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Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector Goes Native on Linux
Azul Systems have today announced Zing 5.0, eliminating their previous requirement for a hypervisor, and therefore bringing their pauseless JVM to unmodified 64-bit Linux for the first time.
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Distributed Cache as a NoSQL Data Store?
NoSQL data stores offer alternative data storage options for non-relational data types like document based, object graphs, and key-value pairs. Can a distributed cache be used as a NoSQL store? Greg Luck from Ehcache wrote about the similarities between a distributed cache and a NoSQL data store. InfoQ caught up with him to talk about this use case and its advantages and limitations.
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Apache Harmony Finale
The Apache Harmony PMC initiated a vote earlier this week to begin the process of moving the codebase into the Apache Attic and disbanding the PMC. With 18 for and 2 against, the result will be that the Apache Harmony project will be wound up and placed in the Attic for posterity.
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Latest Xtext Release Integrates with JVM
Xtext 2.1 was released this week by the Eclipse Foundation. It comes with many new features and a major innovation: the support for creating domain specific languages targeting the Java virtual machine.
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MyEclipse 10 Released
Today, Genuitec released MyEclipse 10, an upgrade to their certified Eclipse bundle. Read on to find out what's new.
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Azul Systems and Twitter Elected to the JCP Executive Committee, VMware No Longer Represented
Twitter and Azul Systems have been elected to serve on the JCP Executive Committee for Java SE/EE, on voting percentages of 32% and 19% respectively. Both firms have also joined the OpenJDK project. VMware is no longer represented.
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Spring 3.1 RC1: Environments, Comprehensive @Configuration, Cache, c: namespace, Java 7
SpringSource has released the first release candidate of Spring 3.1. Spring 3.1.0.RC1 contains the following new features: Environment Abstraction and Bean Profiles, Comprehensive @Configuration, Cache Abstraction, c: namespace, Enhanced MVC Support, Enhanced JPA Support, Hibernate 4.0 and Quartz 2.0 Support, Servlet 3.0 Support, Java 7 with JDBC 4.1 and ForkJoinPool.
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Worm Turns Unpatched JBoss Servers into Botnet
A new worm exploiting a JBoss vulnerability that was patched in April 2010 is targeting unsecured servers and adding them to a botnet, security researchers are reporting.
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AppDynamics Lite 2 Released - Adds Monitoring Support for Free
Application Performance Measurement (APM) vendor AppDynamics has released AppDynamics Lite version 2.0, bringing new features from their commercial product into the free version.
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Oracle Sets Out Two Year Plan for Client-side Java
Given that Oracle is predominantly focused on enterprise software, it has been tempting to assume that the vendor would largely ignore client-side Java. It became clear at JavaOne this year, however, that Oracle is making a renewed push on the desktop, spearheaded by JavaFX. It will also be open-sourcing the entire JavaFX platform via OpenJDK.
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Ron Monzillo on Java Identity API and JSR 351
The Java Identity API provides a framework for representing and interacting with identity attributes in Java applications. Ron Monzillo, specification lead for JSR 351, the spec for this API, spoke at the JavaOne 2011 Conference last week about the JSR proposal scope, its current state and future plans for the specification.
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New in Google Cloud: SDK 1.5.5, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Prediction API and Premier Accounts
Google Cloud Services has announced a new version of the App Engine SDK (1.5.5) -the frontend request deadline has been raised from 30 sec. to 60 sec., Python 2.7-, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage and Prediction API are out of Code Labs, and Premier Accounts.
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PojoSR brings Service Registry to Java
Karl Pauls has released PojoSR 0.1.6, a service registry that enables OSGi bundles to be loaded and services wired together without the need for a full OSGi runtime stack. PojoSR differs from the full OSGi platform in that it does not use nested classloaders; so badly behaved libraries like Hibernate – which are often tripped up in a structured OSGi environment – continue to work as normal.
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OSGi Early Draft Available
The OSGi Alliance has made available the Early Draft specifications for the next release of the OSGi platform. As a draft specification, specific features may differ and some may be missing or replaced. Read on for what's new.
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Chronon 2.0 Offers Post Execution Logging
Chronon Systems has recently released version 2 of their recording JVM debugger which allows for post execution logging.