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  • Using Hibernate to Support Custom Domain Object Fields

    Hibernate is a widely used ORM tool for Java. Some applications of it are not always straight forward however. A new InfoQ article looks at using Hibernate to provide a commonly requested feature of custom fields for domain objects without requiring a restart of the system. The article will walk through the solution's implementation, testing, and future improvements.

    Enterra Inc.
    on Nov 05, 2007

  • Interview: IBM Architect Bertrand Portier on joining MDD and SOA

    In the wake of the latest product announcement from IBM, InfoQ talked to Bertrand Portier about a RedBook that presents a Model-Driven-Development approach to service construction. The concepts are general enough to be applied to product stacks other than IBM.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on Oct 29, 2007

  • Setting out for Service Component Architecture

    Henning Blohm, Java EE Software Architect at SAP and Co-Chair of the SCA-J Technical Committee provides his perspective on Service Component Architecture as a cross-technology programming model integration. He argues that for vendors, SCA lowers the marginal costs of providing implementation or binding technology to its users and for users SCA reduces the marginal costs of making use of them.

    Henning Blohm
    on Oct 18, 2007

  • NetBeans: Ruby Developer's New Best Friend

    Sun has put a large investment into Ruby in the last year with JRuby and the addition of Ruby language support to their Netbeans IDE. InfoQ will be featuring a series of articles by Netbeans Evangelist Roman Strobl exploring the new Ruby features of Netbeans. The first article takes a look at code completion, debugging, and refactoring support.

    Roman Strobl
    on Oct 17, 2007

  • Java Grid, why do we need it!

    In a stream of consciousness that starts from his humble beginnings in IT, John Daves makes plain the importance of IT in the financial sector, the forces driving banks to utilize grid technologies, how Grid plays with SOA, and why you need to be paying attention to this emerging but important technology.

    John Davies
    on Oct 10, 2007

  • Open Source WS Stacks for Java - Design Goals and Philosophy

    InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov questioned lead developers of Apache Axis2, Apache CXF, Spring Web Services, JBossWS and and Sun’s Metro about their design goals, their approach towards Java and Web services standards, data binding, accessing XML, interoperability, REST support, and framework maturity. The results revealed many similarities and some noteworthy differences.

    Stefan Tilkov
    on Oct 04, 2007

  • Creating dynamic web applications with JSF/DWR/DOJO

    JSF, DWR, and Dojo are all popular technologies in their own right. Integrating them into a portal environment can prove an intimidating exercise however. This article looks at how one developer implemented such a solution using custom JSF components.

    Ashish Sarin
    on Oct 04, 2007

  • The Box: A Shortcut to finding Performance Bottlenecks

    Finding performance bottlenecks can be a difficult task and it can get even more difficult as our applications grow in size. The Box is a methodology tool that focuses us efforts to improve performance.If you want to be consistent and predictable, getting rid of the guessing is a must.

    Kirk Pepperdine
    on Sep 21, 2007

  • Book Excerpt and Review: Filthy Rich Clients - Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications

    Desktop Java developers have long lacked resources on pushing the graphical appearance of their applications. The new book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications attempts to fill this void. InfoQ is privileged to provide both a review and an excerpt of Chapter 14 detailing the Timing Framework library that makes Java animation easier.

    Andy Roberts
    on Sep 17, 2007

  • Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop

    InfoQ's lead Java editor, Scott Delap, recently caught up with Hadoop project lead Doug Cutting. Hadoop is an open source distributed computing platform that includes implementations of MapReduce and a distributed file system. In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project.

    Scott Delap
    on Sep 12, 2007

  • "Code First" Web Services Reconsidered

    In this article, Dennis Sosnoski questions the conventional wisdom that a contract-first approach to web services development, i.e. starting from WSDL, is superior to starting from code. He shows how the JiBX framework can be used to practice start-from-code development without incurring the disadvantages, specifically without coupling implementation and interface too tightly.

    Dennis Sosnoski
    on Aug 27, 2007

  • Eric Newcomer on the future of OSGi

    Eric Newcomer, co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise work group, talks about the evolution of OSGi and it's relationship to SOA and ESB. He discusses how he thinks OSGi will evolve over the coming years and whether or not it makes sense for Sun to adopt OSGi as the container model of choice."

    Mark Little
    on Jul 13, 2007
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