Below are a number of articles and white papers written by C2B2s staff and associates. To read the full body of one of the articles, click the More link below its synopsis.
Articles and white papers
Transactions in SOA
Monday 07 December 2009
This short article looks at options available for implementing transactional behaviour in service oriented systems.
Integrating JBoss with Open DS
Sunday 06 December 2009
A quick "How To" Article describing how to secure the JBoss JMX console using the open source OpenDS LDAP server from Sun.
Introduction to APM
Sunday 06 December 2009
This article from C2B2 consultant Alan Fryer gives you a brief introduction into Application Performance Management and why you should consider it for your future development and production systems.
Performance testing open source JMS part 1
Wednesday 16 July 2008
This first article in our series on the performance of open source JMS implementations looks at the performance of OpenMQ, JBoss MQ and JBoss Messaging when sending JMS messages to a queue. All three imlpementations have their default configurations tested with a variety of loads, and the performance profiles are examined.
Clustering iPoint with Terracotta
Monday 14 April 2008
Terracotta provides a method of sharing memory between different JVMs, which makes it great for implementing clustering. The theory is good, and it works well on new applications, but C2B2 wanted to look at how well it would work on an existing, complex application, so we took iPoint portal and deployed it in a cluster using Terracotta.
Next Generation Portlets
Sunday 25 November 2007
Our Director Steve Millidge recently presented at the CMF 2007 conference on Next Generation portals with JSR 286.
As well as supporting JSR 168 portlets, iPoint has its own portlet framework.
Part one of this series on developing iPoint portlets looks at using the simple JSP portlet class to display a JSP page as a portlet.
What's New in iPoint 2.3
Wednesday 03 January 2007
iPoint 2.3 is here and contains many new features and bug fixes. This article describes the new features in iPoint 2.3 including;
Content Versioning
Content Publication Dates
Portlet Type Security
Yahoo Maps Portlet
Logged in Users Portlet
Database Table Portlet
XML + XSLT Portlet.
iFrame Portlet
Getting the most from support
Saturday 30 December 2006
iPoint portal is supported in a number of different ways. This article explains the different support channels available and how to get the most out of them.
