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Sun Releases Identity Management to Open Source
OpenSSO is an open source access management software distribution that provides the means to build authentication, authorization, and session management for Java and web applications and web services. Sun will be basing the Sun Java System Access Manager product on OpenSSO.
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Developers Petition Microsoft to Rename .NET Framework 3.0
A group of developers are petitioning Microsoft to change the name of the announced ".NET Framework 3.0" back to "WinFX" or another less-confusing name. The source of the confusion is that the .NET Framework 3.0 will still run on version 2.0 of the CLR, which many consider synonymous with "the .NET framework." The petition has 210 signatures at the time of this writing.
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Closures Proposed for Java SE 7
Some of the main architects of the Java language) have put out a proposal for adding closures and local functions to Java SE 7, a feature that Smalltalk users always raved about, which is common in scripting langauges and even C# supports them. The reactions from the community have been over all quite positive.
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A Rails memory leak profiling solution
Scott Laird was dealing with the difficulties of finding memory leaks in his Rails apps and came up with solution. Scott put the code for his solution up on his blog, respondents have already called it an essential tools they'll use on their projects going forward, and Scott promised to package it up as a plugin eventually.
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Bringing Profiling to Eclipse - The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform
Many developers are unaware that the Eclipse Foundation has had a profiling project, the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP), since 2004. TPTP addresses the entire test and performance life cycle, from early testing to production application monitoring, including test editing and execution, monitoring, tracing and profiling, and log analysis capabilities.
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VS.NET 2003 SP1 Released
The long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio.NET 2003 was released earlier this week. SP1 fixes over 400 VS.NET 2003 bugs , including the top 50% of VS.NET crashes reported using through the Windows Error Reporting Service. Most notable from the fix list are several IntelliSense fixes, plus resolutions to assorted IDE crashes.
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Ruport: A Ruby Report Builder and Reporting Library
Gregory Brown releases a free library and toolset for Ruby that makes building reporting applications easy.
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XML Overload: Bad Design or Neccesary Evil?
As discussed in the recent InfoQ News item SOAP Attachment State of the Art, XML files are reaching epic proportions in real world SOA implementations. Is this bad design or a neccesary evil? A recent study by Rogue Wave Software helps clarify.
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Welcome to InfoQ's Agile Community Site
On InfoQ our Agile editors/practitioners scan the web to bring you news that helps you keep up with new ideas to improve your own Agile practice, as well as exclusive videos and articles on important and novel subjects. Here we bring you a tag cloud, a introduction to the site with some background on Agile and a few resources for newcomers, as well as the public AgileEvents calendar.
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Geert Bevin on The Philosophy Behind RIFE
A few weeks back InfoQ covered the 1.5 release of the RIFE Java web framework. This week Artima Developer featured an extensive interview with RIFE founder Geert Bevin which covers the project's history and new features.
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Towards the Optimal Javascript Inheritance Technique
Lead developer of the ThinWire Java-based RIA framework Joshua Gertzen has written an article going over existing approaches to implementing OO inheritance in Javascript and presents the solution they ended up using on their product.
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ESB SCA WCF and TLAs
Patrick Leonard, VP of Product Development at Rogue Wave has posted a short commentary on Webservices.org about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its relationship to SOA. Patrick focuses on other specifications and frameworks that can enable "greater realization" of SOA solutions.
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NAG Continuous Integration Monitor Announced
Digital Focus has announced their open source "NAG" continuous integration tool, which monitors the stability of multiple application servers and notifies users of software build failures via audible and visual cues. Ready now for Apache Continuum, and already working to support Cruise Control, Lunt Build, and Ant Hill monitoring, this tool is specifically designed to support Agile teams.
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Using the Eclipse IDE to develop Ruby applications
Developers already familiar with Eclipse will appreciate Tabrez Iqbal's guide to tweaking it to work well with Ruby development.
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Event Driven Architecture
Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a term promoted by Gartner to describe an evolved state of Enterprise software characterized by real time events. EDA has been associated to its detriment with SOA 2.0, however, there may be technical legitimacy to some of the EDA ideas.