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  • Sun demonstrates WS-AT interoperability with Microsoft

    Sun's latest Project Tango release includes WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-Coordination support. They also have demonstrated interoperability .NET 3.0 clients.

  • Adobe Announces Open Source Roadmap for Flex

    Continuing their dive into open source, Adobe has announced a road map for the transition of Flex to open source. Last fall Adobe contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation to create the Tamarin project.

  • Live From Redmond Coverage: LINQ Overview

    Kit George presented the second installment of the live Orcas webcasts. Highlights include LINQ syntax and features.

  • Spring Web Flow Enhances JSF Navigation and State

    In a new article Interface21's Keith Donald details how Spring Web Flow integrates with JSF to provide a better model for implementing navigation logic and managing application state.

  • JRuby: Almost Ready for Primetime?

    JRuby 0.9.9 is now out in the wild and has been declared “ready for prime time”. Ola Bini goes as far as to say: “JRuby is ready for prime time. Application developers should try their applications on JRuby NOW” InfoQ's newest Ruby reporter, Sam Aaron, investigates.

  • Java Web Frameworks Increase Support for Auto-Reload

    Java web frameworks are increasingly adopting the ability to change portions of a web application and see the results immediately without restarting the server. This capability reduces the cost of the compile-build-test cycle, and helps to compete with the features of dynamic-language web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or TurboGears.

  • Google SoC Series: Web-based Rails Debugger

    Rails exception stack traces in the browser are a common sight for Rails developers (and sometimes users). A Google Summer of Code project aims to speed up Rails debugging by giving the developer a web-based, interactive shell to investigate the system after an exception happened. InfoQ caught up with Eugen Minciu, the developer of the project, to see what he's planning.

  • Red Hat splits JBoss development tree, acquires MetaMatrix

    Red Hat made two big announcements today at a press conference about their middleware strategy. First, they're separating JBoss into two branches, similar to what they did with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Secondly, they have acquired all the assets of MetaMatrix, provider of federated data services and metadata management to boost their SOA offerings.

  • Live From Redmond Coverage: Orcas Overview

    In conjunction with the release of VS Orcas Beta 1, the VB Team is hosting a series of live web casts. The first installment, presented by John Stallo, ran today.

  • Agile Tooling Survey Results

    Trailridge Consulting's independent survey looked at the adoption of agile practices globally, and the characteristics of the agile companies included in the survey, including demographics and Agile methodologies in use. It went on further to examine the tools which support Agile Project Management and delivery, from spreadhsheets to full blown integrated Agile PM tools.

  • Extended Rails Scaffolding with ActiveScaffold

    Scaffolding is a powerful Rails feature which will generate interfaces to interact with your data-model directly. It can either be used as starting-point or administrative backend tool. But the default Rails scaffold ignores relation between models. ActiveScaffold fulfills this and comes with pretty dynamic Ajax UIs.

  • Interview: Scott Allan on Windows Workflow Foundation

    Scott Allan is interviewed by David Totzke on Windows Workflow Foundation, recorded a year ago at VSLive Toronto. Scott talks about the capabilities of Windows Workflow foundation, how it integrates into application development, how Microsoft is using WWF in its own products, DSLs and WWF, and architectural pattterns possible with WWF.

  • JadeLiquid Software Releases Pure Swing Browser Component Based on Firefox

    JadeLiquid Software has released WebRenderer Swing Edition a pure Swing embedded browser component built upon Mozilla technology. This allows support for features such as Flash, CSS and DHTML without requiring native browser support to be installed on the destination OS.

  • VersionOne adds Taskboard, Subversion/Fitnesse Integration and Free Community Edition

    VersionOne, the maker of Agile Enterprise, one of the leading agile project management tools, has released two significant versions of their platform within the past few months: a free five-user community edition and a new release of their Agile Enterprise/Team platform with Subversion and Fitnesse integration as well as a new dynamic Taskboard view.

  • Ray Tracers using C# and LINQ

    Luke H. shows how to write a ray tracer using C# 3 and LINQ in about 400 lines of code.

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