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  • Using DNS for REST Web Service Discovery

    Service Discovery is an essential aspect of service orientated architecture because it avoids early binding of clients to particular service instances. In this article, Jan Algermissen explains the need for discovery of RESTful services, and explains how the existing Domain Name Service (DNS) standard can be used as a widely-deployed and scalable solution.

  • JSR 292 and the Multi-lingual JVM

    Java 7 is looking to improve support for dynamic languages using the Java Virtual Machine for their runtime environment. John Rose has been leading a project to explore some options, and JSR 292 will standardise some of this work for Java 7. InfoQ takes a look at the problems JSR 292 solves, and talks to JRuby lead Charles Nutter to find out more about InvokeDynamic in practice.

  • Unit and Integration Testing for GWT Applications

    Bertrand Paquet and Gael Lazzari of Octo Technology explore Unit Testing GWT applications and introduce their own open source gwt-test-utils framework to support unit and integration testing of GWT code with standard tools such as JUnit and Easymock.

  • Book Excerpt and Interview: jBPM Developer Guide

    A new book by Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, the jBPM Developer Guide, provides a detailed jBPM programming guide for Java developers with several real-life examples. InfoQ spoke with Salatino to learn the motivations behind the book and learn from his experience both using and writing about the jBPM Business Process Management suite.

  • Implementing Google's "Did you mean" Feature In Java

    Leandro Moreira shows how to implement a domain specific version of Google’s “Did you mean” feature based on the SpellChecker project in the Apache Lucene sandbox using thee alternative algorithms (Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler and N-gram).

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2010

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, 2015 Software Development, Agile Evolution, AlphaGeeks on .NET, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Pragmatic Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff with Java, Dev and Ops: A single team, Software Craftsmanship, NoSQL and many more!

  • Scaling Clojure Web Apps with Google AppEngine

    InfoQ takes a look at how a combo of Clojure and Google AppEngine (GAE) powers a new online project management tool, how Clojure integrates with GAE's key/value store, and the power of LISP.

  • A Discussion with Allard Buijze on CQRS with the Axon framework

    The Axon framework is a Java implementation of the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. InfoQ talked with its creator, Allard Buijze, to find out more.

  • Authorizing Process Access and Execution with JBoss jBPM

    Centralized BPM deployments can greatly benefit from the ability to control access to process definitions and instances ensuring that users can use and monitor only a set of processes that they are authorized for. In this article Boris Lublinsky shows how to extend JBoss jBPM to define and support process access authorization.

  • How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

    Peter Lubbers makes an introduction to HTML5 Web Sockets explaining how they interact with proxy servers, and what proxy configuration or updates are needed for the Web Sockets traffic to go through.

  • Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency

    Memory barriers, or fences, are a set of processor instructions used to apply ordering limitations on memory operations. This article explains the impact memory barriers have on the determinism of multi-threaded programs. We'll look at how memory barriers relate to JVM concurrency constructs such as volatile, synchronized and atomic conditionals.

  • BlazeDS and JMS for PHP Developers, Part 2

    In the second and final of our articles on BlazeDS and JMS, InfoQ looks at two additional methods for sending messages to JMS topics or queues from PHP - the PHP/Java Bridge which provides a framework for calling Java classes from PHP scripts using a simple Java façade, and the STOMP protocol.

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