Recently a couple of New York college students made a stir when they announced that they would write an open source and distributed social network server as an alternative to Facebook. This is really in the true spirit of the internet, where everyone can set up his or her own
As you may know Agile software development is inspired by the principles of Lean Manufacturing which in turn is derived from the Toyota Production System (TPS). One Agile methodology, Lean Software Development even borrows the name Lean to make the connection explicit. Since the principles in Lean and TPS have
At the thanksgiving dinner of a friend from work I tried to explain REST-ful applications – and I think I failed miserably. Even though there are plenty of good introductions out there I felt I needed to organize my thoughts a bit. Having some spare time on the train on the
In a famous post from January this year (which I missed) Ann Thomas Manes declares SOA dead. She is a Reasearch Director within the Burton Group, has worked with SOA in the Burton Group and elsewhere, and is a co-author of the WS-* specifications. The post has sparked fierce defense
In the Java world there are several ways of handling dependencies between project components in a shared development environment. Maven is a generic build tool that creates a standardized way of creating, building and publishing component artifacts. Dependencies between the different components are declared in a Maven build file and