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InfoQ Article: Java, .NET, but why together?
The Java vs. NET war is over. In this article, Ted Neward looks at how we can leverage the strengths of each together, such as using Microsoft Office to act as a "rich client" to a Java middle-tier service, or building a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, or even how to execute Java Enterprise/J2EE functionality from within a Windows Workflow host.
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Screencast Gets You Up To Speed With REST on Rails in 90 Minutes
Noted Rails trainer and developer, Geoffrey Grosenbach, releases a screencast covering Rails 1.2's REST functionality.
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Microsoft Talks ESB
Intelligent Enterprise reports on an event in Redmond Washington where Microsoft announced its strategy for ESB. The strategy centers around the "Indigo" Windows Communication Foundation software, which is a Web Services framework built in to the operating system. Other key components cited included the Microsoft BizTalk Server.
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WCF Live Service Trace Viewer
Craig and Vittorio release their Live Service Trace Viewer which is an enhancement to the one provided in the .NET 3.0 SDK. The differentiator: you can view the WCF interactions as they happen.
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Google Releases Search Engine Specifically For Code
Google has released Google Code Search, a search engine explicitly for code. Google is crawling all the publicly available code they can find including archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. Searches can be performing using regular expressions and limited by language and license.
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SOA and Business Process
As SOA Adoption matures, increasingly organizations are thinking about business process and the style of composite application development that involves a process that coordinates business services. Enterprise Systems Journal has posted an article on this topic.
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ESB Technology Goes Open Source
Backed by Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler ventures to the tune of $4M dollars, CEO Dave Rosenberg and Mule ESB Open Source Leader Ross Mason are ready to take on the biggest ESB players with their Open Source ESB strategy. But not only are other ESB companies waiting, but the field is already crowded with other Open Source options.
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Spring 2 Final Released - Downloads overload servers
Spring 2 final has gone live. Soon after the release their servers became unavailable due to all the downloads. :) Spring 2 final is the much awaited release with new the new simplified and extensible XML configuration, AOP enhancements and AspectJ integration, asynchronous JMS, first class JPA support, dynamic language support, OSGi, portlet support and MVC enhancements.
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Mule ESB 1.3 Released - Adds XFire and Spring Remoting Support
MuleSource, the company founded earlier this year to provide support and services to Mule users, has released Mule 1.3 today. Mule is the most commonly used open-source Enterprise Service Bus, with over 200,000 downloads. The new version improves performance and adds support for XFire and Spring Remoting.
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New Podcast on SOA Governance
Macehiter Ward-Dutton Consulting out of the UK achieved noteriety as an SOA thought leader by posting the anti "SOA 2.0" petition lambasting Oracle and Gartner group for their marketing messages. Listen in as Neil Ward-Dutton provides a perspective on SOA Governance.
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Return of the Rich Client - .NET 3.0 Meets the NY Times
Listening to all the Web 2.0 hype, you would think rich client applications have gone the way of DOS and dinosaurs. But it appears that the New York Times didn't get the memo, and they have the killer app to prove it.
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Study Shows That 11% of Sites Are Vulnerable to SQL Injection Attacks
In an informal study, Michael Sutton of SPI Dynamics was able to demonstrate that 80 out of 708 tested web sites were susceptible to SQL injection attacks.
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Spring 2 Video Interview with Juergen Hoeller and Rob Harrop
Spring core developers Rob Harrob and Juergen Hoeller talk about what, why, and how of the new features in Spring 2, including XML configuration, custom tags, AspectJ integration, and migrating to Spring 2. The interview also discusses how to use Spring on large scale projects, common pitfalls with using Spring, and Spring MVC vs. other frameworks.
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Jetty 6: Rewritten for Continuations, NIO, Servlet 2.5
The Jetty 6 was released a couple of weeks ago and 6.0.1 a few days ago. The Jetty 6 code base is a complete rewrite adding such features as Continuations, NIO support, and 2.5 Servlet spec compliance. InfoQ caught up with Jetty lead Greg Wilkins to find out more details on the version 6 product.
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Debate: The Future of WS-BPEL
With the recently released public review draft of the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification, an interesting debate has started about the relative merits of BPEL in general and issues surrounding portability, interoperability, and compatibility.