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 With the arrival of .NET 3.5, WPF and the RTM of Silverlight 2, .NET developers have more choices than ever for designing, developing and deploying compelling applications with rich user interfaces. However, there are other mainstream alternatives that don’t fall into the .NET camp. Wh...Jul. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 693 |
 So what does this say about Oracle's strategy for forming SNORKEL, the Sun acquisition? Well, at the risk of reductio ad absurdum, having bought BEA and Sun, Larry Ellison sees Java as the new SQLJul. 2, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 612 |
 A couple of years ago I presented Take a load off! Load testing your Oracle Apex or JDeveloper web applications at OOW and AUSOUG. I can't recommend enough the importance of stress testing your web applications, it's saved my bacon a number of times. Frequently as developers, we devel...Jun. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,543 |
 Introduced in 1995, Java has firmly established itself as a mature mainstream programming language for enterprises. The Java platform security model has evolved over the years to meet new requirements, and today enterprise Java developers have a large number of APIs and services to cho...Jun. 15, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,385 |
 In the enterprise IT environment today, modern middleware technologies make it easier to expose existing or new business applications as sets of services. However, with the mashup of cloud-based services and enterprise data center services, the visibility of how a service created today...Jun. 12, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
 In 1969 Edward Lorenz, the famed meteorologist and Chaos Theory proponent, introduced the concept now known as the “Butterfly Effect” when he posed the famous question: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” The Butterfly Effect theory describes th...Jun. 10, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 632 |
 A couple of patterns that could cause Java heap exhaustion were identified from years of research at IBM. One interesting scenarios was observed when Java applications generate excessive amount of finalizable objects whose classes have non-trivial Java finalizers. A Java finalizer perf...Jun. 9, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,988 |
 With the explosive growth of Web-based businesses and applications, datacenter workloads have increased exponentially. IT managers are finding it difficult to meet the accelerating demands for performance, capacity, scalability and reliability, while at the same time meeting budgets, m...Jun. 9, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 615 |
 We can visualize resource starvation using an elaborate rendition of the Dining Philosophers Problem. This classic metaphor of resource allocation among processes was first introduced in 1971 by Edsger Dijkstra in his paper “Hierarchical Ordering of Sequential Processes.” It’s been a m...Jun. 9, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,423 |
 This article explains how an Open Source SOA Roadmap can use a typical Web application project’s funding as the basis for a successful SOA transition effort. It is the first of three articles that explains how open source technologies and techniques can be leveraged to successfully del...Jun. 8, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 Online commerce is no longer just for consumer products, but also for direct and indirect goods and services. As a result, new demands are placed on classic customer relationship management (CRM) applications. While most have successfully automated customer-facing interactions (such as...Jun. 7, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,679 |
 The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API is used to access a SQL database from a Java application. JDBC also supports tabular data sources, such as a spreadsheet.
Oracle JDeveloper is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and...Jun. 3, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,417 Replies: 1 |
 As consumers we are accustomed to the end-user experience of the Internet. With HTTP and XML, you don’t need to have a specific application on your computer to make use of external data – you can just open a browser window and do a search or visit a particular Web site to find the info...Jun. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially ...Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,690 Replies: 2 |
 The Java Persistence API (JPA) is the enterprise standard for accessing relational data in Java. JPA provides support for mapping Java objects to a database schema and includes a simple programming API and expressive query language for retrieving mapped entities from a database and wri...Jun. 2, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,253 |
 Ask any software engineer about difficult bugs they’ve faced and they’ll always have a story to tell you: the bug that took weeks to track down, the bug that was affecting millions of customers but could not be reproduced by any of the development team, or the bug that brought the enti...Jun. 2, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 766 |
 When Enterprise Architecture is able to prove that it can bridge the business vision to IT’s tactical operations, its function will no longer be Hype and EA staff members will no longer need to Hope they won’t be cut. Enterprise Architecture will become an organization without which th...May. 13, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,144 |
 Recently industry analysts, press, and bloggers have been writing about the state of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and whether it’s “dead” or in the “trough of disillusionment." These discussions have been fueled by surveys that suggest a decline in the number of organizations co...May. 9, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,554 Replies: 1 |
 Some walls are necessary. We use brick-and-mortar walls to support buildings and firewalls to protect our computers from attack. But not all walls are good. Consider the Berlin Wall, a wall of segregation. It divided a country and its citizens, but has subsequently been brought down by...Apr. 29, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 941 |
 This is a blog that proposes five distinct ways in which cloud computing solutions can strenghten the efforts of development and test teams within an enterprise.Apr. 15, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,167 |
 Application servers, those dependable workhorses that run most enterprise Java applications, are rarely a hot topic of conversation these days. As a technology category, the application server appears to be fairly “established” and that the focus has moved elsewhere in the stack, but a...Apr. 11, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,331 Replies: 1 |
