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Sun Open Sources Fortress programming language for the JVM
Fortress, a new language designed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC), has been released on SunSource under the BSD language. The preliminary interpreter is based on the JVM. Fortress is intended as a modern day replacement for Fortran.
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VersionOne Agile Enterprise Toolset v6.4 Released
VersionOne, provider of Web-based lifecycle planning and management applications, launched their V1: Agile Enterprise toolset in July, and follows up this month with release 6.4 which includes new features for improved customization, integration, and simplified planning.
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2006 Top Enterprise Software News and Content
It is our pleasure to present to you the most popular content on InfoQ in 2006. InfoQ.com launched June 8th, 2006, and has since put out over seventy six high quality articles on Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile, as well as a number of free downloadable books and video interviews / video conference presentations by world renowned experts.
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Article: Spring 2.0: What's New and Why it Matters
Spring co-founder Rod Johnson provides the definitive article on the motivations behind and uses of the new features in Spring 2.0. This first article covers the Spring core container, XML configuration extensions, AOP enhancements and Java 5-specific features.
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Tattling on the Ruby Community
Recently Jim Weirich, Bruce Williams, and Chad Fowler were chatting about how to improve the RubyGems platform-specific behavior, and realized that it would be really helpful to have more info about the install footprint of the Ruby community at large. That information is now available.
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A Discussion On Grails in the Enterprise
Groovy/Grails has continued to gain momentum in recent months. Grails co-founder Steven Devijver recently took a look at the Java web framework space and the case for Grails in the Enterprise.
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Eclipse Foundation joins JCP, OMG, and OSGi Alliance
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, has announced that they are joining the Java Community Process. At the same time they are joining the Object Management Group (OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. They're also working towards joining ObjectWeb and OpenAjax.
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Groovy Eclipse Plugin Updated Including Basic Code Completion
The Groovy Eclipse plugin has been updated to make use of Groovy 1.0 and includes basic code completion among its features.
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Ruby Version of Refactoring In the Works
Martin Fowler's venerable Refactoring book is getting a facelift. Noted Rubyist Jay Fields today announced that he and a team of ThoughtWorks Ruby experts are busy "porting" the book from Java to Ruby.
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ONJava reviews Wicket
ONJava has a review of Wicket. He concludes that Wicket is a good contender if you're looking for a component-oriented web application framework.
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ILMerge: Combine Multiple .NET Assemblies Into a Single Executable
ILMerge allows developers to combine several .NET Assemblies into a single executable. The most obvious advantage of this is in deployment scenarios where the ability to copy a single file is preferable.
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QCon Schedule Posted: Europe has a New Major Software Conference
The schedule for QCon London has been posted spanning 5 days with three full conference days and 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, Investment banking IT, Architecture, Usability, and case studies on eBay and other major software deployments.
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A Look at OSGi Services in Respect to Spring
Noted OSGi expert Peter Kriens has written a summary of a recent discussion on the Spring-OSGi mailing list related to how OSGi services are handled by Spring. Throwing OSGi services into the IOC mix creates a number of considerations that Spring alone does not have.
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WS-MTOM Policy submitted to W3C
MTOM has quickly become an important component within the Web Services developers arsenal, offering the composability of base64 with the transport efficiency of SOAP with attachments. But unfortunately it wasn't tied into the rest of the Web Services architecture: there was no standard way for services to advertise that they were "MTOM ready". Until today that is.
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The Roots of C# 3.0: F# and C-Omega
Tomas Petricek talks about C# 3.0 and the languages that led to many of its new features. The two languages that most inspired C# 3.0, F# and C-Omega, are discussed in detail along with how the features changed as they moved from the research languages to C#.