Social collaboration and portals
In today's globally connected world, with enterprise work forces geographically distributed around the world, enterprise application developers must support social collaboration in the workplace and beyond. Enterprise applications need to fit into a global timeframe where the social architecture can help workers and offices in very different time zones stay in sync. Learn about collaboration tools and frameworks, as well as social media frameworks that will help enterprise application architects design a social collaboration and networking solution that can integrate with the entire enterprise product portfolio.
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Tip
27 Jan 2023
How developers can avoid remote work scams
Software developers can find good remote programming jobs, but some job offers are too good to be true. Follow these tips to spot remote job scams. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Dec 2022
How developers can stay motivated when working remotely
Feeling like you've lost your edge in your remote work? Follow these tips to stay energized, sharpen your skills, and tighten relationships in your company and career. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Jan 2023
How developers can avoid remote work scams
Software developers can find good remote programming jobs, but some job offers are too good to be true. Follow these tips to spot remote job scams. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Dec 2022
How developers can stay motivated when working remotely
Feeling like you've lost your edge in your remote work? Follow these tips to stay energized, sharpen your skills, and tighten relationships in your company and career. Continue Reading
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Definition
28 Sep 2022
weblog
A blog, short for weblog, is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content. Continue Reading
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Definition
11 Oct 2021
corportal (corporate portal)
Corportals, short for corporate portals, are sometimes referred to as enterprise information portals and are used by corporations to build their internal web presence by leveraging a company's information resources. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Dec 2018
Don't contribute to the high IT project failure rate
Enterprise software development is difficult, so it's no surprise to discover there is a high IT project failure rate. Here's how to buck the trend and get yours to succeed. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Aug 2017
Improve your user engagement metrics with emotional analytics
Find out how new emotion analytics algorithms are bringing feeling, emotional connection, and engagement to modern apps. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2017
How Pandora built a better recommendation engine
Find out how Pandora developed an AI application for building a better recommendation engine that combines novelty and comfort. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Mar 2017
Big data recognition technology the next frontier for machine learning
It's one thing to have big data, but it's another to be able to understand it. That's why big data recognition technology is so important to the world of machine learning. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Mar 2017
Applying data science to doc migrations brought sense to the City of LA
When the city of LA was burdened with antiquated systems of sharing information, data science was applied and doc migrations performed. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2016
Cultivating a developer-friendly culture with Agile and Lean processes
Find out how one developer at Target convinced the suits to make the place fun and meaningful for developers by using an Agile and Lean process. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2016
Successful DevOps transitions are literally taking off
With 1,400 systems to integrate, American Airlines had their work cut out for them when they decided to embark upon a DevOps transition. Continue Reading
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22 Dec 2016
Collaboration and community the key to DevOps success in 2017
What is the best way to ensure DevOps success in 2017? Most experts agree that community and collaboration play a key part. Continue Reading
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12 Jul 2016
Analyzing big data is big science at Change.org
For Change.org, managing big data and analyzing results is a big science problem that technology is helping to solve. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2016
Why LinkedIn doesn't deliver as a social media network for professionals
While Facebook made sharing with family and friends a joy, LinkedIn has filed to make social networking for professionals fun. Here's what's wrong with LinkedIn. Continue Reading
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Podcast
31 Mar 2015
Inside the portal arena with Liferay
Learn about the front facing portal applications happening at Liferay in this interview with TSS and Ray Auge of Liferay. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Jan 2014
With Java EE 7, your Design Patterns are dead. And your EAR is ugly too.
Adam Bien isn't without opinions when it comes to modern day enterprise programming techniques. From the use of design patterns, to the manner in which projects and modules are divided, Bien isn't without opinions when it comes to developing Java applications. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Jan 2014
Can Java and JSF on the server-side make mobile on the front end easier?
