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  • Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

    Following the collapse of talks with IBM earlier this month Oracle has stepped in to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn or $9.50 a share in an all cash transaction. 

  • Dojo 1.3 and PlugD Released: Q&A with Dylan Schiemann

    Recently Dojo 1.3 was released alongside project PlugD which adds jQuery flavor to the Dojo toolkit. InfoQ has a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of Dojo about the latest release, the evolution of the toolkit and TIBCO's General Interface choice to join the Dojo foundation.

  • NServiceBus Version 1.9 Released

    The NServiceBus, previously covered by InfoQ in an interview with Udi Dahan (the creator of NServiceBus), is just released in version 1.9. The new version includes a decreased footprint on dependency injection frameworks like Spring.NET and the amount of assemblies referenced is reduced to only one.

  • Advantages Of (Also) Using HATEOAS In RESTFul APIs

    Craig McClanahan, from Sun Microsystems, provides answers as to why existing "REST" APIs don't really take advantage of using Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) in RESTful services. He cites examples from his recent work in designing the Sun Cloud API to illustrate the benefits.

  • Microsoft Has Open Sourced the Common Compiler Infrastructure

    Microsoft Research has open sourced the Common Compiler Infrastructure: Metadata (CCI) and CCI: Code and AST projects containing a set of libraries used by compilers and other programming tools to manipulate metadata in CLR assemblies and debug files. The CCI: Metadata components subsume System.Reflection while CCI: Code and AST subsumes System.CodeDom.

  • The Five Pillars of Cloud Computing

    Everyone has a different perspective and understanding of Cloud Computing, and there are a myriad of variations on its definition. In his new article, Dave Malcolm examines the core principles, or pillars, that uniquely define cloud computing.

  • Sun's Garbage First Collector Largely Eliminates Low Latency/High Throughput Tradeoff

    In a recent podcast, James Gosling talked to Danny Coward about the significance of Sun's new Hotspot garbage collector Garbage First for developers of large-scale enterprise systems.

  • Augmented Reality with Flash

    Augmented reality has been the main buzz in the Flash community of late with the recent release of the FLARToolKit. Augmented reality blends real world objects with computer-generated objects.

  • The Cloud Security Alliance Wants Safer Clouds

    The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a non profit organization meant to be an open forum promoting the exchange of information and knowledge related to security and cloud computing with the aim to create a set of best security practices for cloud vendors and consumers.

  • Running Silverlight and Any Other Windows Application in a Sandbox

    Xenocode, an application virtualization company, has recently added support for Silverlight allowing companies to publish Silverlight applications in a sandbox without needing a runtime to be installed. Actually, any Windows application can run in the same manner regardless to the browser or underlying operating system.

  • ServiceLayer for Point-and-click Web Services

    With ServiceLayer, adding SOAP and REST web service to your Java applications is as easy as point-and-click... and it can all be done at runtime. By using the graphical user interface, you explore an application, select classes and methods to deploy as services, and your done. Coding is no longer required.

  • Microsoft Velocity Caching CTP3

    A new version of Microsoft's distributed in-memory application caching platform is available. Velocity CTP3 includes new cache notifications, peformance improvements, security enhancements, and new cluster management options.

  • A Model For A Federated Service Bus Infrastructure

    Jack Van Hoof presents a prescriptive guidance on how to model a federated service bus infrastructure such that it affords the various parts on the enterprise interacting with it, the desired levels of autonomy.

  • Service Bus Routers And Queues .Net Services March 2009 CTP

    A new significant addition to the .Net Services CTP is an the introduction of long-lived, system-inherent messaging primitives that exist and operate completely independent of any active listener that sits somewhere on a machine plugged into the Service Bus.

  • Google Brings App Engine's Pros and Cons to Java

    Google has broadened their Google App Engine (GAE) support to include Java in addition to Python. However, it also imposes a number of limitations on the GAE Java applications to further Google's ability to scale and cluster them with minimal effort.

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