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Oracle Announces WebLogic Suite
Following their acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has announced new company product offerings based on the various technologies carrying the WebLogic brand.
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What Do You Want On Future Browsers? Time to Vote!
An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool and with contributions from many people in the industry, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas. OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features.
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The Open Group Releases Draft of SOA Ontology Standard
The SOA Working Group contributed to the Open Group a draft version of SOA Ontology 2.0. The standard defines a formal ontology for Service Oriented Architecture. The ontology is written in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and contains classes and properties corresponding to the important concepts of SOA.
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Presentation: Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for using Spring Batch, Spring Batch infrastructure and architecture, scaling Spring Batch, example Spring Batch code, failures and retrying, the Spring Batch Domain Reference Model and execution environment, and the Spring Batch future roadmap.
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The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download
Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.
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UDDI and the Framework for Web Services Implementation Technical Committees close
OASIS announces that the UDDI and FWSI technical committees have closed and completed their work.
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Flash Content Now Searchable
In Adobe’s continuing push to eliminate the common objections to Flash adoption comes news that SWF files, the binary format for the Flash Player, is now indexable by Google and Yahoo’s search engines. This is important news for application developers using or considering using Adobe Flex, and the resulting applications will now be searchable.
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Article: REST Anti-Patterns
In this InfoQ exclusive article, Stefan Tilkov discusses some of the oft-used anti-patterns for REST based development.
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Article: An Introduction to Virtualization
It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the concept is being applied at a variety of levels including networking, storage, and application infrastructure.
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Consumer JRE: Applets Meet Java Web Start
The upcoming Consumer JRE brings Java Web Start technology to applets, allowing for more control and functionality for applet-based applications.
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Opinion: Multiple Processor Computing Challenges go Beyond Purely Technical Issues
In his position statement for the International Computer Music Conference 2008, Peter Van Roy raises a number of issues related to the emergence of multi-core processors and loosely coupled systems and suggests possible solutions. Though challenges brought by these two forms of concurrency computing are very different in their nature, both they go beyond purely technical problems.
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Microsoft Unleashes Hyper-V to the Virtualization Masses
Today Microsoft released Hyper-V, their entry into the bare metal hypervisor virtualization space. Hyper-V supports 32/64 bit operating systems including SUSE Linux 10.
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Releasing JBoss AS 5: Q&A with Project Lead Dimitris Andreadis
After a rather long development cycle the JBoss AS 5 RC1 is only a handful of days away from its release. InfoQ caught up with project lead Dimitris Andreadis to discuss the new features and release timeline. Dimitris also comments on Java EE 6 features, the advantages of JBoss AS with respect to competition and their choice of having a pluggable components model instead of sticking just to OSGi.
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Taking Some Heat
A petition has started by the community to express concerns over Microsoft's upcoming release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The petition titled "ADO.NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence", aims to raise awareness of design and implementation issues foreseen by experts in the industry.
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Interview: Glenn Block on Prism
In this interview filmed during ALT.NET 2008, Glenn Block answers Greg Young's questions about Prism. Among others, Glenn talks about what is Prism, the differences between Prism and CAB, the architectural challenges met, the customers' feature requests.