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[Articles] Open Cloud Will Make Business SHINE

William El Kaim — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

William El Kaim describes an Open Cloud Model based on agile principles and driven by an independent user community to define it further. He provides a sketch of a potential Cloud Operating System. He also defines the SHINE principles for transforming IT into BT (Business Technology).

[Articles] Use Sun SPOTs as your build canary

Craig W. Caulfield — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

Find out how to turn a new, open source wireless device � Sun's Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) -- into a highly visible indicator of the health of a continuous integration build. Craig Caulfield introduces you to Sun SPOTs and the SPOT SDK, then shows how to use SPOTs as an early-warning system for CruiseControl builds.

[Articles] Dojo Grid using the MVC design pattern

Luo Ling, Jin Pan, Qiangguo Tong, Dan Wang — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

Technologies are often linked together, and knowledge that you have in one area can help you gain skill in another. This article introduces the major features of Dojo Grid from a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern perspective. Using the article, discover how you can understand and easily master Dojo Grid, even if you haven't used it before.

[Articles] Patching in Eclipse Galileo

Nathan A. Good — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

Eclipse Galileo includes new features for applying patches, including the ability to copy a patch to the clipboard and paste it directly into the Project Explorer. This article introduces this and provides an overview of the method for creating and applying patches, and includes an overview of the patch format used by Eclipse.

[Articles] Introduction to the eSWT mobile extension, Part 2: Use advanced controls for your mobile applications

Uriel Liu, Eric Hsu, Sam Lo — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

As mobile platforms become increasingly sophisticated, the demand for mobile computing will increase. In this "Introduction to the eSWT mobile extension" series, learn about the embedded Standard Widget Toolkit (eSWT). You can use eSWT to develop native-looking Java applications for a variety of mobile phones. In this article, learn how to use more of the mobile controls: MobileShell, SortedList, HyperLink, TextExtension, and TaskTip.

[Articles] Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 - Part 1

Reza Rahman — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

In this first article of the series, we are going to take a high-level look at CDI, see how it fits with Java EE overall and discuss basic dependency management as well as scoping.

[Articles] An Introduction to Java Enterprise Portals and Portlet Development

Vlad Kofman — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

With portlet development popularity rising steadily, find out what you need to know to begin developing your own portlets.

[Articles] Implement a Fixed Login Form in Spring

Willie Wheeler, John Wheeler — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

A fixed login form highlights the fact that a web site supports user registrations and logins, while allowing the user to log in with one fewer click.

[Articles] POJO-Based Solutions for LDAP Access: One Good, One Better

Walter Jia — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

Find out how to employ dependency injection, annotation, and aspect-oriented programming to enable POJO-based application development.

[Articles] Java Web services: Introducing Metro

Dennis Sosnoski — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

The Metro Web service stack provides a comprehensive solution for accessing and implementing Web services. It's based on the reference implementations of the JAXB 2.x and JAX-WS 2.x Java standards, with added components to support WS-* SOAP extension technologies and actual Web service deployment. This article continues Dennis Sosnoski's Java Web services column series with a look at the basic principles of Metro client and server development.

[Articles] CRUD Operation using JSF,Web Services and OJB

Kamesh Pandrangi — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

This article explains the use case of adding, updating, searching and deleting using JSF, Web Services and OJB in WebSphere Integration Developer version 6.1. The article discusses the steps in developing each layer including the integration among these layers.

[Articles] Creating and Extending Apache Wicket Web Applications

Krzysztof Smigielski — 06 Nov 2009 16:16 GMT

Apache Wicket is a powerful, light-weight component-based web application framework with strong separation of presentation and business logic. It enables you to create quality Web 2.0 applications which are easy to test, debug and support.

[Articles] MIDP 3.0 Features: Inter-MIDlet Communication and Events

Bruce Hopkins — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

This article introduces two major enhancements in the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 3.0 specification, which is currently in Final Draft stage. The two capabilities that will be the foundation of next-generation mobile applications are Inter-MIDlet Communication and Events.

[Articles] Java development 2.0: Easy EC2

Andrew Glover — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.

[Articles] Applying Creational Design Patterns in Java

Varun Sood — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

This article provides an overview of creational design patterns, describes when they apply, and illustrates their use.

[Articles] Eclipse and Amazon Web Service (AWS)

Cesar Cantua — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

Learn how to use the Amazon Web Services toolkit for Eclipse. This demo shows you how to create a simple Java Web application, hello world, and deploy it to the cloud. To complete the steps in this demo, you will need to have Eclipse installed and setup. You will also need to have an Amazon account.

[Articles] Joda-Time

J Steven Perry — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

No enterprise application can escape time. Applications need to know what time it is and what time it's going to be, and sometimes they must calculate the path between the two. Using the JDK to do this job can be painful and tedious. Enter Joda Time, an easy-to-use open source date/time library for the Java platform. As you'll see in this article, Joda-Time eases the pain and tedium of manipulating dates and time.

[Articles] Modular Java: Static Modularity

Alex Blewitt — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

Modularity is an important aspect of large Java systems. Build scripts and projects are often split up into modules in order to improve the build, but this is rarely taken into account at runtime. This second part of the Modular Java series discusses static modularity, the creation of bundles, how to install them into an OSGi engine and how to set up (versioned) dependencies between bundles.

[Articles] Building OSGi applications with the Blueprint Container specification

Jarek Gawor — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

The Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) Alliance framework is becoming increasingly popular. It provides great mechanisms for developing modular and dynamic applications. The recent OSGi Service Platform Release 4 V4.2 specifications introduced the Blueprint Container specification. In this article, learn how the Blueprint Container provides a simple programming model for creating dynamic applications in the OSGi environment without adding complexity to the Java code. Numerous examples help get you started with the Blueprint XML file and the component XML definitions.

[Articles] Create and implement an XPCOM component for the Firefox browser

Lewei Ji — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

Learn how to create, develop, and test a Cross-Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) component that can be used by the Firefox browser as an extension of an application. Sample code provided with the example used in the article gives you a quick start for developing your component for Firefox.

[Articles] A Decade of SOA: Where are we, Where are we Going?

Jean-Jacques Dubray — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

SOA is 10 years old. InfoQ has gathered Jeff Andres, Eric Ballou, Dave Hollander and William El Kaim, all Enterprise Architects with a long experience in SOA, to share their perspectives on where we are and where we are heading, as part of a virtual panel. They talk about Reuse, Business/IT alignment, Governance,...

[Articles] Working with Web server logs

Uche Ogbuji — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

How do you know who is doing what and where on your site? Chances are you have an Apache-style log for your site, and you just need to learn how to mine it for valuable information. Learn about the format of Web server logs and how to access them in code. Along the way, apply a recipe to identify spider traffic from Web crawlers.

[Articles] The Key XForms Enhancements in Version 1.1

Kurt Cagle — 30 Oct 2009 17:38 GMT

XForms 1.1 improves version 1.0 in areas where the initial specification was either ambiguous or was becoming outdated in the face of evolving web technologies. Get a rundown of some of the notable new features.