ACID is hard to scale. But isn't NoSQL/NoACID the lazy way around the problem? Why not solve the ACID scalability problem instead of just going NoSQL? It's a hard problem to solve, but here are a few ideas on how to solve it.
Is Android really open? Research Director Andreas Constantinou uncovers the many control points behind Android and explains why Android might be the most closed system in the history of open source
Klaros-Testmanagement is an Ajax-based web application to support test managers in controlling and managing the entire testing process in software development projects.
Okay, maybe it's not a 'cloud in a box.' And maybe they don't even want us to refer to it as a 'cloud in a box.' But that's what they're gearing up for with all of these product acquisitions.
High performance, availability and scalability with messaging solutions, and the key to the mix is the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) along with a handy Service Integration Bus (SIB). Here we're going to deliver some hints and best practices, as we show you how to configure for high availability.
Learn how to develop Java applications for WebSphere with the Enterprise
JavaBeans 3 framework. Part 4 shows you how to
create the Apache Derby database.
Learn the skills needed to develop Java
applications for WebSphere using the Enterprise JavaBeans 3 framework. In Part 1, learn how to create a local WebSphere server.
Learn how to develop Java applications for WebSphere with the Enterprise
JavaBeans 3 framework. Part 2 of this demo series shows you how to
create the Enterprise JavaBean project.
This tutorial will walk through how to
implement a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) DataGrid using ExtJS,
Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5.
What do we usually want to do with data?
James Sugrue
The good news is that you can have a parameterized constructor (one). The docs (at least the Weld docs) tell us that this allows us to have immutable objects. A builder (a la Bloch‘s from EJ2) would have been better, but this is a great relief from the stupidities of default constructors on every object.
James Sugrue
Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.  At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k new activations of iOS devices every day. Jobs said that Apple thinks they're ahead of everyone else because "some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers." Google, thinking this referred to them, sent a release...
Welcome to the seventh and final episode of The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to agility, into your organization from the grassroots level.In this episode we're going to take a look back at the road that we've travelled and then close with a challenge.
Microsoft releases a downloadable control for Silverlight 4 that lets Web developers build sites that display data graphically using Microsoft's streaming media technology.
The rising popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on this database's ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes. This hands-on guide provides the all the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra's non-relational database design and put it to work in a production environment. The author pays special attention to data modeling, and demonstrates Cassandra's many advantages -- including its high availability, eventual consistency model, and ability to scale easily.
Skills Matter is organizing the first annual Flex on Java eXchange in London on June 16th. This highly interactive, intimate event will feature Tomas Lin, who will give a talk on Grails with Flex... Spring BlazeDS project Lead Jeremy...
If you're interested in learning how to build a Twitter app on your Android phone with Java then you'll want to check out our upcoming online course, Developing Android Applications with Java: Building a Twitter App, and you'll want to watch this screencast so you're ready to go on the first day of class.
Oracle is giving students free passes to get into JavaOne (and Oracle Develop). To qualify the student must be at least 18-years-old, enrolled in an accredited non-profit institution during the Fall semester of 2010 and studying at least six units.
The students gain admission to:
the Java Frontier track for students. Sessions include talks on 3-D animation programming and tools for learning Java. To find out more search the content catalog with 'JavaOne and Oracle Develop' as the event and 'Student Sessions' as the track.
the Oracle Develop and OpenWorld keynotes
the exhibition halls
the Mason street tent (an academic booth that showcases training and technologies available to students)
If they're lucky they can also gain entry into technical, Birds-of-a-feather and Hands-on-Lab sessions. This will depend on whether there is any space left.
If you wanted to check out some of the talks at the recent 2010 JVM Language Summit most of the sessions are now available to watch on the Oracle Media Network:
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