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Jenkins Not Interested in Hudson Reconciliation
At a recent Jenkins meeting, the discussion turned towards whether a reconciliation with the Hudson project was possible (after the Hudson proposal to move to Eclipse.org was released), and what would be required for that to happen. The stated requirements appear to be in conflict to moving towards either Eclipse or Apache foundations, and therefore in a reconciliation with Hudson.
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The Future of Terracotta after Its Acquisition by Software AG
Software AG, one of the leaders in the SOA and BPM market acquired San Francisco based Terracotta that is behind prominent open source products such as EhCache, Big Memory and Quartz. Terracotta products fill in the application performance and scalability needs for cloud based offerings from Software AG. In this article, InfoQ talks to Ari Zilka regarding the future of this acquisition.
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Oracle Proposes Apache Foundation for Open Office
Oracle has proposed donating the OpenOffice codebase to the Apache Foundation, and relicensing under the Apache License, just over a month since saying it would abandon development of the project. It has interested other contributors (including IBM) but is distinct from the Document Foundation, which continues to develop LibreOffice under the LGPL.
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Community Reacts to Deprecated Google APIs
When Google announced that several programmer interfaces have been deprecated from the API Directory, the development community reacted loudly and in force. While some APIs on the list will be deprecated with no shut down date announced, others like the Translate API will be shut down at the end of the year.
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TeamCity 6.5: Enhanced Integration with Git & Mercurial, .NET Improvements
JetBrains recently announced the release of TeamCity 6.5. The new release comes with a new look and has improved integration with Git and Mercurial along with several improvements especially for .NET developers. Moreover the free Professional Edition now allows unlimited users.
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JNBridgePro 6.0 Connects Java&.NET Apps in the Cloud
JNBridge has enhanced their interoperability tool to enable native communication between Java to .NET applications deployed in the cloud or on the ground and in the cloud.
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Requirements of a Standard Java Module System
Yesterday, Mark Reinhold posted the first public draft of the future of modularity in Java. As it is a draft, there are a handful of issues that still need to be agreed on - but it represents the consensus of what modularity in Java should look like. And with IBM being involved, there's more emphasis on interoperability with OSGi than there has been in the past.
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Azul's Zing 4.1 Virtualisation System for Java Gets up to 80% Better Performance Than Zing 4.0
Azul Systems' Zing 4.1, shipping in the next week, is 80% more performant than the already impressive Zing 4.0, according to the vendor. InfoQ spoke to Vice President of Technology and CTO for Azul Systems, Gil Tene, to find out more about how this has been achieved.
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Siwpas 1.0 - a Tomcat Based Server for EE6 Web Profile
MechSoft releases Siwpas, a lightweight application server based on Apache Tomcat that focuses exclusively on Web applications.
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OpenJDK Bylaws Delay JDK 8 Project, Slightly
Mark Reinhold introduced the second public draft of the OpenJDK Community Bylaws last week, clearing the way for OpenJDK 8 projects to begin.
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An Introduction to D and Visual D
D is a systems programming language from Digital Mars that focuses on “combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python.” While still being a statically typed language that compiles directly to native code, the syntax looks very much like Java or C# but it has some interesting advances.
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JetBrains Release IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 With Full Java 7 Support
JetBrains have released IDEA 10.5 with support for Java 7, Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1 as well as further usability improvements. Version 10.5 is a free update for developers with a version 10 license, and the Ultimate version is now offered at a lower price for new licenses and for personal license upgrades.
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Scala 2.9.0 Introduces Parallel Collections
The latest Scala release 2.9.0 introduces parallel collections to easily utilize multicore processors. Other new features are an improved REPL, ScalaDoc and new packages for interacting with the operating system.
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Oracle Proposes Improvements to JCP
Yesterday, Oracle announced the start of JSR.next, also known as JSR 348, to upgrade the current JCP to force more openness and transparency. Read on to find out more.
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Jeremy Keith on the Design Principles of HTML5
"Embrace HTML5" was held in Shanghai last week. Jeremy Keith, the author of "DOM Scripting" and “HTML5 for Web Designers”, presented a speech on the design principles of HTML5. He also introduced the history of HTML and answered some questions from the audience.