 I wrote in my previous article, “Interactive Storyboarding with JSP,” that interactive storyboarding is an effective way to define better requirements by eliciting actual business user needs. And I proposed to describe the requirements inJSPs with the J-CASE tag library, which enables ...Apr. 9, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,457 |
 The rise of Enterprise Architecture (EA) should be no surprise to any of us, and yet every day businesses either opt out of deploying enterprise architecture, or can’t deploy it effectively. While the Industrial Age was characterized by process-based advances such as assembly lines and...Apr. 6, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,891 Replies: 1 |
 More and more web sites are using portal functionality. Portals are perfect for building mashups and interactive web sites offering a lot of functionality in a single web page. Content is a vital part of most portals. Content management integration in portals has traditionally been tre...Mar. 23, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,039 |
 This article looks at a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) feature called Escape Analysis in some detail and how the JVM can use it to improve an application's performance. As you'll see, understanding what the JVM can do with escape analysis can help explain some otherwise non-intuitive perfo...Mar. 16, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,349 |
 OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. Built from standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create applications with OpenSocial that access a social network’s friends and update feeds. By using a common API, developers can extend the reach ...Mar. 12, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,735 |
 In the agile community there are many different opinions about the value of automated testing. While many argue about automation's place in agile, the business realities of geographic separation, multiple teams, and limited resources dictate a more pragmatic approach. The process of so...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,306 |
 In Part 1 of this article, I introduced rich client development, available architectures for developing rich client applications based on the Swing toolkit, and technologies that could be used to make development more productive. In this second part, I’ll compare the most popular IDEs ...Mar. 7, 2009 11:00 PM EST Reads: 10,574 |
 When looking for a language to modernize legacy applications, Java is a strong and viable contender. It offers portability, maintainability, extensibility, and cost effectiveness. However, for some heavy algorithmic time-critical scientific applications, Java may not be an engineer's f...Feb. 18, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,845 Replies: 1 |
 Over the past few years the industry has lauded, and users have increasingly adopted, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to the development and deployment of their IT to achieve greater business agility and optimization of the associated development and operating costs. Whe...Feb. 17, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,655 |
 I run a small custom software development company in Bulgaria called dSoft-Bulgaria Ltd. Established in 2003, our company provides information system design and development. We have a wide range of specialists in different areas and we deploy systems on several different platforms incl...Feb. 12, 2009 01:10 PM EST Reads: 1,484 |
 All organizations, including multinational corporations and government agencies, face a common problem of enterprise data integration. Obviously, large-scale sources of the problem stem from mergers and acquisitions. When a large company is formed from other pieces, each brings with it...Feb. 12, 2009 12:19 PM EST Reads: 1,074 |
 In this article we'll look at using scripting tools and languages in business applications. I am a big proponent of using scripting languages. Personally I use JavaScript very often: Why? Because it's fast, flexible and sexy. Technically, when I refer to JavaScript I actually mean ECMA...Feb. 12, 2009 12:11 PM EST Reads: 1,084 |
 JavaServer Faces has established itself as the leading framework for JEE development. In spite of its rising popularity, many development teams are unfamiliar with its use of components, so let's begin with a description of JSF components and what they have to offer. At its most basic,...Jan. 23, 2009 04:24 PM EST Reads: 3,252 |
 I would like to introduce the m2e project, a project that combines the power of Maven with the usability of Eclipse. In this article, I’m going to talk about our plans for the m2e project: where it is today, and where we intend to take the project. M2e is more than just a Maven plugin ...Jan. 22, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 3,061 |
 From today's integrated J2EE applications through the emergence of service-oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise Web applications are becoming more complex, dynamic, and vital to business success. The payoff is huge, but so are the new risks that have materialized. IT teams have an ...Jan. 12, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,227 Replies: 1 |
 Only if you were on the dark side of the moon could you have missed the impact of the iPhone. Its sweeping success has brought mobile services into the mainstream. As the first device to convincingly integrate traditional phone capabilities with Web access, it highlights the multi-chan...Jan. 5, 2009 06:50 AM EST Reads: 6,206 |
 In today's Internet age, most developers are building Web applications prolifically. As applications move to the Web, it has become increasingly more important to be able to gauge their performance and load capability. Developers must be able to predict how much traffic a Web site will...Dec. 18, 2008 01:40 PM EST Reads: 2,684 |
 For a business to be sustainable today, it must be supported by a truly sustainable architecture. This type of architecture must have built-in agility and reusability. To be able to support the disparate end-to-end transaction components involved in converting leads to cash, this archi...Dec. 9, 2008 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,268 |
 Unit testing is hard. There I said it. Although I have been developing software for the past 18 years I still find that putting my applications through their paces via unit testing is difficult. I have learned the lesson (I'm sure like many of you) the hard way. Unit testing is probabl...Dec. 4, 2008 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,708 Replies: 1 |
