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Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement?
Job listings comparisons on Indeed.com show Spring surpassing EJB. Using this observation, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson, argues that EJB is becoming legacy and that the EJB3.0 spec is doing too little, too late to prevent this trend. Do these comparisons indeed reflect significant shifts in the choices companies are making in regards to their core components for Java enterprise development?
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Database Virtualization - Is it worth it?
Hosting server applications inside VM images is all the rage today. The ability to quickly move a virtual server from one machine to another as needs change is a big win for IT departments. But can this be applied to heavyweight systems like SQL Server? Conor Cunningham says no.
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View the .NET Source Code in VS 2005
Recently Microsoft released the source code for portions of the .NET framework to VS 2008 users. Fortunately for those still using VS 2005, Kerem Kusmezer and John Robbins built a tool that gives them access to it as well. This tool also speeds up VS 2008 by caching all the source code at one time.
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EngineYard hires developer for mod_rubinius and Rubinius
EngineYard, a Rails hosting company and employer of 5 Rubinius team members, just added a 6th developer to work on Rubinius and mod_rubinius. The mod_rubinius effort is supposed to significantly improve the deployment of Ruby and RoR applications.
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Article: Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta
In this case study, Shine Technologies explained how they used Terracotta and the Master Worker pattern to process large volumes of electricity usage data weekly and generate reports with detailed reconciliation & discrepancy highlighting for their customers.
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Article: Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow?
Tom Baeyens wrote a summary of the state of Workflow & BPM standards and tools. After a detailed look at BPEL, BPMN, and other technologies such as choreography, XPDL, BPDM, jPDL, Tom takes the stance that it is time to abandon the idea that non-technical business analysts can draw production-ready software in diagrams and separate the analysis process models and executable process models.
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Relax-WS: Trying To Make WSDL Easier To Use?
The Relax-WS project has been building on Relax-NG Compact Syntax to provide a simpler way of defining WSDL that is more natural for programmers and does not lose any metadata in the resulting translation.
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Article: Converting a Web 1.0 Dashboard to Flex
In their article, Porting From Web 1.0 To Rich Internet Applications (RIA), James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface.
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LongJump Introduces Database-as-a-Service
LongJump, a provider of customizable business application, has introduced a new service to provide database hosting to companies that are looking to reduce maintenance and administration costs.
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Does Continuous Production Lead To Extreme Agility?
The idea of continuous production has been around for some time, with Cal Henderson revealing in 2005 that Flickr releases code to production about every 30 minutes. InfoQ investigates continuous production and explores the effects it has on the product lifecycle, and in turn the host organisation.
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Sun SPOTs: Programmable Devices for Java Developers
Sun Microsystems has released the Sun SPOT platform under the GPL license. Sun SPOTs are programmable battery-powered devices controllable with Java technology.
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Interview: Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio
In this interview from QCon San Francisco, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the origins and philosophy of Spring, the Spring Portfolio, Spring Web Flow, Spring Batch, Spring.Net, the partnership with Tasktop Technologies, and community involvement and utilization of Spring.
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MSDN Code Gallery Goes Live
Microsoft has created a new site named Code Gallery, dedicated to code and application sharing. Both Microsoft employees and community members can contribute to this site and use the resources available on it.
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Cosmos - An Option To Singularity
Just released to the public, Cosmos is an operating system implemented entirely in .NET compiled IL.
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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.