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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.
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Debugging Tools: Hawkeye
If you ever needed to take a peek at a running application, you know that the debugger can be overkill, especially if the source code isn't available. With Corneliu Tusnea's Hawkeye, you can take a peek and even tweak a few things in an easy to use GUI.
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Nexaweb Platform 4.5 and Studio 3.0 released
Nexaweb released version 4.5 of their Nexaweb Platform recently, adding Section 508 Accessibility compliance. Along with the Platform release, Nexaweb Studio, an Eclipse ATF-based IDE for web 2.0 applications, version 3.0 was released.
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Will A Java/Ruby Co-op Occur in 2007?
Ryan Tomayko recently wrote a detailed 2007 prediction on the "The Pending Ruby/Java Co-op". Java is going into 2007 with a number of interesting developments at the JVM level. Ryan considers a path were the JVM becomes a viable Ruby runtime environment.
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Groovy 1.0 Released
Groovy 1.0 was officially released today after last month's release candidate. 2007 is shaping up to be a important year in the evolution of the Groovy language with a number of developer and book announcements.
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O/R Mapping, Caching, and Performance
One of the common misconceptions about Object/Relational Mapping (O/R Mapping) frameworks is that they give developers caching for free and that caching improves performance. While O/R Mapping frameworks do rely on caching, improved performance isn't in the cards.
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Tutorial: Using FitNesse with .NET
Gojko Adzic has published a short tutorial on using FitNesse to automate acceptance tests for .NET applications.
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Evolving Embedded Domain Specific Languages in Java
Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce presented a paper on Evolving an Embedded Domain-Specific Language in Java at OOPSLA 2006. The paper describes the evolution of jMock from a framework to a domain specific language embedded in Java. They describe how it happened, lessons learned about EDSLs, their limits, and how Java and C# work as host languages for them.
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OpenLaszlo Rings in the New Year with Flash 9 and DHTML Runtimes
OpenLaszlo is starting off 2007 with a beta candidate of version 4 of the OpenLaszlo platform. This is a significant release as it includes a new DHTML runtime target in addition to the previously available Flash based runtime.
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Support for Zip Files Still Lacking In .NET 3.0
The ability to use file compression like the venerable ZIP format is very important to many developers. For those developers using.NET, that means dropping to command shell or using a third-party component. With .NET 3.0, there is built-in support for ZIP files, though the implementation is somewhat questionable.
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Resolutions: Integrity of Code and Conduct
At the start of each New Year, some of us stop to look backward, and actively resolve to move forward wiser than before. Scott Ambler, Liz Barnett and Kirk Knoernschild have shared with us their recommendations for working smarter in 2007, including: take a hard look at at your business objectives; equip your teams properly to maximize agility; and above all - behave yourselves!
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JRake: Ant-Killer Combo of JRuby and Rake
As JRuby becomes a viable solution for real development tasks, former ThoughtWorker Matt Foemmel is hard at work improving the world of build scripts by replacing ant with rake. He's winning fans among heavy-hitters such as Martin Fowler.