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XQuery Java API JSR 225 Available for Public Review
The first public review draft of JSR 225: XQuery API for Java has been posted for review. The spec (being led by Oracle) aims to provide ubiquitous programmatic access for XQuery implementations in Java.
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Interview: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald
Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a framework for modelling and controlling the execution of multi-step work flows in web applications. Flows often execute across HTTP requests, have state, exhibit transactional characteristics, and may be dynamic and/or long-running in nature. In this interview, SWF co-lead Keith Donald talks about how Spring Web Flow works.
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XACML finally ready for prime time?
XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, an Oasis standard approved more than 2 years ago, has been demonstrated to work cross vendor platforms on Burton's Catalyst Conference last week.
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WSDL 2.0 approved as an official W3C Recommendation
WSDL 2.0 has finally been approved as an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation on June 27 2007. The Web Services Description Working Group has been working on the standards for more than 6 years. The recommendation was due on the 31st of December 2006 but has received an extension to the 30th of June this year.
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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Role of Service Registries in SOA Increasing in Importance
Since the days of UDDIv1, the concept of service registry has evolved under the momentum of innovators and market leaders. The latest vendor to enter this market is SAP. The new SAP registry aims at supporting the alignment of business architecture, enterprise architecture and solution architecture from design time to runtime.
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JMX the Ruby way with jmx4r
Monitoring JVMs just became easier with jmx4r, a library that allows to easily access JMX MBeans with JRuby. If used from jirb, the interactive Ruby shell, this even allows to automate bulk changes or queries.
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ColdFusion Steals Microsoft's Update Panel
According to Vince Bonfanti, the developers of BlueDragon have developed a Cold Fusion version of the Update Panel by leveraging Microsoft's AJAX client-side library. Like the ASP.NET version, developers simply need to wrap part of their code in special tags to enable partial page rendering.
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Apache Derby Releases 10.3 Beta and Gains Experimental Hot Standby Replication
The Apache Derby project has made a beta available of the upcoming 10.3 release. The 10.3 release includes security enhancements, language-based ordering, other features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Egil Sørensen, a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has also submitted his MS thesis work to add hot standby replication functionality to Derby.
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The Legal Boundaries Of Agile
Adopting Agile practices requires a shift in the organisation on many different levels, but can making such a change lead to serious trouble?
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IBM Announces Info 2.0
IBM announces a new initiative, Info 2.0, to help bring value to Web 2.0. According to IBM: Info 2.0 is a technology (or information fabric layer) for simplified integration of data and content via Information Mashups.
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Innov8: BPM/SOA video game simulator in the works at IBM
IBM has been working on Innov8, a 3D video game SOA/BPM simulator. At the moment only a demo and screen shots are available, and the game is set to be available in September. The game aims to teach an introductory level understanding of BPM enabled by SOA, including the typical steps of a BPM project and real world experiences of IBM's expert BPM practitioners.
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OpenJPA adopted by both IBM and BEA; becomes top-level Apache project
Apache OpenJPA has been gaining momentum in the JEE world, having been adopted by BEA as the EJB3 JPA implementation in WebLogic Server 10 and in the most recent EJB3 Feature Pack for IBM WebSphere Application Server. OpenJPA started its life in BEA's Kodo product, whose code was donated to the ASF in 2006; the project just recently graduated from the Apache Incubator as well.
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Sparse Columns Added to SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 has lifted the limit of 1024 columns per table with a new option called "sparse columns". While this seems like its excessive, some developers have been running up against this limit.
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WS-BPEL4People on its way to OASIS
A group of several vendors suggests a new WS-* spec that goes by the interesting name "WS-BPEL4People". Compared to WS-BPEL which deals with automated business processes, the WS-BPEL4People spec, which has been under works for nearly two years now, aims to add human workflow capabilities to SOA in general and to the recently approved WS-BPEL 2.0 spec specifically.