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  • Spring 2.5: Drop-in upgrade for 2.0 with OSGi bundles, full annotation-based configuration & AspectJ

    The first release candidate of Spring 2.5, formerly known as version 2.1, was recently released. InfoQ spoke with Spring framework lead developer Juergen Hoeller to learn more about this release.

  • Red Hat Joins Open JDK Community

    Red Hat announced that it is joining the OpenJDK project and has licensed the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).

  • Apache to incubate its first Ruby Project: Buildr - Ruby Build System for Java Projects

    Buildr is a simple and intuitive build system for Java projects. After 10 months of development and a lot of positive feedback, it will be incubated by the Apache Foundation, which will be opening its doors to its first Ruby project.

  • Mozilla Labs announces Prism

    On Friday, Mozilla Labs’ announced Prism, their entry into the budding market-trend of platforms for running web applications on the desktop, similar to Adobe AIR.

  • Ruby on Mac OS X Leopard with DTrace, XCode and Interface Builder support

    The newly released Mac OS X Leopard ships with the Ruby 1.8.6 and various Ruby libraries and tools installed. Leopard also includes DTrace probes for profiling Ruby, XCode and Interface Builder support and more.

  • MinWin Core: 25MB on Disk and 100 Files

    The Microsoft MinWin core is 25MB in size on disk and contains 100 files total. This appears to be a major overhaul of Windows when contrasted with a minimal install of Windows Vista at 4GB on disk and 5000 files in size.

  • Microsoft: Hypercall API extended to Open Specification Promise

    Today Microsoft announced its hypercall API will now be included under the Open Specification Promise. Microsoft co-announced with Citrix and Novell.

  • Visual Studio and Installer Classes

    Visual Studio has rich support for installation-time actions. However, there is much documentation explaining just what you can do with it. That is why we are delighted to bring your attention to Arnaldo Sandoval's DevCity article on Installer Class and Custom Actions.

  • J2flex - A Persistence Store for Flex applications

    j2flex.com has started rolling out their j2flex product over the last month, blogging about a number of details, and putting the API documentation online. j2flex is a “Persistence Store for Flex applications,” similar in basic features to Hibernate or iBATIS from the Java community.

  • InfoQ Japan Launches

    InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.

  • Gartner on Disruptive Trends in Platform Middleware

    A Gartner Report elaborates how emerging Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture programming models, as well as the continued growth in adoption of key open source technologies (in particular Spring) have all combined to put significant pressure on traditional platform middleware vendors and may lead to disrupt the industry landscape.

  • SQL Database Publishing in Visual Studio 2008 and Today

    The Database Publishing Wizard is a popular add-in for Visual Studio, which supports deploying a local database to a remote host. The Visual Web Developer team announces that the wizard will be integrated in Visual Studio 2008.

  • Ruby Gems: new release and plans for inclusion in Ruby 1.9

    The new Ruby Gems release 0.9.4.5 adds optimizations and new features, such as automatic installation of platform gems. Also, it's compatible with Ruby 1.9, making it fit for inclusion in the standard Ruby 1.9 release.

  • Presentation: OSGi - The Foundation

    OSGi is being adopted in an increasing number of projects. The spec provides a common model for writing and deploying apps to local or remote computers in modularized form. Instead of creating monolithic app, the OSGi spec allows the collaboration of many small components. This pres shows you why a spec like OSGi is crucial, what it really encompasses, and what the future developments will be.

  • Article: Java Grid, why do we need it?

    Investment banks have often set trends or offer the rest of us a glimpse into the future of our IT infrastructure. Today banks are investing heavily into grid technologies as they continue in their battle for profits. In this article, John Davies shares his experiences on technologies used in finance and why Grid technologies are becoming a new mainstream for high volume, low latency systems.

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