Presentation: "Casestudy: The design, architecture, and implementation of InfoQ.com"
Track:
Emerging Web Technologies
Time:
Monday 16:00 - 16:45
Location:
SAS Dania
Abstract: InfoQ.com is a next generation web app/portal implementation combining
the latest advancements in portal technology (JSR 170) and web
development (WebWork, Spring, AspectJ, DWR). This session will walk
the viewer through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com.
Walk with us from initial requirements (or lack theoreof), designs,
implementation choices, and deployment issues, and all the lessons
learned along the way. The talk will examine some of the most
interesting features of the site and show their implementation in the
web layer, domain model, and DB. The audience should expect an
educating and revealing presentation on how to transition from
standard web development paradigms to modern tag-driven CMS approaches.
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Alexandru Popescu is Chief-Architect of InfoQ.com. Alexandru is involved in many open source initiatives and bleeding-edge technologies (AOP, testing, web, etc.), being co-founder of the TestNG Framework and a committer on the WebWork and Magnolia projects. Alexandru formerly was one of three committers on the AspectWerkz project before it merged with AspectJ. Alexandru also publishes a blog on tech topics at themindstorms.blogspot.com.
