In this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle announced that its products can be executed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2, the cloud environment). Oracle products available for EC2 are mentioned below:
1. Oracle Fusion Middleware: Comprises of Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit ( arguably considered to be the fastest JVM [...]
The mayhem in the financial services sector over last week is hard to fathom. Approximately over four trillion dollars has been lost between Oct’9, 2007 and Sept’12, 2008. George Colony from Forrester presents an interesting statistics of contributions from the financial services sector towards the overall US IT spending market and fears a [...]
Background
Message Queuing (MQ) middleware technology makes integration of services simple. For example MQ allows services to communicate in a flexible way by abstracting the connection details of the target service, data format and the underlying integration protocol. MQ allows the developers to build services focusing on the business logic rather than the integration [...]
Gigaspaces is one of the leading vendors, providing solutions to overcome the limitations of application performance/scaling due to bottlenecks at the database level or due to the application architecture following a tier based approach.
Gigaspaces received a series C funding of $ 5 million, lead by BRM capital, raising the total to $13 million. [...]
Out of curiosity I compared the website statistics for javalobby, ajaxian, theserverside and infoq on compete. The chart below shows the # of visitors for each of these websites between Dec’2006 and Dec’2007.
While all these websites are popular among java practitioners, it is interesting to note that ajaxian has more visitors since June’07 than the [...]
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SpringSource (formerly Interface21) unveils Spring Integration, a framework to build enterprise integration solutions.
Highlights:
1. To simplify the development of enterprise integration solutions without compromising on flexibility.
2. Facilitate the move towards SOA and message driven apps.
3. Includes support for JMS, remoting, email, scheduling, aspect-oriented programming, event publication and subscription, and transaction management among other things.
4. Provides extension [...]