Top Stories by Clark D. Richey Jr.
SOA is an Enterprise concept, but in order to achieve a SOA you either have
to Service Enable existing applications and / or you have to build new
applications that can take part in a SOA. This latter approach requires
service oriented development. This talk demonstrates an approach for project
composition utilizing implementation and interface projects using Java and
Spring Framework. Through the use of a dependency injection technology, this
new technique allows for the creation of projects that are easier to
understand, maintain and extend. As a direct result you end up with projects
that are ready to participate in a Service Oriented Architecture or that
simply allow for a much higher level of reuse if your organization has not
yet moved towards an enterprise SOA.
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Often, when someone asks how we are going to scale the Web application we're
about to develop, we look at them, smile, and say, "Not a problem - we'll
just cluster the application servers." Clustering our application across
multiple servers provides us with the ability to handle large volumes of
traffic and to scale systems by adding additional servers to the cluster.
In addition to provi... (more)