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Microsoft Creates "Open Source Community Lead" Position
Microsoft has tapped Garrett Serack as their new Open Source Community Lead. In an attempt to move the company towards open source, Microsoft has charged him with "building and connecting Open Source Communities around Microsoft Platforms".
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Hibernate Search: Indexed Full Text Search of your Domain Model
The second beta of the new Hibernate Search project was recently released. InfoQ spoke to project lead Emmanuel Bernard to find out more. The Hibernate Search project is aimed at users of Hibernate or JPA that want to make their Hibernate/JPA-managed objects accessible via indexed, full-text search.
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Article: Service Firewall Pattern
InfoQ publishes a sample pattern from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz' in-progress book SOA Patterns. Arnon explains how to use a Service Firewall to intercept messages to provide better security.
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Debate: ODBMS sometimes a better alternative to O/R Mapping?
In a recently released article on ODBMS.org, Ted Neward elaborated upon his idea that Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) is the Vietnam of Computer Science. Ted says that OODBMS' are better than RDBMS' for some types of apps. A number of people weighed in to the debate, including Hibernate founder Gavin King.
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Java and .NET Libraries for Open XML
With the new OpenXML format, there is the promise of an clean and efficient way to manipulate Office documents via XML. But with a 6000+ page spec, finding the exact nodes one needs to manipulate is a non-trivial task. To address this, OpenXML libraries for both Java and .NET are in the works.
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Apache Synapse 1.0 and WSO2 ESB 1.0 Released
<p></p> <p>The open source mediation platform Synapse 1.0 has been released, as well as a commercial ESB product which based on it. InfoQ spoke to WSO2's CTO and Synapse committer Paul Fremantle, about the details.</p>
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Entity Services - Pattern or Anti-pattern?
Entity Services or business-centric entities are considered by some to be a corner stone of Service Oriented Architecture - however not everyone agrees with this view. So are Entity Services a pattern or an anti-pattern for SOA?
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InfoQ Turns One Year Old!
InfoQ officially launched exactly one year ago today, and what a year it has been! Our mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community; in keeping with that mission InfoQ has published a crazy amount of content, launched our QCon event in London, launched InfoQ China, and have reached over 135,000 unique visitors/month.
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Interview: OSGi & Spring In-depth with Adrian Colyer
OSGi is going to change the deployment and run time model for enterprise applications, according to Adrian Colyer in an InfoQ video interview. Adrian goes in-depth on OSGi, its uses, future impact on the industry, and how Spring will make development with OSGi easier. Adrian talks about how OSGi may change the definition of an application server and JSR 277 vs. OSGi.
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Geronimo passes Java EE 5 Compatibilty Test Suite
The Apache Geronimo project has passed a significant milestone in that their latest release candidate (2.0-M6-rc1) has passed all tests in the Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 Compatibility Test Suite, making it the first open source application server other than Glassfish to pass the tests.
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Article: Using Java to Crack Office 2007
Office file manipulation used to be difficult, but since Office 2007, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files can be read and written without anything more complicated than the native JDK itself because Office 2007 documents are now nothing more than ZIP files of XML documents. Ted Neward demonstrates this in action.
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Microsoft Grants Xandros Intellectual Property Assurance
Today Microsoft and Xandros announced an agreement similar in terms to the one announced last fall with Novell. This brings the number of Linux distributions with IP assurance to two and while JBoss is mentioned in the article, noticeably missing is Red Hat. The last commitment by Microsoft is striking, as it will now endorse Xandros as the preferred Linux distribution.
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The Story of TestDriven.NET and Visual Studio Express
When we first reported on Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.NET, it sounded like the classic big company bullies the little one. But as the full story was been revealed, sentiment has begun to swing from die-hard support for Jamie Cansdale to a call to boycott TestDriven.NET . InfoQ looks back at how this unfortunate incident came to pass.
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Is Open Source the way ahead for SOA?
Dana Gardner cites several recent announcements as further proof that there is close synergy between open source and SOA. Will SOA adoption be better driven through the open source path?
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IronRuby Release Planned for OSCON
According to John Lam, the first public cut of IronRuby is slated to be released at OSCON in July.