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Component Composition Strategies and Tactics
With the advent of Spring and the development of the Dependency Injection pattern, Component Technologies have started providing advanced composition mechanisms. In the past month IBM and SAP published related articles exploring the modern strategies and tactics to develop composite business solutions.
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Injecting Implementation Dependencies into WCF Services
A very popular concept of implementing WCF services is to use a layered approach that consists of a service, a business logic and a data access layer. The dependencies between these layers might be injected at runtime via dependency injection containers.
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Decisions driven by productivity concerns: Reasons, implications and limitations
Often the necessity to rapidly adapt software projects to new clients’ needs results in adopting approaches focused on productivity. Reasons, implications and limitations of this were recently discussed in the blog sphere.
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Building Service Oriented Architectures with Java Technology
Sun Microsystems started a tour in the US to present a comprehensive view of the technologies and approaches it recommends to build Service-Oriented-Architectures with Java Technology.
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Keeping up with AgileEvents in 2008
In September InfoQ inaugurated the AgileEvents calendar so the community could share information about events for Agile professionals, free of charge. Over a hundred events have been posted on the calendar, and now that it's taken off it's not really news any more, so check in here to see how to get regular notifications of new events via Upcoming.org, now that InfoQ won't be covering it as news.
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Microsoft Releases December CTP of Project Astoria
Microsoft has announced the December CTP of Project Astoria, whose new name is the ADO.NET Data Services Framework, is available now as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release.
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Book Excerpt and Review: Release It!
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard discusses what it takes to make production-ready software, and explains how this differs from feature-complete software. InfoQ spoke with Michael Nygard and asked him several questions related to the book and some of the issues it raises.
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RubyConf 2007 Presentations Now Online
Confreaks, who provide recording and networking services for conferences have just recently released the complete set of presentations from this year's RubyConf, the seventh international Ruby conference which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
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Rules versus Procedural Code
Paul Haley, rule technology visionary, discusses criteria for choosing rule engines versus procedural code in business process solutions, as well as examining the current state of BPM/BRM integration.
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NetKernel 3.3 Released Including Enhanced Dynamic Language Support
After eight months, 1060 Research, Ltd. has released the newest version of their NetKernel product, version 3.3. New features in this release include enhanced dynamic language support and an optimized HTTP transport layer.
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Is The Internet More Fundamental Than REST?
The debate over whether or not REST is better than WS-* has been simmering for a while, with no clear winner. However, Ganesh Prasad tries to add more fuel to the debate and illustrates how he believes REST is not the most fundamental and extensible approach after all.
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EviWare Releases v2.0 of soapUI, a Web Services Test Suite
EviWare, an open source company recently released v2.0 of their soapUI product at JavaPolis 2007. The test suite is capable of tracking test coverage, perform test refactoring based on updated WSDLs and creating mockup services from previously recorded requests/responses .
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DWR: State of the Union
There is a lot going on in the DWR world: DWR joining the Dojo Foundation; Joe Walker, creator of DWR, joining SitePen, Ltd. as Director of Support and Development; and an announcement of the features that are expected to be part of DWR 3.0.
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More on RPC in Adobe Flex Applications with AMF, BlazeDS, and/or GraniteDS
Last week, Adobe made a major change to the Adobe Flex Platform with the announcement that much of LiveCycle Data Services is being open sourced in the BlazeDS project, including the AMF specification and code. This change should eliminate one of the final cost and licensing barriers for those considering adopting the Flex Platform.
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Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing
Earlier this week Amazon introduced a beta of SimpleDB, a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. SimpleDB compliments Amazon's other computing services Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The announcement comes roughly a month after IBM announced their Blue Cloud initiative.