While many software developers are learning new programming languages to deliver native mobile solutions to users, companies like ICEsoft with their ICEmobile solutions are solving the mobile development problem with HTML5 on the front end, with Java and JSF running on the server. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
11 Aug 2013
Application_Scope versus Portlet_Scope: Understanding the JSR 286 PortletSession
Managing state through the PortletSession is a supremely important job for the portal developer, and knowing how to manage the session means understanding the difference between the PortletSession scopes: APPLICATION_SCOPE and PORTLET_SCOPE. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
30 May 2013
JSR-286 Development Tutorial: JSPs, MVC and the portlet tag library
This JSR-286 tutorial demonstrates how to develop JSPs, using the portlet tag library, that comply to the MVC design pattern. Continue Reading
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22 May 2013
Inside advice on the use of Platform as a Service in the enterprise
CloudBees founder and CEO Sacha Labourey answers tough questions and hands out practical advice about PaaS and how it works in the enterprise. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
17 May 2013
JSR-286 development tutorial: Mastering request-response programming
This portlet programming tutorial shows how the PortletRequest and Portlet Response are used when developing JSR-286, request-response based apps. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
16 May 2013
JSR-286 development tutorial: An introduction to portlet programming
This portlet programming tutorial is an introduction to developing JSR-286 applications that can be deployed to any standards-based portal server. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 May 2013
Two most commonly misconfigured Tomcat performance settings
Tomcat on the server is different from Tomcat on the desktop, but too many system admins fail to optimize their production servers for performance. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
23 Apr 2013
How 'big data' solved the content management (CMS) problem
Content management systems that need to sift through huge amounts of data are big data problems in need of a solution. Fortunately, projects like Hadoop and MapReduce are coming to the rescue. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
13 Mar 2013
Mobile application development tutorial
Looking for a start in developing mobile apps for existing enterprise computing systems? This mobile application development tutorial is here to help. Continue Reading
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06 Feb 2013
How big data and distributed systems solve traditional scalability problems
The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here we examine how technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL fit into modern distributed architectures in a way that solves scalability and performance problems. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
11 Jan 2013
A Spring summary: The Spring framework is still relevant
Ken Rimple, Spring guru and co-author of 'Spring Roo in Action,' introduces the Spring framework and presents three reasons why Spring is still relevant. Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2012
The evolution of the API: A future beyond mobile and embedded systems
According to Kin Lane, APIs are moving from social media to the enterprise. Will public APIs be the key to computing in the internet of things? Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Nov 2012
Collaboration and transparency: The keys to successful application development
Ubuntu moves forward by harnessing the power of the open source community. It's a model that is extremely dissimilar to what we see in enterprise development, but there are allegories between the two. Here, we take a look at what enterprise development shops can learn from the community process. Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2012
Embedded architecture accelerates mobile application development
Mobile application development projects succeed at getting products to market quickly. The reason behind the speed? It's all about the architecture. Continue Reading
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25 Jul 2012
Discovering the right metrics for scalability testing
Scalability testing is perhaps the most important test you need to run on your application before going forward with deployment. But how do you know when you've proven that your application can scale. Here we take a look at some of the most important metrics to measure when testing the scalability of your applications. Continue Reading
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25 Jul 2012
Application lifecycle management (ALM) challenges for multiple apps
Managing the lifecycle of one application is a challenge, but how do you go about the application lifecycle management process when you have multiple big applications being developed simultaneously. The best project managers need to know how to manage multiple applications simultaneously. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Mar 2012
Project documentation and Agile development
Agile development has been very effective at reducing the need for extensive, ponderous documentation. However, this methodology has not done away with the need for documentation entirely. It has simply moved documentation from a foundational role to a supportive role. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Mar 2012
Ten Reasons to Love Liferay
Summing it up, if you are launching an enterprise portal project, you certainly should consider using a portal product as the foundation Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Feb 2012
Five Neat Things You Can Do Out of the Box with Liferay Portal
If you've ever run a competitive portal, you know that so many of them have little more than the "weather portlet" or "bookmarks" portlet after installation. Liferay is amazing because it has such full featured functionality 'out of the box.' Here's just five featuers I love about Liferay Portal 6.1. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Oct 2011
A cloud service to build mobile apps
Tiggr is a cloud-based mobile app builder that provides a mobile application development platform as a service. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Aug 2011
Embedded operating systems: Linux versus Windows
Choosing the right embedded operating system is not an easy decision. Closely examine the pros and cons of each OS to determine which one will bring the most value to your specific project. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Jun 2011
Choosing the best Agile methodology for your development needs
To be Agile is to be active and involved. But how do we achieve these goals? Let’s look at some of the popular tools of the Agile trade. Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2011
Integrating Eclipse and WebSphere Portal 7
Using Eclipse to develop applications for WebSphere Portal 7 can save you a considerable amount of licensing expense, but the integration can be a bit tricky in the early stages. Continue Reading
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11 May 2011
How to successfully deploy BPM
BPM offers tremendous potential to organizations seeking to improve efficiency and ROI, but it takes a thoughtful approach. This article outlines some BPM best practices. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Mar 2011
What is an Application Server?
