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Open Source Data Integration Software XAware 5.1 Supports REST, XML Validation and JMX BizComponent
The latest version of XAware, an open-source composite data services software supports REST operations, XML schema validation and enhancements to JMX BizComponent monitoring component. XAware development team last week announced release of version 5.1 of the data integration solution which can be used for creating and managing data services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.
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Presentation: Jinesh Varia About Amazon Alexa Web Service's Architecture
In this presentation, Jinesh Varia, a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, talks about the architecture of one of Amazon's web services called Alexa. Jinesh explains how Amazon has reached scalability, performance and reduced costs for the Alexa service.
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Hibernate 3.3: Redesigned, Modular JARs and a Refactored Caching System
Hibernate, a Java-based Object/Relational (O/R) mapping framework, released version 3.3 today. InfoQ spoke with project lead Steve Ebersole to learn more about this release and what new capabilities it adds to Hibernate.
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Enumerating Concurrent Collections
Continuing our series on parallel programming and collections, we now turn to the problem of enumerating mutable collections. With so many options available, picking the right semantics is hard, so Stephen Toub of the Parallel Extensions team is asking for feedback.
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JUnit Still Not Dead
JUnit has recently released version 4.5 of the infamous Java testing framework, but is it enough to keep the project in the spotlight? Read more to find what's being talked about regarding the future of JUnit.
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Pros and Cons of GitHub vs RubyForge as Gem Source
GitHub recently added its own RubyGems server with an integrated Gems release process. Only problem: these Gems are not automatically available because RubyGems defaults to RubyForge as source. We talked to RubyGems maintainer Eric Hodel, PJ Hyett from GitHub, and Tom Copeland from RubyForge about the problems and possible solutions.
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Iterators for VB
Visual Basic's Paul Vick recently revealed a proposal to add iterators in a yet named version. While meant to address the same use cases as C#'s yield return statement, the proposal looks more like something out of a function programmer's playbook.
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SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RTM Is Available
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack August 2008 the same day when SQL Server 2008 was released. Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages, including Analysis Services, Command Line Utilities and many others, which provide additional value to SQL Server 2008.
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Fluent NHibernate
Fluent NHibernate is an API for creating NHibernate mappings programmatically instead of XML configuration files. Its goal is to reduce the difficulties faced when incorporating NHibernate in a project by providing improved readability, testing capabilities, and compile time safety.
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Article: Spring 2.5: New Features in Spring MVC
Rossen Stoyanchev of SpringSource wrote an article for InfoQ about the new features in Spring MVC that are part of Spring 2.5, notably the annotation-based approaches that are informally known as @MVC. These allow Spring MVC applications to be written with simpler annotated POJOs rather than xml-wired implementations of strict interfaces.
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Microsoft Has Released Sync Framework v1.0 RTM
Microsoft has recently released Sync Framework 1.0 RTM. According to Microsoft, Sync Framework is "a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services and devices".
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Debate Around The Need For The Open Web Foundation
The formation of the Open Web Foundation was recently announced at OSCON 2008 as a way for "community driven specifications" to be standardized. Although there has been some positive responses to the OWF the majority of people seem unconvinced of the efficacy, especially when we already have the IETF, W3C and OASIS.
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Covariance and Contravariance in .NET Generics
Currently .NET languages such as VB and C# do not support covariance and contravariance for generics. While this is not likely to chance in the near future, people at Microsoft are talking about it.
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Interview: Neal Gafter Discusses Closures, Language Features and Optional Typing
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Neal Gafter discusses upcoming language features in Java 7, superpackages, what closures are, the differences between the three major closures proposals (CICE, FCM and BGGA), optional typing systems for dynamic languages, and the next major language.
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Oracle Unveils ts SOA Product Strategy
After the Oracle acquisition of BEA it was not clear how Oracle was going to integrate often competing SOA products in its and BEA’s portfolio. In his presentation last month David Shaffer, VP Product Managemen for, Oracle Integration, described the Oracle-BEA product Strategy and Roadmap for SOA, BPM, Governance and Events.