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Mozilla Considers Blacklisting Java
The Mozilla Foundation has publicly considered disabling Java from running in the browser environment, thanks to recent research that indicates Java is the top of the three vectors for security exploits in the browser.
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IBM Releases JDK 7
IBM have announced the availability of IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 7 for both their AIX platform and the Linux platform. The SDK is available for download from developerWorks and brings the compiler and runtime to the same level as found in OpenJDK.
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InvokeDynamic and Javascript: New Compiler Dyn.js, Oracle Nashorn and Rhino
Dyn.js is a new implementation of Javascript for Java. It makes use of Java 7's new features for dynamic languages (invokedynamic, Method Handles). InfoQ talked to dyn.js creator Douglas Campos about the reasons to create another Javascript for the JVM (next to Rhino and the announced Oracle Nashorn) and implementation details of dyn.js.
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Modularity Maturity Model
At the OSGi Community Event, Dr Graham Charters introduced the Modularity Maturity Model, a way of scoring where projects or organisations against how their modular developments score.
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Apache Felix Framework 4.0.0 Adds OSGi 4.3 Support
The Apache Felix project has just released the Apache Felix Framework, version 4.0.0, which adds OSGi 4.3 support to the Apache-licensed runtime. This brings it in line with Equinox, which has had OSGi 4.3 support for the last few months, and will permit applications to be written purely against the OSGi 4.3 APIs and have portability between the two systems. Read on to find out what's new.
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Twitter Storm: Open Source Real-time Hadoop
Twitter has open-sourced Storm, its distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time computation system, at GitHub under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. Storm is the real-time processing system developed by BackType, which is now under the Twitter umbrella.
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OSGi Community Event Review
<p>The OSGi Community Event was held in Darmstadt, Germany, during last week. Presentations from across the board, from embedded smart home devices to the latest Enterprise specifications were presented. Read on for a review of what was covered.</p>
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Eclipse 3.7.1 Brings Java 7 Support
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Eclipse Indigo SR 1, also known as Eclipse 3.7.1. This is a maintenance release of the existing 3.7 build, but importantly adds Java 7 support to the eponymous Java IDE.
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Sonatype Offers Insight Into Enterprise Open Source Usage
Sonatype, the main company which drives Maven development, has joined a growing list of companies which aim to help organisations understand and audit their open source software usage, with the announcement of the Sonatype Insight software suite.
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Java EE PaaS Providers
A survey conducted by Red Hat at this year's VMworld implied a strong demand for Java EE based PaaS, but such products are thin on the ground. We take a look at two contenders, CloudBees' RUN@cloud, and Red Hat's own OpenShift.
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ZeroTurnaround Announces Free Version of JRebel as Part of 4.5 Update
ZeroTurnaround today released JRebel 4.5 and announced JRebel Social, a beta version of their popular "redeploy killer" that is free for non-commercial use, provided you are willing to give ZeroTurnaround access to your social network.
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MaintainJ 3.2 Released With Multiple Enhancements
MaintainJ, a reverse engineering tools that provides runtime sequence and class diagrams for Java codebases, has released version 3.2</a> with multiple enchancements. MaintainJ is Eclipse-based and works on any IDE that is built on Eclipse platform.
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Interview with Spring Social Lead Craig Walls
Following on from the recent release of Spring Social, InfoQ caught up with Craig Walls, lead of the project. The interview covered the current state of the project, as well as the community involvement since its release.
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Memcached surpasses EhCache and Coherence in Java Job Demand
Around January 2011, Memcached became the number one caching solution based on Java developer job demand. Memcached expanded beyond its LAMP roots. InfoQ caught up with Dustin Sallings, the implementer of Spymemcached the leading Java Memcached client, to get his perspective on the rise of Memcached in the Java world.
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Google Adjusts GAE Pricing Terms Based on User Reaction
Google has reacted to recent developments regarding the increase in GAE prices which took developers by surprise, making a number of adjustments to the pricing plan, the most important being: the new billing is delayed until November 1st and the number of free Instance-Hours is raised from 24/day to 28/day.