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AppDynamics Extends APM Solution to Include End User Monitoring
Application Performance Management Vendor AppDynamics announced the addition of End User Monitoring support to their product on March 7th. The AppDynamics agent uses JavaScript to record data from the browser and incorporates it with the data collected on the server side.
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Google Has Open Sourced WindowTester Pro
Google has decided to open source WindowTester Pro, a Java tool used for automated SWT and Swing GUI testing.
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Thymeleaf 2.0: Performance, th:switch, Line Numbers, Template Fragments, New DOM API
Thymeleaf is a XML/HTML template engine for Java, whose main goal is to provide a well-formed way of creating templates. Thymeleaf 2.0 includes a lot of new features, including improvements for developers who create Thymeleaf extensions. Here's a quick run down of what's new.
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VMware Introduces Spring Hadoop
VMware have announced the availability of Spring Hadoop, which integrates the Spring Framework and the Apache Hadoop platform.
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Hibernate 4.1 Released With Improved Auditing Support
JBoss relases Hibernate 4.1 with improvements to the Envers module that allow for finding the database revision responsible for a change in a specific audited property.
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Travis CI Announces Support for Java and Plans for Travis Pro
Travis CI, a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) offering for open source projects on Github, has announced support for Java builds, as well as Scala and Groovy additions. After gaining traction among the Ruby open source community the project is now looking into the possibility of expansion to a hosted CI service (nicknamed Travis Pro).
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Caucho's Resin Application Server Grew by a Factor of Almost Ten Last Year According to Netcraft
According to Netcraft Resin has been seeing strong growth in the last 12 months, seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M in February 2012.
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JBoss AS 7.1 Reaches Full EE Profile Compliance
JBoss AS 7.1 has been released, becoming the first JBoss server to achieve full compliance with the Java EE 6 Full Profile, joining the other open-source servers in full compliance, including Apache Geronimo and Oracle GlassFish. Read on to find out more.
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Netty 3.3.1 Release Supports SPDY Protocol
The Netty 3.3.1 release adds support for SPDY protocol, which has been proposed for inclusion in http/2.0, fixes regression of Android support and reduces memory consumption of ZLib compression.
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Effective Scala - Best Practices from Twitter
Twitter has open sourced its Effective Scala guide. The document is on GitHub and is licensed under CC-BY 3.0. Scala is one of the primary programming languages used at Twitter, and most of the Twitter infrastructure is written in Scala. The Effective Scala guide is a series of short essays, a set of "best practices" learned from using Scala inside Twitter.
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Kotlin Open Sourced
JetBrains have open-sourced their Kotlin language, compiler and have offered a free plugin for IntelliJ users to write Kotlin code. The language is also buildable with Ant, Maven and Gradle builders. How does it compare to the other JVM based languages on the scene? Read on to find more.
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Apollo 1.0 Released, Next Generation ActiveMQ
Apache Apollo 1.0, ActiveMQ subproject, was just released. Apollo's new threading model which is geared to multi-core microprocessors makes it faster, more scalable and more reliable than ActiveMQ. Apache Apollo now has JMS support along with a set of JMS benchmarks that show it is a clear competitor in the messaging space.
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PrimeFaces 3.0 Released: Ajax, Mobile and IE 9 Components for JSF2
PrimeFaces 3.0 was recently released offering an extensive suite of JSF2 Ajax enabled components, a separate version for iPhone/Android devices and support for Internet Explorer 9.
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IntelliJ IDEA 11 - What is New
JetBrains released IDEA 11 before Christmas, bringing improvements to performance, Groovy and Grails support, and to Version Control plugins. InfoQ took a detailed look at what is new.
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JSF 2.x Update from Ed Burns
InfoQ got a chance to catch up with Ed Burns, JSF specification lead. Ed shared his viewpoints on where JSF stands in light of Ajax, and HTML5 as well as a recap of what happened in JSF 2.0, 2.1 and what is happening in 2.2. Ed covers how JSPs are first processed as Facelets, multi-tenancy, how JSF will support HTML 5, JSF adoption, high-traffic sites that use JSF, and more.