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Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson

The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.

Barry Livingston
on May 21, 2007
InfoQ Changelog

InfoQ maintains a version number tied to new features developed for the site as a means to communicate progress to its audience. v1.1.5 is the latest version. InfoQ initially launced at 0.6 last year.

Alexandru Popescu
on May 20, 2007
Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards

Michele Leroux Bustamante explains the most relevant WS-* standards used today in terms of their actual implementation among WS platforms (with a focus on Java and .NET), their level of adoption and readiness. If you are new to web services or to the WS* protocols, or you are having difficulty keeping up with the pace of change in this area, this article should help.

Michele Leroux Bustamante
on May 16, 2007
Interview: Ricco Deutscher on "SOPERA"

Deutsche Post World Net, one of the world's largest logistics companies (and owner of DHL) has created a “SOA platform”, called “SOPERA”, which aims to be a full-featured SOA environment. Today, SOPERA announced it will contribute its platform to the Eclipse Foundation. InfoQ had a chance to talk to Ricco Deutscher, Managing Director of the newly founded company behind the platform.

Stefan Tilkov
on May 15, 2007
Coming From Ruby

Do you "come from" a particular programming language? If so, that's great — but don't forget to take each language on its own terms. David A. Black shares some thoughts about "coming from" a language, and the etiquette of language travel, in the context of the recent history of Ruby.

David Black
on May 14, 2007
The MOle Plugin

The MOle, so named because it acts as the investigators agent, is a plugin that provides insight into the inner workings of Ruby on Rails in realtime, as requests come in and get processed. The author describes how the plugin came about and gives InfoQ readers a detailed introduction to his innovative plugin.

Fernand Galiana
on May 05, 2007
Adding Properties to Ruby Metaprogramatically

Werner Schuster walks us through a simple example of adding Java-style properties support (declarative getters, setters and change listeners) to Ruby classes via a Mixin by using elements of meta-programming. Introduces ideas for enhancement using principles of design-by-contract and pluggable type systems.

Werner Schuster
on Apr 18, 2007
Interview: Jérome Louvel about Restlet

In this exclusive InfoQ interview, Jérome Louvel talks about Restlet, a Java framework for building Web applications following the REST architectural style. Topics covered include the reason for Restlet's existence, REST support in Web services frameworks and in Ruby on Rails, expectations for JSR 311 and Restlet's roadmap.

Stefan Tilkov
on Apr 17, 2007
Interview: Frank Cohen on FastSOA

InfoQ today publishes a one-chapter excerpt from Frank Cohen's book "FastSOA". On this occasion, InfoQ had a chance to talk to Frank Cohen, creator of the FastSOA methodology, about the issues when trying to process XML messages, scalability, using XQuery in the middle tier, and document-object-relational-mapping.

Stefan Tilkov
on Apr 05, 2007
Web Applications with Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring

In this article we will first give you an overview of Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring, and after that show you how you can use these technologies together to enter a new dimension in writing stateful, conversational, scalable and highly available web applications.

Jonas Bonér Eugene Kuleshov
on Apr 03, 2007
Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org

Bruce Tate, author and CTO of ChangingThePresent.org gives a glimpse inside the day to day operations of ChangeThePresent.org with a broad overview of how his team works, the technology trusted for production environments, tools, and most important Rails frameworks.

Bruce Tate
on Mar 26, 2007
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2007

This article presents the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Case studies (amazon, eBay, Yahoo!) Java, Agile, the Agile Open Space, Qualities in Architecture, Ajax and Browser Apps, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Usability, Banking Architectures followed by a summary of peoples over all opinions of QCon.

Floyd Marinescu
on Mar 22, 2007

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