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Developing skills for the SOA world

You want to learn about SOA, but you don’t know where you start from.

There are many books about SOA, but you don’t know what you should choose.

There are courses, events and conferences, but you really don’t know if these are useful to you.

You are hesitant about SOA, are you ?

So you should read the Comment lines: Rachel Reinitz: Developing skills for the SOA world — an expert who’s been there tells all on developerWorks.

The scope of Service Oriented Architecture can be intimidating to anyone trying to develop SOA skills. But simply knowing your role, and understanding the breadth, depth, and experience you need to have can get you well on your way to mapping out your success with SOA.

Kleber Rodrigo de Cavalho

Eclipse and Java for total beginners

This free video screencam tutorial will help get you started writing Java programs using Eclipse version 3.3.

No prior experience with Eclipse or Java is assumed. The 16 lessons total about 3 1/4 hours and are each between 9 and 14 minutes long. The lessons guide you through a step-by-step process creating a simple personal lending library application. Each lesson is fully narrated.

All of the code for the lessons is typed in real time.

This allows the demonstration of many Eclipse Java editor features that speed up coding. Code snapshots as of the end of each lesson are provided in the Tutorial Companion Guide. These allow you to jump in at any lesson and to make sure your code matches the sample code.

Test-driven development is used throughout the lessons, using the JUnit testing facility in Eclipse. The lessons are designed for you to work side-by-side, pausing and rewinding the video as needed.

Click here to view Lesson 1.
Click here to download any of the lessons. Be sure to download the Tutorial Companion Guide(PDF format).

The tutorials use Eclipse version 3.3 (Europa), released June 2007.

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho

Top five problems in IT business: Rational VP

Nick Gibson from Builder AU talked to Hayden Lindsay, IBM Rational’s vice president of enterprise tools and compilers about enterprise modernization. He identified five key factors that are inhibiting business responsiveness.

Lindsay is an IBM distinguished engineer, having held positions at the software giant for over 20 years. He’s worked variously as product manager for VisualAge Generator, co-leader of the Eclipse platform development team and director of WebSphere studio and Rational modelling tools departments. He is also a developer and researcher, contributing 14 patents to IBM’s portfolio. He told Builder AU that when it comes to managing responsiveness in IT, there are five key factors you need to examine.

The five factors are:

1. Asset Management
2. Architecture
3. Skills Modernization
4. Team Infrastructure
5. Budgetary Inflexibility

You can read the complete article on Builder AU.

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho

Watch DB2 on YouTube

If you like DB2, you need to watch these videos on youtube.

Rav Ahuja has been posting video interviews with DB2 Viper 2 architects on YouTube. This is part of his Voice of the DB2 Community podcast series.

You can find all the videos on YouTube’s Channel DB2. The videos are also available at the Channel DB2 social network.

Thanks to John P. Kennedy and Susan Visser for this information !

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho

The future of C++

In a rare public talk, C++ creator Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup discusses his ideal in programming languages, as well how he sees the next version (and beyond) of C++ developing. He explains the general selection criteria used for adding new features, some of the legacy of C++, and many other interesting topics. Especially interesting is during the Q&A he explains his views of the embrace and extend mentality some implementations, such as VC++, have taken.

I saw this news on Slashdot – The future of C++ as seen by its creator.

Q&A

* Do you think you’ll ever design a new language from scratch?
* How long after the standard is out do you expect to see a production compiler ?
* Is it possible to do garbage collection cleanly and efficiently in C++ ?
* How soon after you created C++ did you see it start to take over the industry ?
* Is there any particular naming convention you subscribe to?
* What’s your opinion about the Microsoft implementation of C++ ?

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho