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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.
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Article: Making Sense of all these Crazy Web Service Standards
Michele Leroux Bustamante explains the most relevant WS-* standards used today in terms of their actual implementation among WS platforms (with a focus on Java and .NET), their level of adoption and readiness. If you are new to web services or to the WS* protocols, or you are having difficulty keeping up with the pace of change in this area, this article should help.
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The new WCF Web Programming Model supports REST Design
Don Box and Steve Maine introduce the WCF Web Programming Model to be released with Visual Studio Orcas in their talk "Navigating the Programmable Web" at MIX07. The Web Programming Model features support a RESTful design of web services within the unified WCF programming model.
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ThoughtWorks launches CruiseControl Enterprise
ThoughtWorks has launched a CruiseControl Enterprise project to enhance and support CruiseControl. InfoQ speaks with Paul Julius, Product Manager of CruiseControl Enterprise about the new features and the relationship between CruiseControl Enterprise and the open-source distribution.
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Database Migration and Refactoring with LiquiBase
In recent years, there has been a fair amount of discussion developing databases through a series of fine-grained, trackable changes with automatic migration, sometimes called 'database refactoring'. If you're not using ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails, and particularly if you're using Java, LiquiBase is an interesting candidate: an open-source tool for database refactoring and migration.
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Navigating WS-*
Dan Diephouse has posted a paper, titled "Navigating WS-*", that provides an excellent overview of Web services standards and their respective relevance for solving real-world problems.
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Interface21 (Spring) gets 10M VC Funding
Interface21, the provider of the Spring Framework has announced that it has received $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital. The new funds will be used to accelerate product development and expand marketing, sales and support infrastructure to scale their professional open source offerings around Spring.
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Sun Finishes OpenJDK Transition
In today's Java One keynote Sun announced that the open sourcing of Java has been completed. There is now a completely build-able JDK available to developers at the OpenJDK project.
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When Ruby Builds Faster Than Java: Buildr
Maven 2.0 recalcitrants have been looking for alternatives with less XML and easier plugin development. Buildr might be the solution, and even boasts faster performance than Maven!
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Jasper: ORM without Code Generators or Configuration Files
Jasper is Microsoft's new ORM project designed for rapid application development. And unlike earlier Microsoft projects, this one does not require code generators. The goal? To "make the experience of developing quick and dirty database apps one that is truly quick and clean."
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Astoria: Microsoft's RESTful Data Services
Microsoft has announced the Project Astoria at MIX '07. Astoria offers a RESTful approach to expose data as data services on the web.
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Presentation: Gregor Hohpe on Developing in a Service-oriented World
In this presentation, Google architect Gregor Hohpe takes a look at the architectural aspects of SOA, addressing issues such as the false sense of simplicity and the problems of established programming models.