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OpenXava 4.0 Supports JPA 2.0 and Dependency Injection
The latest version of Java based model-driven development framework OpenXava supports JPA 2.0 and Dependency Injection. OpenXava version 4.0 also includes improvements in Groovy support to define the JPA entities.
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Comparing Apple, Google and Microsoft
A Gartner webinar (PDF) compares three major players in the software industry today - Apple, Google and Microsoft –, trying to see where they stand today, and how IT decisions will be affected by their competition with each other. TheOpenSourcery compared the same companies from a different perspective: agility and openness.
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Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine
Google offers now two options for storage on its App Engine, the Master/Slave Datastore and the new High Replication Datastore, which remains available during downtime and offers a higher degree of resiliency to catastrophic failures.
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Google Chrome Drops H264 Support
The Google Chrome team have announced that they will remove H264 support from the HTML5's video tag in Chrome in the next couple of months. Opinions are polarised as to the effect this will have on HTML5 video adoption.
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Amazon Launches the Appstore Developer Portal
Amazon has announced the launch of the Appstore Developer Portal preparing the way for the upcoming Appstore for Android. The model used is different than Google’s Marketplace both regarding the review process and setting up the application price.
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Making the Case for RAMClouds
Since early 2008, researchers and technologists alike have been tantalized by the possibility of using DRAM to scale high-performance storage using In Memory Data Grids, IMDG. How has the discussion progressed since that time?
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NIST Cloud Computing Twiki Launched
Today NIST began sending users their credentials for their Cloud Computing twiki, of which Kevin Jackson was one of the first to be granted access. The intent of the NIST working group is to promote cloud computing adoption and overcome the current percieved barriers of security, interoperability and portability.
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Lessons Learned from Skype’s Outage
On December 22nd, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a post-mortem analysis of the outage.
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Cloud Patterns from VMware
Over the last few months WMware's Steve Jin has published several design patterns around working with virtual machines in the cloud, especially vCloud.
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Cloud Computing Trends in 2011
As the new year is about to begin, research analysts have been peering into their crystal balls the last several months to define the top trends in cloud computing. Cloud Computing has moved from buzzword and hype to the real technology in the last 3 years. What do InfoQ readers think?
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Allegations of a Backdoor in OpenBSD Are Not Confirmed
Some allegations regarding backdoors implemented at FBI’s request in OpenBSD’s IPsec stack were made earlier this month. After auditing the code, Theo de Raadt, the founder of OpenBSD, has concluded that there are no such threats in the open source operating system.
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HTML5 Labs–A Website for Prototyping New Web Technologies
Microsoft has decided not to include emerging web technologies still under development in IE9, providing instead HTML5 Labs, a website for testing prototype technologies such as IndexedDB and WebSockets.
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Google Goes Deeper into the Enterprise with Chrome and GAE for Business
Google wants to make inroads in the enterprise space offering a business version of Chrome, including policies, preferences, and configuration capabilities, and upgrading the GAE offering with an SLA, support, billing, hosted SQL, SSL, and SSO.
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Sonar 2.4: Architecture Constraint Rules and Maven 3 Support
The latest version of open source code quality management tool Sonar supports architecture constraint rules and custom dashboards. SonarSource team recently released Sonar 2.4 version which also includes Maven 3 support and an update center to install and upgrade Sonar plugins.
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Opinion: 2010 AWS Challenge Winner Thinks Success In the Cloud Starts With Architecture
Mike Kavis, CTO of the M-Dot Network, and winner of the 2010 Amazon AWS Startup Challenge, shared some of the key elements of his success. The most amazing part of his story? He built a world class transaction network on a $1000/month Cloud Computing budget.