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Backbase Releases Struts Edition
Backbase, a provider of AJAX-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) software, has released Backbase AJAX Struts Edition. The company hopes to extend the life of existing Struts based applications by enabling the addition of AJAX features.
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Creating Ruby Style Migrations In Java
Database migrations are a critical piece of any project. There are several open-source tools out there which tackle the problem. Available tools include Migrator (a set of Ant tasks for doing database migration in the style of ActiveRecord, a part of the Ruby on Rails platform), Scriptella (mainly an ETL tool but schema migrations are possible), and DdlUtils (database independent migrations).
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Opinion: Use an Eclipse-style Governance Model for Open Source Java
Java Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich suggests that a way for Java to be truly free and independent would be to use an Eclipse-style governance model. InfoQ sat down with Milinkovich to futher discuss the idea of an Eclipse governance model for Java and its implcations. Community feedback is welcome.
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Var/Option Infer: New Syntax for C# and VB 9
Microsoft is considering several new language features for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 including type inference. As this may result in breaking changes, a new mode called Option Infer is also being considered for VB.
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Novell and Microsoft Announce Interop Collaboration
Novell and Microsoft have announced a set of business and technical collaboration agreements to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together.The over all goal of the agreement is greater interoperability and manageability between mixed Windows and Linux infrastructures.
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Create Your Own ASP.NET Providers
With version 2.0, ASP.NET has allowed developers to create their own custom providers that plug into the website framework. These providers cover the areas of Membership, Roles, Site Map, Session State, Profile, Web Event, and Web Parts.
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A Status Update on the OpenAjax Alliance
Coach Wei, CTO of Nexaweb, has written a status update on the OpenAjax Alliance and the challenges he see that exist for Ajax Adoption. He sees the biggest hurdle to Ajax being confusion as a result of numerous Ajax architectures. He also lists several technical issues that he feels the alliance should address such as toolkit loading, name collision, and event interaction between Ajax toolkits.
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A Common API for Accessing Portlet Repositories
This week Roy Russo announced the creation of the Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) which seeks to create a common web service API that can be used to communicate with portlet repositories. This would allow any portal vendor to browser repositories and download/update portlets like developers currently do when browsing/installing/updating plugins for their IDE of choice.
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Project Orbit: Sun and OpenLaszlo to support J2ME as compile target
OpenLaszlo has teamed up with Sun to extend their platform to also compile J2ME apps. The goal of becoming a multi-platform runtime platform was first announced in June, when OpenLaslzo announced Legals, which would provide cross-browser pure DHTML as a compile target in addition to Flash.
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InfoQ Article: Using SEDA to Ensure Service Availability
SEDA is a new strategy for incorporating event driven architecture for scalability and availability of services in the context of SOA. These strategies are based on queuing research pioneered for the use of highly abailable and scalable services, initially in the Web context, but moving into the SOA and Web services context. This article describes SEDA with an implementation using Mule.
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Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for .NET
The Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer gives developers the ability to quickly find guidance on a variety of topics. Documents in the Patterns and Practices Library are currently divided into categories such as Checklists, Code Examples, Guidelines, Principals, and Test Cases.
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Distributed Software Development for Java and .NET
TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service offers cross-platform messaging for Java and .NET developers.
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Changing the way you work with Mylar
Mylar is an Eclipse plug-in that changes Eclipse into a task focused UI. Mylar lets you define tasks and then it associates information (such as classes, methods, or compilation errors) with it, based on your activities. Mik Kersten, the project lead for Mylar, has recently published a two part article on IBM's developerWorks site.
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Tibco open-sources General Interface with new beta release
Tibco has released a beta of version 3.2 of the Tibco General Interface (GI). Tibco GI is a toolkit that abstracts away the pain of dealing with AJAX development. Tibco acquired GI in 2004 and until now has been a closed-source tool for generating AJAX RIA's for IE 6. Tibco GI's license is a BSD license. Tibco is introducing a dual-license, open-source model with the beta release of version 3.2.
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Catching up with the Java Content Repository
The Java Content Repository (JCR) API provides a standard way to access content repositories. Content repositories is a superset of a traditional data repository that adds features such as full text searching and storing of structured/unstructured data. OnJava has released a new article by Sunil Patil detailing the installation, configuration, and usage of a Version 1.0 implementation.