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QCon London March 10-12 Announced
The 4th annual QCon London (March 10-12) has been announced and registration is open! QCon London has become a mainstay conference for the UK and European software development community. This year continues in our tradition of practitioner-driven high quality content with over 15 tracks and 100 speakers including keynotes from GoF author Ralph Johnson and Smalltalk Guru Dan Ingalls and more.
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Terracotta/Quartz Integration Offers an In-Memory Cluster Based Distributed Job Scheduling
Terracotta and Quartz integration offers an in-memory cluster based distributed job scheduling and workload management for enterprise Java applications. Terracotta recently announced the acquisition of the open source job-scheduling software. The new product gives a node-aware scheduling feature as an alternative to the traditional solution of using a central database for job coordination.
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Interview with Guilherme Silveira, creator of Restfulie
In a recent interview, Guilherme Silviera, the creator of the Restfulie project, took time out to answer some of our questions about his project, REST and some recent comments he made comparing and contrasting with JAX-RS.
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Java EE 6 Features: Dependency Injection, Bean Validation and EJB Enhancements
The latest version of Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) offers several new features including dependency injection, bean validation and significant enhancements in EJB, Servlets, JSF, and JSP technologies. Java EE 6 version was released on Thursday. This article gives an overview of the new features in the latest release.
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Java EE 6, Glassfish 3 and NetBeans 6.8 Released: Q&A with EE 6 Specification Lead Roberto Chinnici
Following the final approval vote for Java EE 6 last week, Sun has today released the Java EE 6 SDK, GlassFish Version 3 and NetBeans 6.8. InfoQ talks to EE 6 Specification Lead Roberto Chinnici about the significance of EE 6 for enterprise Java developers, key architectural lessons gained from working on the specification, and the future direction of the platform.
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Chrome News: Mac and Linux Beta, Extensions and Web Sockets
Google Chrome’s latest additions are: Chrome Beta for Max and Linux, Extensions for Windows and Linux, and Web Sockets.
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Will the Web Profile make “Enterprise Java” Attractive to Web Developers?
The latest version of Enterprise Java, which was approved a few days ago, features a capability for function-based profiles. The first one published is the Web Profile, which aims at web developers, but it is uncertain if it will be enough to boost the platform’s adoption in a field with so many appealing offers.
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JNBridge Brings Distributed Transactions Across Java and .NET Code
JNBridge is a technology that allows Java and .NET code to share objects without relying on cross-compilers. Under this scheme, the JVM and CLR may be running on the separate machines, separate processes on the same machine, or even in the same process. With JNBridge 5.0, these capabilities have been extended to also support each platforms native transaction support.
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Is JAX-RS, or RESTeasy, un-RESTful?
JAX-RS is the standard way in which to write RESTful applications in Java. However, recently Guilherme Silveira, the lead of the restfulie project which is not based on JAX-RS, questions whether or not RESTeasy and JAX-RS are RESTful at all.
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Service Orientation Requires Data Orientation
Any SOA implementation relies heavily on the enterprise data used by services. In a series of new posts, Ash Parikh, Informatica’s Real time products strategist, discusses the role data orientation plays in SOA and provides some practical recommendations on how to implement it.
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IBM WebSphere Embraces REST
“Last Thursday I said I was struggling to sum up IBM’s Connect09 analyst conference. I still am.” says James Governor, an Industry Analyst with RedMonk, speaking of a session titled Federated Connectivity – Smarter Integration Across and Beyond The Enterprise hosted by AIM (Application Integration and Middleware) General Manager Craig Hayman at the Connect09 analyst conference.
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Easily Accessing Azure Cloud Services with AppFabric
Microsoft Windows Azure Platform AppFabric is a set of technologies helpful to connect on-premises applications with Azure cloud services and resources and eases interoperability between users belonging to different domains. The main components are the Service Bus and the Access Control Service.
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JDK 7 Milestone 5 Includes Concurrency and Performance Updates, But Is Not Feature Complete
Sun's Java SE team recently released the Milestone 5 build of JDK 7. This was expected to be a feature complete release of Java 7 but is some way short of that. InfoQ takes a look at what has been added and some of the major features still missing.
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A Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA Draft Was Submitted to Public Review
A new OASIS Reference Architecture for SOA builds on the concepts and relationships defined in the OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture and follows the recommended practice of describing an architecture in terms of models, views, and viewpoints. While it remains abstract in nature, it describes one possible template upon which an SOA concrete architecture can be built.
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SOA: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A new developerWorks article by Jens Andexer and Willem Bekker describes business implications of SOA, stressing both its advantages and drawbacks.