Java Makes Scalable Bed Fellows

Editor's Note Java Makes Scalable Bed Fellows The first time I ran across Terracotta was in a Java and Open Source Roundtable that I moderated and Terracotta's Amit Pandey participated in. More recently, Terracotta's Ari Zilka did a Q&A with Deirdre Blake about the challenges ahead for distributed computing. Watch for that in the upcoming November 2007 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. Which explains in part why Terracotta and Kaazing's joint announcement caught my eye. The official word is that Kaazing, which focuses on real-time Web 2.0 solutions for Java EE, and Terracotta, which provides infrastructure software for and scalable high availability for Java applications, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver scalable and real-time Web 2.0 technology for financial systems, online gaming, online sports, and news broadcasting applications. Forget the financial stuff. What got me going was the real-time online game part. Through this partnership, Terracotta plans on expanding its capability to deliver its Java availability and scalability to the Web 2.0 Rich Internet Application world where AJAX rules the roost in terms of client-side platforms. Sounds fine, but lets get back to the real-time games. -- Jonathan Erickson New Features Domain Models, SOA, and The Single Version of the Truth Udi describes some of the pitfalls of trying to split a domain model between multiple services, as well as how SOA side-steps the "single version of the truth" issue found in reporting Developer Diaries Good tools and strong teams lead to top-notch software development projects. The Discipline of Agile Scott argues that Agile is a discipline that requires discipline. Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races A "critical section" is a region of code that executes in isolation with respect to some or all other code in the program. In The News Microsoft, Novell Open Interoperability Lab Designing, testing software for Windows Server and SUSE Linux is the goal jQuery 1.2 Release is "Massive" Blogs Some bugs shouldn't happen--but do anyway My friends tell me that I'm good at making things break in surprising ways. Here's an example. iPhone vs. Google Phone The Google Phone is rumored to be 100% Java-based, through and through. Contrast this to the iPhone, which is 100% anti-Java. Advertising Information For more information about advertising in Dr. Dobb's Update newsletter, contact our account managers: http://www.ddj.com/advertise Copyright 2007, CMP Technology LLC, 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. CMP Technology's Privacy Policy: http://www.cmp.com/delivery/privacy.html Problems with this newsletter? Please contact (ddj_help@cmp.com) Your email address: [leoseo777.sefsgdsgdg@blogger.com] is on our mailing list. To unsubscribe, forward this message to unsub-ddjreport-ctgBCyq0NSUaW0A0A0Cu@newsletters.sdmediagroup.com To update your profile, visit http://newsletters.sdmediagroup.com/cgi-bin4/profile?y=eBCyq0NSUaW0TKJu

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