Archive for November, 2008

Java 1.4 is officially obsolete

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 by Jesper de Jong

Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:
J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).
This doesn’t [...]

Popularity: 225 points

Process Acceleration

Monday, November 24th, 2008 by Michel Klabbers

Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all [...]

Popularity: 193 points

Separation of Concerns and SOA

Monday, November 24th, 2008 by Michel Klabbers

According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?
Popularity: 225 points

Popularity: 225 points