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I think it was somewhere September 2006 when I first read about OSGi. Immediately I saw opportunities to finally come to my long envisioned Service Component Architecture. On top of that I could fix all these classloader issues as well.
Should Custom Developed Software be put on the Balance and should we not take reservations for it to replace?
Recently I came across different discussions regarding keep on maintaining applications, life-cycle extension of applications, replacement of applications, service-enablement of applications, re-factoring and replatforming of applications, etc. The trigger for these kind of discussions is most of the time a
What does Route Planning has to do with Business Process Management?
What does Route Planning has to do with Business Process Management? Not so long ago we used paper maps to plan our route and recently we got used to online route planners like Map24 and maps.google.com to plan our route
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More and more I get respect for the marketing guys and architects of product companies that pay the Analyst firms to get interviewed by the analysts. Why, start reading. Last week I experienced the stress of the night before and
JetBrains Teamcity – your continuous build to the next level
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For the sample I am creating (see http://code.google.com/p/gridshore – Training Overview), I am using a combination of jquery and spring-mvc. I like the @controller stuff and the other annotations, therefore I want to explain some of the features I have