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Understanding Seam Nested Conversations and Timeouts
Jacob Orshalick recently explored Seam's nested conversation model and related timeouts using Seam's demo booking example.
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Rubinius adds Multi-VM support
Rubinius adds a new feature called "Multi-VM", which allows to run multiple Ruby VMs inside an OS process. We talked with Evan Phoenix of the Rubinius project about the benefits and implementation of this feature.
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Mike Hankey on Clipboard Programming
One of the corner-stones of Windows is the universal clipboard. Every well-designed application is expected to have at least minimal clipboard support and many are quite sophisticated. Yet the .NET framework doesn't expose all of its functionality directly, making it a mystery to most developers. Mike Hankey seeks to bring it to light with The Code Project article ClipSpy+.
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Specialized Message Patterns for SOA
Adobe have just published a document on SOA message exchange patterns. It also contains a good primer on SOA principles. Duane Nickull, the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee, is a co-author, making this well worth a look.
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Is the Proprietary Nature of the Flash Player Keeping You From Using Flex?
Per Olesen published a blog recently entitled, Flash is Still Closed Source and Proprietary Technology, where he argues that Flash is still a proprietary platform.
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Editorial: Selecting a .NET Web Framework
In the past selecting a web framework for .NET languages was a non-issue. Your choice was between pure ASP.NET or a hybrid design that mixed classic ASP with ASP.NET. And even that was seen as a temporary hack rather than a conscious choice. But with the introduction of ASP.NET MVC, .NET developers have to start making the hard decisions.
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Open Source Flex Development Frameworks Show that Platform is Gaining Momentum
A number of open source development frameworks have sprouted up around Adobe Flex. InfoQ took a moment to identify a few of the major ones.
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JBoss Rolls Out Developer Studio 1.0 and Tools 2.0
JBoss recently released new versions of their JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools products.
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JEE 6: Extensibility, Profiles and Pruning
Whilst the public details are still a little sketchy, the general direction of Java EE 6 is becoming apparent and reflects the changing role of the Java EE standard.
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MarkMail Takes Mailing List Archives to the Next Level
Late last year MarkLogic rolled out MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives based on their MarkLogic XML content server. Currently MarkMail supports Apache.org, Mozilla.org, PHP and MySQL lists. InfoQ sat down with Jason Hunter of MarkLogic to find out more details on site and where it is heading in the future.
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Bitemporal Framework Adds Time Dimension To Rich Domain Models
Tracking time is a very common requirement in business domain models. Bitemporal framework from ErvaCon, created based on the Temporal Patterns, addresses these time related requirements in rich domain models.
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JavaFX: Current Status and What’s Upcoming
In October, InfoQ.com published an overview of JavaFX. Sun Microsystem’s Chet Haase followed-up to share additional details with InfoQ.com on what’s to come with the addition of JavaFX to the Java platform.
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The state of the Lambda in Ruby 1.9
One of Ruby 1.9's little additions is a new, more concise way to create lambda functions, amongst some other clarifications in the way Blocks work. We take a look at the changes and the reasons for them.
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JPA Frameworks Compared
java.net is hosting an article written by Sharad Acharya titled "Java Persistence Framework: Which, When, and What?" that compares four popular persistence frameworks: CMP Entity EJBs, JPA, Hibernate, and TopLink. Acharya discusses each technology and summarizes his findings in a matrix.
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Massive Silverlight 2.0 Deployment Planned for August
On August 8th, the Summer Olympic Games will start in China. To coincide with that, Microsoft has persuaded NBC to use Silverlight 2.0 for online coverage. With millions of people expected to watch the games online, this could very well be fastest deployment of a new online technology.