(Reading notes for Chapter 10 of “Beautiful Architecture” – The Strength of Metacircular Virtual Machine: Jikes RVM) I heard about Jikes RVM before as popular in the Java runtime environment research community, but I didn’t think through what exactly implementing a JVM in Java benefits research in particular, or in general. I still held this [...]
Fork/join Framework (FJF) is new in Java 7. It was developed by Doug Lea based on his paper “A Java Fork/Join Framework“. Simply speaking, the Fork/join Framework helps parallelize divide-and-conquer algorithms by multi-threading. It divides a big chuck of work into smaller pieces, sends them to a set of threads to process, waits until all [...]
I will try to avoid comparison between REST and WS-*, because there are already a LOT of discussion about it and some people get biased sometimes. I just want to describe some of my understanding about RESTful services in this post. Myth #1, REST is a new technology. REST is not a new technology, it [...]