Vol. 13 Iss: 3 Read Back Issues

Crunching Big Data with Java I target customers who have large data processing needs. These come in various forms, but generically look like this: the customer gets huge data drops in some form or another and must process the data and output results in a very specific time frame. The customer has written some scri... Mar. 30, 2008  Reads: 22,546  Replies: 2

Open Source and Open Standards As I write this article the 2008 FOSDEM (www.fosdem.org/2008/) (Free and Open Source software Developers European Meeting) is about to start. Of course, by the time you read this the meeting will be long over (that's the name of the game with publishing deadlines). I will not be attend... Mar. 29, 2008  Reads: 5,047

WSRP Really Works! A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used to allow portlets to be decoupled from a portal. It allows portlets, which are deployed to remote portal servers, to be aggregated at runtime into a unified portal page by a local portal server. The remote por... Mar. 27, 2008  Reads: 5,314

Upstreaming Quality & Visibility in the Application Lifecycle All too often quality is an afterthought in the application lifecycle. Ever-changing requirements, the pressure of increasingly short release cycles, and factors such as distributed development compound the complexity involved in effectively managing quality practices across applicatio... Mar. 21, 2008  Reads: 3,495