SOA Security 101: Patching the Firewall Hole

It’s 2008 and it’s become clear that SOA is here to stay. The first to implement are realizing the benefits of an open architecture as well as the...

0 replies - 799 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Project-Oriented SOA

Projects are the lifeblood of an IT department. Almost everything in IT is measured through a project lens. SOA, due to its global-centric nature, is often...

0 replies - 1063 views - 08/18/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

FindBugs and PMD applied on Java EE 5

After few months of a fun learning curve - coding WSDL-first Web Services based on EJB 3 and JPA - I found some time to include automated quality tasks in my...

2 replies - 1592 views - 08/18/08 by Felipe in Articles

Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Microsoft recently released SP1 for .NET.

0 replies - 2270 views - 08/18/08 by arnonrgo in News

Interview with Jeff Davis, author of "Open Source SOA" along with a free chapter of the book.

This article represent an interview with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA, around his book subject and related areas. The book itself is an...

1 replies - 1010 views - 08/13/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Evolving Architectures - Architecture Retrospective

Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...

1 replies - 1171 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News

BPMN to BPEL: Going to Battle With One Hand Tied?

I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process...

2 replies - 915 views - 08/11/08 by vambenepe in News

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Author of Manning's SOA Patterns, Shares a Free Chapter

Here is an interview with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, which is an under development book and currently available as an early access...

0 replies - 1441 views - 07/24/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 1225 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Debugging Spring OSGi with NetBeans IDE

NetBeans is my favorite IDE but it suffers from lack of OSGi support. Eclipse with Equinox and plug-ins wins in terms of fast build, test, and deploy.I try...

4 replies - 1800 views - 07/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Tips and Tricks

Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)

From the command line:gem install passengersudo passenger-install-apache2-moduleThe Apache 2 module was successfully installed. Please edit your Apache...

2 replies - 772 views - 07/04/08 by danielwanja in News

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 3391 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that...

0 replies - 807 views - 07/02/08 by BenForta in News

Flash Content Is Now Searchable

Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data...

0 replies - 863 views - 07/01/08 by BenForta in News

SWF is Searchable

Adobe SWF files that run in the flash player will now be searchable. Adobe published SWF searchability FAQ earlier this morning explaining the details of what...

0 replies - 733 views - 07/01/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News