Today, there are several trends that are forcing application architectures to evolve. Users expect a rich, interactive and dynamic user experience on a wide variety of clients including mobile devices. Applications must be highly scalable, highly available and run on cloud environments. Organizations often want to frequently roll out updates, even multiple times a day. Consequently, it’s no longer adequate to develop simple, monolithic web applications that serve up HTML to desktop browsers. In this talk we describe the limitations of a monolithic architecture. You will learn how to use the scale cube to decompose your application into a set of narrowly focused, independently deployable back-end services and an HTML 5 client. We will also discuss the role of technologies such as NodeJS and AMQP brokers. You will learn how a modern PaaS such as Cloud Foundry simplifies the development and deployment of this style of application. Check out the session on SpringOne2GX.com for more details and register today!

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week sure flew by, didn't it? This week, of course, SpringSource is at JavaOne. If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the booth at the Hilton Union Square and say hello! The vFabric, CloudFoundry and SpringSource experts are all there to talk to you. Don't miss the Spring, Groovy and Grails event of the year in Washington, DC: SpringOne2GX. If you haven't already registered, now's the time! SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer has a nice post on the strong position Spring continues to enjoy at the forefront enterprise Java, NoSQL and cloud portability. Gary Russel has a nice post on a new feature in Spring Integration 2.2 that lets you plugin transactional ("commit" and "rollback") behavior for all messages, not just those coming from transactional resources like JDBC or JMS. Duncan Brown has a nice post on using Spring Data Neo4J. The subject matter alone would make this post a must-read, but Duncan's groan-inducing humor sells it. Yohan Liyanage has a nice look at the ApplicationContext facility to publish and consume events sent from one component to another. The Java Code Geeks blog has a nice post on some of the implications of the Spring's test framework's support for caching ApplicationContexts between tests. Gal Levinsky introduces the problem of circular dependencies and introduces one way Spring can help you work around the issue. Boris Lam is back at it, this time with a post on how to extend Spring Data JPA repositories with a new generic repository base class. Boris Lam has a nice follow up blog that shows how to extend Spring Data JPA to support queries using native Hibernate queries. Viral Patel has a nice code walkthrough demonstrating how to build a dynamic form in Spring MVC - one whose values grow and contract dynamically - that stores its values in a java.util.HashMap Dejan Bosanac has put together a very nice blog explaining one of my favorite features of Spring Integration: the ability to back Spring <channel/> elements with JMS Destinations so that messages are durably conveyed through the system. Lukas Eder has put together a quick blog introducing a recipe for using jOOQ with Spring. JOOQ is a framework that lets you write type-safe SQL queries using a fluid Java API. Damien Lepage has a very cool post on different strategies for designing your beans to encourage better testability.

AMD announced that it has joined the OpenJDK Project "Sumatra" to support heterogeneous computing models for Java.

Stuart Dabbs Halloway explains what the impedance mismatch is and what can be done to solve it in the context of RDBMS, OOP, and NoSQL. By Stuart Halloway

Stuart, Mike, and I gave a two-hour tutorial about JDK 7 in Action earlier today at JavaOne. For those moving to JDK 7 soon, this talk covers the language and library changes made in that release, including Project Coin and NIO.2.

Jeremy Ashkenas, Tom Dale, Matt DeBergalis, Eric Ferraiuolo, Igor Minar respond to questions from audience regarding various web application issues. By Jeremy Ashkenas, Tom Dale, Matt DeBergalis, Eric Ferraiuolo, Igor Minar

I returned to Plaza A/B in the Hilton to attend the fourth session on Monday, but first went up to the top floor of the Hilton to pick up lunch. I'm reminded every year on the first day of JavaOne how surprisingly frustrating the first day's lunch acquiring process is for everyone involved. Preview Text: Their goal is to ensure that the JVM...

JavaOne 2012: 101 Ways to Improve Java - Why Developer Participation Matters Bruno Souza, Martijn Verburg, and Heather Vancura presented "101 Ways to Improve Java: Why Developer Participation Matters" in Continental Ballroom 4 of the Hilton. Preview Text: The ideas for ways Java developers can contribute to the improvement of Java...

Project Avatar was announced at JavaOne 2011. After no further information until JavaOne 2012, some new information was announced at this year's conference. Even a little demo was shown in the keynote. Contrary to JavaFX, Avatar offers the realization of modern web applications without requiring a browser plugin. Web applications are realized with HTML5 and JavaScript (Nashorn...

