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Archive for May, 2008

Jython Language

Friday, May 30th, 2008

One of the languages developed on top of the Java Virtual Machine is the Jython, and this project began in 1997. the development of the language has been passed on to several lead developers until Sun Microsystems took over and worked full time on it. Jython 2.2 which is the latest release matches up to [...]

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Commercialization of OSA

Monday, May 26th, 2008

When using the Open Source Software for commercial gain minus the tricks and preserving the community and openness aspects, there are two things to consider: that payment is collected proportionate to the advantage gained from the software; and that active user in the community can have the assurance that their license charges is compensated in [...]

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Open Source Software and Documents

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Open source software and open source documents are fast gaining popularity. It is firmly gaining a growing market share as well as getting the corporate and the public’s interests. It is also quickly entering mainstream, being in the technology world starting 1998. However its concept began alongside the birth of computing. Frequently Asked Questions list [...]

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Software Types

Monday, May 19th, 2008

There are two types of software being used: the conventional closed source from software vendors; and the open source, with Linux and MySQL as examples. Both software have managed to be on the same footing and is in existence probably almost at the same time, around the start of the computing world. Recently, customers are [...]

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WSRP

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Web Services for Remote Portal provides a pattern for the portal application to allocate portlets between portals. It is the facility to produce an interface to useful function that can be used throughout the enterprise with little or no changes to existing code. Almost all of the newest versions of commercial and open space portal [...]

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• In no way guess a particular order of execution – thread execution order cannot be established and restricted by the OS scheduler. You cannot predict the sequence of threads flowing from one execution to the next, not even what thread comes next.
• If possible, use thread-local storage – to keep coordination to a minimum, use exclusive [...]

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• Plan scalability to get the benefit of the increasing number of cores – write flexible codes that can handle an increase in cores because the more cores you have, the greater the possibility of expansion of data processing.
• Use thread-safe libraries – a hotspot computation can be executed through library call and should use a similar [...]

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Designing Threaded Applications

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Creating a multithreaded application requires 4 major steps and of the four, the design and implementation part is not often discussed. The following rules will give you a better chance of writing the best and most useful threaded application:
• Identify accurate independent computations – simultaneous execution is not possible unless the executable similar operations can run [...]

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