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Nimbus Look-and-Feel: Vector UIs for Java
In his announcement that the Nimbus Look-and-Feel (LAF) is nearing completion, Jasper Potts indicated that the Nimbus LAF will be based on vector graphics, with support for high-dpi resolution-independent user interfaces and assembled using a new visual tool for creating painters.
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OpenJPA 1.0: Enterprise O/R Mapping with full JPA 1.0 compliance
Apache OpenJPA, an open-source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), recently released version 1.0.0. InfoQ spoke with OpenJPA project lead Patrick Linskey to learn more about this release.
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Michael Stonebraker: Major RDBMSes are legacy technology
Michael Stonebraker, co-founder of the Ingres and Postgres relational database management systems (RDBMS) and CTO of Vertica Systems, laid the framework for a debate in the database community by declaring that most major databases should be considered legacy technology.
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RubyConf 2007 Registration Open
The registration for RubyConf 2007 is now open. Since RubyConf is a quite small conference, speed is of the issue to get a spot. The Agenda promises interesting talks on Ruby implementations and more.
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OpenJDK 6 to be based off of OpenJDK 7
Sun recently announced a plan for releasing a Java 6 version of OpenJDK, which will involve back-porting the OpenJDK 7 codebase to create a Java 6 compliant implementation. InfoQ spoke with Joseph Darcy of Sun to learn more about this decision.
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IronRuby now on Rubyforge
IronRuby, Microsoft's implementation of Ruby for .NET, is now hosted on RubyForge. The current state of the code is available via the Subversion repository.
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Agile Alliance Elects New Directors
After Agile 2007 the Agile Alliance announced the election results of its ballot for board members for the 2007-2008 period.
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Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools Version 2.2 Adds MSOffice File Type Output Support
BIRT 2.2 has been recently released with major enhancements as a part of Eclipse Europa release. BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for Java and JEE based web applications. Among the new features of 2.2 are enhanced charting featuring and support for XLS, Word, Power Point and Post Script formats.
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Microsoft Entity Framework Beta 2 and Entity Framework Tools Beta 1 CTP Released
The Microsoft Entity Framework allows developers to close the gap between objects and our data stores. The second beta of the Microsoft Entity Framework is available now for developers to get a jump-start on exposing your data models as objects. This release also comes with the first beta of the Entity Framework Tools providing a graphical front-end to your entity data objects.
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JLINQ: Runtime JDBC Generator for Eclipse
Azadeh Ahadian of IBM has published an article introducing JLINQ on IBM's developerWorks site. Despite the name, JLINQ does not have much in common with Microsoft's LINQ, rather it is an Eclipse plugin providing integration with a database and runtime DAO code generation. The plugin is part of IBM's Developer Workbench that is coming with Viper, the next release of DB2.
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LLBLGen Updates O/R Mapper and Code Generator
Solutions Design has recently released LLBLGen Pro v2.5, an O/R mapper and code generator that boasts many new features including auditing, authorization, dependency injection mechanism, super fast and compact serialization (XML and binary), SQLServer CE Desktop support, Sybase support and much more.
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Presentation: Rod Johnson on Spring 2.0 and Beyond
In this QCon session, Spring Creator Rod Johnson explains the important enhancements and features in Spring 2, including XML extensibility features, Spring AOP framework updates, first-class support for dynamic languages, JPA integration, and third party technology support such as Mule ESB, clustering tools, SCA, etc.
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Apache Geronimo 2.0: Certified Java EE 5 compatible
Apache Geronimo, an open-source Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server, recently released version 2.0.1. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about Apache Geronimo and where it fits into the application server space.
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XML Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2008
The XML Schema Designer is a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas (XSD). It is integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and the XML Editor.
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Microsoft Bound By GPLv3 According to the Free Software Foundation
When Novell first signed an agreement with Microsoft to establish a marketing alliance and resolve patent disputes regarding it's SUSE Linux distribution, a lot of people in the open source community berated Novell for the move. But now the FSF claims that the arrangement, which makes Microsoft a reseller of Novell's Linux stack, obligates Microsoft to comply with GPLv3.