TheServerSide & InfoQ Daily Digests

InfoQ: Article: 8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail

@ Aug 08, 2008 03:04 AM 4 comments

Johan den Haan, Head of Research and Development at Mendix shared with us his extensive expertise in the field by focusing on 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering (MDE).

InfoQ: Undergraduate Textbook for Agile Development

@ Aug 08, 2008 03:02 AM 4 comments

This concise easy-to-follow textbook presents the crucial issues in software engineering using the agile approach to software development - one of the mainstream paradigms for the management of software projects and one that is being applied more and more extensively.

DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 GPS unit for those of you who go outside

@ Jun 26, 2008 02:26 PM 4 comments

DeLorme's Earthmate PN-40 GPS device sports some seriously interesting features that we couldn't pass up [Engadget]

First Release of Apache Sling

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:45 PM 4 comments

Sling is intended to bring back the fun to Java developers and make the life of a web developer easier

InfoQ: Liferay Portal 5.0 Released, Sun Joins the Team

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:42 PM 5 comments

Last month at JavaOne, Liferay, Inc. announced the release of the 5.0 version of their Liferay Portal product. The Liferay press release highlights a handful of the key tools and uses in the portal product:

Progress Announces Purchase of Iona

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:41 PM 0 comments

Progress Software has just announced an agreement to purchase Iona Technologies for the paltry sum of $163 million.

Calling All BEA Developers

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:32 PM 0 comments

TheServerSide.com and our publisher TechTarget has put together a short survey for BEA users, asking their opinion about the Oracle acquisition, and we’re seeking the widest possible audience.

InfoQ: RAM is the new disk...

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:25 PM 0 comments

Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme?

InfoQ: Interview: Rod Johnson Discusses Spring, OSGi, Tomcat and the Future of Enterprise Java

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:23 PM 1 comment

Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0.

InfoQ: Presentation: Server Side OSGi

@ Jun 26, 2008 01:22 PM 0 comments

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Adrian Colyer describes the OSGi specification, OSGi implementations, modularity, versioning, operational control, server-side OSGi, design considerations, using existing libraries, Spring Dynamic Modules, and writing a Spring Dynamic Modules application.

A Fair Comparison of REST and WS-*: is the Debate Over? [InfoQ]

@ May 06, 2008 09:13 AM 0 comments

A paper at the WWW 2008 conference, detailing a comparison of "RESTful Web Services vs. Big Web Services" providing insight to "Make the Right Architectural Decision".

NetBeans branches out: NetBeans 6.1, plus a PHP platform

@ May 06, 2008 09:07 AM 0 comments

Just in time for JavaOne 2008, NetBeans 6.1 has been released - and one of the different things that comes along with this release is a PHP platform built on NetBeans, as a separate and individual download.

Sun Microsystems Announces Mural: Open Master Data Management

@ May 06, 2008 09:05 AM 0 comments

Sun has initiated a community called Mural to collaboratively develop a Master Data Management (MDM) solution based on open standards and open specifications.

What can we expect from BPMN 2.0? [InfoQ]

@ May 06, 2008 09:04 AM 0 comments

Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a prevalent notation to all of the process design tooling today.

Rails performance analysis with New Relic [InfoQ]

@ May 06, 2008 09:03 AM 0 comments

New Relic offers Rails performance monitoring and profiling as Software as a Service (SaaS). We talked to Lew Cirne of New Relic to find out how the technology works.

SpringSource Application Platform - totally rocks

@ May 01, 2008 10:19 AM 0 comments

An application platform, built on OSGi, that can resolve Spring bean references by looking up services through OSGi - all of the capabilities OSGi provides, without the headache of deployment.

JetGroovy 1.5 for IntelliJ IDEA is Out

@ Apr 28, 2008 07:49 AM 0 comments

This popular Groovy development plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA has been extended with a number of highly anticipated features

FacesTrace 0.9.0 is released, shows trace information for JSF

@ Apr 28, 2008 07:48 AM 0 comments

FacesTrace is a small library that is used to display visual tracing for JSF applications. It displays times for JSF phases, as well as variables for the page, log messages, faces messages, and the component tree.

InfoQ: APIFinder - Your Guide to APIs

@ Apr 28, 2008 07:48 AM 0 comments

APIFinder is a growing index of various application programming interfaces (APIs).

MySQL to get new features in Enterprise version

@ Apr 28, 2008 07:47 AM 0 comments

Slashdot is now suggesting that Sun is going to begin closing the MySQL source, and that "Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."

InfoQ: Creating The Culture For An Agile Environment

@ Apr 15, 2008 01:14 PM 0 comments

Company's agile culture: supportive managers, team knowledge, and executive support.

InfoQ: Heroku and Morph AppSpaces: two new solutions to Rails hosting [InfoQ]

@ Apr 15, 2008 01:12 PM 0 comments

AppEngine made a big splash this week, offering a simple and easy way of running web applications written in Python. But the Ruby community doesn't have to wait for Google, it has its own solutions for easy deployment.

InfoQ: Comparing JEE Servers [InfoQ]

@ Apr 15, 2008 01:09 PM 0 comments

The J2EE server being compared then were JBoss 4.2, Geronimo, and Tomcat 6. During this presentation the servers were being compared on features, deployment, and performance.

ICEFaces 1.7 released - AJAX Push component suite for JSF

@ Apr 15, 2008 01:03 PM 0 comments

ICESoft has announced the release of ICEFaces 1.7, their component suite for JSF. ICEFaces is built around the concept of a live DOM, such that changes on the server can be reflected on the JSF client, with only a bit of coding.

"Java is losing the battle for the modern web"...

@ Apr 15, 2008 01:02 PM 0 comments

Simon MacDonald pointed out a blog post from Andi Gutman, with the title "Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors?" It's an interesting and challenging post from one of the founders of Zend Technologies.

AON 3.0, a messaging intermediary, released by Cisco

@ Apr 15, 2008 12:54 PM 0 comments

Cisco has announced the release of Application-Oriented Networking 3.0 (AON), a product for some of their routers that provides messaging services at the network level. The benefits to this are that messages can be transparently routed quickly, with translation into various protocols.

Google's App Engine or Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud

@ Apr 15, 2008 12:52 PM 0 comments

Google has announced a Google App Engine which allows you to run your own applications on Google's infrastructure. It's a different approach from Amazon's EC2 which allows you to host your own virtual machines on their infrastructure. However, they are close enough to be competing.

12 Things You Should Know About REST Web Services and WOA

@ Apr 15, 2008 12:51 PM 0 comments

Simple and highly effective models like REST are giving rise to something known as Web-Oriented Architecture and this is driving major changes like the widespread creation of Web apps "built on the shoulders of giants" such as Amazon's S3 and the brand new Google App Engine.

JRuby 1.1 released

@ Apr 15, 2008 12:50 PM 0 comments

JRuby 1.1 has been released. This release focuses on performance; the release notes talk about reports of beating CRuby 1.8.6 and CRuby 1.9 in some cases. Also included: compilation to Java bytecode, many fixes for compatibility, a refactored IO implementation, and improved memory consumption.

IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk?

@ Apr 15, 2008 12:50 PM 0 comments

IBM has released the REST-based development and deployment environment called Project Zero, also known as "WebSphere sMash." Project Zero creates a runtime environment for REST services, exposing services via Dojo. As the name implies, it's designed to help create mashups and deploy them quickly.

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