Historically, the Java professional has thought of the application server as a system that can support the deployment and runtime of Servlet and EJB applications. But that definition is changing. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
13 Jan 2011
WebSphere Portal 7 and Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC Integration :
What happens when the industry leading Portal and the world's greatest application framework combine? Only good things!In this introductory article, I'll guide you through setting up the Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC Framework to work with JSR 286 Portlets running on WebSphere Portal 7. In particular, I'll show you how to:· Download all the Spring and required libraries· Deploy the example to WebSphere Portal 7· Describe all the moving pieces and their purpose Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Nov 2010
Applying control theory concepts in software applications
Control theory is a discipline originated in mathematics and engineering science but was adopted also in psychology, social sciences and other research domains. It deals with influencing the behaviour of dynamical systems. In this article it is shown that concepts of control theory can also be applied to software architectures that have a need for controlling dynamical behaviour. Software applications that react to external input in form of GUI requests, batch input or service calls are in deed dynamical systems whose behaviour depends on current event, environment and actual system state. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2010
High Scalable & Distributed Architecture with EJB & Spring Framework
In an Enterprise world, Spring Framework with some standard ORM tool like Hibernate gained considerable acceptance as a light-weight architecture for mid size applications. Also in Java EE 5 specification, major changes has been done on component architecture, tried overcome the gaps like IoC, ORM etc. Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2010
James Gosling Interview from Basementcoders.com
In this Basement Coders podcast, Jeff Genender interviews James Gosling live from San Francisco when JavaOne was taking place. Continue Reading
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Tutorial
27 Jun 2010
Getting Started with WebSphere Portal
This tutorial shows you how to get started with a fully installed WebSphere Portal 7 installation, and shows you how to configure portlets on the portal. Continue Reading
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Tip
26 May 2010
WebSphere Portal 7 Performance Tips: Changing the Heap Size & Verbose Garbage Collection
Why is WebSphere Portal Server 7 so slow? It's not! It's just not configured properly. Sal Pece will show you a few quick little changes you can perform on your WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) to help speed things up. Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2009
SAML: It's Not just for Web services
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 whether to stay with version 1.1 or move to 2.0. This article makes observations about both options. Continue Reading
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News
06 Aug 2009
Asynchronous Processes Modeled as Persistent Finite State Machines
The need for a way to execute concurrent tasks within Java has been addressed within JSE by the java.util.concurrent.Executor and in a limited fashion in JEE by the WorkManager specification. Unfortunately, the WorkManager specification is only supported by two application servers – BEA's WebLogic and IBM's WebSphere – and does not address several requirements that commonly exist in concurrent applications. Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2009
What is the Asynchronous Web, and How is it Revolutionary?
Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and the server responds to those requests with new presentation for the user - fundamentally a synchronous process. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2008
Are Java Web Applications Secure?
One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities published during 2007 were related to web applications, independently from being open-source or commercial software. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2008
Scaling Your Java EE Applications -- Part 2
Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all parts of the system and software. Not doing so could defeat the purpose of adding system resources or more systems. Wang Yu presents some surprising results of Java application scalability based on his experiences in a performance laboratory. The second installment of this series discusses scaling horizontally. Continue Reading
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News
01 Mar 2008
Performance Engineering - a Practitioner's Approach to Performance Testing
With every passing day, organizations are becoming more and more conscious about the performance of their Enterprise Solutions. As the IT industry matures and the technology evolves, so does the awareness about expectations from an Enterprise Application. Continue Reading
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News
01 Dec 2007
XWiki: A Platform for Collaborative Apps
This article demonstrates how to customize XWiki Enterprise by writing a small application with it. Specifically you'll learn how to write a Todo application for managing Todo tasks. This application will let users enter tasks using a description, assignee, target date and status. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2007
Key Challenges in Portal Adoption
This article is an attempt to study and enlist the various challenges that are present for the project teams who are planning to embark on the "not-so-smooth" journey of Portal Adoption. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2007
Spring Batch Overview
Despite the growing momentum behind SOA and real-time integration, many interfaces are still flat file-based and therefore best processed through a batch mode. Nevertheless, there is no de facto or industry-standard approach to Java-based batch architectures. Batch processing seems to be a critical, missing architectural style and capability in the marketplace. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2007
