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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ruby on Rails 1.2 deepens support to REST and Unicode

    Tapping into advanced features of the HTTP protocol, the Rails team enhances the flexibilty and interoperability of derived apps, while providing guidance to optimal use of controllers. Combine this with proper UTF-8 support and a growing team of contributors, and Ruby on Rails is ready for 2007 and beyond.

  • TeamCity 1.2 Released - Continuous Integration Server for Java and .NET

    JetBrains has released version 1.2 of TeamCity, a continuous integration server which now includes a plugin for Visual Studio 2005, along with support for Visual SourceSafe.

  • Research Report: "SOA Reality Check"

    Research firm Saugatuck Technology has released a report entitled "SOA Reality Check" that describes how and to which degree SOA is adopted in the field, namely among the 40 companies whose senior IT executives and IT architects were interviewed for the study.

  • VB 8 Compiling on Mono

    Rolf Bjarne's VB 8 compiler is now self-hosting on Mono. This represents a major milestone for both the Mono team and the VB language.

  • SOA 2.0 Dead on Arrival?

    Back around JavaOne 2006 Gartner coined the term SOA 2.0 as a new architectural approach, which was superior to "classic" SOA, and Oracle quickly took this and ran with it. There was a lot of backlash from the community, even resulting in the creation of an online petition. Whether or not as a result, SOA 2.0 hype seemed to die off and now Wikipedia has joined the debate.

  • Issues with the ActiveRecord Pattern and Statically Typed Languages

    Hibernate team member Emmanuel Bernard recently wrote on the issues with the ActiveRecord pattern and statically typed languages like Java.

  • A Case Study on the Mule Enterprise Service Bus

    TheServerSide has posted a case study on the Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) by Eugene Ciurana. It covers such items as the installation of Mule, using it as a common JMS transport, and commercial support offerings.

  • Sun Open Sources Fortress programming language for the JVM

    Fortress, a new language designed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC), has been released on SunSource under the BSD language. The preliminary interpreter is based on the JVM. Fortress is intended as a modern day replacement for Fortran.

  • 2006 Top Enterprise Software News and Content

    It is our pleasure to present to you the most popular content on InfoQ in 2006. InfoQ.com launched June 8th, 2006, and has since put out over seventy six high quality articles on Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile, as well as a number of free downloadable books and video interviews / video conference presentations by world renowned experts.

  • IBM's Don Ferguson Now at Microsoft

    Don Ferguson, formerly IBM Software Group's Chief Architect, now works for Microsoft.

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