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OSGi and server side Java : Implications and how does it actually work

OSGi is slowly but surely moving into Java server-side territory and a few other SOA product lines in the industry. Among the most noted, you will find a few of the earliest Java Application Servers now being tagged 'OSGi compliant' or 'OSGi based', in addition, popular Java frameworks like Spring have also blossomed OSGi integration sub-projects. But what are the actual implications behind OSGi ? And more importantly how can you work with it ? This entry covers an article I recently wrote on the subject which includes a hands-on OSGi example, as well as the potential implications OSGi will have on the overall Java and SOA ecosystem.

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January 7, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Track Back (0)

Apple says : Hello Python and Ruby, and almost farewell Java

The stir came with the latest release of Apple's flagship operating system: Leopard Mac OS X. The backslash from Java developers using Mac's is well underway, no Java 6 and a busted version of Java 5. But guess what's being embraced alongside the Mac's preferred Objective-C language for creating applications on Mac's ? Python and Ruby.

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October 30, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

OSGi takes on Server Side Java and SOA.

You could say those behind Java server-side strategies were 'asking for it', and developers along with companies using server-side Java were begging for it! A coherent strategy for making sense and working out the hundreds of fragmented -- and on occasions overlapping -- API's, JSR's and frameworks that typically dwell in server-side Java environments. Stepping up to the task now is OSGi, a familiar name in IT since 99', but one which had made small in-roads into server-side Java until now.

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July 13, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Track Back (0)

Java and .NET interoperability without web services : JMS, MSMQ, CORBA, JNI and DLL's

While web services continue to gather momentum for achieving interoperability across platforms , they can still be tricky to implement or difficult to get buy-in from the 'bigwigs' at many companies that may consider them the new IT toy.

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April 4, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Sun's Project Tango : Java Web Services technology united.

Java and web services may seem like old news at this juncture, but like everything in software, there is always something brewing to do it a little bit faster or better, such is the case for Java's Project Tango.

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September 10, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Track Back (0)

SDO revival and SCA.

It was probably blown off by most Java users as yet another Java specification in 2003, back when Java JSR's came out every week. Its name was JSR-235 or SDO ("Service Data Objects") , a heterogeneous data access mechanism for the Java world. But now in late 2006, SDO looks poised to make a comeback in light of it usage in service orientated architectures.

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June 9, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

JSF Frameworks : Shale and Seam

You love'em you hate'em. They stir religious like debates, make things easier for some and carry weight on others, and if you work with Java you are no stranger to them, they are: Frameworks. If you are using Java Server Faces(JSF), then you may be interested in an article I wrote regarding the two current frameworks that ease using JSF : Shale and Seam

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May 22, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Web Services in EJB 3 and WCF very much alike.

By their very nature, web services are the natural choice for designing a service orientated architecture, even though there are proponents which state you don't need the former to obtain the latter, the platform independence offered by web services lends itself to this design. For this reason, its important to realize just how web services are composed in mainstream platforms, while you might expect varying differences among main contenders, there are many similarities in both .NET and Java in their newest web services offerings, WCF (Windows Communication Framework) and EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans), respectively.

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April 4, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

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