InfoQ Homepage Microsoft Content on InfoQ

Articles

RSS Feed

Newer Older

Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson

The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.

Barry Livingston
on May 21, 2007
InfoQ Changelog

InfoQ maintains a version number tied to new features developed for the site as a means to communicate progress to its audience. v1.1.5 is the latest version. InfoQ initially launced at 0.6 last year.

Alexandru Popescu
on May 20, 2007
Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards

Michele Leroux Bustamante explains the most relevant WS-* standards used today in terms of their actual implementation among WS platforms (with a focus on Java and .NET), their level of adoption and readiness. If you are new to web services or to the WS* protocols, or you are having difficulty keeping up with the pace of change in this area, this article should help.

Michele Leroux Bustamante
on May 16, 2007
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2007

This article presents the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Case studies (amazon, eBay, Yahoo!) Java, Agile, the Agile Open Space, Qualities in Architecture, Ajax and Browser Apps, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Usability, Banking Architectures followed by a summary of peoples over all opinions of QCon.

Floyd Marinescu
on Mar 22, 2007
Much ado about Boo

Boo is a OO-statically typed .NET programming language which in the spirit of Ruby or Python is licensed under an MIT/BSD license. Boo excels for building quick user interfaces and developer prototyping when using the boo's interactive shell. Andrew Glover's favorite reason for developing with boo, once compiled into byte-code it can easily be reused by any .NET based language.

Andy Glover
on Mar 07, 2007
Rich Office Client Applications

There is a client platform that's already present on nearly every user's desktop, one which provides an amazing amount of power and flexibility in its user interface options, and provides a familiar user-interactive style that undergoes intensive study with every release. Ted Neward introduces the Microsoft Office platform as a rich client technology with examples of Excel - Java integration.

Ted Neward
on Feb 26, 2007
TDD with Selenium and Castle

Dan Bunea shows developers how TDD can be applied in .NET using Selenium RC and Castle. Test first principals provide architects a way to quickly jump into active development early in the application development lifecycle. The benefits of TDD are a drastic reduction in defects as well as increased flexibility in the code base since the application evolves quickly through an iterative process.

Dan Bunea
on Feb 20, 2007
Interview with Sanjiva Weerawarana: Debunking REST/WS-* Myths

InfoQ had a chance to talk to WS-* expert and WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana, one of the fathers and a firm advocate of the WS-* architectural vision, we questioned him on the WS-* platform and his views on Microsoft's role in standardization. Sanjiva also took the opportunity to address "WS-* and REST myths".

Stefan Tilkov
on Feb 16, 2007
Book Excerpt and Review: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns with Examples in C# and .NET

InfoQ has decided to bring you what we think is one of the best books on the subject: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson. Don't let the subtitle fool you; this book is on domain-driven design with techniques and discussions suitable for any object oriented programming language. InfoQ has arranged for a sample chapter from courtesy of Addison Wesley Professional.

Jonathan Allen
on Feb 14, 2007
Messaging Interop with JMS & Spring.NET

Message oriented middleware has long been a popular choice to integrate diverse platforms. Using MOM as a basis for communication between .NET and Java this article demonstrates interoperability between a .NET client and a Java middle tier using the JMS support in the Spring framework, available for .NET as well as Java, to provide a common programming model across both tiers of the application.

Mark Pollack
on Feb 13, 2007
In-process Interoperability

The two most popular managed environments (the JVM and the CLR) are in fact, nothing more than a set of shared libraries, each providing services to executing code such as memory management, thread management, code compilation (JIT), etc. Using both the JVM and the CLR inside the same operating system process is easy, since any process is capable of loading just about any shared library.

Ted Neward
on Jan 29, 2007
WPF as a Rich Client Technology

WPF makes it easy to create visually impressive app, but WPF also has other talents which make it a compelling choice as a rich client over back-end services written in any technology such as Java, Ruby, or .NET. This article compares WPF to alternatives such as Ajax/DHTML, Swing, and Flash; it will also look at some scenarios where a WPF client makes sense, using Java as the back-end example.

Ian Griffiths
on Dec 20, 2006