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Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
Last week Microsoft released the feature specifications for the .NET Framework codenamed "Orcas" and the next version of Visual Studio. Among the more notable additions comes multi-targeting across versions of the .NET Framework, a feature that was noticeably absent from Visual Studio 2005.
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Four Ways to Ajax Enable a Java EE Application
Sun's Developer Network posted a series of four articles late last year on different ways to add Ajax to a Java EE application. Each article covers a different way of adding in Ajax, including do-it-yourself, using Dojo, JSF components, and JSF phase listeners.
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Tibco Announces Sponsorship of DWR
TIBCO Software, Inc. which open sourced their General Interface Ajax Toolkit last year, has announced that they will be sponsoring Joe Walker's development of the popular DWR Java library for writing Ajax applications.
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F#: Two Remarkable Years
The functional programming language F# was first announced by Don Syme of Microsoft Research in 2005. Two years after its release, it has already made significant progress towards becoming mainstream. One of its most noteworthy achievements is that it was used by the DOE Joint Genome Institute to create Darren Platt calls "the fastest genome assembly viewer I've ever seen".
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Presentation: Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Cameron Purdy presents on improving performance and scalability of applications through the use of caching to reduce load on the database teir and & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over by reliably sharing live data among clustered JVMs.
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eXoweb Portal and ECM 2.0 Moving towards WebOS
The eXo Platform recently announced new versions of their Portal and ECM products at JavaPolis. InfoQ sat down with Benjamin Mestrallet of eXo Platform to talk about the new products. eXo is targetting the products to simulate a web operating system that fits enterprise needs.
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Mono Migration Analyzer
Can I run my application on Mono? For developers considering writing cross-platform .NET applications, this is an important question. With the Mono Migration Analyzer, it can be answered.
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LDM 3.0 Offers Analysis of Database Dependencies
Lattix has released version 3.0 of their >LDM tool, a lightweight dependency modeling application. LDM provides a way to chart the causal links between the various pieces of an organization's architecture. This release adds support for capturing relationships between database elements and the code that communicates with them.
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Apache Synapse Graduates from Incubator, Releases 0.91
The Apache Synapse project has been promoted from the Apache Incubator to a full member of the Apache Web Services project. Apache Synapse is a mediation framework for Web Services that allows messages flowing through, into, or out of an organization to be mediated. The Synapse team has just released 0.91 of the project.
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The Great Property Debate
Giving closures a break to start 2007, the Java community has taken up the topic of properties in recent days. A flurry of commentary revisiting the possibility of a property keyword and arrow operator has appeared.
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In Case You Missed It: App_Offline.Htm
From time to time operations may find the need to bring down an entire ASP.NET web site for maintenance. And of course a warning message indicating how long the maintenance will take would be useful. ASP.NET 2.0 makes this easy with the magic file known as App_Offline.htm.
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Interview with Jim Sherburne of BEA on WebLogic Server Virtual Edition
InfoQ recently sat down with Jim Sherburne, Director or Product Marketing for BEA's virtualization offerings to discuss BEA's virtualization strategy that was announced last month and LiquidVM, a version of the JVM that includes basic operating system capabilities and will run on a hypervisor.
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SQL Server Always-On Solution Review Program
When building a mission critical database, a lot of attention needs to be paid to the hardware. Simply getting the fastest drives isn't enough if those drives cannot be hot swapped or corrupt data whenever the power fails. Fortunately Microsoft has created a program for choosing the correct storage mechanism.
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ONJava review of the state of Java Media
Chris Adamson has a series of articles up on ONJava about Java Media. He reviews the current state of media and Java libraries to handle it and concludes with a discussion of ways forward, from a JMF re-write to licensing Flash and ends up with Google as a potential library developer for the new library.
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Flash: The Next Open Source Debate?
With Java open sourced and Microsoft unlikely to start open sourcing their software stack anytime soon, Flash stands and one of the most widely used technologies driving the internet which is not open source. Duane Nickull has written a starting point for the debate.