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In Case You Missed It: Oracle Supports .NET in the Database
In the ongoing competition between Microsoft and Oracle for the enterprise developer's attention, SQL Server added the ability to embed .NET code. Not to be out done, Oracle has added that ability as well for both Java and .NET with Oracle Database Extensions for .NET.
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JBoss ESB 4: SOA beyond SOAP/HTTP
JBoss has released a GA version of JBossESB 4.0, its open source ESB product. According to JBoss the ESB supports SOA concepts independently of Web services. InfoQ talked to JBossESB development manager Mark Little.
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SQL Server Compact Edition Released
SQL Server Compact Edition has been released. As we reported in September, this product is being positioned as a replaced for the venerable Jet engine traditional used by Visual Basic programmers for lightweight databases.
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SOA Coverage on Software Engineering Radio
Software Engineering Radio, a podcast for professional developers, has an extensive coverage of SOA, including interviews with Werner Vogels, Steve Vinoski, Gregor Hohpe, and Michael Stal.
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Continuous Integration Server QuickBuild 1.2 Released
PMEase has released version 1.2 of QuickBuild, a commercial version of the open-source continuous integration server Luntbuild.
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Deep Support for Oracle in Visual Studio
Visual Studio has had some support for SQL Server for quite some time, but that does not help the developers who are targeting Oracle. Fortunately Oracle has taken steps to address this by releasing Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET.
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Pragmatic SOA: Adoption Project by Project
According to the latest release from Zapthink, success with SOA rarely necessitates comprehensive change; instead, architects who choose their SOA battles carefully can deliver on SOA's promises to the business via projects of limited scope. Architects who miss this point often set the bar for SOA success too high.
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Interview: Arjen Poutsma on Spring Web Services
InfoQ talks to Spring Web Services creator Arjen Poutsma about Spring's Java Web services stack and the different approach it has to building Java Web services. Topics covered include the reason for yet another WS framework, advantages of contract-first, document-driven Web services, JAX-WS, and REST.
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Presentation: Bob Martin's Principles of Agile Design
Bob Martin of Object Mentor presents the first of his five principles of agile design. Beginning with an explanation of the real purpose of object-oriented design - the management of dependencies - Bob walks through a code example to illustrate how dependencies can be managed with abstractions, and that good designs are those in which high-level abstractions do not depend on low-level details.
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Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing
The Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has led to a number of interesting submissions addressing Web Services and the Web.
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ASP.NET AJAX Released: Will AJAX Finally Be Popular On ASP.NET?
According to the annual survey conducted in September by Ajaxian.com, ASP.NET developers lagged behind other AJAX-enabled implementations. With the release of ASP.NET AJAX, that is all set to change.
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Interview: Mule Founder Ross Mason on ESBs
Mule founder Ross Mason talks about the the role of the ESB, when to use and not to use ESBs, BPEL, and ESBs vs. integration brokers. Mule is an open source ESB and Ross discusses how people are using Mule and how it compares to commercial alternatives. Ross reveals that Mule got its name because it takes the donkey work out of integration projects.
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OASIS WS-Transaction (almost) a standard
The OASIS WS-TX technical committee held a face-to-face meeting last week at IBM Hursely. This is likely the last such meeting prior to final standardisation of WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity.
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Dion Hinchliffe: Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007
"Web 2.0" expert Dion Hinchcliffe elaborates on eleven ideas he considers valuable for SOA architects in 2007, most of them connected to merging Web 2.0 and "classical" SOA concepts.
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Improving Java EE Application startup time with the WorkManager API
A new article on JavaWorld details how to improve the startup time of a Java EE application by converting startup servlets into Work Implementations handled by the WorkManager API. The WorkManager API is an API supported by multiple application servers and designed to allow parallel task execution inside of a managed environment.