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Free/open source service (SOA) management and monitoring tools

Hi, I was looking for Free/open source service (SOA) management and monitoring tools. What tools have you used and is there any tool that you recommend? Thanks Manju ...

Operational Transformation library?

I'm looking for a library that would allow me to synchronize text in real-time between multiple users (ala Google Docs). I've stumbled upon Operational Transformation, which seems to fit my needs. Having said that, I understand the gist of OT, but not the math nor implementation of OT. Thus, I was wondering if there was a drag'n'drop J...

Commutative (operational transform) diffs for databases

What Unix program generates "diff"s between text files (or INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs for databases) in such a way that the order that the "diff"s are applied in is irrelevant, and the result is the same regardless of order. Etherpad used to do something like this. Example (for a given document or database): % Adam makes a ch...

Shelf packing problem

I'm faced with a Shelf Packing problem and am currently conducting some preliminary research as to which algorithms/heuristics are currently yielding the best results. Since the problem is NP hard I do not expect to find the optimal solution in every case, but I was wondering: 1) what are the best algorithms? 2) what are the best heuri...