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InfoQ Book: Starting Struts 2
The first Struts2 book has been released. Ian Roughely gives everything you need to get up and running using Struts2 – from the architecture and configuration, to implementing actions and the supporting infrastructure such as validation and internationalization. Above all else, it focuses on the practical – with plenty of code and productivity tips to get you started using Struts2 today.
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Jakarta POI 3.0 - Java API To Access Microsoft Office Format Files
Version 3.0 of the Jakarta POI, the venerable Java library that provides the ability to read and write certain Microsoft Office documents, has been released. This release adds support for MS Excel formulas, improved PowerPoint support, and image extraction for MS Word documents.
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JET 5.0 Released With Java Runtime Slim-Down Technology
Excelsior has released JET 5.0. JET is a toolkit and complete runtime environment for acceleration, protection, and deployment of Java applications. The key enhancement is Java Runtime Slim-Down which provides the ability to exclude certain parts of the Java SE platform from the application's installation package.
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Evan Phoenix hired to work on Rubinius
Evan Phoenix, who created Rubinius, a Ruby VM written in Ruby, has been hired by EngineYard. He'll work on Rubinius half time. This means that all Ruby implementations (Ruby, JRuby, IronRuby, Rubinius) now have paid developers working on them.
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View Source for Silverlight
Ernie Booth has released a plug-in for Reflector that allows users to view the decompiled source for Silverlight applications.
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The Futures of Ruby Threading
Ruby's thread system is about to undergo big changes in Ruby 1.9, possibly moving from user space threads to kernel threads. Or not. A recent interview with Matz and Sasada Koichi shows some new ideas that are considered. We take a look at the different possible future Ruby threading systems.
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Paint.NET for Mono Released to Public
Paint.NET serves as both a good open source graphics editor and a test bed for new .NET functionality like the CLR add-in model. It has also been a highly coveted prize by the Mono team. On May 15, Miguel de Icaza announced that the port of Paint.NET 3.0 is functional.
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Interview: LINQ Creator Erik Meijer
In this InfoQ interview, LINQ creator Erik Meijer talks about the design and capabilities of LINQ, how to use it, why to use it, how it differs from XQuery, how it addresses ORM, extension methods, EDM, and more.
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GridGain Releases Open Source Java Grid Computing Platform with AOP Enablement
GridGain Systems has released version 1.0 of their open source Java grid computing platform. In addition to task oriented grid enabling, GridGain also provides an AOP enablement option. Annotations can be used to grid enable method execution.
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The Consumer Java Runtime Environment in Detail
On May 8th, 2007, Ethan Nicholas and Dennis Gu announced the Consumer JRE at JavaOne. Since JavaOne, Ethan Nicholas and Chet Haase have released additional details about the Consumer JRE, including these elements: Quickstarter, Java Kernel, Deployment Toolkit, Installer Improvements, Windows Graphics Performance, Nimbus Look and Feel.
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ASP.NET Futures to Include Support for Ruby?
The Microsoft website ASP.NET has released the May 2007 edition of ASP.NET Futures. This release demonstrates potential features for post-Orcas versions of ASP.NET including Sivlerlight controls and dynamic language support.
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Microsoft's Roadmap through 2020 to Focus on the Scientific Sector
Microsoft has always put the needs of business customers and home users first. There is another sector that relies on computers, one that has been neglected for decades: the scientific community.
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Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson
The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.
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On Intermediation in SOA
Nick Malik writes about "The Value of Intermediation in SOA", which started an interesting discussion. In his first blog post on the subject he asked the question: "Is it Service Oriented if the message cannot be intermediated?".
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Building Domain-Specific Languages in JRuby
Closing out the Java One conference last week was Rob Harrop's presentation "Exploiting JRuby: Building Domain-Specific Languages for the Java Virtual Machine." Domain specific languages (DSLs) have been gaining popularity, as shown on InfoQ with a presentation on an introduction to domain specific languages by Martin Fowler and posts on the debates in the blogsphere.