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C24 Creates Process for XQuery over non-XML without intermediary XML
Financial integration tool vendor C24 has added a unique XQuery optimization to their Integration Objects product that allows full XML XQuery and XSLT capabilities on non-XML documents without the overhead of first converting those non-xml documents into instances of XML.
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OASIS SOA Reference Model Goes to Vote
On September 16, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of OASIS member organizations. The OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture v1.0 will be put to a vote for standardization. Members will have until the last day of September, inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard or not.
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JBoss Releases JBPM Orchestration Beta
The JBoss jBPM team has announced the release of jBPM BPEL 1.1.Beta2 , a web services orchestration offering. It is the last beta version before the GA release in October.
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Microsoft Open Specification Promise
Microsoft has announced the "Open Specification Promise", guaranteeing the freedom to legally implement any of the 35 Microsoft-supported Web services standards for both commercial and open source developers.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to WS-Reliable Messaging
Web Services Reliable Messaging 1.1 is available as a new draft version of the OASIS specification originally released by Microsoft, IBM, BEA and others. WS-RM ensures messages can be delivered reliable over unreliable protocols such as HTTP. Paul Fremantle, co-chair of the OASIS technical committee, provides an introduction.
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webMethods acquires Infravio
BPM and integration vendor webMethods will acquire SOA registry provider Infravio for US $38 million in cash.
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SOA, What is it Good For?
In a series of news articles and discussions and blogs, the SOA community goes through the difficulties associated with SOA deployment with a degree of soul-searching. Surveys indicate that SOA is a long term committment of organizations and that the key drivers for SOA remain constant.
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Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
Amazon has quietly been expanding their business model as of late. They are targeting developers with three new computing services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Serve (SQS). Bloggers have been commenting on how the products could revolutionize how applications are provisioned and deployed.
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freebXML 3.0 Final Released
The freebXML Registry team announces the release of version 3.0-final of the royalty-free open source implementation of the ebXML Registry standard. InfoQ gets some information about this release from Farrukh Najmi, one of the leaders of the project.
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H2 1.0 Database by Hypersonic Creator is Out
HSQLDB creator Thomas Mueller has released 1.0 final of H2, his pure Java database successor to HSQLDB. H2's focus is to be best database for the lower end (low number of concurrent connections, embedded usage). InfoQ spoke to H2 creator Thomas Mueller to find out more.
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Sun Creates Feature Removal Process for the Java Platform
No feature has ever been removed from the Java SE platform, and the stand policy has been that no feature ever will be removed. JSR 270 takes the first step to reversing this trend with the definition of a set of guidelines to govern removal of features with javax.sound.midi being the first considered.
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WebORB - Easily Makes Rails Models Accessible to Flex / Flash
A new Rails plugin, WebORB, ties together the worlds of Ruby on Rails and Adobe's Flex technologies in an easy manner.
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Discovering the Patterns of Web 2.0
Tim O'Reilly recently held a workshop to discuss the emerging patterns of Web 2.0. The goal of the workshop was to build on his paper What is Web 2.0. Notable attendees included Martin Fowler, Bill Scott from Yahoo, Cal Henderson form Flickr, and Sandy Jen from Meebo. Gregor Hophe summarizd some of the key findings.
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Marc Fleury on what makes open source business models tick
After presenting to numerous investors, JBoss founder Marc Fleury has distilled a very coherent description of what makes an open source business model tick and how it's different from traditional proprietary license-revenue business models. It's a useful read from a trends perspective.
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Java SOAP Framework XFire 1.2 Released
XFire, the high performance Java SOAP framework from Codehaus has released version 1.2, the last version before the project merges with Celtix into Apache CeltiXfire. XFire includes such features as Spring integration, JBI support, and pluggable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans. Improvements since version 1.1 include JiBX data binding, Aegis binding inheritance, and HTTP GZIP.