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  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2011

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Building Systems With REST, Design and Objects 2011, Enterprise Agile Transformation, Functional Web, HTML5, the Platform, iOS4 and Android, NoSQL: Where and How, and many more!

    Abel Avram
    on Apr 05, 2011

  • Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala

    Citing a need to be able to respond faster to events, and disappointment in the feature set and timeframe for Java 7, the team behind guardian.co.uk is using Scala as an alternative to Java for their new projects. InfoQ spoke to Web Platform Development Team Lead Graham Tackley about their current stack, the reasons behind the move, and the experience of using Scala in large-scale development.

    Charles Humble
    on Apr 04, 2011

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Dan Haywood's Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

    Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects book, by author Dan Haywood, covers the Domain-Driven Design topic using the open-source Java framework Naked Objects framework (which is now part of the Apache Isis incubator project). InfoQ spoke with Dan about the book, Naked Objects framework and its recent submission to be an Apache project.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Mar 31, 2011

  • Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers

    PostRank Labs released an open source version of their Ruby web server framework powering PostRank. Goliath, is an asynchronous server designed for speed, leveraging key features of Ruby 1.9+. Goliath creates fast web and data services not unlike node.js but sticking with what Ruby developers know..Ruby. Discover how easy it can be to create manageable server-side services with Ruby.

    Robert Bazinet
    on Mar 21, 2011

  • Pieter van Zyl on Benchmarking ORM Tools and Object Databases

    OO7J is a Java version of the original OO7 benchmark (written in C++). This project includes benchmarking Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools. Currently there are implementations for Hibernate on PostgreSQL, MySQL, db4o and Versant databases. InfoQ and Roberto V. Zicari from ODBMS.ORG recently interviewed Pieter van Zyl, creator of the OO7J benchmark.

    Roberto Zicari Srini Penchikala
    on Mar 21, 2011
  • Java

    Application Security With Apache Shiro

    Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that provides simple but powerful approach to application security. This article introduces the framework and explains Apache Shiro’s project goals, architectural philosophies and how you might use Shiro to secure your own applications.

    Les Hazlewood
    on Mar 14, 2011

  • Concrete: Rich, Customizable DSL Editors for the Browser

    Text-based DSLs are useful, an custom editor for the DSL is even better. Concrete allows to build customized editors for JSON-based DSLs/Models. InfoQ talks to Concrete's creator Martin Thiede.

    Werner Schuster
    on Feb 24, 2011

  • The Azul Garbage Collector

    Azul's recently announced Zing product brings their Garbage Collector, which achieves both pauseless garbage collection and a high tolerance to the factors which typically impact collection and application responsiveness, to Java programs running on Intel and AMD based servers. This article takes a detailed look at how Azul has been able to achieve these design goals.

    Charles Humble
    on Feb 24, 2011
  • Development

    Xtext/TS - a Typesystem Framework for Xtext

    Since the release of version 1.0, it has become feasible to build complex expression languages in Xtext. However, once you have expressions, you typically also need a type system. In this article Markus Völter describes a framework for specifying type systems for expression languages built using Xtext.

    Markus Voelter
    on Feb 07, 2011

  • Asynchronous, Event-Driven Web Servers for the JVM: Deft and Loft

    Asynchronous, event-driven architectures have been gaining a lot of attention lately, mostly with respect to JavaScript and Node.js. Deft and Loft are two solutions that bring "asynchronous purity" to the JVM.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Jan 24, 2011

  • Hades - JPA Repositories Done Right

    Almost every application has to access data to do its work. In a domain driven design approach one defines repositories for the entities that make up the domain. Java developers often use JPA to implement these repositories. Hades is an open source library that's built on top of JPA and Spring to significantly improve the implementation of data access layers by reducing the effort required.

    Oliver Drotbohm
    on Dec 20, 2010
  • Web Development

    No Callbacks Required: StratifiedJS Returns Sequential Programming to Javascript

    StratifiedJS is a superset of Javascript that adds concurrency constructs and makes callback hell a thing of the past. How? InfoQ talked to Alexander Fritze, of Onilabs, to find out.

    Werner Schuster
    on Dec 19, 2010
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