Category Archives: Java
Queuing as a Service via Amazon’s SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) borrows what it needs from message-oriented middleware (MOM) but doesn’t lock you in to any one implementation language or framework. In this article, entitled “Cloud-based messaging with Amazon SQS” learn how to use Amazon SQS … read more
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Tagged aws, cloud, cloud computing, sqs
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An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB
Follow along as this demo, entitled “An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB“, guides you through an introduction to SimpleDB, a massively scalable, highly available key/value datastore. Part of the Amazon Web Services suite, SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to … read more
Posted in AWS, Blog, Cloud Computing, Java, NoSQL
Tagged amazon web services, aws, cloud, cloud computing, nosql, simpledb
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JavaScript for Java developers
Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting alternative. And yet JavaScript is still around, and it’s the basis of exciting web … read more
Java EE testing with Arquillian
I recently caught up with my old friend, Dan Allen, who is a Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist. In this podcast, he explains how Arquillian eases integration testing by providing a test harness to abstract away … read more
The case for Node.js
Not too long ago, I wrote about JavaScript; specifically, I espoused it as a language worthy of a Java developers attention mainly due to the fact that JavaScript, while about as old as Java, is arguably the more popular language. … read more
Ultra-lightweight Java web services with Gretty
Gretty is one of a new school of ultra-lightweight frameworks made for building web services. Built on top of the blazingly fast Java NIO APIs, Gretty leverages Groovy as a domain-specific language for web endpoints and Grape’s Maven-style dependency management. … read more
