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Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
The 2nd installment in a series of articles for creating Software as a Service, "Multi-Tenant Data Architecture" is now available from the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team on MSDN.
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Eclipse 3.2 & Callisto Now Available for Download
Callisto, the Eclipse simultaneous release of Eclipse 3.2 final as well as 10 sub projects became available for download this afternoon. The goal of the simultaneous release is to eliminate uncertainity about project version numbers, and cross-project compatibility. The milestone also coordinates and organizes the different development groups together.
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Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim
Firestar Software has filed a patent claim against Red Hat for Hibernate 3 allegedly infringing on a patent covering O/R mapping. Firestar, who has not released it's ObjectSpark O/R product since 2003 claims that it "has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages."
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Eclipse "Callisto" an Agile Success Story
Today will mark the "Callisto" release of 10 Eclipse toolsets simultaneously, remarkable in that it provides a synchronized set of releases to facilitate implementation of Eclipse for developers building their own tools and applications on top of it. A large, complex and risky undertaking, Callisto was reportedly delivered by open source developers using Agile methods.
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Getting Agile with Eclipse Continuous Integration
The Eclipse "Callisto" release includes agility-enhancing features, including a new version of the testing tools developed in the "TPTP" project. In their online presentation, project committers Scott E. Schneider and Joe Toomey say that by using TPTP in the Continuous Integration cycle developers gain more powerful test types, better/more extensible reporting, and easy platform coverage.
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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.