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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.
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Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0
The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.
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Ruby.NET future uncertain
Dr. Wayne Kelly, of the Ruby.NET project, announced he'll be shifting his focus to Microsoft's IronRuby, partly due to the DLR technology. However, it's not certain whether this means the end of the Ruby.NET project.
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Granite Data Services: Open Source Flex DS Alternative
Granite Data Services (GDS) is an open source alternative to Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services and the recently open sourced Blaze Data Services. Last week, GDS reached production status with their 1.0 release. GDS is available under the LGPL license. InfoQ.com spoke with the GDS project founder, Franck Wolff, to learn more about the open source project.
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Create Installers for ASP.Net Projects with MSBuild and VS 2008
Microsoft released the final RTW version of the Web Deployment Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2008. This add-in uses MSBuild to package pre-compiled ASP.NET web applications and sites for deployment.
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Free ADO.NET Performance Improvements in .NET 2.0 SP 1
Service Pack 1 for .NET 2.0 includes significant performance improvements for ADO.NET. We say they improvements are free because the changes do not require recompiling the code, any user installing the service pack should see at least some gains.
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Presentation: Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
In this presentation from QCon London Zed Shaw talks about lesions learned while developing Mongrel. Topics include economics, project management and how companies can interact with open source projects. The talk also goes into the reasons of Mongrel's continued success.
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Debate: Is Maven the right tool for builds?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate around the usefulness Maven, which is a Java-based build and dependency management tool being used in many projects. InfoQ took a closer look at this debate to understand what issues are being encountered, and what has resulted from the debate.
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Apache Jackrabbit 1.4
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR), and has released version 1.4 after over 9 months of hard work. In the 1.4 release are 220 new features, improvements, and bug fixes since the 1.3 release, making 1.4 the largest release to date.
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Is XMPP the Future of Cloud Services?
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) has proven itself as a winner for instant messaging, but could it also be the protocol of choice for service integration in the future?
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Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi: simplified development of OSGi applications
The Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi project, formerly known as Spring OSGi, released version 1.0 today. InfoQ spoke with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer and Spring Dynamic Modules project lead Costin Leau to learn more about this release and what it provides for the Spring community.
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Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project
The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
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WebLogic Server 10.3 Adds HTTP Pub/Sub Server, Optional Services Startup and FastSwap Deployment
WebLogic Server 10.3 technology preview released by BEA systems includes a HTTP Pub/Sub Server for web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP. Other new features in this release include modular server component installation and startup, and application deployments using the new "FastSwap" feature.
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SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer to be Integrated into SQL Server 2008
Microsoft is looking to change how SQL Server is managed by incorporating the SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer into the core of SQL Server 2008. This new feature, known as the Declarative Management Framework, allows for proactive enforcement of database policies.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers
Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon's EC2.