Exploring “Fluid” Frontiers for J2EE Apps

Source: Integration Developers News

Summary:
An innovative group of researchers in California are exploring how Open Source Eclipse devs can more efficiently tie traditional J2EE or legacy application code in with new loosely-coupled assets or services.

Integration Developer News spoke with William Griswold, Ph.D and professor at University of California – San Diego about his Fluid Architecture project, which is trying to apply ‘reverse refactoring’ technique to Open Source tools.

This group pushing the envelope on how enterprise devs can use aspect-oriented programming plug-ins for Eclipse to simplify building workflow, adding new features and even transforming their “what-if’ prototypes into ‘go live’ code.

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