InfoQ Homepage Java Content on InfoQ
-
InfoQ Virtual Training: Design, DSLs, Deployment Automation, Web-based services in May and June
In-house training or tutorials at conferences are quite expensive, but what if you could attend some of the best tutorials by leading experts live and from your own office at a low cost? InfoQ is testing this idea with the launch of our virtual training: one-hour and half-day training initially covering agile, effective software development, web-based services, DSLs, and more.
-
WEB4J: Contrarian Web App Development for Java
WEB4J is a minimalist, opinionated, full-stack web framework for Java. It embraces convention over configuration and is extremely small: only 88 classes total.
-
Spring Batch 2.0 Supports Job Partitioning and Annotation Based Configuration
The latest version of Spring Batch framework supports job partitioning, remote chunking and annotation based configuration. Spring Batch development team recently released version 2.0 of the batch framework. The new version also has features like Java 5 support and non-sequential execution.
-
JRuby Roundup: JRuby 1.3RC1, Timeout, Nailgun
JRuby 1.3RC1 is now available and includes the changes required for running on Google App Engine. The release also includes a modified version of the timeout functionality. Also: adding Nailgun to the standard JRuby could reduce the impact of Java's slow startup times.
-
Bruce Eckel on Python, Java, Flex, and RIAs
In this post, InfoQ interviews Bruce Eckel to get his thoughts on the RIA landscape and to find out what he has been up to, as Bruce recently released a book he coauthored titled First Steps in Flex.
-
Flex Builder for Linux Dead?
Over the last few years, Adobe has taken a number of steps to entice a broad range of enterprise developers to use the Flex development platform. With all Adobe's extra work to court open source minded developers, it is surprising to hear the rumblings this week about the end of Flex Builder Linux.
-
Interview: Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp
In this phone interview that took place in front of an audience at OOPSLA 2008, Guy Steele spins a yarn with John McCarthy, the father of Lisp, attempting to find out some details surrounding the language inception in the 50’ and its later evolution.
-
Adobe ConnectNow-Terracotta Integration Uses Distributed Shared Memory to Manage Scalability
Adobe ConnectNow is a free web conferencing and collaboration software. It's built on the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS). For the Java server-side component of AFCS, Adobe integrated ConnectNow application with Terracotta software to take advantage of Terracotta's shared application memory store to address scalability of the web application.
-
Implementation Roundup: Ruby 1.8.x update, JRuby on .NET, MacRuby and MagLev Progress
New versions of Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are available now. JRuby development moves ahead with experiments with running JRuby on IKVM. Also: MacRuby continues performance work and MagLev now runs RubyGems.
-
What Software are Other Geeks Using?
Wakoopa, a new start-up based in Amsterdam, Holland, has created a new social network aimed at discovering and sharing what applications people are using. While its user base is relatively small and geek oriented, the network provides useful insight on software usage with a social twist.
-
Using Newspeak and Hopscotch for UI Composition
Hopscotch is an application framework and IDE for Newspeak, a new programming language and platform inspired by Smalltalk, Self and Beta. Hopscotch avoids a number of design limitations and shortcomings of traditional UIs and UI frameworks by favoring a framework architecture which enable easy composition of interfaces.
-
Easy Persistent Entity Transfers
Often times when transferring persistent entities outside of the JVM you must strip off persistence related information or modifications. Gilead, formerly Hibernate4GWT, aims to ease that process and handle the heavy lifting.
-
What will Oracle’s Planned Acquisition of Sun Mean for Java
Whilst Sun Microsystems and Oracle are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a huge boost for Java many in the community are not so sure, wondering what kind of control Oracle will seek to exert over the platform.
-
Presentation: Evolving the Java Language
Neal Gafter discusses how to evolve a widely deployed language without causing disruption using planned changes for JDK7 (superpackages, closures, annotations on types, type inference, exception handling, and self types) as an example. He examines how the changes are conditioned by preexisting language design choices, and discusses their influence on API design.
-
Article: Performance Analysis and Monitoring with Perf4J
In this article Alex Devine explains how Java developers can take advantage of Perf4J, an open source toolset for adding code timing statements and for logging, analyzing and monitoring the results.