Fluent Navigation in JSF 2

Part 3 on JSF 2: Discover that getting around in a JSF 2 application is much simpler and requires less typing.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Service Error Content Patterns (Part II)

In the previous article of the two-part "Service Error Content Patterns" article series, we established some of the common problems and challenges...

0 replies - 1165 views - 09/21/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8463 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

REST-*: good specs, bad branding?

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different...

0 replies - 1169 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News

Out-of-the-Box SOA without the Twin-Turbine Engine

In reviewing my last two posts to this blog, I realized that I've actually been describing several of the JBoss SOA Platform's out-of-the-box actions in an ad...

0 replies - 2059 views - 09/16/09 by ldimaggi in Articles

The Service Engine: Structured Communication using Modern Service Technologies

A simple stand-alone fixed finite state machine may be used as an engine that determines all triggers for a particular set of web services. Such an engine...

0 replies - 813 views - 09/14/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

SOA Pattern (#8): ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck...

0 replies - 1637 views - 09/10/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Service Error Content Patterns (Part I)

Exceptions are a necessary evil in the world of service development and one that must be controlled and planned for. Allowing exceptions just to happen can...

0 replies - 1080 views - 09/07/09 by rmurphyebay in News

VMware Submits First Ever Key Cloud Interface API to DMTF

Yesterday at VMworld 2009, VMware announced the submission of its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to enable consistent...

0 replies - 1030 views - 09/02/09 by CodeJustin in News

An SOA Case Study: Integrating Adobe LiveCycle Forms using JBossWS

JBossWS is a framework which implements the JAX-WS 2.0 (a replacement for the earlier JAX-RPC) specification and defines the programming/runtime model for...

0 replies - 945 views - 08/31/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Thoughts on VMWare, SpringSource and PaaS

I am late to the party for  commenting on the upstream and downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on vacations, but Rod Johnson obviously...

0 replies - 914 views - 08/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Traditional SaaS vs Cloud Enabled SaaS

Inspired by Gilad's great summary on the Cloud Programming model, I try to summarize the difference that I observe between the traditional SaaS model and the...

0 replies - 2246 views - 08/27/09 by riho in Articles

From REST to SOAP

Do we really need yet another SOAP vs. REST discussion? I think so. I spoke with a relatively smallish web company, who we'll call OnTheFence that works in a...

3 replies - 2437 views - 08/21/09 by Solomon in News

W3C Introduces SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System

Expanding its Semantic Web technology stack, the W3C (World Wide Consortium ) announced this week a standard to bridge knowledge organization systems...

0 replies - 1446 views - 08/21/09 by CodeJustin in News

Be sure to read the new Forrester TechRadar on BPMS

Over the past year, we have invested heavily in ActiveVOS to turn it into the best BPMS for the development team. Why did we become a BPMS? Why not just remain...

0 replies - 736 views - 08/19/09 by ActiveAlex in News

If SCA is a tool, it is a power tool

I’m pleased that my recent disagreement with JP Morgenthal was noticed by

0 replies - 965 views - 08/17/09 by Masoud Kalali in News