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Behavioral & Philosophical Aspects of Communities Whether it's a prescriptive environment like the JCP or a less prescriptive one like OpenJDK and other open source software forums, communities have a lot in common. Mar. 20, 2007  Reads: 8,941

Ship Happens! Insights From the Eclipse SWT Community The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is the GUI toolkit used by Eclipse. The same folks that worked on the Common Widget (CW) library for IBM/Smalltalk developed it, this time for Java. Now, it's maintained as part of the Eclipse Pla... Mar. 18, 2007  Reads: 33,804  Replies: 1

Enterprise Mashup Services In my previous article, 'Enterprise Mashup Services: Real-World SOA or Web 2.0 Novelties?' (JDJ Vol. 11, Issue 12), I discussed how a Java-to-AJAX library such as Direct Web Remoting (DWR) can bridge the gap between mashup services ... Mar. 17, 2007  Reads: 20,810

Code Development in Distributed Environments The key to successful build management in distributed environments is a foundational commitment to consistency, repeatability and portability. This is just as true for small, homogeneous development environments using in-house,... Mar. 12, 2007  Reads: 11,542  Replies: 2

The Benefits of Virtualized WebLogic Clustering Across the BEA product family, the principle mechanism for meeting the twin requirements of scalability and availability for business-critical applications is clustering WebLogic application servers. So clustering WebLogic appli... Mar. 10, 2007  Reads: 9,792  Replies: 1

Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Applications In late 2002, Javier Soltero, Doug MacEachern, Ryan Morgan, Jon Travis, and I (the eventual co-founders of Hyperic) began designing and architecting an application management system that was to become Hyperic HQ. We wanted it to b... Mar. 8, 2007  Reads: 8,278  Replies: 1

Is Java a "Ball and Chain"? These are curious times just now for Java. In one and the same month, Steve Jobs stands up, and declares - referring to language support on the new Apple iPhone - 'Java's not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It's this ... Mar. 6, 2007  Reads: 27,852  Replies: 12