Introduction to the Spring Framework 2.5
The Spring Framework has continued to grow in popularity, and has become the de facto standard for enterprise Java development. In this article, I'll try to explain what Spring sets out to achieve, and how I believe it can help you to develop enterprise Java applications. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2007
Using OpenID
Learn more about OpenID, a decentralized, open source framework for user-centric digital identity. With OpenID, rather than managing all online accounts individually, users can manage their identity in one place via an authentication server. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jun 2006
Pipeline to Visitor Design Pattern
Moving from Analysis to Design phase, designers try to make the software system very maintainable through selecting all the functions that are used frequently by most of the use cases and make components out of them. Continue Reading
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11 May 2006
Book Chapters: Mastering EJB 3rd Edition Review Project
Much has happened since the second edition of Mastering EJB book series; mainly, the release of EJB 2.1 specification and massive adoption of Web services technologies by the industry. EJB 2.1 had a few but substantial additions in the specification. Besides, EJB 2.1 specification is part of J2EE 1.4 platform, which has some major additions/changes. As a result, a new edition of this book is warranted. The proposed new edition will contain five new chapters - each either covering a major EJB 2.1 technology or focusing on best practices (such as security) related to the same. This plus the normal updates (ranging from 10% to 50%) to all the existing chapters result in an overall 30% change in the proposed edition from the previous one. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jan 2006
Web 2.01, a Rich Internet Application Example
Learn about what I call "Web 2.01," a fusion of "Web 2.0" style application content with a "Rich Internet Application" client, which is not subject to many of the limitations of a web browser. Continue Reading
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News
01 Aug 2005
JavaServer Faces vs Tapestry - A Head-to-Head Comparison
After several years as the leading Java Web application framework, the reign of Apache Struts appears to be drawing to an end. Indeed, the action-based model on which Struts is based is no longer regarded by many as ideal for Java Web application development. While Struts and many other Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks from the early 2000s are largely operation-centric and stateless, the frameworks emerging most strongly are component-based and event-driven. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2005
Introduction to the Spring Framework
Since the first version of this article was published in October, 2003, the Spring Framework has steadily grown in popularity. It has progressed through version 1.0 final to the present 1.2, and has been adopted in a wide range of industries and projects. In this article, I'll try to explain what Spring sets out to achieve, and how I believe it can help you to develop J2EE applications. Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2005
BPEL and Java
The idea and motivation behind almost each new technology and platform for enterprise application development is to provide an environment where better business applications can be developed with less effort –business applications which should closely align to the business processes, which should not be too complex, and which can be adapted to the changing nature of business processes without too much effort. Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2005
HiveMind: What's it all about?
HiveMind, one of the newer Jakarta subprojects at The Apache Software Foundation, is described as "a framework for creating applications, not an application, or even an application server, itself." Howard Lewis Ship created HiveMind while working on WebCT's enterprise e-learning product, Vista. Howard also created Tapestry, a very popular web development framework. Tapestry paved the way for component-based web application frameworks and HiveMind is also beginning to make some waves of its own. In fact, the soon-to-be-released version of Tapestry actually uses HiveMind extensively. Continue Reading
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News
01 Sep 2004
Implementing Object Caching with AOP
Object caching has a number of characteristics that make it a prime candidate for implementation as an Aspect. Learn what some of these characteristics are. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2004
Part 4 - Modeling simultaneously in UML, Java, and User Perspectives
One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jan 2004
Test-Driven Development Series Part 2 - Testing Java Classes with JUnit
The first article is a concept piece explaining why testing helps in an enterprise server-side software environment. Most software applications today are written in tiers: the presentation tier, the logic tier (where business logic is kept), and the data tier. The logic tier is the meat of the application and comprises all of the rules and actions of the application. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2003
Maven Magic
Maven is a high-level, intelligent project management, build and deployment tool from the Apache project. There is nothing that Maven does that Ant cannot do. At the end of this article you will be able to build J2EE project artifacts using Maven. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jun 2001
J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services
In this whitepaper, we will make a powerful comparison between the two choices that businesses have for building XML-based web services: the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)1 , built by Sun Microsystems and other industry players, and Microsoft.NET2, built by Microsoft Corporation. Continue Reading