As Werner noted recently, Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS! If you are a DynamoDB user, you already know the drill -- create a table, provision the throughput (in terms of read and...

Having lots of fun. My usually-slow blogging rate has gone totally into the trash. A couple of weeks ago I did a talk on some of what I'm working on. There were some issues with the recording: it's missing the animations in the slides and the demos. But you'll get the idea :-) The PacX challenge robots are strolling across the pacific, getting closer and closer to Australia and Japan. One major sadness is that one of the robots heading for Japan (Fontaine Maru) came to an unknown end - it's drifting with everything dead except its tracking beacon. I finally got a job opening for a JavaEE/cloud hacker, based in Sunnyvale. If you're looking for something different, apply!

Jeremy Ashkenas introduces Backbone.js, a JavaScript data modeling framework intended to decouple data handling code from the DOM, being useful especially when the user interacts with the data. By Jeremy Ashkenas

Engine Yard announced that Engine Yard Cloud, its platform as a service (PaaS), will support the JavaScript-based Node.js framework. - Engine Yard, provider of a multi-language platform as a service (PaaS) offering, has announced the general availability of Node.js on Engine Yard Cloud. Node.js is a popular JavaScript-based framework for building highly scalable, real-time Web applications. It uses JavaScript the language of the b...

Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools.

Spring security expression language is very useful. It helps secure your service/web methods with one line of code. It supports @PreAuthorize and @Secured. In the next three posts, I will talk about how to add custom behaviour to the @PreAuthorize annotation. Preview Text: Spring security expression language is very useful. It helps to secure...

Engine Yard brought Node.js into the fold in its Platform as a Service offering. EY also support Ruby on Rails and PHP.

Google has open sourced Octane, a JavaScript benchmarking suite consisting of 13 tests measuring browser performance. By Abel Avram

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This roundup is put together by aggregating lots of great content from all around the web. If you have content suggestions, or if you simply want a direct line to some of the content that we post, check us out on Twitter, and Google+. As usual, we've got a lot to go over, so let's dive into it. Up first this week, there is a lot of new content available on the SpringSource Dev YouTube channel. The video from Spring Data Neo4J lead Michael Hunger's excellent webinar introducing Spring Data Neo4j is also available. The video from VMWare engineer Jerry Kuch's webinar providing an update on the new features in RabbitMQ is also available. Finally, the video from the webinar that Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, and I did introducing how to more fully exploit Spring Roo's interactive add-on mechanism is available. Spring Security OAuth lead Dr. David Syer has announced that Spring Security OAuth 1.0.0.RC2 is now available. Remember our pal Tobias Trelle? He's got another fantastic article that's been published on InfoQ called Spring Data - One API to Rule Them All? Stephen Chin, the Oracle JavaFX evangelist, has posted an initial blog and a slide deck on the work he's done to integrate Spring and Java FX based on a talk he's done at the Dallas Spring User Group. Nice work, Stephen! I'm looking forward to the subsequent blog posts he's promised us! Zemian Deng has a nice post on how to use the TimeMachine scheduler with Spring. The Java Code Geeks blog is at it again, this time with a post on how to measure the execution time of a method call using the Spring StopWatch class. Note that this sort of code is ideal for delivery as a AOP Aspect. René van Wijk has a nice post on how to integrate Spring's Hibernate support with the JBoss AS 7-specific integration for Hibernate. This blog looks at how to use the HibernateTemplate to work with Hibernate's lazy initialization feature. It's a nice post, but it's worth mentioning that the HibernateTemplate's no longer the preferred way of working with Hibernate. Instead, simply create a HibernateTransactionManager instance, and build a SessionFactory using the LocalSessionFactoryBean (available for both Hibernate 3 and Hibernate 4) and then you're done. For a good example, check out this sample application which demonstrates Hibernate 4. You can use the Hibernate thread-local session API (which has been available since later iterations of Hibernate 3.x). To specifically handle lazy initialization, look at Hibernate.initialize(Object). Spring's configuration support is very rich, and handily supports declaring many convenience objects. This blog introduces how to configure lists and maps using the Spring XML namespace support. Convenient! The Pables64 blog has a nice post on how to use the SpringSource Tool Suite Spring MVC template to build a Spring MVC-based web application in no time flat. This post enumerates some of the open source projects that themselves embed or rely on the Spring framework. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it is very interesting! Blogger zws1987211 has an interesting post on how to use Spring with ActiveMQ. A lot of the confusion comes from reading the ActiveMQ documentation and articles. Using Spring with JMS (and ActiveMQ in particular) is quite straight forward. JmsTemplate makes it quite simple to send and receive messages using JMS. If you want to asynchronously receive messages, then you should consider the MessageListenerContainer implementations. If you're going to use JmsTemplate to receive messages outside of a Java EE application server (which typically provide connection factory pooling), consider using the CachingConnectionFactory implementations to wrap the raw JMS connection factories. By default the JmsTemplate handles all the tedious resource acquisition and destruction logic involved in working with the JMS API. This includes shutting down connection factories and sessions, which can be expensive if the resources are actually closed, and not simply returned to a pool where they're subsequently reused. You know what I love the most about this post, though? Not only does the post articulate the correct strategies for working with Spring, but the blogger even went to the Apache Wiki's and corrected them where appropriate! Nice job, great post, and even greater initiative! Boris Lam has a nice post on using the Spring Expression language for convenient, annotation-driven security constraint declarations in Spring Security. Nice job! Blogger Brian has an introduction to building RESTful web services with Spring MVC. The post introduces how Spring's REST support builds on top of core Spring MVC. Want to see one possible approach for building a complete, secured, Spring and Struts web application, complete with objects exposed over JavaScript for asynchronous, Ajax-client-enabled communication using DWR? That blog's short on narrative, but jam-packed with code! Definitely worth a look. You're bound to find something of interest!

