Month: October 2008

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) evolved to be the next generation of enterprise integration solutions, with message-oriented middleware (MOM) and web services being considered the closest relatives. However, ESB has a broader scope than MOM. For instance, ESB includes such services as coordination of business processes, or protocol transformation, that normally lay out of scope of…

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XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on a collection of XML input documents. Pipelines take zero or more XML documents as their input and produce zero or more XML documents as their output. A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their input…

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SML, What is it?

The Service Modeling Language (SML) provides a rich set of constructs for creating models of complex services and systems. Depending on the application domain, these models may include information such as configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, service level agreements, and so on. Models provide value in several important ways. Models…

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Some Useful -XX Options JDK 5 or higher

The options below are loosely grouped into three categories. Behavioral options change the basic behavior of the VM. Performance tuning options are knobs which can be used to tune VM performance. Debugging options generally enable tracing, printing, or output of VM information. Behavioral Options Option and Default Value Description -XX:-AllowUserSignalHandlers Do not complain if the…

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