Oracle has released Java ME Embedded 3.2 and Java Embedded Suite 7.0, two new additions to Oracle's line of Java Embedded technologies. Java ME Embedded is a Java runtime optimized for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Java Embedded Suite is a Java application platform for embedded systems, which consists of Java SE Embedded, GlassFish Embedded, Jersey and Java DB. By Bienvenido David III

Java’s version of the Oscars, the Duke’s Choice Awards, have been handed out at JavaOne, recognising the most creative technologies across the community. Ten gongs were awards in the 10th year of the awards, with the diversity in the industry truly reflected. The importance of the community has been the underlying theme throughout JavaOne’s keynotes and session thus far, so naturally some of the most prominent groups were handed honours, as well as innovative projects. Of the technologies, big data centrepiece Apache Hadoop scooped a Duke for its progress over the past year. Jelastic also picked up a well-deserved award for its Java Platform-as-a-Service. Other initiatives receiving Duke statues were open source management system Agrosense and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, both using the NetBeans platform for good. Agrosense use an underlying NetBeans framework to help out the agriculture industry whilst UNHCR developed a lightweight Java client to collect ground information from refugees on their water, food and housing. NATO were also the first recipients of the Community Choice Award, an award picked by 820,000 Java community members voted on Java.net, from a choice of six projects. 41% of votes went to their battle-space and air defense visualization environment, the MASE Integrated Console Environment (MICE). London Java Community were the second Java User Group to receive a Duke, awarded for their activity in OpenJDK and the JCP. Other winners were JDuchess (who foster the participation of women in the Java community), Liquid Robotics where James Gosling is Chief Software Architect, Parleys.com and the Student Nokia Developer Group. "This year's Duke's Choice Awards winners are spearheading a truly diverse and creative set of Java-based projects, and their efforts are invaluable to the Java community," said Peter Utzschneider, vice president product management at Oracle. "We are highly appreciative towards the Java community for selecting a sophisticated, vital NATO application for the first-ever Community Choice Award. NATO, along with all of this year's recipients, demonstrate the remarkable work being done by Java community members across the world." Oracle have also announced an regional extension to the awards at international JavaOne conferences, beginning with JavaOne Latin America, December 4-6th in Sao Paulo. Congratulations to all recipients for continuing to make Java as innovative as ever!

The thirteen-year-old JBoss AS (JBoss Application Server) is set to get a new name as JBoss move to distinguish it from JBoss’ other offerings. From today, members of the community can submit their ideas for JBoss AS’s new name, which will then be voted on from October 21 until November 1. The winning name will be announced at Devoxx conference, which begins November 12. “We believe that the time has come to change the name of our project to better reflect the changes we've seen in its reason for existence so far, but also for what's to come in the future,” wrote Mark Little on his blog, who leads JBoss’s technical direction. It comes as part of a larger shake-up of JBoss, which Steve Yi, Director, Strategy & Product Management at Red Hat, says will involve "increas[ing] access and availability to JBoss [Enterprise Application Platform] for developers," although what this will actually entail is still shrouded in mystery. According to an accompanying FAQ, the company says it hopes to clarify “a significant amount of confusion” over the JBoss brand, and “to make it clear that JBoss, when used on its own, refers to JBoss Enterprise Middleware.” However, the JBoss brand is not becoming entirely commercial, since the community will still be referred to as the ‘JBoss Community’. Although recent rebranding efforts have attempted to make ‘AS7’ shorthand for the project rather than JBoss, the latter still remains prominent. It’s unknown if the community will be given the option of voting for its current name. What do you think JBoss AS should be renamed? Or should it be renamed at all? Let us know in the comments.

InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 9th question: "Top Quality Standards for Architecture Reviews". 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

This research is designed to help our readers to be aware of the quality standards when doing architectural reviews. By understanding these standards, they can make better decisions on architecture and design. By Bryan Zheng

Wall Street is looking hard for IT expertise, as hiring managers look for programming and database skills as a top priority.

The Apache Software Foundation show little sign of slowing down after 2012’s first quarter of unprecedented growth. The latest projects to gain Top-Level Project status (the ninth and tenth this year) and emerge from incubation is Apache Stanbol, which provides a set of new semantic CMS components and  the framework managing Apache Airavata. Apache Stanbol, an open Java stack that has been in the works since 2010, intends to enhance bog-standard content management systems into semantic engines. Its modular approach (through Apache Felix OSGI ) enables users to pick and choose components as they wish, and all components are reachable through a RESTful web service API. Aside from Apache Stanbol Enhancer, which injects semantic information to ‘non-semantic’ pieces of content, the project also features reasoners, which can retrieve additional semantic information. The Ontology Manager creates a controlled environment to manipulate the semantic data models and Apache Stanbol Contenthub is an Apache Solr document store for the information.   Vice President of Apache Stanbol, Fabian Christ explained that “the graduation also acknowledges the success of Apache Stanbol in bringing semantic technologies and content management communities together.” It certainly feels like a merging of the areas that previously weren’t so intertwined. Initially beginning life at the European Union’s IKS EU Research Project, Stanbol entered the Apache Incubator in November 2010 and was quickly touted as the semantic framework of the future. Whilst Stanbol shouldn’t be considered a semantic searching solution, it should prove useful in small doses for anyone look to add value to their management system, making it tailored to users needs. The second project to graduate to TLP status is software toolkit Apache Airavata (a Hindu god of a white elephant also dubbed the elephant of the Clouds), showing great potential. Currently used to manage science gateways, the team behind the project are aiming higher, claiming Airavata is capable of executing, monitoring and managing applications in local cluster or right up to the Cloud. Apache Airavata provides APIs, sophisticated server-side tools, and graphical user interfaces under a minimalist modular architecture, essentially simplifying the workflow process for novices. The project also links up with other Apache stalwarts, such as social media mashup engine Apache Rave to provide widget-like interfaces for backend services. Airavata also hopes to leverage Apache Tika for greater data understanding. Airavata is already picking up some admirers, as it is already adopted at science institutions like Science Gateways ParamChem and the BioVLab Project, amongst others. The challenge now for both is to gain a greater foothold in the open source world, and in turn generate a greater community. With the Apache seal of approval, they might just get it. Find all the documentation you need at Airavata and Stanbol’s websites.

A focus of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s opening keynote at OracleWorld this week was their continued focus on cloud computing services, including new IaaS and Private Cloud services. Earlier this summer, Ellison unveiled Oracle Cloud, which was at the time was described by JAXenter as a “fairly run-of-the-mill announcement covered in gloss”. It was notable primarily as a turnaround from Ellison’s dismissal of cloud computing as “gibberish” at OpenWorld just four years ago. Yesterday’s announcement is the addition of IaaS to Oracle Cloud, bringing it even further in line with “primary competitor” AWS. However, Ellison failed to go into details of when this new service will be available, or what it would cost. "The infrastructure that we're offering isn't conventional," he said. "It's not plain old commodity infrastructure." Another service announced during the keynote was Oracle Private Cloud, described as "quite literally an extension of the Oracle Cloud". Though details are equally thin on the ground, it seems that Oracle will install its own infrastructure on on-premises hardware, providing a small section of Oracle’s Public Cloud behind the company firewall for a monthly fee. Sadly, these announcements did not come with a second chest-beating tweet from Ellison - presumably not any reflection of the CEO’s confidence in the company’s latest expansions.

I've posted the slides for my JavaOne bof on Lessons from Mathematics. I've wanted to put together a talk along these lines for a while and I'm happy to have given the talk at JavaOne this year. I was gratified some stalwart JavaOne attendees choose to attend this late-night talk on such an esoteric topic!

Monday at JavaOne 2012 was a day of conversation for me - more listening than talking. As often happens at JavaOne, I heard lots, took lots of notes, launched the new Java.net "Lightning Interviews" series (tiny interviews suited for people who have only a minute or two to spare - see the first two, featuring Sven Reimers and Anton Epple), and spoke somewhat at length with Juggy (who was accompanied by his mascot @brjavaman). And, of course, I also browsed what others are writing about JavaOne 2012, so we could also feature that in our "Java News" tab. As a result, it's now late, and there's little time left in today to document everything I heard, so that will have to wait for another day. But, it will indeed come along, in the next many weeks... If you're at JavaOne 2012, and you've got 100 seconds or so to tell the Java.net community about what's exciting to you in the Now +- some months period, find me at JavaOne (try the OTN area in the Exhibition Hall, the Hilton lobby, @kevin_farnham, or even post a comment here), and we'll get your interview onto Java.net soon after the interview (and we'll also tweet it on our @javanetbuzz Twitter account). Find me!

In this series, HTML5 maven David Geary shows you how to implement an HTML5 2D video game one step at a time. This installment covers Canvas graphics and HTML5 animation. You'll see how to draw the game's graphics and how to set them in motion. You will also learn the best way to animate with HTML5, how to scroll the background, and how to implement parallax to simulate three dimensions.