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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.
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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.