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Don’t Use JSON And XML As Internal Transfer Formats

 You have a system that has multiple components and they have to communicate. They do that either via internal web services or using a message queue....

0 replies - 3431 views - 11/09/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Calculating Coherence Cluster Size on a Remote Server Using JMX

 In one of the projects I had a problem regarding calculating the size of a Oracle Coherence cluster. It doesn't seem to difficult since there is ...

0 replies - 1922 views - 11/09/12 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

A Retrospective of an Unproductive Day

Last night I was going to bed thinking “Man, I accomplished nothing today! What a waste.” But then I stopped feeling bad (and became awesome...

1 replies - 6221 views - 11/08/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Continuous Releasing of Maven Artifacts

Conceptually Maven distinguishes between snapshot versions and release versions. For top-level Maven projects that are continuously integrated it is...

0 replies - 6783 views - 11/08/12 by Marcus Martina in Articles

Clojure: Mahout’s ‘entropy’ Function

 As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts Jen and I have been playing around with Mahout random forests and for a few hours last week we spent some...

0 replies - 2343 views - 11/08/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

A Tip For Properly Utilizing Hibernate 2nd Level Cache

Your entity is @Cacheable, your cache is configured properly, but still, loading an entity produces a lot of sql queries. I noticed that the other day, and...

0 replies - 3983 views - 11/07/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Get the Full Neo4j Power by using Core Java API instead of Cypher

As I said yesterday I have been busy over the last months producing content so here you go. For related work we are most likely to use neo4j as core data...

0 replies - 3320 views - 11/07/12 by René Pickhardt in Articles

DevOps Protocol: No Manual Changes

 You’ve heard about Devops and you like the idea. But how can you grow a Devops culture in your organization? In my series about Devops Protocols I talk...

0 replies - 5841 views - 11/07/12 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Simple but Powerful Concept: Packing Your Java Application as One JAR

 Today's post will target an interesting but quite powerful concept: packing your application as single, runnable JAR file, also known as one or fat...

4 replies - 5667 views - 11/07/12 by Andriy Redko in Articles

Spring AOP in Security - Controlling Creation of UI Components via Aspects

  The following post will show how in one of the projects that I took part in we used Spring's AOP to introduce some security related...

0 replies - 2748 views - 11/07/12 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

Passing Common State to Templates in Play Framework

 This question comes up very frequently on the Play mailing list, so I thought I'd document a quick example of how to pass common state to shared...

0 replies - 1960 views - 11/07/12 by James Roper in Articles

Mastering the Cloud Deployment Interview

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? In part one of the cloud interview guide, we covered some basic unix & Linux systems...

0 replies - 2991 views - 11/06/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

Deploying Lift Apps with OpenShift and Escalante is Ridiculously Simple

The RedHat OpenShift folks are making it super-simple to deploy a Lift app.The Escalante project provides an amazingly simple way to deploy...

0 replies - 2742 views - 11/06/12 by David Pollak in Articles

Incorporating SCA into Existing Enterprise Systems

After viewing Rob High’s presentation “The SOA Component Model” hosted on InfoQ.com, I can foresee how Service Component Architecture (SCA) can be...

1 replies - 2774 views - 11/06/12 by Todd Merritt in Articles

Configuration in DNS

In the latest version of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar one of the areas covered is ‘configuration in DNS’, a term which I first came across...

0 replies - 2861 views - 11/06/12 by Mark Needham in Articles