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Strong Duck Typing Cut from VB 9
Visual Basic's implementation for duck typing, known as Dynamic Interfaces, has been cut from the Orcas release due to time constraints.
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DON'T PUBLISH THIS (THE ENGLISH CONTENT WAS MADE BY MISTAKE)
Sun于2006年11月13日宣布在GNU通用公共许可证第2版（GNU General Public License v2, GPLv2）下开放Java SE、Java ME以及 Glassfish的源代码，同时Sun发布了Java SE 7 HotSpot JVM、javac编译器和JavaHelp的早期构建版本。完全可构建的Java SE 7 JDK类库计划于2007年第一季度发布。关于Java管理模式的计划尚未宣布。
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InfoQ China Unlaunches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. To maximize InfoQ's positive impact, InfoQ is extending to serve communities where English is a strong barrier, starting with China, and in a few months Japan, and hopefully Brasil by the end of the year.
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Understanding Legacy Code with Characterization Testing
Alberto Savoia has written a series of four articles describing "characterization testing" - the process of writing unit tests to understand and work with legacy code.
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Five Common Ajax Anti-Patterns
Jack Herrington has written about common pitfalls in Ajax code, calling out five specific problems he sees often enough to consider anti-patterns: Polling on a timer when you don't need to, not inspecting the return results in the callback, passing complex XML when HTML would be better, and more.
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Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools from a Developer's Perspective
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are an architectural hotspot. Microsoft supports DSLs within the Software Factory Initiative and provides a means to incorporate them into the software development process via the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. Although there is quite some information available on the topic, for the most part, DSLs remain an abstract architectural concept.
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Does Groovy need a GUI Builder
Geertjan is integrating Groovy support into NetBeans 6.0 and is impressed with the ease of writing Swing code in Groovy. He questions whether a Matisse-like GUI builder is necessary for Groovy. Danno Ferrin responds that layout, specifically GroupLayout is the reason.
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JBoss Messaging Matures with Clustering & Transparent Failover Support
A couple of weeks ago JBoss (now part of Red Hat) released JBoss Messaging 1.2, replacing JBossMQ and adding clustering and transparent failover one would expect from a production messaging system. InfoQ spoke to JBoss Messaging Project Lead (Ovidiu Feodorov) and Technical Lead (Tim Fox), to ask them about their latest release as well as their thoughts on JMS & SOA in general.
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ActiveWarehouse, a New Step for Enterprise Ruby
ActiveWarehouse, is a significant new plugin that makes it easier to build data warehouses in Rails.
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MapReduce Gaining Traction: Tools Plugin Released for Eclipse and Amazon EC2 Support
IBM's Alphaworks website has released an Eclipse plugin to simplify the development of applications using Hadoop, the open source Java MapReduce framework. Work has also been done to easily allow Hadoop applications to run on Amazon's EC2 and S3 platforms for processing and storage.
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Presentation: Simplifying Enterprise Development with Groovy
Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project manager, teaches how scripting with Groovy can increase your productivity and help you build and test solutions faster on the Java platform. Topics include Groovy the language, Ant builder, XML support, Swing support, Groovy's Meta Object Protocol, and more.
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Guice and JavaConfig: Two Approaches to IoC through Annotations
Now that the dust has settled a bit from the initial release of Guice, the comparisons with Spring IoC and specifically with Spring JavaConfig are available. Guice and JavaConfig offer different approaches on putting IoC configuration into code using Java annotations.
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Target Process Agile PM Tools v2.3 Released
The TargetProcess planning and tracking toolset is evolving quickly. Since release 2.0, they have added Test Cases bound to User Stories and Test Plans, Subversion Integration for requirement-to-source code and defect-to-source code visibility, People Allocation Management and a public Web Services API, making v2.3 a more attractive solution for large Agile shops.
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Article: Changing the Present Case Study
In an exclusive InfoQ case study, popular author Bruce Tate reveals the technical details behind the extraordinary web 2.0 charity site, changingthepresent.org.
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Joyent Slingshot: Enable Rails Applications to Run
Hosting provider, Joyent, recently announced an early testing program for Slingshot, a framework that enables the development of Rails applications that function both online and offline.