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  • The First ADO.NET Providers Supporting the Entity Framework Are Ready

    InfoQ published a list of companies interested in offering ADO.NET providers which support the Entity Framework a few months ago. Some of them are offering now the respective providers.

  • Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book

    Roundup of Rails deployment news, including Dreamhost's announcement of Rails support using mod_rails - after the controversy earlier this year, Capistrano 2.3 release as well as the availability of the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide".

  • Reactions to Licensing, OSGi, and Technical Aspects of the SpringSource Application Platform

    As first reported by InfoQ two weeks ago, SpringSource recently announced a beta release of the SpringSource Application Platform. In the weeks that have passed, developer and industry pundit commentary has been centered around one of two areas, Licensing/General Strategy and OSGi/Technical Implementation.

  • JavaOne: Garbage First

    In a JavaOne presentation, Sun Microsystems’ Tony Printezis provided more details on Garbage First, a replacement for the CMS garbage collector particularly targeted at long running server applications.

  • Tuscany SCA Java 1.2 and SDO 1.1 released.

    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.

  • JavaOne 2008 Day 2 - Bean Validation Presentation and Oracle Fusion Middleware Preview

    On day 2 of JavaOne 2008 conference, Emmanuel Bernard talked about Bean Validation framework (JSR 303). The goal of this specification is to provide a uniform way to express and implement the constraints in java applications. Earlier in the day, Oracle team previewed the upcoming features of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

  • Fine Grained Versioning with ClickOnce

    ClickOnce makes it easy to deploy WinForms applications. But while it has some versioning support, it has no built in way to deliver different versions to different people. This makes partial rollouts to a test audience difficult. David Cooksey shows how to fine grained versioning to a ClickOnce deployment using an HttpHandler written with ASP.NET.

  • DataNucleus Launched as Successor to Java Persistence Platform JPOX

    The open source Java persistence platform JPOX has become DataNucleus for its future direction, due to the significant changes in scope of the project since its initiation. The baseline product DataNucleus AccessPlatform, provides persistence to RDBMS, db4o, XML, LDAP and Excel datastores via JDO or JPA APIs.

  • ExtJS Licensing Continues to Evolve as a Result of Controversal Switch from LGPL to GPLv3

    Jack Slocum, lead developer of the popular Javascript library ExtJS, announced this week a community effort to develop two new exceptions for open source software developed using ExtJS 2.1 or greater. This move came as a response to frustration and confusion surrounding recent changes in the Ext JS licensing model from LGPL to GPLv3.

  • xSocket Aims to Keep NIO Simple

    The author of xSocket, Gregor Roth, touts xSocket as being easy to use and simpler than other similar libraries. InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Gregor about the recent release of xSocket 2.0 and find out its history, current status and future plans.

  • MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM

    OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.

  • SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE

    SpringSource today became an appserver vendor, challenging the existing Java EE server establishment with the SpringSource Application Platform, an application server built on Spring, OSGi, and Apache Tomcat. The new appserver departs from the Java EE standards, exposing the Spring programming model natively, along with a new deployment and packaging system (no EAR files), built over an OSGi core.

  • HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases

    Google's recent introduction of their Google Application Engine has created renewed interest in alternative database technologies. InfoQ recently sat down with the leads of HBase, an open-source, distributed, data store modeled after the Google's BigTable.

  • Google 'simplifies web development' with AppEngine

    At Campfire One on April 7th, 2008, Google introduced Google App Engine as a way to simplify the job of creating, running and scaling web applications, to make it 'easy.' In essence, Google App Engine allows you to build web applications locally using and then deploy them on Google's infrastructure.

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

    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.

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