Best of this Week Summary 23 August - 29 August 2010

• Basic best practices and optimization techniques for JBoss EAP 4.3 Production Environments.
  


• A tutorial in which you will "create Pingstream, a small notification tool that uses PHP (sorry ;), jQuery and RSS to communicate over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a set of XML technologies designed to support presence and real-time-communications functionality."
  


• Asynchronouse method invocation with Spring 3.0 tutorial with example code via annotiations. Full task and scheduling reference here.
  


• Good list of REST API anti-patterns.
  


• And another set of anti-patterns, this time for Apache Hadoop. Also includes best practices.
  


• Pretty funky: researchers developed misco, a mobile framework of MapReduce in Python (sorry again :) that can be handled by a server farm/cloud comprised of smartphones (e.g Nokia N95)."
  
  
  

Best of this Week Summary 16 February - 22 February 2009

• JavaFX SDK 1.1 has been released last week including mobile support. Some first impressions can be found here. There've been already over 80000 downloads of the SDK and over 100 million downloads of the runtime. The last number is technically correct, but doesn't say much about the real usage: JavaFX is bundled with the 1.6uXX runtime, so you get it whether you use it or not.
  Here's a tutorial on creating a mashup with JavaFX and a Flickr webservice.
  
  (No it will not win the beauty contest in UI design ;-)
  


• A nice collection of Java resources on the net, from websites to tools and trends. Useful for newbies, but also for experienced Java professionals: maybe there's something in there you did't yet know about!
  


• So how are we going to port applications that you built on a cloud like Amazon's EC2 to run on another cloud like Microsoft's Azure? And what about migrating data stored in a cloud? For that the Unified Cloud Interface project has started recently: "The concept is to provide a single interface that can be used to retrieve a unified representation of all multi-cloud resources and to control these resources as needed." Looking for an overview of cloud-providers out there? Check this list.
  


• First article Understanding transaction pitfalls when using JPA (EJB 3.0) or Spring in a series on developing an effective transaction strategy for the Java platform.
  


• More than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Among the experts were also members from OWASP, known for their top 10 web application vulnerabilities. Here´s seven ways to avoid those 25 programming errors.
  

Best of this Week Summary 12 January - 19 January 2009

• A couple of tips on Building Super-Scalable Web Systems with REST. All the client wanted was a getLocalWeather webservice for their 10M+ users website. At first it was implemented with a regular (MS WCF) webserivce, but for scalability they switched to resource-based REST.
  


• How to get rid of the Javascript splash screen in Oracle ADF Faces 11g Rich Client, and how to reduce the initial Javascript download size on the first page in an ADF application. Described is a currently undocumented feature that sets Context Parameters in web.xml, performing compression and only downloading the Javascript that is needed on the current page. Amazing for such an essential element to be an undocumented feature, because the default complete ADF RC Javascript libs can be up to 2M in size.
  


• A post with a summary of points on the question how secure cloud computing is. Quite related to my own recent tutorial on setting up an Amazon AMI with Java and MySQL on EBS using the AWS Management Console.
  


• Interesting white paper which "presents an overview of the architecture and configuration of the Sun Blogs web site, a blogging service dedicated to Sun employees worldwide. It also provides usage statistics and information about the system administrator's experience managing one of the busiest externally facing Web 2.0 site deployments at Sun".
  
  "Blogs.sun.com is powered by Sun Java™ System Web Server 7.0 Update 2 (hereafter, Web Server) running on a pair of Sun Fire™ T2000 servers with UltraSPARC® T2 processors. The site also uses a custom version of the open source blogging server Apache Roller Weblogger Version 4.0.0.12 (http://rollerweblogger.org/project/), MySQL™ database server, and Memcached. The service is integrated with Sun's secure single sign-on identity system backed by a worldwide employee LDAP directory for authentication and authorization."