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  • Presentation: Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring

    In this presentation from QCon London 2007, William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system architecture, the previous Mainframe-based architecture, architectural challenges and requirements, the new Spring and J2EE-based architecture, upcoming challenges for Voca, and technologies to watch for in the future.

  • TIBCO to support WCF

    TIBCO has announced plans for adding WCF support to its Enterprise Message Service.

  • Eclipse Prepares for 3.4 with Feature Complete Milestone Release

    The final milestone and feature-complete version of Eclipse 3.4M7 was released on Friday, with a number of improvements over the previous Eclipse 3.3 version.

  • OpenEJB 3.0 Supports DI of Enums and Collections, OSGi and EJB 3.0 features

    The latest version of OpenEJB, an open source lightweight EJB implementation framework, supports Dependency Injection of Enums, Collections and Maps, OSGi, and EJB 3.0 specification. OpenEJB 3.0 final released recently, also supports @EJB references to local interfaces in other EAR files, Transaction Logging and EJBd over HTTP protocol.

  • Why Traditional Test-Automation Tools Stifle Agility

    In recent times, much excitement has circulated about the direction of "next generation functional testing" tools. Alas, many agile organizations still struggle to make their traditional record-and-playback automated testing tools work for them. Elisabeth Hendrickson, aka "test Obsessed", tells them why to stop.

  • Mule Founder: JBI Missing the Mark

    Mule founder Ross Mason recently discussed how Java Business Integration (JBI) compares with Mule's architecture. Among the JBI aspects he criticized, his concerns about being very XML dependent, lack of re-usability of JBI artifacts (Binding Components, Service Engines), heavy set of APIs are the most notable items.

  • Article: Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker

    There is no silver bullet. We know it, but don't act like it. Your language, tool or process is better, right? In this article, Jay Fields says: "It depends". The right choices varies with context, people, and more. This article touches upon how a lot of things must impact a choice; learning culture, skill levels, teamwork, incomplete information, metrics - and context.

  • Rails performance analysis with New Relic

    New Relic introduces a new performance analysis tool for Rails applications. The tool is installable as a Rails plugin, and offloads the analysis to the New Relic service. We talked to New Relic's Lew Cirne about the technology behind the product.

  • Flex, AIR and AS3 Flex Gain Code Coverage Utilities

    Joe Berkovitz recently announced the initial experimental release of Flexcover, which is an open source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3. To learn more about Flexover, InfoQ spoke with Berkovtz.

  • Following Real-World ASP.NET MVC Projects

    The Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework second technology preview was released during MIX08 in March but has since released an update to their source code on April 16. This means there are many things going on with those involved in the project at Microsoft as well as those in the community. People are not creating just sample code but creating real applications now.

  • Adobe Moves Towards Greater Flash Openness and Availability

    This week Adobe continued their push towards greater openness within their Flash based technologies. In a move greatly targeted at developers, major adjustments were made to eliminate the licensing restrictions and third-party fees for distributing the Flash Player runtime.

  • Ruby Shoes Roundup: Ruby-Processing with JRuby, The Shoebox, GitHub

    We look at the recent developments around the Ruby Shoes GUI toolkit. The Shoebox is a repository for sharing applications written using Shoes. Next to useful applications, Ruby-Processing uses JRuby to get the Processing environment into Ruby.

  • DataNucleus Launched as Successor to Java Persistence Platform JPOX

    The open source Java persistence platform JPOX has become DataNucleus for its future direction, due to the significant changes in scope of the project since its initiation. The baseline product DataNucleus AccessPlatform, provides persistence to RDBMS, db4o, XML, LDAP and Excel datastores via JDO or JPA APIs.

  • ExtJS Licensing Continues to Evolve as a Result of Controversal Switch from LGPL to GPLv3

    Jack Slocum, lead developer of the popular Javascript library ExtJS, announced this week a community effort to develop two new exceptions for open source software developed using ExtJS 2.1 or greater. This move came as a response to frustration and confusion surrounding recent changes in the Ext JS licensing model from LGPL to GPLv3.

  • PRISM: A WPF Composite UI Framework

    PRISM is an attempt to create a framework used by teams working independently but cooperating to develop large WPF smart client applications.

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