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  • Eight Quick Ways to Improve Java Legacy Systems

    Even Java systems can be "legacy" systems. This article explores 8 quick and relatively low risk ways to improve even the crustiest Java application. Applications that may have previously been written off as dead can find new life by using these tips to improve performance, reduce operations overhead and grease the gears of the development lifecycle.

    Tim Cull
    on Jul 26, 2010
  • Architecture & Design

    A collaborative approach for real-world BPM

    Bernd Ruec​ker explores how to achieve a better Business-IT alignment when developing BPM solutions. He describes a methodology which uses BPMN-based process model as center for collaboration where users can discuss and link requirements, business rules or other artifacts, visualize development status, specify business driven test scenarios and much more.

    Bernd Ruecker
    on Jul 22, 2010

  • How to Extend the Axis2 Framework to Support JVM Based Scripting Languages

    Heshan Suriyaarachchi covers some of the key concepts of the Apache Axis2 Web Service engine and how it can be extended to support JVM based scripting languages such as Jython, Jruby, etc allowing them to be used to both expose web services and write web service clients.

    Heshan Suriyaarachchi
    on Jul 13, 2010
  • Web Development

    Virtual Panel: State of the Art in Enterprise Flex Frameworks

    Flex 1.0 was released in March 2004 and since then Flex based RIA development has been increasingly gaining momentum. Recently Adobe released Flex 4 along with Flash Builder 4, as part of the Adobe Flash Platform technology. To assess the state of Adobe Flex for enterprise adoption, InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of popular third-party flex frameworks.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Jul 01, 2010

  • Flexible and User-configurable Charts with Flash Builder Backed by a Java-based RESTful API

    Daniel Morgan shows how to build a portal-style web application comprising a Java back-end to serve a RESTful API for creating, updating, deleting and retrieving dashboard-style, user-configurable charts assembled using Adobe Flash Builder.

    Daniel Morgan
    on Jul 01, 2010

  • Infinispan's GridFileSystem - An In-Memory Grid File System

    Infinispan is an open source data grid platform that makes use of distributing state across nodes in a cluster. GridFileSystem is a new, experimental API that exposes an Infinispan-backed data grid as a file system. In this article, authors discuss distributed mode of Infinispan and how GridFS framework manages data caching by chunking up data using a new streaming API and storing them in a grid.

    Bela Ban Manik Surtani
    on Jun 25, 2010
  • Web Development

    Virtual Panel: New JavaScript Frameworks Targeting HTML5

    During the last year, HTML5 has gained general acceptance as one of the dominant development platforms for both the classic and the mobile Web. In that time new JavaScript frameworks have evolved that directly target this platform and attempt to set a new paradigm for Web development.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Jun 17, 2010

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Dave Klein's Grails A Quick-Start Guide

    In this book review of Grails A Quick-Start Guide, InfoQ spoke with author Dave Klein about the best practices when using Grails for web application development, Meta Object Protocol (MOP) feature in Groovy, and tool support for developing web applications using Grails framework.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jun 04, 2010

  • Lambdas in Java: An In-Depth Analysis

    Although languages like Python and Ruby have had lambdas for a long time, the recent popularity of JVM-based languages (notably Groovy and Scala) have rekindled demand for lambdas in Java as well. But what is a lambda and what is the proposed syntax for adding lambdas to the Java language? This article explores both of these questions in depth.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jun 03, 2010

  • The State of JRuby: 1.5, AOT, Java 7

    InfoQ caught up with Charles Nutter to talk about the state of JRuby: the 1.5 release, Ahead of Time compilation, and what's coming up in 1.6 and with features in Java 7.

    Werner Schuster
    on Jun 02, 2010

  • Profiling java.util.concurrent locks

    IBM’s Yao Qi, Raja Das, and Zhi Da Luo describe jucprofiler, an alphaWorks tool designed to profile multicore applications that make use of the java.util.concurrent classes introduced in Java 5.

    Raja Das Zhi Da Luo Yao Qi
    on May 27, 2010

  • Scala & Spring: Combine the best of both worlds

    Based on a concrete example with Scala, Spring and JPA the article explains how to enhance Spring with Scala’s powerful concepts such as implicit conversions and traits. Moreover, it shows how the gap between a Java based framework and Scala can smoothly be bridged.

    Urs Peter
    on May 19, 2010
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