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Rubinius runs Rails, Merb
A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.
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IdeaBlade announces DevForce EF beta for building Rich Internet Applications
Recently IdeaBlade announced DevForce EF which builds upon the Microsoft Entity Framework and will provide support for Silverlight.
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JavaOne Semantic Web Panel
In this JavaOne panel session, speaker shared their experiences and opinions on the current state of semantic web technologies.
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Building Spring-Seam Hybrid Components For Web Applications
Spring and JBoss Seam frameworks provide different set of features for developing enterprise web applications. Is it possible to use these two frameworks together in web applications? This topic was the main focus of a recent article and a java community forum discussion on how the strengths of each of these frameworks can be used together.
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The First ADO.NET Providers Supporting the Entity Framework Are Ready
InfoQ published a list of companies interested in offering ADO.NET providers which support the Entity Framework a few months ago. Some of them are offering now the respective providers.
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Adobe Flash Player 10 Released
Today, Adobe announced that Flash Player 10 Beta is now publicly available, the project was previously code named “Astro.” With competitors like JavaFX and Microsoft Silverlight working hard on their own solutions, Adobe Flash Player 10 will include a number of significant enhancements.
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Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book
Roundup of Rails deployment news, including Dreamhost's announcement of Rails support using mod_rails - after the controversy earlier this year, Capistrano 2.3 release as well as the availability of the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide".
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Reactions to Licensing, OSGi, and Technical Aspects of the SpringSource Application Platform
As first reported by InfoQ two weeks ago, SpringSource recently announced a beta release of the SpringSource Application Platform. In the weeks that have passed, developer and industry pundit commentary has been centered around one of two areas, Licensing/General Strategy and OSGi/Technical Implementation.
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Article: Tapestry for Nonbelievers
A new article by I. Drobiazko and R. Zubairov introduces v. 5 of the Apache Tapestry component-oriented web framework. The tutorial shows how to create a component and covers IoC in Tapestry and Ajax.
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JSR 308: Unwarranted Increase in Java Language Complexity?
JSR 308 - Annotations on Java Types - a new language feature proposed for Java SE7 has been discussed in the "Upcoming Java Programming-Language Changes" presentation at JavaOne. In a follow-up, Michael Nygard argues that JSR 308 increases the language complexity with little or no added benefit and sees this as a trigger for Java developers to reconsider their language choice.
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Compass 2.0: Simplification, integration, and performance improvements
The Compass project, an open source project based on Lucene which aims to simplify the integration of search into Java applications, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with Compass founder Shay Banon to learn more about this release and about what Compass provides to the Java community.
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New asDox Release Helps ActionScript 3 Code Generation
Last week Michael Ramirez released asDox 1.0 Alpha 2, an ActionScript 3 parser written in Python. It is based on qDox for Java. The parser skims the source files only looking for things of interest, such as class/interface definitions, import statements, JavaDoc tags and member declarations. InfoQ spoke with Ramirez to gain additional insight.
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New version of .NET Disguised as a "Service Pack"
The beta for Service Pack 1 of .NET 3.5/VS 2008 brings with is a host of new features and libraries including the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services, a client-only version of the Framework, and changes to most of the 3.0 and 3.5 libraries. Despite its name, to many developers this release is as significant as 3.5 itself.
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Book Excerpt and Interview: Effective Java, Second Edition
Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch is an updated version of the classic first edition, which was the winner of a 2001 Jolt Award. The book's publisher, Addison-Wesley, made an excerpt available to InfoQ which includes the contents of the fifth chapter, entitled 'Generics'. InfoQ asked Bloch several questions about the areas that the new edition covers.
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Breaking Changes in the .NET ThreadPool
When .NET 2.0 SP 1 was released with .NET 3.5, the thread pool underwent some significant changes. As Michael C. Kennedy discovered, not all were for the best.