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  • Article: Beyond SOA, a New Type of Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - Part II

    In the second part of their article, Vasile and Michael explore the architecture of Dynamic Business Application as a possible standard architecture for server-side applications. The authors note that in this architecture concepts like SOA play a minor role while components like BPM engines, schedulers, messaging have a definite role.

  • Oracle Announces WebLogic Suite

    Following their acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has announced new company product offerings based on the various technologies carrying the WebLogic brand.

  • Perst 3.0 Embedded Database Released

    McObject has released version 3.0 of its open source embedded database targeted at Java and .NET developers.

  • Oracle's Cameron Purdy Looks at 10 Patterns for Scaling Out

    Oracle's Cameron Purdy recently presented on the topic of scalability at JavaOne 2008. The talk did not focus on specific Java libraries as do many talks at JavaOne. Instead general principles of architecture and design were reviewed from a pragmatic common sense angle.

  • Interview: Orbitz.com Architecture with Brian Zimmer

    In this interview filmed during QCon 2007, Brian Zimmer talks about the architectural challenges he has faced working on a a large web application as senior architect.

  • Will Sun Add SCA Integration to the Java EE Specification?

    While in the past, the Java community debated over backing SCA or JBI, there are some signs that both of them might be formally incorporated into Java EE 6.

  • Servlet 3.0 Features Spark Debate

    The draft specification of JSR-315 (Servlet 3.0) is now available and introduces a number of new features including asynchronous/Comet support, security improvements, and other ease of development features such additional annotations and web.xml fragments. With some of the new features generating considerable debate, the expert group are actively seeking community feedback.

  • Presentation: Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring

    In this presentation from QCon London 2007, William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system architecture, the previous Mainframe-based architecture, architectural challenges and requirements, the new Spring and J2EE-based architecture, upcoming challenges for Voca, and technologies to watch for in the future.

  • Strengthening the Alliance Between Java EE and SCA

    The 0.9 draft of the SCA Java EE Integration specification, just published by the Open SOA collaboration, defines the integration of SCA and Java EE within the context of a Java EE application, the use of Java EE components as service component implementations, and the deployment of Java EE archives either within or as SCA contributions.

  • OpenXava 3.0 Released

    OpenXava provides a framework that allows developers to quickly and productively create web applications and portlets. Version 3.0 allows users to take full advantage of JPA, creating complex user interfaces and applications easily.

  • Planned Features For EJB 3.1

    The EJB 3.1 expert group recently released an early draft of the specification, containing some significant new features as well as a continued simplification of the EJB programming model.

  • Rapid web development with J2EE Spider

    J2EE Spider re-invigorates J2EE RAD development with visual interfaces (supplied via Eclipse) for generating code and round-trip engineering.

  • Java Posse Roundup 2008 & OpenSpace Conferences

    Last week, the 2008 Java Posse Roundup was held in Crested Butte, Colorado. The Roundup is an OpenSpace conference.

  • Java EE 6 Spec Lead Requests Community Feedback on Web Profile Options

    In a recent blog post, Java EE 6 (JSR 316) specification co-lead Roberto Chinnici presented the two leading candidates for the Java EE 6 Web Profile, and asked for feedback from the community on which of the two options the JSR 316 Expert Group should move forward with. InfoQ took the opportunity to analyze each of the Web Profile options in greater detail.

  • QCon Panel: What will the Future of Java Development Be?

    In this panel from QCon San Francisco, Joshua Bloch, Chet Haase, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer and Charles Nutter discussed and debated the future of the Java language and APIs based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. Topics included static versus dynamic languages, removing code from Java, forking the JVM, and the next big programming language.

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