance tuning. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.

Charles Humble
on Feb 01, 2012
Oracle and the Java Ecosystem

Oracle is making huge efforts to engage with the wider Java ecosystem, but challenges still remain.

Charles Humble
on Jan 16, 2012
Implementing Lucene Spatial Support

Lucene geospatial extension proposed in this article is based on a two level search – first level search is based on Cartesian Grid search and the second level implements shape specific spatial calculations

Boris Lublinsky
on Jan 13, 2012

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