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InfoQ Article: Secure and Reliable Web Services
Web Services can become the single standard for all exchange of structured data. After waiting over 5 years, two important Web Services specifications have finally been endorsed: WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. Will these specifications allow the adoption of web services as a standard for all communication within and between organizations?
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Functional Programming in Java with Generics and CGLib
Those interested in Functional Programming usually have to use a well suited-language like Scheme, Haskell, Ruby, or Groovy; or, in Java, use Anonymous Inner/Local classes to fake it like commons-collections. Ray Cromwell has a method for doing FP in Java using Generics and CGLib with less code and type safety.
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Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
The 2nd installment in a series of articles for creating Software as a Service, "Multi-Tenant Data Architecture" is now available from the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team on MSDN.
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Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim
Firestar Software has filed a patent claim against Red Hat for Hibernate 3 allegedly infringing on a patent covering O/R mapping. Firestar, who has not released it's ObjectSpark O/R product since 2003 claims that it "has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages."
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Eclipse "Callisto" an Agile Success Story
Today will mark the "Callisto" release of 10 Eclipse toolsets simultaneously, remarkable in that it provides a synchronized set of releases to facilitate implementation of Eclipse for developers building their own tools and applications on top of it. A large, complex and risky undertaking, Callisto was reportedly delivered by open source developers using Agile methods.
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JBI Spec Lead Criticizes Competing SCA Initiative
JBI (Java Business Integration) spec lead Ron Ten-Hove examines SCA (Service Component Architecture) and considers it "a very poor approach to creating a service-oriented architecture".
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New Webcast on WCF contracts
Michele Leroux Bustamante (das Blonde) has recorded a new webcast on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) contracts for the MSDN Architecture Webcasts series. WCF services are composed of three basic elements: addresses, bindings, and contracts, which describe the service in a standard, cross-platform way.
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An Experiment in Clear Communication
Rather than keeping customers and developers apart (to avoid "misunderstandings"), Agilists intentionally bring them together. Communication tends to improve faster than one might expect, and soon everyone is interacting constructively. But in a team or between teams, there is always room for improvement: Cory Foy blogged what happened when he tried a new idea in "The Dreyfus Model Experiment".
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Simplified i18n with new Cintoo Messages 1.0
Cintoo Messages is an i18n framework that was developed over the course of several large internationalization projects where existing Java solutions were not sufficient. Messages supports locales for threads and different bundles for different Java packages. Bundle mapping configuration is done outside of client classes resulting in simplified code.
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CodePlex comes out of beta
Microsoft's shared source project repository, CodePlex has emerged from its public beta, as announced yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in London. Similar in concept to SourceForge, and Microsoft's earlier .NET community effort GotDotNet, CodePlex is based on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
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JBoss ESB: a chat with Mark Little
InfoQ had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Mark Little, the director of the JBoss ESB effort. Since the recent acquisition of the Rosetta ESB by JBoss (now a subsidiary of RedHat), the SOA community at InfoQ has been interested in some more details about this project. Here's the story as told by Mark to InfoQ.
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Test Driven Development Has Become the Norm
In his June article "Test-driven development is the combination of test first development and refactoring" on Dr. Dobbs Portal, Scott Ambler cuts to the chase, as usual: TDD has become the norm. So, do you want to implement it now, or wait for competetive pressure to make it necessary? This article lays out the reasons to consider it, and debunks some widespread misconceptions.
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Examining the Declaration of Interdependence
The Declaration of Interdependence emerged in 2004, when a group of experts met to discuss ways to extend the Agile Manifesto to non-software products and management. In this month's edition of Better Software Magazine, Alistair Cockburn details the DOI's six principles and how they can benefit any enterprise.
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InfoQ Article:Introduction to BackgrounDRb
As the problem domain of your Rails applications expands, you may need to run computationally intensive or long running background tasks. How can you run these long background tasks without your web server timing out? And how do you display the progress to your users?
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WinFS Officially Dropped
On the WinFS team blog on Friday, Quentin Clark blogged that WinFS, the new relational filestore would no longer be shipped as a separate product, instead, parts of it will make it into ADO.NET (entities) and SQL Server. The community is calling thea nnouncement spin and proclaiming that WinFS is dead.