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JBI Spec Lead Criticizes Competing SCA Initiative
JBI (Java Business Integration) spec lead Ron Ten-Hove examines SCA (Service Component Architecture) and considers it "a very poor approach to creating a service-oriented architecture".
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New Webcast on WCF contracts
Michele Leroux Bustamante (das Blonde) has recorded a new webcast on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) contracts for the MSDN Architecture Webcasts series. WCF services are composed of three basic elements: addresses, bindings, and contracts, which describe the service in a standard, cross-platform way.
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JavaRef.com Ajax-driven Javadoc browsing
Javaref.com is a new Ajax-driven Javadoc repository the currently includes packages from 85 projects. Java API documentation is displayed in a style that is radically different from the classic javadoc style that generated with JDK. The site itself is built with Tapestry.
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Simplified i18n with new Cintoo Messages 1.0
Cintoo Messages is an i18n framework that was developed over the course of several large internationalization projects where existing Java solutions were not sufficient. Messages supports locales for threads and different bundles for different Java packages. Bundle mapping configuration is done outside of client classes resulting in simplified code.
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Adobe launches Flex 2 RIA platform; Flex SDK is now free
Adobe has released Flex 2, its platform for ajax-style enterprise rich internet application development that runs on Flash, whose version 9 now includes Just-In-Time compiler. The Flex 2 is now free for developing and deploying Flex apps on the Flash runtime. An Eclipse-based IDE and enterprise messaging/data connectivity featuring real time messaging is also available for enterprise customers.
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Apache Geronimo 1.1 Released
With this release of Geronimo you can finally run it on Sun Java 1.5 VM, as long as you don't require CORBA. Another notable change from the 1.0 release is that Geronimo now is available in two distributions, one full and certified J2EE distribution and one "stripped down" distribution that only incudes a minimal installation with a Jetty or Tomcat http server.
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CodePlex comes out of beta
Microsoft's shared source project repository, CodePlex has emerged from its public beta, as announced yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in London. Similar in concept to SourceForge, and Microsoft's earlier .NET community effort GotDotNet, CodePlex is based on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
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JBoss ESB: a chat with Mark Little
InfoQ had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Mark Little, the director of the JBoss ESB effort. Since the recent acquisition of the Rosetta ESB by JBoss (now a subsidiary of RedHat), the SOA community at InfoQ has been interested in some more details about this project. Here's the story as told by Mark to InfoQ.
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InfoQ Book Review: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse
Matt Morton asked the question "Can Java be as Agile as the Dynamics (Ruby, Python, Groovy)?" and went to Anil Hemrajani's book to find out. He found a readable, useful book, and helps idenfity the right audience for this book.
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Rails 1.1.3 Released
The new point release of Rails addresses a security issue and includes a few minor fixes.
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OpenLaszlo Legals Preview Compiles to DHTML
The OpenLaszlo project has had a lot of attention in the Java community, being one of the first solutions for building rich internet applications via compiling XML apps into Flash SWF files. OpenLaszlo has released their first preview of OpenLaszlo Legals which can now compile RIA apps into DHTML.
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.NET Framework 3.0 June CTP is out
The June CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly, WinFX) is now available for download. This is an update since the Beta 2 release, and is intended for use with Windows Vista build 5456. Note that there is no Go-Live license available for this release.
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Deploy Your Production Rails Applications at the Engine Yard
Engine Yard is the first Rails application deployment service that combines serious and scalable infrastructure with easy management at an affordable price.
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InfoQ Article:Introduction to BackgrounDRb
As the problem domain of your Rails applications expands, you may need to run computationally intensive or long running background tasks. How can you run these long background tasks without your web server timing out? And how do you display the progress to your users?
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How many production sites run JSF?
Addressing questions about JSF's adoption in the industry, JSF co-spec lead Roger Kitain has published a list of production sites using JSF, and is encouraging end users to you also add their own sites to the list, which currently includes a number of large deployments.