Support for scripting languages is crucial for the success of a modern web application framework. Join discussion...

Alexander Klimetschek compares Web 2.0 application development, especially in hosting to enterprise software lifecycle requirements and how frameworks like Ant, Maven and OSGi contributed to manageable enterprise software deployment. Join discussion...

Script Uncle Peter Svensson on presentation layer architecture Join discussion...

A really nice REST FAQ for newbies and not-so-newbies Join discussion...

Stefan Tilkov discusses some common doubts and misconceptions about REST. Join discussion...

The author names JCR as one of the top Java technologies to learn this year. Quote: "Reality check, not all data fits well within a relational database. In most cases, users want to store their own documents and have those properly managed. JCR with its Jacrabbit implementation is becoming the de-facto standard for maintaining data other than the structured kind" He also mentions Sling and OSGi. Join discussion...

The Oracle team blogs about portals, content repositories and using Day's connectors Join discussion...

Combining Comet (HTTP Streaming for server-to-client notifications) with REST. Join discussion...

A guy from Jive software pitches XMPP for distributed systems. Join discussion...

CMSWatch with a good post on URLs including a hilarious example from Broadvision and an interesting link to an old paper from TBL on that matter ("Cool URIs don't change"). Join discussion...