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Panel: Java Object Persistence: State of the Union
In this panel, the editors of InfoQ.com (Floyd Marinescu) and ODBMS.org (Roberto V. Zicari) asked a group of leading persistence solution architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the Java community.
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Presentation: Introduction to Spring.NET
Dr. Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, provides an introduction focused on implementing and designing loosely coupled application architectures.
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Nokia sees the Silverlight
Nokia announced it will make Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 available for its S60 phones running Symbian OS as well as Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight will give developers opportunities to create rich and interactive applications running on multiple platforms.
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A New Way to Write Mashups in IE
Microsoft is creating a new way to write mashup-like functionality with what they call "Activities". Rather than being defined within a specific page, users can launch the same set of Activities regardless of what page they are on. The specifications for these have been released under Creative Commons and include patent protection, making them available to other web browser vendors.
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SharpDevelop 3.0 Enters Beta
With the recent release of the .NET Framework version 3.5, a new release of SharpDevelop 3.0 is pending.
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SQL Server Data Services: Microsoft's Answer to Amazon S3
Microsoft has announced SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) at MIX08. Being a storage service on the web, SSDS is Microsoft's Amazon S3 competitor.
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JRuby support in Ruby in Steel for Visual Studio
SapphireSteel's Ruby in Steel IDE for Visual Studio just added another feature: JRuby support. This includes a new fast debugger for JRuby. We talked to Huw Collingbourne about this new feature.
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POJO Messaging Architecture with Terracotta
Mark Turansky detailed his implementation of a message bus architecture using Terracotta and Java 5. Instead of using an MQ or JMS based deployment, Mark took advantage of the Terracotta architecture to create his POJO message bus. This allowed for a clean, simple, and inexpensive infrastructure solution to his message needs.
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Windows Server 2008 Available for Evaluation
The long awaited Windows Server 2008 is finally here. Was it worth waiting for?
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MacRuby - Ruby 1.9 ported to Objective-C
A new project called MacRuby aims to improve Ruby on MacOS X by using the Objective-C runtime and Garbage Collector to improve Cocoa support and speed. To get an idea of how MacRuby works, we talked to Laurent Sansonetti of the MacRuby team.
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Debate about Testing and Recoverability: Object Oriented vs. Functional Programming Languages
In his latest blog post, Michael Feathers argued that object oriented programming languages offer some built-in features that facilitate testing and are therefore more recovery friendly than functional languages. Proponents of functional languages expressed strong disagreement with this statement, which provoked a very passionate debate in the blog community.
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Proposed VS 10 Features Released as a VS 2008 Add-On
Microsoft has released a demo of potential Visual Studio 10 features as an extension for VS 2008. The features, collectively called PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008, include the source code.
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The End of XSLT for .NET Programmers?
Microsoft's VB team is starting a series of articles on how to use XML Literals. Many of these articles will demonstrate how to replace XSLT code with VB by making direct comparisons between the two languages.
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Interview: Joe Walker about DWR 3.0
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with the <a href="http://getahead.org/dwr">DWR</a> (Direct Web Remoting) project lead <a href="http://getahead.org/blog/joe/" title="Joe Walker's Blog">Joe Walker</a>. He discussed the upcoming release of DWR 3.0 including major features, helpful features and fixes for developers, a time line and a look at the future of DWR.
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Interview: Patrick Curran discusses the Java Community Process
In this interview, new JCP chairman Patrick Curran discusses his goals for the JCP, what role standards play, the interactions between innovation and standardization, the impact of OpenJDK, the Java SE TCK and Apache Harmony, the shift in application servers from Java EE to SOA, future Java technology standardization, interesting and successful JSRs, and the future of the JCP.