Software AG, one of the leaders in the SOA and BPM market acquired San Francisco based Terracotta that is behind prominent open source products such as EhCache, Big Memory and Quartz. Terracotta products fill in the application performance and scalability needs for cloud based offerings from Software AG. In this article, InfoQ talks to Ari Zilka regarding the future of this acquisition. By Jeevak Kasarkod

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar answers difficult and frequently-asked questions about JIRA administration, and shows you how JIRA is intended to be used.

logFaces is a centralized logging suite for applications using log4j, logback, log4net, NLog and similar popular logging frameworks.

If you are looking for a quick way to get started building Flex applications for Android (even if you don't have an Android device), check out this tutorial: FlexAndroid90Minutes.pdf. You can download the supporting materials here: FlexAndroid90Minutes.zip.References Reference: Tutorial: Flex for Android in 90 Minutes ...

Remember the @Property annotation in Tapestry, let us try its implementation in Plastic. In order to transform an existing class in Tapestry, it has to be placed in a controlled package. This package has to be passed to the PlasticManager along with the PlasticClassTransformer for the magic to take place. We start with the annotation James Sugrue ...

In a very irregular series I do some book reviews here. One paperback found it's way to my post box a few weeks ago already. And it was the one, I was most curious about this year. Adam told me, he is going to write something during last years flight back from OOW/JavaOne. And since we know each other roughly since 2005 it feels like I am following his way through mutual customers and the...

A few months ago, java.net underwent some pretty major changes: we migrated to a new project infrastructure (Kenai), and we switched to a modernized Web look and feel. The Kenai infrastructure brought many benefits to java.net projects, including the Subversion and Git version control systems, and JIRA issue and project tracking. And, as I wrote about in my last blog post, Sonatype's Nexus Maven service is also now available for java.net projects. Given a fairly small team, I think we've come a long way in a relatively short time. But, that's just my opinion. What do you think? Our current poll asks that specific question: Now that you're accustomed to it, what do you think of the new java.net? We're in the final days of the poll (it will close on Monday), so get your vote in now. Also, feel free to post a comment expressing your view in greater detail. java.net Weblogs Since my last blog post, there have been several significant java.net blogs composed by others: Josh Marinacci, Amino 1.0 is released: A scenegraph for Java and JavaScript; Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein, JavaFX 2.0 Beta: First impressions; Shing Wai Chan, Cross-site request forgery prevention filter in GlassFish 3.1.1; Sonya Barry, Trying to get caught up; Artem Ananiev, Using JavaFX 2.0 inside Swing applications; Poll Our current java.net poll asks "Now that you're accustomed to it, what do you think of the new java.net?" Voting will close on Monday, June 6. Articles Our latest java.net article is Data Analysis and Data Mining Using Java, Jython and jHepWork, by Sergei Chekanov and Alejandro D. P. de Astorza. Java News Here are the stories we've recently featured in our Java news section: Shai Almog reports that Martin Is On Fire: New LWUIT Tipster Demo; Geertjan Wielenga reports on Swedish Developments on the NetBeans RCP; Just published - Java Spotlight Episode 32: Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Deveopment, on JavaFX 2.0 Beta Release; John Yeary describes How to exercise your Daemons - Callable, Future, and ExecutorService; Adam Bien presents @Singleton - the Simplest Possible JMX MXBean; Shai Almog presents a Preview Of The New LWUIT Friends t-Zone Demo; Stephen Colebourne writes about Beans and Properties; Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine announces Maven, EJB and Java EE 6 Webinar - The Replay; Dustin Marx looks into JavaFX 2 Beta: Time to Reevaluate JavaFX?; Adam Bien presents @Singleton - the Perfect Cache Facade; and Arun Gupta reports that Athens, Greece is now Java EE 6 and GlassFish-enabled! Spotlights Our latest java.net Spotlight is The JCP reform and what it means for the Java developer by Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg: Earlier this month, the LJC, aka the London Java User Group (JUG) became the first JUG to be elected to an open seat on the Java Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition Executive Committee (Java SE/EE EC in short). In this post, we'll explain what the forthcoming changes to the Java Community Process (JCP) mean and how the LJC intends to help with the process of reform at the SE/EE Committee level... We're also featuring Terrence Barr's NEW! Oracle Java ME Embedded Client 1.0 released: Embedded Java is in billions of places most people don't every realize. E-Book readers, VOIP phones, printers/copiers, Blu-ray players, TVs and set-top boxes, embedded servers, network equipment, smart meters, kiosks ... and, of course, mobile devices and smart cards. Oracle is building on the success of embedded Java with new binary products targeting popular embedded platforms and operating systems... Subscriptions and Archives: You can subscribe to this blog using the java.net Editor's Blog Feed. You can also subscribe to the Java Today RSS feed and the java.net blogs feed. You can find historical archives of what has appeared the front page of java.net in the java.net home page archive. -- Kevin Farnham Twitter: @kevin_farnham

MongoDB is a popular, open source, document-oriented database. This demo describes MongoDB, how it works, and where it's most applicable in your work.