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  • Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ

    InfoQ.com is a next generation web portal combining the latest advancements in portal technology and web development. In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com; from initial (lack of) requirements, designs, implementation choices, and deployment issues, and all the lessons learned along the way.

  • Presentation: Server Side OSGi

    In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Adrian Colyer describes the OSGi specification, OSGi implementations, modularity, versioning, operational control, server-side OSGi, design considerations, using existing libraries, Spring Dynamic Modules, and writing a Spring Dynamic Modules application.

  • Early Draft released for JavaServer Faces 2.0 - Improved Interoperability for JavaScript Libraries

    The early draft for JSR 314 has been released under the Java Community Process Program. It is an update of the JavaServer Faces specification to version 2.0. This next generation of JSF is an attempt to bring the best ideas in web application development to the Java EE platform and is already receiving positive feedback from the community, especially because of its improved AJAX support.

  • Overview of the Curl Enterprise RIA Platform

    In this post, InfoQ.com discusses the platform with Curl, Inc. VP of Developer Relations Richard Monson-Haefel. Curl is a platform for building Enterprise RIA applications. Monson-Haefel covers the Curl programming language, IDE, and client side runtime. In addition, he highlights why you might consider using Curl over Adobe AIR and Flex when building RIA’s for the enterprise.

  • Mate Flex Framework Alpha in Spotlight

    Mate is gaining a lot of attention among the Flex community. Mate is a tag-based Flex framework created by AsFusion. Although it has been used internally at AsFusion for a long time, the Alpha version was just released recently.

  • Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.2, JRuby JMX, Ruby 1.9

    Work on MacRuby has continued, and now version 0.2 is released, continuing its path to tighter Cocoa and Objective-C integration. The JRuby trunk adds JMX MBeans to monitor the JRuby internals, e.g. the JIT. Also: Ruby 1.9.0-2 and API updates are coming up.

  • QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched

    QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.

  • OAuth Gaining Momentum

    OAuth, an open standard for access delegation, is gaining momentum with a number of implementations including one for Spring Security.

  • Article: David Nuescheler on JCR and REST

    In this interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler discusses the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository standard, the difference between an API such as Atom/Atom Publishing protocol and JCR, JCR's connection to REST, and Apache Sling, a new kind of Web framework.

  • ActionScript Framework JumpShip 3.1 Released with Extensive Ruby on Rails Support

    JumpShip, version 3.1, the most recent addition to open-source Flex and ActionScript rich Internet applications (RIA) was released on May 21, 2008. As part of our efforts to stay abreast of RIA development frameworks, InfoQ spoke with Jamie Scanlon, the creator of JumpShip Framework.

  • WebKit Team Announces SquirrelFish, a Bytecode Based JavaScript Interpreter

    The WebKit development team announced last week the development of a new interpreter for the WebKit JavaScript engine code-named SquirrelFish. According to official WebKit blog: "SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit's previous interpreter."

  • Presentation: Mingle: Building a Rails-Based Product

    Neal Ford talks about Mingle, Thoughtworks Studios' project management software. Besides Mingle's features, Neal also talks about the experience of building Mingle on both MRI and JRuby, and the plans for making use of JRuby specific features like AOT to improve future versions of Mingle.

  • InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

    In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.

  • VMWare Releases Virtual Infrastructure Java API and Jython Scripting Examples

    VMWare recently open sourced their VI SDK under the BSD license. The VMware Virtual Infrastructure Java API provides a set of libraries with full support of managed object model and utilities to manage and control VMware virtual machines and servers using the VMwware Virtual Infrastructure Web service interface.

  • Google Tech Talks Presents Overview of NIO.2 for Java 7

    Google Tech Talks published a presentation by Alan Bateman and Carl Quick about NIO.2 for Java 7, with justification and examples of all planned features.

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