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A Look at Flex 3.0's Java-based Compiler API
Integrating Java and Flex has proven challenging in some cases. Adobe is trying to make things easier with its release of Flex 3 which includes a Java-based compiler API. This API lets you compile SWF and SWC files from Java applications, supporting the same options as mxmlc and compc command-line tools.
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Draft DLR Hosting Spec Released
An updated draft of the DLR Hosting Spec has been released. This document covers hosting DLR-based languages with a focus on Silverlight, MerlinWeb, and interactive consoles. As it is just a draft, many of the developer notes explaining what they are trying to accomplish are still present.
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FlexReport For Printing In Adobe Flex
Rob Rusher, a Flex developer and enthusiast, points us to FlexReport. Poor printing support in Flash is a common problem for Flex applications.
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Dependency Injection: New Ground or Solid Footing?
Dependency Injection seems like a shiny new tool in the toolbox. Andrew McVeigh tells us that DI shares a long history with architecture description languages (ADLs), simple yet sophisticated languages for component-based development through descriptive wiring. This article looks at the history of ADLs and sheds light on possible future directions of dependency injection.
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Rails: Resource_controller Plugin Puts Controllers on a Diet
Rails 2.0's REST support is useful but it could be less verbose and more helpful when it comes to nested resources. A Rails plugin called resource_controller helps out by taking the tedious work out of REST controllers. We take a look at the problem and how resource_controller can be used to fix it.
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Article: Ruby Concurrency, Actors, and Rubinius - Interview with MenTaLguY
Actors, Fibers/Coroutines, Rubinius' Multi-VM and other Concurrency topics have come up recently. To put all these concepts into perspective, we talked to Ruby's MenTaLguY, who's been working on Ruby fastthread, Ruby Actors implementations, Rubinius, and much more. Also: a glimpse at MenTaLguY's next project.
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Presentation: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco, Adobe Senior Technical Evangelist Cristophe Coenraets discusses the benefits of Adobe Flex for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, the API that Flex provides to developers, the new AIR runtime, and several examples of RIAs built using Flex, Flash and AIR, such as a word processor, a call center application, and a book viewer.
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A Look at the First HTML 5 Working Draft
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a draft of the HTML 5 specification, which reflects the changing nature of the web since HTML 4 was released more than 10 years ago.
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Measure Teams, Not Individuals
Michael Dubakov recently expressed warning against the measurement of individual velocity and individual estimate accuracy. His view: measurement of these metrics not only provides no more useful information than is already available with their team-level equivalents, but may also have a tendency to encourage teams into behaviors that reduce effectiveness.
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Debate: Is Maven the right tool for builds?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate around the usefulness Maven, which is a Java-based build and dependency management tool being used in many projects. InfoQ took a closer look at this debate to understand what issues are being encountered, and what has resulted from the debate.
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New Scala Tutorials for Java Developers
Scala continues to make news with two more tutorial series, one by Ted Neward at IBM’s developerWorks and one by Daniel Spiewak on his blog.
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Apache Jackrabbit 1.4
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR), and has released version 1.4 after over 9 months of hard work. In the 1.4 release are 220 new features, improvements, and bug fixes since the 1.3 release, making 1.4 the largest release to date.
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The Apache Incubator CXF team announced the availability of the 2.0.4 release
CXF is a fully featured Open Source Web Services Framework which people claim is easy to use and is industrial strength. CXF is also embeddable and people have used it often in combination with Spring. CXF is the combination of the Celtix and XFire communities coming together at Apache.
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Microsoft launches MSDN Code Gallery
Microsoft launched another community resource called MSDN Code Gallery, yesterday. After GotDotNet, the former community portal, has been phased out, Microsoft now launches another successor in addition to CodePlex.
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Comet: Sub-Second Latency with 10K+ Concurrent Users
Comet - technology that allows a sever to send over HTTP a message to the client when an event occurs, without the client having to explicitly request it - has been considered by some to scale poorly in the past. Recent tests using Cometd and Jetty as well as Lightstreamer production implementations prove the opposite.