Oracle shows off sheer technology volume
An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Fate of some Sun technologies still up in the air
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been fawning all over Sun Microsystems technologies lately, such as Java, the Solaris OS, the MySQL database, and the Sparc CPU platform. But it still remains to be seen how Oracle will deal with redundancies in the Java enterprise application server and IDE spaces once Sun becomes part of Oracle.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Java developers get .Net data link
Java developers can more easily link Microsoft .Net-based data through an interoperability bridge offered by France-based Noelios, Microsoft and Noelios announced last month.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Mule ESB makers offer Tomcat-based Java server
MuleSoft, formerly known as <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/mule-offers-enterprise-soa-governance-741">MuleSource</a>, made a play in the Apache Tomcat Java application server marketplace last month with the introduction of its Tcat (pronounced "tea cat") Server product.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Domain-driven design with Java EE 6
When a Java EE application needs to implement type-specific behavior for domain objects, a procedural, service-oriented approach leads to unnecessary code and hard-to-maintain logic. Learn about Java EE's architectural flip-side: domain-driven design that lets you make the most of Java's object-oriented roots.
Adam Bien, May 2009

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 2: Mechanics of the cloud
What's all that airy stuff we're calling "the cloud"? Appistry's Guerry Semones explains the mechanics of how cloud platforms take your cloud-ready application code to the next level.
Guerry Semones, April 2009

Lean service architectures with Java EE 6
Thanks to Java EE 6's simplified development model, a few interfaces and annotated classes are all you need to implement the facade, the service, and the domain structure that constitute a lean service-oriented architecture. Surprised? Read on.
Adam Bien, April 2009

Google App Engine now supports Java
Google App Engine has added Java support to its latest upgrade, with tech lead Kevin Gibbs stating that the new features will enable the cloud services platform to better interface with existing enterprise technologies.
Paul Krill, April 2009

REST for Java developers, Part 4: The future is RESTful
Find out why REST interfaces are foundational for emerging architectures such as the Semantic Web. Brian Sletten takes a big-picture view of REST, now and in the future, in this final article in his series.
Brian Sletten, April 2009

Understanding actor concurrency, Part 2: Actors on the JVM
Erlang isn't the only language for implementing actor concurrency. Find out how actors work and see them implemented in Scala's standard library, Groovy's GParallelizer, and the Java libraries Kilim, ActorFoundry, Actors Guild, and Jetlang.
Alex Miller, March 2009

Java concurrency with thread gates
The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for managing thread concurrency, but not many developers know about it. Fire up your IDE for a quick tutorial in implementing thread gates in multithreaded business applications.
Obi Ezechukwu, March 2009

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 1: Design principles
Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing. Appistry engineer Guerry Semones introduces these four pillars of distributed design.
Guerry Semones, March 2009

Understanding actor concurrency, Part 1: Actors in Erlang
As multicore hardware continues to mature, the shared-state concurrency model that Java and other mainstream languages depend on is headed toward obsolescence. Learn how Erlang, a functional language, implements an increasingly relevant alternative for structuring concurrent applications.
Alex Miller, February 2009

Asynchronous processing support in Servlet 3.0
The revolution didn't stop with Ajax, and the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification will prove it. Find out why Servlet 3.0's support for asynchronous processing is the next big leap forward for developing collaborative, multi-user applications for Web 2.0.
Dr. Xinyu Liu, February 2009

Virtualization crosses the aisle: Microsoft and Red Hat
A virtualization deal struck Monday between Microsoft and Red Hat shows the growing need for vendors to ensure customers get cross-platform support for applications running in virtualized environments -- even if it means reaching across the aisle.
Elizabeth Montalban, February 2009

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