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OpenXava 3.0 Released
OpenXava provides a framework that allows developers to quickly and productively create web applications and portlets. Version 3.0 allows users to take full advantage of JPA, creating complex user interfaces and applications easily.
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Article: Book Excerpt and Review: OSWorkflow
OSWorkflow by Diego Adrian Naya Lazo discusses the open-source OSWorkflow, a Java-based workflow engine. As described on the official website, "This book covers all aspects related to OSWorkflow. No prior knowledge about OSWorkflow is needed". The book's publisher, Packt Publishing, also provided InfoQ with an excerpt from Chapter 4 of the book, entitled "Using OSWorkflow in your Application".
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JaBoWS, JBoGS and PoPS are just Stepping Stones
Jeff Schneider writes about the evolution of SOA initiatives.
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Sun Metro and .NET WCF Interoperability
The latest interoperability event (a “plugfest”) at Microsoft’s Redmond campus showed impressive results for interoperability between future releases of Sun’s Metro Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation in .NET 3.5. InfoQ had a chance to talk to Harold Carr, the engineering lead for enterprise web services interoperability at Sun, about the interop results.
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What Will it Take to Transition from Desktop-Based Application to Cloud-Based Applications?
Cloud-based applications are everywhere these days (Enterprise, Office Suites, Groupware, Business Intelligence...), while technologies like Google Gears, Mozilla Prizm, Fluid, S3... are creating an environment where it will be hard to know which is which.
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Interview: Michael Stal on Architecture Refactoring
In this interview, Michael Stal describes what architecture refactoring is about and how it relates to both code refactoring and patterns. He describes some architectural refactorings by giving real work examples from his work as Siemens, and he elaborates on some situations where you may want to avoid doing this kind of refactorings.
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New Options for .NET-Java Web Services Interoperability
When it comes to web services interoperability between .NET and Java, the choice used to be limited to SOAP over HTTP. Two new options recently became available in this area: WebSphere MQ (WMQ) and ActiveMQ transports can now be used for building interoperable web services between Java and .NET.
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Distributing Bonus to Agile Teams is Like Playing with Dynamite
Everyone is excited when bonus is declared. However, for Agile teams it could eventually become a make-or-break situation. The general consensus is that distributing bonus should be a 'well thought-out' strategy there is no 'one size fits all' here. In an interesting discussion on the Lean Development group, people share their thoughts to find the best way.
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Novell Releases Version 0.80 of Mono Debugger
A week ago Martin Baulig announced the features of the latest release of the Mono Debugger and Miguel de Icaza followed up with announcment of support in MonoDevelop 1.1.
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Avoid JaBoWS as the Basis for your Enterprise SOA
Nick Malik declares JaBoWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) are the enemy of Enterprise SOA.
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New Resources for the Software Architecture
Several new resources are available for the software architect. Simon Brown and Kevin Seal have made available a set of guidelines for creating software architecture documentation. Mike Kavis also put together a framework to help guide the architect in dealing with the change that new architecture can bring.
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Office Open XML SDK to be Released Soon
Microsoft has announced that it will release the OOXML SDK despite the fact that ISO did not approve OOXML as an open standard last September.
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Article: Addressing Doubts about REST
InfoQ SOA lead editor Stefan Tilkov addresses 10 of the most common doubts people have about REST when they start exploring it, especially if they have a strong background in the architectural approach behind SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.
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Software Transactions: A Programming Language Perspective
Erlang has recently generated a lot of interest as a language that can deal both efficiently and elegantly with concurrency. In particular, there is no shared memory between "process" instances which only communicate via asynchronous messages. Nevertheless, Shared Memory Concurrency remains an intense research subject especially for multicore applications.
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Planned Features For EJB 3.1
The EJB 3.1 expert group recently released an early draft of the specification, containing some significant new features as well as a continued simplification of the EJB programming model.