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WebSphere 6.1 Released; Updated for Java 5, SOA
IBM has released WebSphere 6.1 to it's customers (free trial download not available yet), marking a signficant release that updates the server with J2SE 5, JSF 1.1, 64 bit, JMX management via JSR 160, support for WS-Addressing, Notification, Business Activity, WS-I Security Profile 1.0, and more. The release comes a year and a half after the J2EE 1.4 compliant WebSphere 6.0 was released.
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Search Library Lucene 2.0 Released
Lucene 2.0 is out. Lucene is a Java-based, full-featured text search engine library which has become the standard, trusted choice by pretty much any Java project needing to integrate search into their applications. v2 is mostly a stable bugfix release from v1.9 which came out on February 26th and introduced most of the major changes since 1.4.3.
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Ruby and .NET Destined For Each Other?
It suddenly seems everyone is interested in making Ruby on .NET a reality. The new IronRuby project was presented at RubyEnRails 2006 last week and this week we were notified of Brite, yet another Ruby interpreter/compiler effort targeting the CLR. The newcomers join John Lam's RubyCLR project and the joint Microsoft and Queensland University of Technology Ruby.NET headed for beta in late 2006.
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Windows Vista Beta 2 And WinFX
With the recent release of Windows Vista Beta 2 Microsoft has launched the WinFX Developer Center in support of the new operating system. This is an excellent starting point if you are a developer looking to create applications on the WinFX platform. Currently featured are articles and resources on Data Integration and Discoverability.
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Sun claims lowest cost jAppServer2004 bechmark with Glassfish
Sun has submitted SPECjAppServer2004 results marking the first submission on a certified Java EE 5 server but also the first all open source stack (SJS appserver based on Glassfish, Solaris 10, MySQL DB). Sun is appears to be responding to another submission from BEA, making direct comparisons of cost savings between them, claiming to be the cheapest at $72/JOPS.
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H2 Database by Hypersonic Creator Nearing 1.0
HSQLDB creator Thomas Mueller recently released the v0.9 of H2, his pure Java database successor to HSQLDB. H2 benchmarks significantly faster than HSQLDB, supports JDBC and ODBC, supports XA, can be clustered for HA and supports encryption.
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Standard Application Framework for Swing Proposal Approved
Unlike the web development world, the Swing community has long been lacking standards or frameworks for how to best design applications. This may change soon, as JSR 296, Swing Application Framework, has been approved by the JCP. The framework aims to standardize the basic structure of a Swing app including lifecycle, persistent session state, ascychronous event handling, and localized resources.
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Ruby Coverage Tool Making Rapid Progress
Earlier this week, Mauricio Fernandez released version 0.4 of Rcov, his tool for simple code coverage analysis in Ruby. Rcov is fast, feature-packed and progressing rapidly.
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Detailed JavaOne Coverage Published
Every year, the most detailed coverage of what happened at JavaOne is usually published in really long and detailed day by day coverage articles published on TheServerSide.com. The last of their 4 days of coverage have just been posted.
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Agile DSM Workshop at XP2006
Steven Kelley and Alan Cameron Wills are holding a workshop at XP2006 in Oulu Finland on June 19th where participants will discuss how to add domain specific modeling to an agile software development project.
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Component based webapp framework Wicket 1.2 released
Component based webapp framework Wicket has released version 1.2 today, the third major release of the project. Major new features include Javascript-free Ajax support with even the ability to render multiple page components in one ajax call, component level authorization, Spring dependency injection integration, and more.
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New Rails Powered Sites Announced
A couple of shiny new Rails-powered websites were announced in the last couple of days. Invitika is described as SMS + mobile blogging + event planning + LBS + photos. Thebeststuffintheworld.com is a comprehensive database of, well, the best stuff in the world, just as implied by the name.
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Pitchfork: EJB 3 Interception & Injection to WebLogic using Spring
Spring 2.0 is now being used by BEA to provide EJB 3 dependency injection and interception, the result of Pitchfork, a new Spring add-on project by BEA and Interface21 that allows Spring to provide JSR 250 dependency injection and EJB style interception. WebLogic users can also use additional Spring features over the EJB spec, and Pitchfork may be used by other Java EE servers in the future.
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InfoQ Enterprise Software Development Community Unlaunched
Welcome to the "unlaunch" of InfoQ.com, a new community that aims to be your source for keeping up with change and innovation in the enterprise software development community, specifically serving the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities. Please read this news item to learn about the site, its goals, features, and why it matters.
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Project Tango - WCF And Java Interop
Sun Microsystems has launched the open source initiative called Project Tango. Windows Communications Foundation Engineers are working together with Java Web Services Engineers on the interoperability of enterprise features.