Java Development Topics:
Web services architecture and design
Web are services (usually including some combination of programming and data, but possibly including human resources as well) that are made available from a business' Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. Providers of Web services are generally known as application service providers. Web services range from such major services as storage management and customer relationship management (CRM) down to much more limited services such as the furnishing of a stock quote and the checking of bids for an auction item. The accelerating creation and availability of these services is a major Web trend. Learn about Web services architecture and design trends in this section.
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API evangelist Kin Lane is still spreading the word
29 Nov 2012
News - API evangelist Kin Lane spreads the word about APIs, shedding light on the pitfalls and challenges of opening a public API, as well as the benefits.
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When will the OCAJP & OCPJP 7 Exams Be Released
10 Jan 2012
News - Highly anticipated, the new Oracle certification for Java, OCAJP, went out of beta on December 17th, 2011. So when will the new exam be released? And when will the OCPJP exam be released?
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OCPJP and OCAJP: New Java 7 certification requirements
21 Dec 2011
News - In order to obtain the certified architect position from Oracle, attending and passing a training course is now required. But what about the Java Professional and Java Associate designations, OCPJP and OCAJP for Java 7?
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Working with ActiveMQ – Tips from TSSJS presenter Jeff Genender
TheServerSide.com | 25 Feb 2011
News - ActiveMQ is one of the most popular open source JMS containers available today. At the TSSJS this March in Las Vegas, architect Jeff Genender will discuss architecture issues in implementing the ActiveMQ message broker in enterprises, including common...
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Red Hat JBoss releases new module for Seam 3 Framework
30 Mar 2010
News - Red Hat JBoss recently released a new module for its Seam 3 Framework, Seam XML 3.0.0 Alpha 1. The XML module uses XML-based bean declarations for defining additional beans, or augmenting the beans defined via annotations.
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SAML: It's Not just for Web services
28 Sep 2009
Article - SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. The single most important problem that SAML was created to solve is the Web browser Single Sign-On problem. Today, many organizations debate...
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Enterprise Java Community: A Scalable, Transactional Data Store for Web 2.0 Services
01 Nov 2008
Article - Global online services such as Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, and Google serve millions of customers through tens of thousands of servers located world-wide. On this immense scale, components fail continuously and it is very difficult to maintain a...
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Building Struts 2 Apps Without XML Gluecode
01 Jan 2008
Article - In this article, we jettison XML gluecode for "convention over configuration". Using the SmartURLs plugin for Struts 2, we can autowire Action classes to page templates with search-engine-optimized URIs.
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Sending Attachments with SOAP
01 Oct 2007
Article - SOAP applications often have to deal with more than just simple messages. The payload for a SOAP message can often include a word processing or PDF document, image, or other binary file. This article explains how to use the Message Transmission...
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Axis, Axis2 and CXF: Surveying the WS Landscape
01 Sep 2007
Article - It's an exciting time to be in open source web services development. Two new next-generation web services frameworks have been released in the last year and a half, both under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. These frameworks are Apache...