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Agile Alliance Elects New Directors
After Agile 2007 the Agile Alliance announced the election results of its ballot for board members for the 2007-2008 period.
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Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools Version 2.2 Adds MSOffice File Type Output Support
BIRT 2.2 has been recently released with major enhancements as a part of Eclipse Europa release. BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for Java and JEE based web applications. Among the new features of 2.2 are enhanced charting featuring and support for XLS, Word, Power Point and Post Script formats.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation
The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) reached recommendation status on August 28 2007, turning it into a "W3C Standard".
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Microsoft Entity Framework Beta 2 and Entity Framework Tools Beta 1 CTP Released
The Microsoft Entity Framework allows developers to close the gap between objects and our data stores. The second beta of the Microsoft Entity Framework is available now for developers to get a jump-start on exposing your data models as objects. This release also comes with the first beta of the Entity Framework Tools providing a graphical front-end to your entity data objects.
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JLINQ: Runtime JDBC Generator for Eclipse
Azadeh Ahadian of IBM has published an article introducing JLINQ on IBM's developerWorks site. Despite the name, JLINQ does not have much in common with Microsoft's LINQ, rather it is an Eclipse plugin providing integration with a database and runtime DAO code generation. The plugin is part of IBM's Developer Workbench that is coming with Viper, the next release of DB2.
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Reporting tool Ruport releases version 1.2
Ruport, the Ruby reporting tool, was just released in version 1.2. Meanwhile, the Ruport Book effort is coming along as well.
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Presentation: Scott Davis on Real World Web Services
In this presentation, recorded at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the presentation contains a very accessible introduction to the core Web services standards.
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LLBLGen Updates O/R Mapper and Code Generator
Solutions Design has recently released LLBLGen Pro v2.5, an O/R mapper and code generator that boasts many new features including auditing, authorization, dependency injection mechanism, super fast and compact serialization (XML and binary), SQLServer CE Desktop support, Sybase support and much more.
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Presentation: Rod Johnson on Spring 2.0 and Beyond
In this QCon session, Spring Creator Rod Johnson explains the important enhancements and features in Spring 2, including XML extensibility features, Spring AOP framework updates, first-class support for dynamic languages, JPA integration, and third party technology support such as Mule ESB, clustering tools, SCA, etc.
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Apache Geronimo 2.0: Certified Java EE 5 compatible
Apache Geronimo, an open-source Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server, recently released version 2.0.1. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about Apache Geronimo and where it fits into the application server space.
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ESB-Oriented Architectures considered harmful
Bobby Woolf questions, with humor, the use of an ESB-Oriented Architecture approach when building a Service Oriented Architecture. This is an age old question that's worth revisiting in the light of the completion of WS-* standard stack.
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XML Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2008
The XML Schema Designer is a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas (XSD). It is integrated with Visual Studio 2008 and the XML Editor.
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Microsoft Bound By GPLv3 According to the Free Software Foundation
When Novell first signed an agreement with Microsoft to establish a marketing alliance and resolve patent disputes regarding it's SUSE Linux distribution, a lot of people in the open source community berated Novell for the move. But now the FSF claims that the arrangement, which makes Microsoft a reseller of Novell's Linux stack, obligates Microsoft to comply with GPLv3.
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Greener datacenters through Millicomputer clusters?
Adrian Cockcroft is defining a new type of enterprise computing platform where he addresses the problem of power consumption with the "Millicomputer" - a computer that requires less than 1 Watt. The idea is to build enterprise servers out of commodity components from the battery powered mobile space. 100 such Millicomputers can be clustered on a single 1U rack and consume less than 160W.
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Book Excerpt and Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server
With SQL Server 2000's hitting its end of life date next April, many shops that have been delaying the upgrade to SQL Server 2005 need to start looking at it seriously. This is why we have chosen to review the seventh edition of William Vaughn's Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server.