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InfoQ Interview with Maher Masri, CEO of Genuitec on MyEclipse 5.5M1
Genuitec released version 5.5M1 of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench this week, and InfoQ sat down with CEO Maher Masri to talk about the new features, including SNAPs.
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Deep Support for Oracle in Visual Studio
Visual Studio has had some support for SQL Server for quite some time, but that does not help the developers who are targeting Oracle. Fortunately Oracle has taken steps to address this by releasing Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET.
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JSR-310 Announced: Date and Time API
Stephen Colebourne has announced JSR 310, a new Date and Time API, to be based on Joda-Time and hopefully shipping in Java 7. As the JSR reads, the goal is to provide a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time than those found in the Date and Calendar APIs.
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Bruce Eckel: Use Flex as the UI for Java Applications
Bruce Eckel has written about the future of user interfaces in Java. He reviews the state of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and states that while Ajax helps, a language designed for user interfaces and rich media is what we need. He proposes that we stop trying to use one language (Java) to solve all of our problems , and instead use Flex and Apollo as a front-end for systems written in Java.
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Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
A new version of the IE Developer Toolbar is available. This provides a collection of tools for web developers including a real time DOM editor and the ability to view pages with scripting or CSS disabled.
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Interview: Arjen Poutsma on Spring Web Services
InfoQ talks to Spring Web Services creator Arjen Poutsma about Spring's Java Web services stack and the different approach it has to building Java Web services. Topics covered include the reason for yet another WS framework, advantages of contract-first, document-driven Web services, JAX-WS, and REST.
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JSR 296 Swing Application Framework Prototype Release
One of the common developer complaints with Swing since its inception has been where is the application framework. JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework which is attempting to address this issue released its first prototype this week.
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PLINQ: Parallel Programming For The CLR
While Microsoft's developer devision refines the core LINQ for the Visual Studio 2007 release, work has already begun on the next version feaures. The one most interesting to those looking to support multi-core computer is Parallel LINQ. Joe Duffy's presentation at Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming workshop gives a good overview of some of background and issues of Parallel LINQ.
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Easier Swing Threading with SwingWorker
In a new Java.net tutorial John O'Conner walks developers through using SwingWorker, which has been included in the core JRE for the first time with the release of Java 6.
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Using Terracotta for clustering or as a POJO-based Data Grid
Two recent articles discuss Terracotta DSO. The first is an overview piece that walks through using Terracotta in a simple example. The second is an article describing how to use Terracotta to build a POJO-based Data Grid.
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Follow up on ASP.NET AJAX release with Shanku Niyogi
Shanku Niyogi is the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, InfoQ was able to grab a few minutes of Shanku's time to have him answer a series of questions on ASP.NET AJAX. This is a follow up to the announcement last week of the ASP.NET AJAX release.
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Interview: David Black on the Success of Ruby
Noted Ruby community leader and author David Black puts the success of Ruby and the growth of its community in historical perspective, why Matz is an optimal custodian for the language, and the overall success of Ruby and Rails and related conferences. We also discuss David's book Ruby for Rails, and why it's needed at this time by the Rails community.
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InfoQ Article: In-Process JVM & CLR Interop
The two most popular managed environments (the JVM and the CLR) are in fact, nothing more than a set of shared libraries, each providing services to executing code such as memory management, thread management, code compilation (JIT), etc. Using both the JVM and the CLR inside the same operating system process is easy; in this new article, Ted Neward shows how and why.
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Book Download: Mr. McNeighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book
The Humble Little Ruby Book covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
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Fire and Motion: What OpenXML Means to IBM and Lotus Notes
In the on going debate between ODF and OpenXML, two things are becoming clear. The first is that both ODF and OpenXML are essentially proprietary formats dressed up to be open standards. The second is neither IBM nor Microsoft is going to back down.