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Aligning Agile with Enterprise Goals
Agile methods have achieved a level of success and respect within development teams, but it is not always easy to extend these methods beyond the development team. In Investing in Agile: Aligning Agile with Enterprise Goals, Dan Murphy and Dave Rooney stated that IT project management has evolved with agile methods, but that the enterprise hasn't followed suit.
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JET 5.0 Released With Java Runtime Slim-Down Technology
Excelsior has released JET 5.0. JET is a toolkit and complete runtime environment for acceleration, protection, and deployment of Java applications. The key enhancement is Java Runtime Slim-Down which provides the ability to exclude certain parts of the Java SE platform from the application's installation package.
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View Source for Silverlight
Ernie Booth has released a plug-in for Reflector that allows users to view the decompiled source for Silverlight applications.
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HP launches SOA on the world
HP announces the release of a new suite of SOA related products and services, which represent a merger of its in-house capabilities and those obtained through the Mercury acquisition.
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Paint.NET for Mono Released to Public
Paint.NET serves as both a good open source graphics editor and a test bed for new .NET functionality like the CLR add-in model. It has also been a highly coveted prize by the Mono team. On May 15, Miguel de Icaza announced that the port of Paint.NET 3.0 is functional.
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Interview: LINQ Creator Erik Meijer
In this InfoQ interview, LINQ creator Erik Meijer talks about the design and capabilities of LINQ, how to use it, why to use it, how it differs from XQuery, how it addresses ORM, extension methods, EDM, and more.
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GridGain Releases Open Source Java Grid Computing Platform with AOP Enablement
GridGain Systems has released version 1.0 of their open source Java grid computing platform. In addition to task oriented grid enabling, GridGain also provides an AOP enablement option. Annotations can be used to grid enable method execution.
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Presentation: Bringing SOA to Life: A New Danish Infrastructure
In this presentation, Mikkel Hippe Brun introduces Denmark's national Service Oriented Infrastructure. Topics covered include the infrastructure's WS-* based architecture and the choice of standards.
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On Intermediation in SOA
Nick Malik writes about "The Value of Intermediation in SOA", which started an interesting discussion. In his first blog post on the subject he asked the question: "Is it Service Oriented if the message cannot be intermediated?".
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Exploring Event Driven Architectures with Esper
At Java One Thomas Bernhardt and Alexandre Vasseur explained the concepts of event driven application servers and the Esper project. Event driven application servers are a new category of servers, proving a runtime and supporting infrastructure services (transport, security, event journaling, high availability, connectors, etc.) to servers designed to be able to process over 100,000 events/sec.
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Interview: Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Engine Yard and Rails Deployment
Exclusive InfoQ interview with Rails deployment guru Ezra Zygmuntowicz. The topics include scaling Rails, Ruby threading, and Ezra's venture Engine Yard, an interesting new Rails hosting service that employs Xen and virtualization to provide scalable service.
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Presentation: Event Patterns
Ian Cartwright presents some of his work (developed with Martin Fowler) on Event Patterns (recorded at JAOO), including: Event Sourcing, Event Collaboration, Parallel Model, and Retroactive Event. These patterns can be used in scenarios where a sequence of domain model changes may need to be recorded, reversed, corrected, or simply observed.
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JBI 2.0 at JavaOne
Sun unveils JBI 2.0 technical committee which has its first face-to-face meeting at JavaOne and follows up with a full evening of JBI related events.
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The Future of SCA
In a panel on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) at JavaOne, one of the controversive topics was the SCA client programming model. Moderator David Chappell and Gregor Hohpe share their impressions.