Puppet is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows easy and automated provisioning of servers, defining the packages, configuration, services,… in code. Enabling DevOps culture, tools like Puppet help drive Agile development all the way to operations and systems administration, and along with continuous integration tools like Jenkins, it is a key …
Current JAX-WS deployments are tightly coupled with a container’s runtime. JAX-WS 2.2 proposed an HTTP SPI that enables a deployment to use any available Web services runtime for HTTP transport. Now that JAX-WS 2.2 is integrated into JDK 7, Java EE 6 Web profile vendors can support 109 deployments by …
To enable Sever-Side-Push in Web-Applications a lot of hacks (aka Comet/Bayeux) have been done in the past. While Comet allows to stream data to the client there are still limitations since you need a second request to talk to the server. The WebSocket spec fixes that by introducing a bi-directional …
Graal is a just-in-time compiler written in Java that works with both the HotSpot VM and the Maxine VM. It is based on a port of the HotSpot client compiler from C++ to Java, but it takes new approaches in some key areas, most notably the intermediate representation. The Graal …
Learn the software architecture principles needed to design a typical Android application. You will have a chance to see an example application that uses most of the standard Android building blocks. By the end of this talk, you will have high-level understanding on how to design an Android applications.
Gradle is proposed as a next-generation build solution. Gradle combines the flexibility of Groovy builds with a powerful domain specific language (DSL) that configures a rich set of classes. This allows to easily develop a non-standard build for any project, according to its needs, or to fall back to a …
