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eXo Java Content Repository and ECM 1.0 Released
Exo and Objectweb have announced the release of their Java Content Repository JCR 1.0 open source product (an implementation of JSR 170) as well as ECM (Enterprise Content Management) 1.0 tools, part of the eXo portal platform which also includes a JSR 168 compliant portal server.
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CRX Content Repository for Java 1.2 Released
Day Software has released version 1.2 of Day Content Repository Extreme (CRX). CRX is a content repository implementing the new Content Repository for Java Technology (JCR) standard. This release adds Apache Derby support, Active/Passive Clustering, and full JSR 170 compliance. InfoQ spoke to Day CTO David Nuescheler to get more information.
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New Release of V1: Agile Enterprise Development Suite
This new release from VersionOne allows all project stakeholders -- project managers, executives, developers, product managers, customers, and testers -- to collaborate and coordinate plans and progress much more effectively. With extended support for the Agile life cycle, this tool offers better visibility into the entire software development process.
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Pulse Continuous Integration Server 1.1 Released
Zutubi has recently announced Pulse 1.1. Pulse is a continuous integration server for building and testing your project's source code. It supports a number of build frameworks (ant, maven, etc) and SCM servers (CVS, Perforce, Subversion, etc).
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STIQ Simplifies Story Tests for Web Apps
SolutionsIQ launched their latest product this week at Agile2006. A mashup of the popular open-source acceptance test tools FitNesse and Selenium, STIQ is used for writing acceptance tests while developing web applications. It features a simple command language, wiki-based editing and pluggable features.
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Ken Schwaber: Sacrificing Quality should be an Executive Management Decision
At Agile2006, Co-founder of the Scrum methodology Ken Schwaber argued that as professionals we should not accept business requests to sacrifice quality in order to meet timelines, and if quality does need to be sacrificed such a decision should be made by executive management and reflected in the financial statements of the company.
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HP buys Mercury Interactive
HP buys Mercury Interactive. Mercury had recently been embroiled in an options scandal which consumed top management including Ammon Landon, former CEO of Mercury. This combined entity provides for a powerful Enterprise System Management offering with HP OpenView and industry leading testing tools such as Winrunner and Loadrunner.
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BEA Finishes Moving OpenJPA Code to the Apache Incubator
BEA has finished the last set of OpenJPA code drops to the Apache Incubator. OpenJPA will be an enterprise grade JPA implementation suitable for production use. It will also form the basis for BEA's commercial Kodo 4.1 and WebLogic's JPA support.
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Is there room for both Ruby on Rails and J2EE?
Aaron Rustad takes a look at the differences between Rails and J2EE in an article published by IBM developerWorks, and ultimately suggests J2EE won't be dying any time soon.
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SOA Integration and Methodologies
Miko Matsumura interviews John Harby, an independent consultant, OASIS Techican Committee member and SOA practitioner on popular SOA implementation methodologies.
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Juggernaut: Real-time communication for your Rails views
Alex MacCaw Ruby on Rails releases Juggernaut, a Rails plugin that provides a real-time socket connection between Rails views and a message bus / data server.
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Best Practices for Planet-Scale Software Updates
A new Microsoft research paper has examined data from billions of Windows update queries from 300 million computers using the Windows update service in order to learn about the traffic characteristics of software patch distribution and also examine alternative architectures (P2P and caching) to support planet-scale software updating.
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Fowler Begins Updating Patterns of EAA Including GUI Patterns
Martin Fowler has started working on an update to his acclaimed book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture over the last few months. One of the major areas of focus thus far has been patterns relating to GUI architectures.
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Use Modeling to Communicate Between IT and Business
Communicating business requirements, operations structures, and technical solutions between IT and business people with different backgrounds has always been a challenge. The first book in the Architect Resource Library from the Microsoft Architectural Strategy Team shows how to use models to overcome this challenge: Dynamic Modeling: Aligning Business and IT.
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Refactoring your Rails application to be RESTful
Scott Raymond writes about how his life became easier when he refactored the application behind IconBuffet.com to using RESTful URLs.