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  • Understanding SOA Governance

    Lori MacVittie has written an excellent introductory article to SOA governance, including an overview of relevant standards and the different kinds of product offerings.

  • Towards the Optimal Javascript Inheritance Technique

    Lead developer of the ThinWire Java-based RIA framework Joshua Gertzen has written an article going over existing approaches to implementing OO inheritance in Javascript and presents the solution they ended up using on their product.

  • ESB SCA WCF and TLAs

    Patrick Leonard, VP of Product Development at Rogue Wave has posted a short commentary on Webservices.org about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its relationship to SOA. Patrick focuses on other specifications and frameworks that can enable "greater realization" of SOA solutions.

  • NAG Continuous Integration Monitor Announced

    Digital Focus has announced their open source "NAG" continuous integration tool, which monitors the stability of multiple application servers and notifies users of software build failures via audible and visual cues. Ready now for Apache Continuum, and already working to support Cruise Control, Lunt Build, and Ant Hill monitoring, this tool is specifically designed to support Agile teams.

  • WS-MetadataExchange 1.1 Published

    WS-MetadataExchange, the Web service standard that specifies how information about a service's interface, policy, and other metadata can be retrieved at runtime, has been updated to version 1.1.

  • Using the Eclipse IDE to develop Ruby applications

    Developers already familiar with Eclipse will appreciate Tabrez Iqbal's guide to tweaking it to work well with Ruby development.

  • Event Driven Architecture

    Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a term promoted by Gartner to describe an evolved state of Enterprise software characterized by real time events. EDA has been associated to its detriment with SOA 2.0, however, there may be technical legitimacy to some of the EDA ideas.

  • Interview: Real-World Agile for .NET Developers

    Kathleen Richards interviews Robert C. Martin about his new book, co-authored with his son Micah: "Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C#," which puts Agile practices to work in a .NET environment,

  • Interview: Patrick Lightbody on Project Able - A Complete Java Web Stack

    WebWork committer, Patrick Lightbody, has announced Project Able: a complete Java web stack. InfoQ sat down with Patrick to discuss the philosophy behind Project Able.

  • Seven Deadly Sins of Programming

    Eric Gunnerson, C# Community Coordinator at Microsoft, has posted his list of the Seven Deadliest Sins of Programming: * Excessive Coupling * Inappropriately Clever Code * Deferred Refactoring * Premature Optimization * Overuse of Virtual (C#) or Overridable (VB.NET) * Overuse of Inheritance * Premature Generalization

  • Sun: A real open source Java community: "That is our Goal"

    Sun has committed to open sourcing Java Micro Edition this year, and all of Standard Edition next year. InfoQ spoke to Sun's Bob Brewin, co-CTO of Software to find out the details. InfoQ also spoke to Geir Magnusson, lead on the Apache Harmony open source Java effort to get a community perspective on the news.

  • REST vs SOAP Roll Call

    Stefan Tilkov (ed note: SOA Editor on InfoQ) posts on his blog lists of proponents of REST style vs the list of those supporting a more WS/SOAP style of SOA. The lists are helpful to those seeking to understand the stylistic differences betweeen these strategies and how to leverage each appropriately.

  • InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?

    .NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."

  • The Resurgence of Java the Platform

    Way back in December of 2000 noted columnist Jon Udell covered the language-agnosticism of the Microsoft CLR versus the JVM. Six years after Udell highlighted the topic, Java the Platform is beginning to come out of the shadows of its more well known counterpart Java the Language.

  • InfoQ Article: Web Services Guru Dr. Frank Leymann on SOA

    InfoQ recently had the chance to interview Frank Leymann, co-author of many Web services specs and a full professor at the University of Stuttgart.

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