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Apache Synapse 1.0 and WSO2 ESB 1.0 Released
<p></p> <p>The open source mediation platform Synapse 1.0 has been released, as well as a commercial ESB product which based on it. InfoQ spoke to WSO2's CTO and Synapse committer Paul Fremantle, about the details.</p>
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Gardens Point Ruby.NET internals interview
An option for running Ruby on the CLR today is the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. A lot of work has gone into compatibility with Ruby and, recently, interoperability with other languages on the CLR. We talked to John Gough, of the Ruby.NET team, about technical details, compatibility and future plans for community participation in the project.
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Apache Solr: Lucene Based Server Provides Highly Scalable Enterprise Search
Apache Solr is a Lucene-based enterprise search server that delivers out-of-the-box indexing and query capabilities in a portable war file. Users interact with Solr via an HTTP interface, submitting content for indexing and making queries using XML documents and HTTP GET parameters.
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Entity Services - Pattern or Anti-pattern?
Entity Services or business-centric entities are considered by some to be a corner stone of Service Oriented Architecture - however not everyone agrees with this view. So are Entity Services a pattern or an anti-pattern for SOA?
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Article: Unit-Testing XML
In this exclusive InfoQ article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to use the XMLUnit Java framework to write tests in the presence of XML.
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The Microsoft OBA Framework
Microsoft has been touting a new way to build composite applications using the acronym, “OBA”. The intended sweet spot for OBA is within the Lines of Business within the greater Enterprise cloud. The OBA framework capitalizes on the large number of Microsoft Office licenses that have been sold world-wide.
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Google GData/Atom Publishing Protocol too limited for Microsoft
Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.
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JRuby 1.0 Released: Bringing Ruby Compatibility to the JVM
JRuby 1.0 has been released. The release marks 9 months since commiters Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo were hired by Sun. The release is being termed as "Ruby compatible" with all known JRuby bugs causing incompatibilities with Matz's Ruby (MRI) resolved.
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W3C Workshop on Web of Services Report
The W3C has released a report about the results of the Workshop on the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, which was held in February.
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InfoQ Turns One Year Old!
InfoQ officially launched exactly one year ago today, and what a year it has been! Our mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community; in keeping with that mission InfoQ has published a crazy amount of content, launched our QCon event in London, launched InfoQ China, and have reached over 135,000 unique visitors/month.
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Getting Started with the DLR
John Lam has posted a quick start kit for people interested in creating their own languages using the DLR.
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Digging Deeper Into The Myths of Ruby vs. Java
Stuart Halloway of Relevance recently wrote a series of blog posts on "Ruby vs. Java Myths". The series was prompted after he switched gears from working on a green field Ruby project back to a well established Java project.
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Google SoC Series: Constraint programming with Ruby
Constraint programming is a type of logic programming which allows you to define the constraints of a problem and leave it up to the computer to determine a solution. A Google SoC sponsored project will bring constraint programming to Ruby via a binding to the Gecode library. We talked to Andreas Launila, who develops the project.
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Test Dozens of Browsers All At Once
A new project called Browsershots allows web designers to see what their site looks like in a multitude of browsers and platforms with a trivial amount of effort.
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Can Virtual Teams Ever Work?
Co-location is one of the cornerstones of Scrum, so the increasing trend toward non-co-located teams raises questions on how Agile can work in such an environment. David Churchville has blogged some common distributed team scenarios, and offered solutions to common pitfalls of delivering Agile projects using different types of distributed teams.