Amir Shevat

Biography

Amir Shevat is a senior software developer with eight years of experience in computing. He is an expert in Java development and has vast experience in C++, Symbian, PHP as well as other programming languages. Formerly, he served as a senior software engineer in Comverse and at present, he administers and leads the development team of Coridan Inc Open Source projects. Amir lives happily with his wife Deby and his son Daniel.

Articles

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Taking JUnit Out of the Box
Publish Date: Jul. 13, 2005JUnit is practically ubiquitous among Java developers as a way to test code, but it's somewhat limited by the fact that it's only meant to run in one JVM on one box, hampering its usefulness when developing distributed applications. In this article, Amir Shevat shows how the open source JUnit extension Pisces helps JUnit overcome this limitation. Enterprise Streaming
Publish Date: Apr. 20, 2005The Java Message Service is a lynchpin of J2EE, but is in some ways more difficult and less flexible than more basic forms of communication, like the stream model of the java.io package. However, as Amir Shevat writes, the two are not mutually exclusive--you can write to JMS topics and queues with streams. Designing a Fully Scalable Application
Publish Date: Feb. 16, 2005It's difficult, maybe impossible, to know up front how much or in what ways your application will need to scale. But by decoupling parts of the application, you can at least ensure that the scaling process can be kept modular. Amir Shevat shows how some sharable pieces of the MantaRay messaging system can allow your app to grow beyond one box. Distributed Enterprise Messaging with MantaRay
Publish Date: Dec. 8, 2004Java Messaging Service (JMS) is a much-used system for distributed enterprise applications, but many implementations use a "broker" approach that creates bottlenecks. MantaRay implements the JMS API through a peer-to-peer approach that, as Amir Shevat reports, provides some significant advantages. How to Use JMS with PHP
Publish Date: Oct. 27, 2004Java Messaging Service (JMS) is a great enterprise messaging architecture, but what if you have have a web application written in a non-Java language that wants to participate in JMS? Amir Shevat shows how PHP can be made to work with JMS.

Blog

Decoupling web 2.0 applications from server-side implementation

October 23 2006

Wouldn’t it be cool to take java’s slogan “write once, run everywhere” and implement it on other things? For example, we can create an Ajax API that decouples the server functionality from its implementation. One would be able to replace the server implementation (lets say from PHP to JAVA) and… read more

Why is Java-enabled hosting so expensive?

September 07 2006

Hosting a website is a cheap matter these days. One could get a fairly good shared hosting package for around 1.5-6$ per month. These hosting packages offer a wide variety of features including support for PHP, PERL on LINUX or ASP (or ASP.NET) on Windows and MySQL DB. The problem… read more

Still waiting for true interoperability

May 28 2006

One of the big things presented in JavaOne was .NET-Java interoperability. The notion of language interoperability can be understood and implemented in several different ways. Sun and Microsoft introduced interoperability by means of web-services (WS). It seems that short of a cure for cancer, web-services is the answer to… read more