In our comparative study about the runtime behavior of both JSF implementations we came to the conclusion that Apache MyFaces performs significantly better on large component trees than the reference implementation Oracle Mojarra. The duration Mojarra took to step through the JSF lifecycle was increased by factors compared to MyFaces, e.g. a view containing 1.000 components took more than 5 times longer to render with Mojarra. In this article we compare the newest releases of Mojarra and MyFaces.

While server virtualization has actually been available for more than a decade, many IT professionals still refer to it as a relatively new technology. The comfort and familiarity of a world made up of only physical servers caused many to resist even looking into the virtual platform, but changes in the overall technology landscape are forcing some to re-think implementing this technology, especially because of its enhanced performance.

This is exactly what many developers are left thinking when their dependent application is stripped away from the proverbial teat that of which their survival rested upon. You may ask, “Why? Why would a company do such thing to their loyal, er, developers?” You may feel like Scarlett O'Hara during the closing scene of “Gone with the Wind,” but truth-be-told, you're not really being abandoned.

Patenting FOSS may help in some cases, but the nature of FOSS development itself may mean that patenting some collaboratively developed inventions is inherently more difficult, if not impossible, in many others. Consequently, strategies for mitigating patent risk that rely on FOSS communities patenting their technologies include inherent limitations. It’s not entirely clear how best to reform patent law in order to better reconcile it with alternative models of innovation. But in the meantime, FOSS still presents certain advantages that, while dimmed by the prospect of patent suits, remain significant

According to Microsoft, ODBC is a specification for a database API. This API is database and operating system agnostic due to the fact that the primary goal of the ODBC API is to be language-independent.