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)."