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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Versatile RESTful APIs Beyond XML

    The world of RESTful resources that Rails firmly entered with version 1.2 naturally uses XML as its lingua franca. But there's no reason that it can't be multi-lingual, and thanks to the versatility of rails it's easy to support other standards alongside XML in our RESTful applications, potentially opening them up to a wider audience and/or reducing their bandwidth requirements.

  • Integrating Java Content Repository and Spring

    Costin Leau introduces JSR 170 (Java Content Repositories) and how to integrate it with Spring Modules' JCR module, whose main objective is to simplify development with the JSR-170 API in a similar manner to that of the ORM package from the main Spring distribution.

  • Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails

    The maintainer of ActiveMessaging for Ruby on Rails gives a comprehensive and informative introduction to his open-source framework, which enables enterprise messaging technologies to be easily integrated with Ruby on Rails applications, and is getting support from noted industry leaders such as James Strachan and Jon Tirsen.

  • 10 Principles of SOA

    In this article, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov, consultant at innoQ, proposes 10 principles to serve as a basis for SOA discussions. The list starts with Don Box's four tenets (service with explicit boundaries, shared contract and schema, policy-driven, and autonomous) and expands them to include wire formats, document orientation, loose coupling, standards compliance, vendor independence, and metadata.

  • Rich Office Client Applications

    There is a client platform that's already present on nearly every user's desktop, one which provides an amazing amount of power and flexibility in its user interface options, and provides a familiar user-interactive style that undergoes intensive study with every release. Ted Neward introduces the Microsoft Office platform as a rich client technology with examples of Excel - Java integration.

  • Evaluation Options in Ruby

    Jay Fields, known for his cutting edge work defining BNLs (Business Natural Languages) delivers a code-rich explanation of eval, class_eval, and instance_eval, in the context of implementing domain-specific languages in Ruby.

  • InfoQ Book Excerpt: Rails for Java Developers

    Rails for Java Programmers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, teaches the Rails framework to Java developers. It provides an overview of Ruby, comparing and contrasting with Java and then gives a detailed look at the Ruby on Rails framework and compares each piece against the best known Java equivalent. This InfoQ excerpt includes sections on controllers, core classes, and unit testing.

  • Messaging Interop with JMS & Spring.NET

    Message oriented middleware has long been a popular choice to integrate diverse platforms. Using MOM as a basis for communication between .NET and Java this article demonstrates interoperability between a .NET client and a Java middle tier using the JMS support in the Spring framework, available for .NET as well as Java, to provide a common programming model across both tiers of the application.

  • Introduction to OpenTerracotta

    OpenTerracotta is an open source enterprise-class JVM clustering solution that can take multi-threaded single-JVM apps and have them run across multiple JVMs with no code changes. Orion Letizi goes super-indepth on Terracotta and how it works, explaining how to do session replication, distributed caching, master/worker, and more.

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