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Is C Still A Suitable Language Today?
Damien Katz, Couchbase, believes that C is still a great language for back-end programming, while other developers argue that C has too many flaws, supporting C++ or Java, while others like neither.
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Apache Isis: Java Framework for Domain-Driven Design
Apache has released Apache Isis, a Java framework for rapidly developing domain-driven applications. Users focus on developing domain objects and Apache Isis takes care of persistence, security and the user interface. Apache Isis became an Apache top-level project in October 2012 and version 1.0 was released on December 2012.
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ZeroTurnaround Launches New Java Research and Content Organisation
ZeroTurnaround, the vendor behind the popular JRebel and LiveRebel JVM plugins, which accelerate the Java development cycle and automate app deployments to live environments without downtime, have announced a new research and content organisation called Rebel Labs. The organisation will, they claim, offer free, vendor-neutral technical resources for the Java community.
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Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project
The current OpenJDK members have voted Oracle's Project Nashorn, a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, as a successor to Rhino which is the current JVM JavaScript implementation. Nashorn is due for release with Java 8 in late 2013. It allows JavaScript to be embedded in Java applications and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.
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Flash4j 3.0 - A Java Api For Flash Development
Flash4j is a Java API (initially a wrapper over Apache Flex) that offers Java developers a familiar way to develop Flash applications in pure Java without knowledge of ActionScript.
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Oracle Releases Security Fix for Java 7
Oracle today released Java 7u11 with security fixes for remote code execution vulnerabilities related to escaping the applet sandbox through crafted reflection API calls. Read on to find out more about it, and how to find out if you are affected or not.
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What is the Future of Vert.x?
When Tim Fox, project leader of the open-source Apache Licensed project Vert.x, left VMWare in December he had intended to continue working on the project after joining RedHat at the start of this year. However, VMWare now own the trademark and project assets, and it's not clear whether it can continue under the same name. Read on to find out what happened, and what the current situation is.
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Version 5 of Programmer's Text Editor jEdit Released with Support for Scala and Dart
jEdit version 5.0.0 was recently released. It has new editing modes for Scala and Dart, and improved Mac OS X support regarding the UI and keymappings. All keyboard shortcuts are now configurable and presets are offered for Emacs and IntelliJ IDEA. This is also the first version that supports localization (French, German, Russian, Czech and Japanese are offered).
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Java 8 for Raspberry Pi Developer Preview
Oracle released the Java 8 developer preview for ARM processors last week. This early access build is especially tailored for running JavaFX on Raspberry Pi devices.
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Adopt a JSR Program Receives Increased Oracle Backing
Oracle throws weight behind London JUG Adopt a JSR Program
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Netflix Hystrix - Latency and Fault Tolerance for Complex Distributed Systems
Netflix has released Hystrix, a library designed to control points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, providing greater tolerance of latency and failure. Hystrix features thread and semaphore isolation with fallbacks and circuit breakers, request caching and request collapsing, and monitoring and configuration.
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GE Energy Uses InvokeDynamic to Bring Magik to the JVM
In July, the Digital Energy unit within GE Energy Management disclosed that they were in the process of porting their Smalltalk-inspired programming language, Magik, from its own proprietary Virtual Machine, MagikSF, to the JVM. With the port now well under way, InfoQ spoke to project lead/architect George Marrows to find out more.
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JAX-RS 2.0 and Bean Validation 1.1 First Java EE 7 JSRs to Win Public Approval
Java Enterprise Edition version 7 is well under way. Late last month JSR 339 and JSR 349 were adopted by the public review ballot, making them the first two JSR's to be ratified. InfoQ spoke to Marek Potociar, JSR 339 co spec lead about the latest version of the RESTful Java API.
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Spring Migration Analyzer: An Assistant For JavaEE To Spring Conversion
Spring Migration Analyzer is a command line utility, that takes as input the binary archive of a JavaEE application (e.g. an EAR file) and creates a report, containing JavaEE technologies used, along with advice on effort required to migrate them to Spring/Tomcat. It attempts to create an easier migration path for those who wish to migrate an existing JavaEE application to the Spring framework.
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jClarity Offers new Tools that Simplify Java Performance Tuning
In a world crowded with in-process and distributed Java profilers, jClarity is a new company with a niche in enterprise and the cloud, offering several tools designed with the goal of simplicity.