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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.
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Open JPA: A real competitor to Hibernate emerging
BEA will be open sourcing a large part of the formerly commercial Kodo persistence engine from SolarMetric into the Apache OpenJPA project. Going forward, the commerical Kodo and WebLogic will be built on top of OpenJPA which will recieve a large commitment of resources from BEA for further development. OpenJPA may become a viable alternative to Hibernate this year.
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db4o User Conference in London
The db4o User Conference (dUC) will take place in London from July 10 to 11, featuring keynotes from Carl Rosenberger, Ted Neward, and Christof Wittig.
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Benefits and Challenges of Open Source for Agile Teams
Open source technologies have had a positive impact on both the development and runtime environments of software applications - teams find they are better able to deliver expected functionality within timeframes acceptable to stakeholders. But open source is different, and Jeff Hodson has written about how an architecture-centric approach can help address some valid developer concerns.
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RailsDay 2006 Announced
RailsDay 2006 is a 24 hour competition scheduled to be held in mid-June, right before RailsConf. During the contest, teams of Ruby on Rails developers from around the world will compete for valuable prizes to see who can author the best Rails application in just a day.
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Jetty Founder Proposes Asynchronous Servlet API
Jetty founder Greg Wilkins has blogged about the need for the Servlet spec to evolve into an asynchronous model in order to, among other things, deal with the new challenges brought on by Ajax. Greg proposes standardizing a coordinator which could be called by the container in response to asynchronous event and would coordinate the call of the synchronous service method.
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Microsoft Launches CodePlex Online Development Environment
Microsoft has launched the Beta of CodePlex, an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. Codeplex was developed from scratch using C# 2.0 with Team Foundation Server as the backend.
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Web Beans submitted to JCP, aims to unify EJB and web tier
JBoss has submitted "Web Beans" to the JCP, with support from Oracle, Sun, Borland, and Google. Web Beans aims to enable EJB 3 session and entity beans to be used as JSF managed beans (known as actions in other frameworks) eliminating the dual layers of web actions and EJB's common in web apps. Gavin King will be the spec lead.
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Interview with Mongrel Author Zed Shaw
Well-known Rails programmer Zed Shaw was interviewed by O'Reilly. Zed talked about Ruby on Rails and his work on an up-and-coming new HTTP server named Mongrel that is winning accolades all over the community.
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Sun commits to open source Java eventually
At Java One this week Sun said that open sourcing Java is no longer a question of whether, but how. This marks a different tone from previous years, perhaps the Apache Harmony project is succeeding in slowly turning Sun away into a different direction. Community reaction to the news has been mixed.
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Groovy gets a contribution from Oracle; ongoing Grails contributions discussed
Oracle has recently contributed an extension to the Groovy JMX MBean. An ongoing contribution is currently being discussed between Oracle and the Groovy and Grails leads about Oracle's intention to contribute ongoing engineering and QA resources to the projects. Oracle believes that better integration makes Grails potentially better suited for mainstream enterprise adoption than Rails.
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InfoQ Day: See the top 8 sessions Wednesday in SanFrancisco
If you're in SanFrancisco then you're invited to InfoQ Day on Wednesday. We have rented out the Thirsty Bear restaurant where we will host 8 presentations by some of the best speakers also attending Java One. The event is free to the public all day, and refreshments will be served. You're invited!
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JRuby on Rails Unveiled at JavaOne
The latest version of JRuby will be presented to JavaOne attendees this week. Included in the demonstrations is a working Rails application and an ActiveRecord adapter backed by JDBC.
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Microsoft Releases Expression Web Designer First Community Technology Preview
Microsoft has posted for download the first Community Technology Preview of the new Expression Web Designer. Microsoft Expression is a new suite of tools that work together to enable you to produce user interfaces for web and desktop based applications. It consists of a Graphic Designer, Interactive Designer, and a Web Designer.
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Using Agile Processes and Modeling To Build Enterprise Applications
The traditional approach of doing big requirements up front (BRUF) or big design up front (BDUF) results in significant wastage which can cause many software developments projects to be challenged and/or fail entirely. The article shows how to apply Agile Modeling (AM) practices when building enterprise Java applications.