In this panel, Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri (moderator) answer questions on NoSQL from the audience. By Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri

District Court Judge William Alsup hit Google upside the head Monday when he told the company that "in the court's view, Google has failed to comply with the August 7 order" to disclose which bloggers and journalists it paid to write about the Java trial. Google and Oracle were supposed to turn in their separate lists last Friday. Oracle told the court it had a consulting relationship with FOSS Patents author Florian Mueller, a fact that was already well known. Google told the court that "Neither Google nor its counsel has paid an author, journalist, commentator or blogger to report or comment on any issues in this case. And neither Google nor its counsel has been involved in any quid pro quo in exchange for coverage of or articles about the issues in this case," provoking the judge to retort that "The August 7 order was not limited to authors 'paid...to report or comment' or to 'quid pro quo' situations. Rather, the order was designed to bring to light authors whose statements about the issues in the case might have been influenced by the receipt of money from Google or Oracle."

InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 4th question: "What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU. By Dio Synodinos

InfoQ have launched a new community driven research tool, and one of the areas we want to examine is the importance and adoption level of cross platform mobile tools that aim to help developers deliver applications on a variety of platforms. Please vote and review the responses from other voters using this new service. By Dio Synodinos

Oracle recently announced a new migration tool, which provides an ability to quickly migrate data and applications from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL with less time and effort. The migration tool which has been integrated into MySQL Workbench, allows visual design, development and administration of MySQL databases with an advanced logging and security mechanism. By Anand Narayanaswamy

Given the onslaught of mobile devices and apps into the SDLC, fingers and eyeballs seem to be the only way apps can be tested right now. But manual testing drastically slows down the development process, leaves a huge margin for error, and ultimately lowers the team's ability to release quality software in a short amount of time. Dan Bartow of SOASTA hopes to offer something better. By Dan Bartow

You Need Glacier I'm going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you're currently using disk, optical media or tape-based storage, it's probably a...

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, August 13 We updated AWS Direct Connect with new locations and AWS Management Console support. We published another AWS Report, this one featuring Kate Matsudaira, CTO of...

Next-generation languages for the Java platform have more-flexible method-dispatch mechanisms than the Java language. In this Functional thinking installment, Neal Ford explores dispatch mechanisms in functional languages like Scala and Clojure, showing new ways to think about executing code.