Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

In doing so, it will compete directly with Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. and Gluecode Software Inc., a packager of open-source middleware. Both already compete with JBoss by including an alternative ...

Emperor Joseph II’s famous complaint about Mozart — “Too many notes” — could also have been leveled at my “Patterns of Persistence” column. A number of people responded favorably to the column, but ...