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Presentation: Configuring the Spring Container
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.
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IcedTea Bridges Open-Source Gap with OpenJDK
It has been over a year since OpenJDK was officially released by Sun. The IcedTea project has been created to help remove encumbrances in its adoption by the open-source community.
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The Simple Solution to SOA is ESBs?
A recent ebizQ podcast with IBM's Lief Davidsen discusses how ESBs can be used as the simple solution to adopting SOA. The "should I or shouldn't I?" debate around the relationship between ESB and SOA has raged for a while and this interview will probably not be the final word.
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Principles and Guidelines for an Optimized Use of BigTable
Based on a number of conversations around Google App Engine, Todd Hoff outlined on his blog a set of principles that are instrumental for optimizing the use of distributed and highly scalable storage systems, such as BigTable, and defining its perimeter. The conceptual approach he advocates for is radically different from the one used in relational database world.
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Presentation: Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord
This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.
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IzPack: Cross-Platform Installer Not Just For Java
Packaging, distributing and deploying an application can be a very difficult task. Add in the requirement to work on multiple platforms and it can quickly become a nightmare. IzPack aims to not only make it possible but to also make it simple.
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Cloud Tools bring Java EE on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson the author of "POJOs in Action", has released Cloud Tools, a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It's a Groovy framework that provides an API for launching EC2 instances; configuring MySQL, Tomcat servers; and deploying more web applications. In addition, it can also run JMeter and collect performance metrics.
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Defining Cloud Computing
The term "cloud computing" has shown up everywhere from the Web 2.0 conference to the enterprise architecture whiteboard sessions in big companies to the laptops of startup developers. The big question being asked now is "what is cloud computing?"
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Windows 7 Will Be the Next Operating System from Microsoft
Chris Flores, a Microsoft director on the Windows Client Communications Team, talks about the future of Windows.
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ActiveMQ 5.1 Supports JMS Destination Monitoring and MSMQ Bridge
Apache ActiveMQ, an open source provider of enterprise messaging services, recently released version 5.1 which includes improvements in stability and performance of the message broker. This version also includes support for destination monitoring, priority message ordering and a Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) to ActiveMQ Bridge with the new msmq transport component.
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JSR-292 Early Draft Review Announced
The early draft review of JSR-292 has been released. JSR-292 defines the 'invokedynamic' instruction, a bytecode instruction to assist in the implementation of dynamic languages on JVM.
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Google App Engine public load test today
Today, at 4PM GMT+2 (in about an hour), there is a public load test on the Google App Toolkit. Can Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine handle the InfoQ effect?
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Are Business Analysts Ready to Become Programmers?
Microsoft seems to think so as they prepare to deliver on the Oslo vision. Back in November 2007 Doug Purdy made a veiled reference to a new project in development calling it "Emacs.NET". This fueled rampant speculation far from the intended mark.
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What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability
As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?
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Firefox 3 RC1 Adds Javascript 1.8, Microformat Support and More
The Mozilla project has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New features in Firefox 3 include support for Javascript 1.8, DOM and HTML changes, microformats support, and an extended Canvass implementation.