Top 10 cool things listed by GamePro. Look for more lists as the month progresses. I like the steel rubber band gun. Is Obama using a Zune? No way! Look out for Microsoft Blue Edition Software. Its fa
Kirstan Vandersluis wrote: Great intro to SOA, Paul. You mention in the summary that budget cuts may stifle SOA for many companies. But SOA-related infrastructure and tooling is an area of rapid growth in open source development, not only with t...
Peter Zadrozny is CTO of StrongMail Systems, a leader in digital messaging infrastructure. Before joining StrongMail he was vice president and chief evangelist for Oracle Application Server and prior to joining Oracle, he served as chief technologist of BEA Systems for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Considering that e-mail is the killer application of the Internet, this question seems rather unexpected. After all, every time we click the send button, things seem to work. After reading this article you'll be amazed at the journey your e-mail goes through and even more amazed that i...
I have always enjoyed Scott McNealy's knack for analogies, and this one is really right on the money: 'Open Source is free like a puppy is free. There are long term costs and hassles, and occasional cleanup jobs.' As I have stated on previous occasions, the fact that software is open s...
We've all heard about the simplicity and power of the EJB 3.0 specification. And because this has proven to be true, we can't help but think that performance must be rather poor. After all, all that simplicity must come at a price.
By Peter Zadrozny; Arthur Wang; Kevin Geminiuc; Robert Wales
After spending much of last year learning to use the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to orchestrate Web Services and realize the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), we felt it was time for us to climb down off the bleeding edge of the razor and share our story...
For those of us who are always looking to optimize our code and improve performance by squeezing out a few milliseconds here and there, marshalling is one of those areas that you expect to be so bloated that you would think you could improve performance many times if you could get your...
It's almost impossible to address the performance of the JMS implementation on the WebLogic Server in a generic fashion. Message size, acknowledge mode, persistence mode, and type of consumer are just a few of the things that can impact the performance. Add the JVM, the operating sy...
One of the big controversies of session handling concerns the performance difference between storing session state in an HTTP session object and using a stateful session bean. My colleagues and I expected that it would be more efficient to store data in an HTTP session object, as we we...
In October 1999 12snap's main goal was the development and commercial implementation of the world's first wireless shopping platform for existing mobile devices as well as WAP-enabled phones. The first application allowed mobile phone users across Germany to participate in auctions...
It's interesting to see that Europe is ahead of the United States in at least one technology area - mobile telephones. Not only are they ahead, but I feel that the lead is by a few light years, although in reality it's closer to 18 months (and hopefully shrinking). Back in the autumn o...
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The open source Expresso 5.6 release builds on a solid feature set with several new open source products integrated and representing over 1000 cvs commits of framewo...
Testing Web services creates an entirely new set of problems for development and testing teams. JUnits can be created to test parts of the Web service, but do not pr...
Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner is a leader in the performance-testing market. Its ability to create large volumes of data is legendary, and its ability to monitor ...
Bill Coleman, Edward Scott, and Alfred Chuang must be looking at their September 1998 acquisition of WebLogic as the best money they ever spent. WebLogic's Tengah pr...