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SOA in a JVM: OSGi Service Platform - A Dynamic Component System for Java

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT

There are many forces that influence technological evolution. After a decade of building enterprise applications on the web, today's enterprise application platform is slowly evolving to the next generation application platform. What exactly are the components of this next superplatform? OSGi is poised to surface as the core component model of the next-generation Java platform.

Pattern Principles: The Open-Closed Principle

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 EST

Design patterns exploded onto the scene when the seminal work, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, was published in 1994. Since that time, numerous books on patterns have been written, conferences devoted solely to the patterns movement have emerged, and entire Web sites are dedicated to discussions on patterns. Compound patterns that represent a combination of patterns have even been discovered.