Category: <span>Open Source Tools</span>

Refactoring a Legacy Java Application to Rails

This video demonstrates several strategies for incrementally moving portions of the application to Ruby and taking advantage of the productivity of Rails in a legacy Java environment. While JRuby could be an integration glue for Java applications, introducing Rails into an existing application without any significant rewriting is not obvious. …

Akka a Platform for Event-driven Architectures on the JVM

Akka is the platform for the next generation event-driven, scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM. It uses the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance it adopts the “Let …