JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain...

0 replies - 3544 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The SOA Manifesto in Review: A Guide For SOA Adoption

The recent drafting of an SOA manifesto raises new questions about the current state of service-oriented architecture and the need for an SOA manifesto.  Why...

0 replies - 917 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 3524 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition.  Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. ...

10 replies - 8174 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 3001 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Consuming Services with WCF

Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF...

0 replies - 1163 views - 10/26/09 by herbjorn in Articles

Industry Leaders Forge a SOA Manifesto

This week, at the 2nd International SOA Symposium,  seventeen SOA authors and technologists from companies including Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Redhat,...

2 replies - 607 views - 10/23/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2879 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

JBoss Fellow Bill Burke Discusses REST-*, RESTEasy

DZone recently spoke with JBoss Fellow, Bill Burke on a range of RESTful topics, including REST-*,  an open source project aimed at defining new standards,...

2 replies - 5945 views - 10/20/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...

0 replies - 1166 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetKernel 4.0 Arrives; Based on New, More Efficient Microkernel

A completely revamped NetKernel 4.0 is now available under the 1060 Research public license.  The new version of the resource oriented computing (ROC)...

0 replies - 2615 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 851 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

SOA Manifesto and Benchmarks Sought

A collection of industry leaders from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and various other companies met in September to draft a manifesto for SOA.  A manifesto is not an...

1 replies - 1754 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic

A services-based IT solution such as "A Single View of the Customer", is typically deployed for use as an enterprise-wide business application. The...

0 replies - 935 views - 10/12/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Architecture Review Process

A formal "Architecture Review Process" can be a very efficient way to understand how the existing system work via interaction with...

0 replies - 1280 views - 10/08/09 by riho in News