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Heartbeat for Rails Apps
Heartbeat, the Railsday 2006 app from Highgroove Studios in Atlanta, lets you monitor the uptime of URLs and run your application's rake tasks from a single web page.
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Magnolia 3 Enterprise Content Management Released
Magnolia, the CMS that InfoQ itself uses, has released version 3 of its open-source Enterprise Content Management System (ECM) today. Main new features include workflow, versioning, JSR-168 support, single-sign-on, scheduled content publishing, a browser-based template-designer, a deployment packager and a new UI.
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Gartner Web Services Conference Report
A Field Report from the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summitt 2006 shows some mixed trends in SOA and Web Services as well as new products and analysis.
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Advanced Message Queue Protocol to Commoditize Messaging
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) has been announced today by JP Morgan Chase, RedHat, Twist, Cisco, Iona, and others. AMQP is an open specification for queue-based messaging that is technology agnostic and completely interoperable; it aims commoditize the messaging middleware industry and provide true interoperability across technology stacks in any language or operating system.
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The future of data access in .NET
Microsoft has published two papers explaining the vision for the future of data access in .NET. The combination of ADO.NET, Entity Framework, and LINQ will mean .NET will finally have real object mapping capabilities not just to relational stores but also between languages and other data formats such as XML.
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FIT Acceptance Testing Primer
Do you think automated user acceptance testing is a cool idea, but impossible or not worth doing? Have you been bogged down by the traditional record/script/replay approaches and unable to automate until the code is complete? This article will show you how the Framework for Integrated Test (Fit) makes it easy to overcome these challenges and practice test-first design from the user perspective.
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Bonita Cooperative Workflow 2 Released
Bonita is a workflow system for handing long-running, user-cooperative workflows, implemented as an EJB 2 and JMS app, released under LGPL. v2.0 adds XPDL support, a re-write of the iterations mechanism, JDK 1.5, internal timer services replaced by EJB 2.x timer service, iteration unit tests, and more.
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InfoQ Article: Real World Rules Engines
Rule engines are a useful tool that can be used to externalize business logic, involve business users, or solve certain classes of problems in an efficient way. In this InfoQ Article, Geoffrey Wiseman explains what, when, and how to use rules engines along with his experiences applying them in finanicial services.
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The Unicode Debate Rekindled
The perennial debate about how best to support multibyte Unicode in Ruby is heating up again, and thanks to the progress of Rails and JRuby, this time there is more at stake...
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Sun backs Dojo Ajax Toolkit; Joins OpenAjax Alliance
Sun has joined the Dojo foundation, as IBM did a couple of weeks ago. Sun has already been working with Dojo on the Java Pet Store (which is based on Dojo), and project Maki uses Dojo. Sun has also joined the OpenAjax Alliance.
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Top 10 New Things You Need to Know About Java 6
Sun Microsystems' Danny Coward and Mark Reinhold have published the top 10 features in Java SE 6 beta 2, as well as a list of approved and co-bundled features, including the bundling of Java DB (Apache Derby) into the JDK.
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Refactoring the EJB APIs
Artima has interviewed EJB 3 spec lead Linda DeMichiel on how EJB was refactored for simplicty between EJB 2 and EJB 3, including three separate spec documents, simplifying EJB interfaces, annotations and when to use them, and dependency injection.
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JBoss Acquires Rosetta ESB Technology
JBoss, a subsidiary of RedHat corporation has acquired the technology for an ESB from insurance company Aviva Canada. This is part of an overall ESB strategy by Open Source giant RedHat.
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Agile at Dr. Dobb's Conference
Every year, Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World features important thinkers and teachers. Taking place this year from July 17-20 in Chicago, the roster includes a dozen speakers working in the realm of Agile, including Robert. C. Martin, Scott Ambler, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Brad Appleton and James Hobart. We've compiled the full list of Agile-related sessions to help you plan.