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  • JRebel 3.0 Release - Hotswap Reloaded

    JRebel 3.0 was released on April 16th. It targets turnaround time in Java development by removing the need for redeployment. Instead it supports advanced class reloading. The article details updating Java classes at runtime and provides an overview of the technologies used in JRebel and especially the improvements of the recently version 3.0.

  • Mahout 0.3: Open Source Machine Learning

    The need for machine-learning techniques like clustering, collaborative filtering, and categorization has steadily increased the last decade along with the number of solutions needing quick and efficient algorithms to transform vast amounts of raw data into relevant information. Apache Mount 0.3 has been announced on March, adding more functionality, stability and performance.

  • Toad for Oracle Has an Extension for Visual Studio 2010

    Toad is a set of database administration, development and performance optimization tools for major databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, or MySQL. Quest Software has created a Visual Studio Extension for Toad for Oracle in order to benefit from VS features like code refactoring, version tracking, collaboration, unit testing or life cycle management.

  • Should We Define SOA Non-Principles?

    In addition to well established principles and anti-principles, Steve Jones’ new post introduces the notion of non-principles of an SOA implementation and explains why they are important.

  • A Packaging System for Open Source Projects on Windows

    The Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (CoApp) is intended to be a package management system for Windows, providing support for compiling, building and deploying open source projects usually developed on other platforms like Linux, Mac OS, etc.

  • Scooter Framework; Java Made CRUD And Simple

    The Scooter framework has been inspired by the simplicity of use exhibited in ROR. The framework presents an alternative for developing Java web apps using Struts, Spring and Hibernate, with a CRUD generator and the ActiveRecord as key features. The intent of the Scooter is that XML editing and annotations are not required, and that only basic knowledge in Servlet/JSP and JDK1.4 is necessary.

  • SpringSource Acquires RabbitMQ

    VMware business unit SpringSource announced today that it had acquired Rabbit Technologies. Rabbit Technologies is the primary sponsor of the open source RabbitMQ messaging system.

  • Reactions and Consequences of the iPhone Developer License Change

    There is a report saying that Apple has changed the iPhone Developer License to prohibit applications written in other languages than Objective-C, C or C++ or accessing the API “through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool”. Reactions abound and this change is likely to have rippling effects across the industry.

  • James Gosling Resigns from Oracle

    "Father of Java" James Gosling has announced that he resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd).

  • InfoQ Feature Set: What Do You Want To See?

    What’s next for InfoQ? What are some of the areas we should be focusing on feature wise? We'd like to ask you where you’d like the site to go from a feature-set perspective. InfoQ is still lagging behind many of the world-class media sites out there. We may not be the New York Times, but with your help we'll have the will and the way to get there!

  • Useful Helpers for Applications Deployed on Google App Engine

    Some of the later helper frameworks and tools for applications written for Google App Engine are: SimpleDS and Objectify - two persistence frameworks, Kotori – a JUnit runner, Apple Guice – a case study GWT application, and Engine Watch – a GAE monitoring application for Android devices.

  • New SOA-EERP Standards to Establish Service Quality, Rating and SLA

    A new set of specifications from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) End-to-End Resource Planning (EERP) technical committee allows to specify important characteristics of services such as business quality of service, service rating and business service agreement.

  • Enterprise Customers Can Use Their Licenses to Run Windows Instances on EC2

    Amazon extends their Windows VM offering, and offers customers the possibility to use their enterprise license to run Windows instances on EC2 through a pilot program consented with Microsoft. Microsoft is going to evaluate the results of the program, possibly offering the same license mobility in the future, and promises to support Windows VM on Azure some time this year.

  • Engine Yard Introduces Commercial JRuby Support

    Engine Yard, the employer of most of JRuby's core team, started offering commercial support for JRuby this week.

  • The End of an Era: Scala Community Arrives, Java Deprecated

    It was recently announced that InfoQ is creating a new Operations community. In addition to that, another major change which has been in the works for the last few months at InfoQ is the conversion of the Java community to the Scala community. InfoQ spoke with a prominent Scala expert and members of the former InfoQ Java editorial team to learn more about this change and why it was made.

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