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A Formal Performance Tuning Methodology: Wait-Based Tuning
In this article, Steven Haines talks about web application performance tuning which used to be more of an art than science. He proposes a method called wait-based tuning, making the entire process more measurable and, consequently, more scientific.
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LHC Grid: Data storage and analysis for the largest scientific instrument on the planet
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that aims to revolutionize our understanding of our universe. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project provides data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
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Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design
In this article, Joshua Bloch, head of Java on Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT
Jeff Dwyer discusses his new book, GWT 1.5, and creating searchable Ajax applications.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 3 of 3)
This article, the last in a three-part series, expands upon the previous articles by introducing Seam. It covers integrating Seam into the previous sample application, deploying a Seam portlet, Bridgelets, Single-sign on between Seam and JBoss Portal, and several new features and capabilities of JBoss Portlet Bridge.
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Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison
Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.
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ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers
Often the hardest part of changing technologies is language syntax differences. This new article provides Java developers with a transition guide to Actionscript which forms the foundation of Adobe Flex and Air. Common constructs are covered such as interfaces, constants, operators, regular expressions and XML.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 2 of 3)
This article, the second in a three-part series, expands upon the previous article by introducing RichFaces. It covers integrating RichFaces into the previous sample application, deploying a RichFaces portlet, and several features and capabilities of RichFaces.
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Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 1 of 3)
This article, the first in a three-part series, lays the framework for the rest of the series. It covers setting up a new project using JBoss Portlet Container and JBoss Portlet Bridge, configuring a JSF application to use JBoss Portlet Bridge, and the capabilities that JBoss Portlet Bridge provides to a JSF application.
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Silverlight and Java Interoperability
Robert Bell, Microsoft, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.
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Spring 2.5: New Features in Spring MVC
Spring 2.5 rolled out a comprehensive set of annotations that can be used for auto-discovery of Spring-managed objects, dependency injection, lifecycle methods, Web layer configuration, and testing.
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An Overview of the eXo Platform
In this article, Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provide an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.