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JRuby brings Rails applications to Glassfish
It is now possible to deploy Ruby on Rails applications on Glassfish. Utilizing JRuby and its growing support for Rails, Glassfish can now be used as a production platform, allowing a more robust and scalable deployment platform.
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Job Trends: EJB, Spring, and Hibernate
Rick Hightower has posted a few graphs from Indeed's Job Trends comparing Spring against EJB3 and various ORM tools against each other. The graphs show that Spring is steadily gaining while EJB3 (and EJB overall) is not. Similarly, Hibernate continues to dominate the ORM field in job postings.
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IBM's Response to Open Source Java under GPL
Last week some publications alluded to an official response by IBM regarding open source Java. InfoQ got a copy from IBM, republished here. IBM is generally supportive of the move, but would have preferred the contribution be made to Apache Harmony or at least under an Apache compatible license.
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Tips on query normalization with SQL Server 2005
SQL Server application developers to want to normalize the query text returned in a Profiler trace. This allows the performance of a query to be more easily tracked and measured. Ken Henderson shares his insightful thoughts through a blog post on query normalization.
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Apache Axis2 1.1 Released
Version 1.1 of Axis2, the Apache Web services stack, has been released, including significantly improved documentation and support for POJO and Spring services and clients.
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DTrace: Dynamic Tracing with a Java API
DTrace is an open-source dynamic tracing framework originally written for Solaris 10 and coming soon to OS X, Linux and BSD systems. A Java API for DTrace is available, allowing you to run DTrace scripts and allowing you to present the output in a more meaningful way.
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MySpace.com uses iBATIS.NET for persistence
Popular social site MySpace.com, which is the number 5 most trafficked site on the internet according to alexa.com is running a .NET backend and uses iBatis.NET for persistence. iBATIS is an open source data mapper framework that is commonly used when projects wish to control the SQL used instead of having it generated by an ORM framework.
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Rails and Django Head to Head
Thanks to a couple of web developers, we now have a fairly objective comparison of Ruby on Rails and Python's Django framework. Read InfoQ's summary of the report.
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JSR 277 & 294 leads respond to concerns over OSGi overlap and transparency
After the early draft release of JSR 277 a number of questions were raised by the Java community at large about JSR 277, JSR 294 and OSGi. InfoQ sat down with Stanley Ho's (Spec Lead of JSR 277) and Andreas Strebenz (co-Spec Lead of JSR 294) to discuss some of the Java community's concerns.
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Windows PowerShell Released
For the first time Microsoft has released a new command line shell for Windows. PowerShell, formally known as Monad, replaces the venerable DOS-based CMD. Billed as an "object-orientated" shell, PowerShell has the ability to leverage COM and CLR objects directly from the command line.
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Announcing QCon: New conference in London, UK, March 12-16, by InfoQ and JAOO
A new enterprise software development conference is starting this year in London, UK, March 12-16th 2007. QCon, the InfoQ and JAOO conference, aims to become an annual event providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with additional tracks on architecture & design, Ajax, IT in Finance, and more.
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Sun Virtual Reality briefing on Java forks, compatibility, Microsoft, Linux
Simon Phipps, Tim Bray and Mark Shuttleworth held a briefing on Monday inside the Second Life online virtual reality game. The speakers addressed a croud of about 40 real people seated infront of the stage, covering Java on Linux, forking, what Sun will do to prevent incompatible Java's, a Microsoft fork, Harmony, and why it took so long for Java to be open sourced.
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Phobos: Will we have JavaScript on the Server-side again?
A recent editorial on Ajaxian asks what it would be like to write JavaScript on the client and server. Phobos, a Java.net project, is doing just that. The goal of Phobos is to show that Java can be a successful platform for server-side scripting. Server-side JavaScript would allow code-sharing between the client and server and only one language required for web development.
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New Version of Nitro/Og Web Framework Released
Nitro/Og provides a different model for web development in Ruby. A new version has just been released, providing a good excuse to stretch your Ruby wings and try it out.
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Article: SimpleTicket Railway Story
In this first installment of the Railway Stories series, we cover SimpleTicket, a newly open-sourced Rails app that provides insight into the progress and innovation enjoyed by Ruby on Rails advocates, and paints a vivid picture of a dynamic, modern startup.