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Is AMQP on the way to providing real business interoperability?
AMQP came from inside of JPMorgan, thanks to John O'Hara. But his vision was bigger than just a new way to do things internally. The standard and open source technologies around it have been gaining momentum. Jeff Gould and others shed some light on where AMQP came from, who is driving it, and where it might be going.
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SQL Server 2008 RTM Has Arrived
After more than a year from its first CTP, SQL Server 2008 has finally been sent to manufacturing yesterday, August 6th, according to a Microsoft Press Release. The server was initially planned to be launched on February 27th, and it comes out almost 6 months later, but it is still in the 2-3 years timeframe, the goal set by Microsoft, from the launch of the previous SQL Server 2005.
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Enter the Cloud with Caution
Cloud computing seems inevitable, simply because of its business case. Prof. Lewis wrote an article where he recommends caution and provides a series of questions that anyone should answer before using capabilities from the Cloud. Are you using Cloud Services in the Enterprise? What are the benefits and the drawbacks?
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Jason Van Zyl Discusses Sonatype, The Eclipse Foundation and Maven
Sonatype, the main company which drives Maven development, recently announced that they are joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. InfoQ spoke with Sonatype CTO and Maven founder Jazon Van Zyl to learn more about this partnership and what it means for the future of Maven.
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Best Practices for SOA Governance: a User Survey
One of the key takeaways from this survey is that SOA is real and happening on a large scale. Governance was critical or moderately important for 91% of the respondents. The survey also sampled the most popular SOA standards. InfoQ spoke with Miko Matsumura, Deputy CTO of Software AG, who commented the results.
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Parallel Mono
Recently we announced that Mono achieved full C# 3 support. Along with that comes support for Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, part of Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions library, allows developers to quickly make queries execute across multiple threads.
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Author Interview, Book review, Sample Chapter: "Applied SOA"
InfoQ features an interview with the authors and a review of a new book on "Applied SOA", as well as a sample chapter for download. Among the authors is Boris Lublinsky, one of InfoQ's SOA editors. In the interview, the authors talk about major hurdles in SOA introduction, the problem with lack of skills, and their assessment of SOA's maturity.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Released
Version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has been released, allowing greater interoperability between PHP and MS SQL 2005. The driver is available for download on MSDN, and the source code for the driver is available on Code Plex.
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Google Introduces GWT Overlay Types
Javascript Overlay Types is a new feature in GWT 1.5 that simplifies the process of interacting with native Javascript data structures in GWT applications.
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Securing the Web with Decentralized Information Flow Control
Max Krohn and his colleagues at MIT developed a new end-to-end security architecture to help achieving data secrecy and integrity across complex Web Applications. In this talk and a series of papers, Max presents their findings and a use case based on MoinMoin Wiki.
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Versioning JPA Entities
Maintaining a historical view of database records has been a problem that has been solved before but not easily. Being able to restore entities to their previous versions including basic properties as well as their relationships is more than a trivial task. Recently Envers 1.0.0 GA was released, aiming to simplify JPA entity revisioning.
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New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access
Kasper Sørensen has created a new open source project at eobjects.dk called MetaModel. The project is a common domain model, query engine, and optimizer for different types of datastores, such as relational databases and flat files. MetaModel is a Java library that provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for SQL compliant queries.
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JSR 277 Debate Renews Around Versioning
Debate has once again arisen in the community around JSR 277, which is a proposed dynamic module system for Java 7. The flashpoint of the debate this time around is the version numbering system that is planned for JSR 277 Java Modules (JAMs). InfoQ examined the discussions and arguments to understand more about the current state of JSR 277 and it's acceptance by the community.
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The Windows Mojave Experiment
Microsoft has recently conducted an experiment, called Mojave, in an attempt to quantify the users' true perception of Windows Vista. The results are shedding some light on people's biases and misconceptions related to Vista.
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Article: 8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail
When you want to build model-driven software you’ll need to devise a methodology based on ideas and experiences from others. Johan den Haan shares 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering. One of the key points in the article focuses on the use of graphical tools vs general purpose languages.