Project-Oriented SOA
The solution is to combine service lifecycle management, architecture, SOA governance, funding, and SOA metrics into a single comprehensive program.... more »
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Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea
Why exposing the database through a web-service (RESTful or otherwise) is wrong.
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My Interview Experience at Microsoft
Before I go into the specifics of the interview experience, I want to explain my background with Microsoft. When I was just starting college, I got... more »
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Delicious is gone! Long live Delicious!
Delicious, in its former state, was a huge Perl application on top of Apache and MySQL. Since then, its been completely recreated in a tiered system... more »
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Return-Type-Based Method Overloading in Java
Thierry.Lefort 
via today.java.net
It is an accepted fact that Java does not support return-type-based method overloading. This means that a class cannot have two methods that differ... more »
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Is Firefox 3 a buggy browser?
I am using the Firefox version 3, which I downloaded during the Download day. I was impressed with the features that were promised by the Firefox team... more »
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Facebook plans for Web domination
Thierry.Lefort via wikinomics.com
If you logged onto Facebook this morning, you may have noticed the new interface that we wrote about a couple of weeks ago. What’s really exciting... more »
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Groovy Makes Web Services Embarrassingly Easy
bloid via blogs.sun.com
Meera pointed me to another very cool article she's written, RESTful Web Services in 60 Seconds, and (because I've been in an intensely groovy frame... more »
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CEO Change at VMware: Implications for the Coming Battle with Microsoft
There is more behind the replacement of Diane Green at VMware than what you're seeing in the press.
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Performance improvements in J2SE 6
bloid via blogs.sun.com
One of the principal design centers of J2SE 6(Mustang) was to yield improved performance and scalability. This has been brought about mostly by the... more »
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JavaRebel says no to restart– Really??
Until recently any change to the source code would require you to stop the application, compile the classes and start your application again.... more »
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Bye, Bye Agitar?
bloid via javaworld.com
Agitar, a well-known Java unit-testing tool suite maker is winding down its operations, and has sent a notice of assignment for benefit to its... more »
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The Basics of Database Indexes
Continuing his series on interview questions, Jesse at 20bits presents a great overview of database indexes and how they work. A must read!
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Open Source Troubleshooting for Java
VisualVM is an OpenJDK project from Sun to create an all-in-one troubleshooting tool for Java applications. The tool is a combination of several... more »
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First Look at the Spring 2 Application Platform
What is SpringSource thinking? Why are they betting everything on OSGi? What's so special about the Spring 2 Application Platform? Read this article... more »
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Embarcadero Buys CodeGear for $23M: New Life for JBuilder?
Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for... more »
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LINQ for Java
Would you like to see LINQ (Language INtegrated Queries) implemented for Java? This is an invitation to vote for it and to contribute.
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Never, never, never use String in Java (or at least less often :-)
bloid via stephan.reposita.org
Never, never, never use (unwrapped) String or long or int. Why? Those primitive types have no semantic meaning. They are hard to understand, hard to... more »
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Architecture astronauts take over (Joel on Software)
That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian... more »
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Interview: Rod Johnson on the SpringSource Application Platform
SpringSource has released a server platform, based on OSGi. Not only do its internals use OSGi, but developers will also be able to make use of it... more »
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Groovy or JRuby?
Recently, it has become the fad to weigh in on the Groovy vs JRuby debate, usually along the lines of "Which is X?", where X is one of "better",... more »
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Recommended 55 Free Online Tools
Selection of 55 remarkable free online tools
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Manning: 2 free ebooks a day till April 30
Manning publishers are giving away two ebooks form their catalogue every day from the 17th to the 30th April. Two winners will be chosen each day.... more »
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How to Choose a Java Testing Framework
Is automated testing a standard part of your Java project plan? Which of the testing frameworks is your favorite? By means of which criteria?
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Why use Spring… if you have a HashMap at hand?
Spring is a good framework, and no doubt Dependency Injection is a great way to avoid spaguetti code. But there may be simpler and lighter... more »
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