‘Java’ posts

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web

Posted by Optaros on 03 Apr 2009

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was | View post »

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Open Source Java Toolkit for RIAs – Pivot

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Nov 2008

In this video from a webinar session with Optaros, Greg Brown and Todd Volkert explain and demonstrate Pivot Tookit, a Java framework for building Rich Internet Applications. The audio is a bit noisy for the first 3 minutes or so but cleans up after that. To really see the code samples you’ll likely need to | View post »

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel

Posted by John Eckman on 23 Jun 2008

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Specifically, the report claims that “enterprises interested in open source should keep an eye on two offerings — Alfresco Software and Drupal.” (Also check out Matt | View post »

Springsource releases SpringSource Application Platform

Posted by Optaros on 06 May 2008

On the evening of April 30th, Springsource released their first public beta of the SpringSource Application Platform – or S2AP in short. Springsource and the Spring community celebrates this as the next quantum leap in Java-based application development. So, what is so new and great about this: S2AP combines the power of Spring with the | View post »

Open Source Ecommerce – Assembled

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 06 Feb 2008

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. <!–break–> The SOA architecture we implemented (based on Mule ESB) integrates the different services provided by packages such as SugarCRM(CRM, SFA, Partner management), SAGE(finance), SCPA(logistics), ATT(Traceability), osCommerce(order tacking), Ogone(payment) as well as | View post »

Google Android, OpenMoko, and the iPhone

Posted by John Eckman on 08 Jan 2008

2007 has been an interesting year, to say the least, for those interested in developing and deploying applications on phones. The launch of the Apple iPhone, the biggest mobile story of the year, was critical not so much because of the number of devices sold (iPhones will remain a small fraction of the phone market | View post »

The Room 2.0 architecture as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds?

Posted by Optaros on 20 Dec 2007

With a Java Enterprise back-end (EJB3/JSR-181 service layer on JBoss Application Server), and a user interface that relies on a LAMP stack the Room 2.0 assembly as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds. The back-end leveraging JEE persistence, transaction management, integration of payment, hotel management systems | View post »