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Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio

Community
.NET,
Java
Topics
Open Source,
Enterprise Architecture

In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.

News about Open Source

Tuscany SCA Java 1.2 and SDO 1.1 released.

Community
Architecture,
Java,
SOA
Topics
SOA Platforms,
Open Source

The Apache Tuscany team announced last month the 1.2 release of the Java SCA and 1.1 release of SDO projects. These releases make Tuscany implementation complaint with the main latest SCA specifications, including SCA Assembly Model, SCA Policy framework, SCA Java Common Annotations, SCA EJB, Spring, BPEL and Web Services bindings, etc.

CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand - Easy Server Provisioning

Community
Java,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Virtualization,
SaaS,
Open Source,
Cloud Computing

CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand is a SaaS platform that allows virtualized application stacks to be dynamically defined and provisioned on-demand, doing in minutes what can take hours or days. InfoQ spoke with Alexis Richardson about the service and how it helps simplify the complexity of virtualization.

Code Project Browser for VS 2005/2008

Community
.NET
Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Open Source

SlickEdit has created an Add-On for Visual Studio that integrates with the popular site, The Code Project.

Articles about Open Source

Will the Enterprise change Ruby, or will Ruby change the Enterprise?

Community
Ruby,
SOA
Topics
Open Source,
Dynamic Languages,
Programming

Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. Are we missing something fundamental for widescale adoption of Ruby in the enterprise?

Interviews about Open Source

Mark Pollack on Spring and Spring.NET

Community
.NET
Topics
AOP,
Open Source

Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, talks about shares ideas between the Java and .NET communities and the history of Spring.NET. Topics include how to use dependency injection and AOP for more than just logging and where Spring.NET overlaps with WCF.

Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit

Community
Java
Topics
Javascript,
Compilers,
Code Analysis,
Web Frameworks,
Open Source

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT.

Paul Fremantle on the State of WS-*

Community
SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
Open Source,
Web Services

In this interview, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder co-chair of the OASIS committee that standardized WS-Reliable Messaging, talks to Stefan Tilkov about the state and relative importance of web services standards, the role of open source software for SOA, his views on the eternal REST debate, and WSO2's business model.

Presentations about Open Source

JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information

Community
Java,
Architecture,
.NET,
Ruby,
SOA
Topics
Open Source,
Business

CIO JP Rangaswami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.

Books about Open Source

Starting Struts 2

Community
Java
Topics
Architecture DO NOT USE,
Web Frameworks,
Open Source

Within this book you will find everything you need to get up and running using Struts2 – from the architecture and configuration, to implementing actions and the supporting infrastructure such as validation and internationalization. Above all else, it focuses on the practical – with plenty of code and productivity tips to get you started using Struts2 today.