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Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.
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SCA/SDO go to OASIS
The proprietary SCA and SDO specifications, often seen as competing with JEE and JBI, are taken to OASIS. With Sun now a member, is this a case of happy families?
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon
In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.
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QCon: REST for SOA at Yahoo!
In his talk at the QCon conference, Mark Nottingham, a "Principal Technical Yahoo!", provided some insight into how the Yahoo! Media Group uses the Web, and not Web services, to build its SOA variant. According to Mark, the Yahoo! Media Group gains significant advantages by using HTTP RESTfully, especially by exploiting caching opportunities.
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WADL REST API description language getting some attention
Many REST API description languages exist but none have seen major uptake; recently WADL has been getting more attention. Yahoo!'s Mark Nottingham is maintaining a stylesheet to generate docs from WADL. Google's Thomas Steiner unveiled plans for a Google project for generating language specific clients from WADL, & generateing WADL from documentation. Sun is adding WADL tools to SDWP.
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Six Usability Improvements to the Axis2 Deployment Model
Deepal Javasinghe, one of the developers of Apache Axis2 and Synapse, describes 6 major usability improvements introduced in Axis2: J2EE style deployment mechanism, Hot deployment and hot update, a repository (where you drop services and modules, Change in the deploying of handlers (modules), new deployment descriptors, and multiple deployment options.
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Panel: Who will Develop Software in 10 Years?
In this video discussion panel (with transcript) Martin Fowler, Frank Buschmann, Steve Cook, Jimmy Nilsson, and Dave Thomas discuss the future of software development. Topics covered include outsourcing, is Google the next MS?, multi-core & parallism, grid computing, software stacks of the future, and more. The panel is from QCon sister-conference JAOO.
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Article: Implementation of business rules and business processes in SOA
Boris Lublinsky and Didier Le Tien discuss how business process engines and business rule engines differ, where their respective strengths are and when to use what in an SOA context. They discuss commonalities and differences between business rules and business processes and present some guidelines on positioning business rules in SOA implementation and appropriate usage of each technology.
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QCon London next week - Registration Still Open, Day Passes Available
QCon is next week and over 500 people are registered to attend. It's not too late to register! For those who can't make it to the full 3 day conference, there are a few ways you can get a more limited taste of the conference, such as attending a one-day tutorial, buying a day pass to the conference.
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CIO JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information
In this InfoQ exclusive, CIO JP Rangsawami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and why CIOs of major enterprises should consider open source for software development initiatives. JP also explains his vision of four pillars of the new world if information: Syndication, Search, Fulfillment, and Collaboration/Conversation.
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Darwin and Service Reuse: Competition is Good
Service reuse is something that many SOA proponents say is a benefit. However, proponents of object-orientation techniques said the same thing and that didn't materialize. Is introducing competition in the service arena a way of getting improvements in reuse?
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Web Services Standards Overview Poster
innoQ has released a new version of their Web Services Standards Overview poster, covering more than 60 specifications and standards.
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Alfresco 2.0: Switches to GPL from MPL+, Adds OpenSearch
Alfresco has released version 2.0 of their Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. InfoQ sat down with Ian Howells of Alfresco to talk about ECM systems and Alfresco.
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Microsoft Announces its Commitment to BPEL 1.1 and 2.0
Microsoft already supports BPEL in its ESB product BizTalk Server. Now the company has announced its plans to support BPEL within the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), which is integrated into Windows Vista. BPEL will be supported by a set of WF activities available as BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation.
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W3C starts two new technical committees
The W3C announces the start of a working group on Internationalization and one on a Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER).