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Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0: Now with JPA and JSF tools
As part of the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) release two months ago, Version 2.0 of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) was released. InfoQ spoke with WTP co-lead Jess Garms to learn more about this release and about WTP in general.
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Eclipse DLTK 0.9 Supports Tcl, Ruby and More
In the Eclipse Europa simultaneous release, in addition to Eclipse 3.3, a number of other Eclipse projects were released, including Eclipse DLTK 0.9. DLTK, or Dynamic Language Tool Kit is a plugin designed to add support for dynamic languages within Eclipse. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Andrey Platov, the Eclipse DLTK Project Lead.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 7 M2 Adds Groovy/Grails Support, Dependency Analysis
JetBrains has released the second milestone of IntelliJ IDEA 7. Among the features of M2 are enhanced Groovy/Grails support, dependency analysis tools, and better Spring/Hibernate integration.
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Google Singleton Detector
Google has released a tool that performs bytecode analysis in order to locate and report on Singletons within bytecode. Although the tool has limitations, it is one way to detect a pattern that many see as controversial.
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Interview: Introduction to Workflow Foundation
Workflow Foundation is the new workflow engine from Microsoft. Matt Winkler, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, walks through the story of Workflow Foundation, when to use it and the futures planned in the next version.
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Atlassian Acquires Cenqua
Atlassian Software Systems the company behind JIRA, Confluence, and Bamboo has acquired Cenqua which provides complementary products such as Clover, FishEye, and Crucible. The acquisition should not come as a surprise with plugins already available for JIRA and FishEye and Bamboo and Clover.
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Mingle 1.0 Released: Reactions
Mingle, agile project management software from ThoughtWorks Studios has been released. InfoQ covers the pricing, community reactions and features.
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Free PowerShell Book
Frank Koch of Microsoft Switzerland has released a free mini-book on Windows PowerShell. Highlights include piping objects instead of text between commands and browsing the registry as if it were a file system.
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Kaizen in Lean Software Development
Lean methods employ Kaizen, or continuous improvement, to reduce waste and improve results on a regular, even daily, basis. On the leanagilescrum group, Alan asked, "Are there known techniques for facilitating kaizen activities within Lean/Agile software development?"
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VS 2008 to Support Nested Master Pages
One of the most lauded features in ASP.NET 2.0 is Master Pages. Master Pages serve as templates for a site, making it easier to create and maintain consistent style site-wide. They do have one drawback under VS 2005: they cannot be nested. Visual Studio 2008, expected to be released later this year, eliminates that limitation.
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Launch Date set for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
Yesterday Kevin Turner announced the release date of the next versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server Windows Server at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, CO.
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Why Cmdlets?
Jeffrey Snover describes the differences between using Cmdlets and APIs. He concludes with "Cmdlets are designed for Admins at keyboards while APIs are not. Cmdlets are the very heart and soul of PowerShell."
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Working with Mingle
InfoQ had some time with Mingle project engineer Jay Wallace, to use ThoughtWorks' much anticipated Mingle software and demonstrate to us how it differentiates itself from other products by being a truly agile project management tool.
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Cecil and Reflexil Make Assembly Patching Easy
Jb Evain's Cecil is a library in the Mono project that allows developers to inspect and manipulate compiled assemblies. Sébastien has complemented its capabilities with a GUI interface called Reflexil.
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Sun CTO Bob Brewin on Eclipse 3.3 and the Future of Netbeans
InfoQ recently sat down with Sun CTO Bob Brewin to discuss the Eclipse Europa release and the future direction of Sun's Netbeans IDE.