I generally do not get into version control wars. Working in large firms often means you are told what to use. It is less often the case that you get to choose. A whole ecosystem is then stood up around version control – people to support it, specialized hardware, processes, separation of duties and what have you. All for a good reason, but developer productivity falls over time. Continue reading
Author Archives: Mathew
Architecture & Enterprise Architecture
What does Enterprise Architecture really mean? Why does a company need to have a strong Enterprise Architecture? Continue reading
Mule ESB
Mule is a lightweight open source ESB that is not bogged down by standards but yet enables to integrate applications that support various open standards. Continue reading
Virtualization – From Individual Desktops to Servers
There is a quiet but steady change going on in data centers and IT organizations around the world. Virtualized infrastructure. Underutilized single OS machines are now being re-targeted to run multiple operating systems and therefore scale horizontally thereby drastically reducing labor, hardware, OS & physical real estate costs in data centers. Add to that the overall reduction in lower energy costs and suddenly you have something really strong going on. Continue reading
Virtual Appliances
Recently I had to review a product which was being offered as a Virtual Appliance. This was the first time I had come across something like this. Pretty soon I was “googling” around to understand this better. Continue reading
JEE – The Road Ahead with JEE 6
Prior to JEE 5 , the JEE/J2EE platform did not go down that well across the developer community. As software evolves and new ideas flow in, it was only natural that JEE 6 would refine and become a better platform. Continue reading
Is Axis2 way too complicated for web apps?
I recently had the pleasure of using Axis2 on a Web Application. For reasons I cannot go into here, we were unable to use my original choice SpringWS. We were using Spring so it would have been a piece of cake to expose a document style web service using SpringWS. Continue reading
Apache CXF – Simple WebService With Spring
A reader posted a comment to one of my old blogs on XFire. That rekindled my interest so I checked the XFire web site only to be informed that XFire is now Apache CXF (version 2.2.3 at this moment in time). Continue reading
Comet , HTML 5 Web Sockets and Server Sent Events (SSE)
There has always been a need to support UI’s that constantly update themselves as new data becomes available on the server. The implementation for this falls into two general categories: either client side polling or server side push. Continue reading
Adobe Flex – Part 1
Adobe Flex is a framework/sdk provided by Adobe that allows us to build rich internet applications (RIA) using Flash as the underlying technology. Continue reading