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STIQ Simplifies Story Tests for Web Apps
SolutionsIQ launched their latest product this week at Agile2006. A mashup of the popular open-source acceptance test tools FitNesse and Selenium, STIQ is used for writing acceptance tests while developing web applications. It features a simple command language, wiki-based editing and pluggable features.
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BEA Finishes Moving OpenJPA Code to the Apache Incubator
BEA has finished the last set of OpenJPA code drops to the Apache Incubator. OpenJPA will be an enterprise grade JPA implementation suitable for production use. It will also form the basis for BEA's commercial Kodo 4.1 and WebLogic's JPA support.
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Is there room for both Ruby on Rails and J2EE?
Aaron Rustad takes a look at the differences between Rails and J2EE in an article published by IBM developerWorks, and ultimately suggests J2EE won't be dying any time soon.
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Best Practices for Planet-Scale Software Updates
A new Microsoft research paper has examined data from billions of Windows update queries from 300 million computers using the Windows update service in order to learn about the traffic characteristics of software patch distribution and also examine alternative architectures (P2P and caching) to support planet-scale software updating.
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Grid Computing with the Java Parallel Processing Framework
The Java Parallel Processing Framework has been making frequent point releases recently; it provides an API and framework to distribute tasks over a cluster of computers and coordinate their execution in parallel, load balanced with recovery. Application code for tasks are dynamically distributed and class-loaded onto cluster node with no pre-deployment or configuration required.
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JRuby Leaves SourceForge for Greener Pastures at Codehaus
The JRuby project has moved from SourceForge to competitor Codehaus. InfoQ asked the project leads about their decision and the answers shed light on recent problems plaguing SourceForge.
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IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 Featureset and New TeamCity Product Announced
Jetbrains has just announced the full featureset for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0. Included are JEE, Swing, and refactoring enhancements as well as integration with their new team enviroment product TeamCity.
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InfoQ Article: EJB 3 Essential Glossary
InfoQ is hosting an EJB 3.0 glossary of new terms and API elements introduced in EJB 3. It explains buzzwords like Inversion of Control (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection etc, etc. The glossary is an ongoing work in progress. Updates will continue to be made to it.
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Richard Monson-Haefel: It's too late to save Java EE
Richard Monson-Haefel's recently released analyst report predicting the demise of Java EE has set off a storm of controversy. But what did Richard Monson-Haefel, well known for his popular books on EJB, actually say? InfoQ summarized the main points from a podcast with RMH.
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InfoQ Article: Will the Enterprise change Ruby, or will Ruby change the Enterprise?
Ruby is often criticized for lacking the features required for developing large applications and maintaining them over long periods of time with large teams. Are we missing something fundamental for widescale adoption of Ruby in the enterprise?
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WebLogic Server 9.2, Portal 9.2, Workshop on Eclipse Released
BEA last week released the WebLogic 9.2 platform family of products including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal (which now runs on WL 9.2), and Workshop for WebLogic (now built on Eclipse for the first time).
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Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim
Firestar Software has filed a patent claim against Red Hat for Hibernate 3 allegedly infringing on a patent covering O/R mapping. Firestar, who has not released it's ObjectSpark O/R product since 2003 claims that it "has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages."
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Getting Agile with Eclipse Continuous Integration
The Eclipse "Callisto" release includes agility-enhancing features, including a new version of the testing tools developed in the "TPTP" project. In their online presentation, project committers Scott E. Schneider and Joe Toomey say that by using TPTP in the Continuous Integration cycle developers gain more powerful test types, better/more extensible reporting, and easy platform coverage.
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Apache Geronimo 1.1 Released
With this release of Geronimo you can finally run it on Sun Java 1.5 VM, as long as you don't require CORBA. Another notable change from the 1.0 release is that Geronimo now is available in two distributions, one full and certified J2EE distribution and one "stripped down" distribution that only incudes a minimal installation with a Jetty or Tomcat http server.