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Interview with William Louth on JXInsight 5.0
JInspired released version 5 of JXInsight, their performance monitoring tool. InfoQ sat down with William Louth, JXInsight Product Architect and CTO of JInspired to talk about the release and performance monitoring and optimization.
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CLR Add-In Model
Currently .NET applications have the ability to host add-ins. Isolation and sand-boxing can even be accomplished via AppDomains. However there are some gapping holes in the use case. Microsoft's CLR Add-In Team intends to address these holes in VS 2007.
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Spring Conferences target RIAs
Next month brings several conferences, all with strong RIA tracks. Desktop Matters is focused on Java Swing development, EclipseCon is all things Eclipse, 360Flex covers Flex, and QCon has a strong RIA track.
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Deep XML Support for VB 9.0
Microsoft's XML team demonstrates some of the new features for VB 9 including XLINQ and XML Literals by converting iTunes Playlists into Zune Playlists.
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Advising Domain Objects without AspectJ
n a recent article on Java.net Eric Batzdorff considers the application of AOP in respect to singletons versus domain objects. Batzdorff points out that the weight of using such technologies can be much more noticeable when advising domain objects versus singletons.
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Tapestry 5 Preview: POJOs and Annotations over XML
Apache Tapestry has released a preview of Tapestry 5, a complete re-write that adopts Java annotations over XML, POJO component classes over base class inheritance, and promises significant performance improvements.
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DB2 and Visual Studio
Last week we talked about Oracle's support for Visual Studio. Well they are not the only ones who see the need to integrate with VS. IBM's DB2 for .NET offers both ADO.NET drivers and Add-ins for Visual Studio.
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Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! architectures to be presented at QCon
Architects from Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo! will be doing case study talks on aspects of their architectures at QCon London (March 14-16), a three day conference (plus 2 tutorial days) featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Gavin King, Werner Vogels, Rod Johnson, Erik Meijer, and 50 others. Tracks span Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Ajax, Architecture, Usability, and others.
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Beans Binding Update: Scott Violet on JSR 295
Scott Violet has written an update on the status of JSR 295 (Beans Binding). While externally, there has been little happening since last summer, the expert group has made substantial progress and he posts a small demo and some code.
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In Case You Missed It: Oracle Supports .NET in the Database
In the ongoing competition between Microsoft and Oracle for the enterprise developer's attention, SQL Server added the ability to embed .NET code. Not to be out done, Oracle has added that ability as well for both Java and .NET with Oracle Database Extensions for .NET.
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Seam 1.1.5: Now tested on all major appservers
Red Hat has released Seam framework 1.1.5. Seam ties together other JEE frameworks such as EJB3, JSF, jBPM, JBoss Rules (Drools), and iText. This release includes security framework enhancements and increased support for applications servers such as Websphere among its features.
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MS MVP Richard Hale Shaw on C#
Richard Hale Shaw has been mentoring developers for over 15 years and has the distinction of being a Microsoft MVP on C#. In this interview Richard discusses advancements in C# from 2.0 to 3.0.
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Java Module System (JSR 277) Presentation from Spec Lead Stanley Ho
The BeJUG website recently released a presentation on the Java Module System (JSR 277) by spec lead Stanley Ho. The presentation covers the driving forces for JSR 277 such as classpath and jar hell. The online presentation also includes over five minutes of QA time after the presentation.
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Continental Airlines Case Study
It is often said that ASP.NET does not scale and that for real enterprise applications you need to use J2EE. Well, the folks as Continental Airlines beg to differ. Not only does ASP.NET scale in terms of performance, Continental claims it also scales in terms of internationalization.
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SQL Server Compact Edition Released
SQL Server Compact Edition has been released. As we reported in September, this product is being positioned as a replaced for the venerable Jet engine traditional used by Visual Basic programmers for lightweight databases.