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  • HornetQ 2.0 faster than ActiveMQ 5.3 on Independent Benchmark but what about ActiveMQ 6?

    JBoss HornetQ  has proven faster in peer reviewed benchmark, than the current version of ActiveMQ, mainly because of its choice to implement a highly tuned journal that uses AIO when running on Linux. ActiveMQ seems to be going the same way for version 6, pushing the competition.

  • Java EE6: EJB3.1 Is a Compelling Evolution

    EJB 3.1 is a worthy successor to the work EJB 3.0 started. It provides new support for classic Gang-of-Four style Singletons, CRON-like scheduling, no-interface views and asynchronous methods. EJB 3.1 also includes support for in-.WAR deployment, eschewing the need for .EAR files.

  • Oracle Calls for JavaOne Papers

    Oracle has announced the call for JavaOne papers for the re-scheduled conference, which will now run alongside Oracle OpenWorld from September 19-23 2010. The closing date for submissions is March 14, 2010.

  • QCon London in One Month: 103 Speakers, 107 Sessions, 500+ Attendees

    QCon London is in 1 month! The final schedule is now online and features 103 speakers and 107 sessions on key topics designed for senior developers, team leads, architects in enterprise software development shops. The last chance to save £196 expires in 2 weeks.

  • Java EE 6 Web Services: JAX-RS 1.1 Provides Annotation Based REST Support

    JavaEE 6 release includes Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) support which provides a POJO based framework to build lightweight web services that conform to the Representational State Transfer (REST) style of software architecture. JAX-RS version 1.1, which is part of JSR 311, offers several annotations that can be used to expose Java class methods as web resources.

  • On The Future of Flash

    The recent release of the Apple iPad, which does not support Flash, and Steve Jobs’s comments on Adobe Flash have triggered a new round of discussion on the future of Flash. A few well-known leaders in the field of rich interactive experience have joined the discussion.

  • Adobe Apologizes for Long Lasting Flash Crash Bug

    Emmy Huang Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player has apologized publicly about a Flash bug that resulted in browser crash, that although has been reported 17 months ago, no patch has been released for the production version of Flash player yet.

  • Maven to be Built on Guice

    Sonatype, the professional services company that sponsors the development of many key Maven committers, has announced that they will build Maven 3 atop the Guice Dependency Injection (DI) container instead of the Plexus DI container employed for Maven 1 and 2. Backwards compatability will be ensured using a shim to support Plexus.

  • Sun's Kenai to Close in 60 Days and Work Halted on Darkstar but Hudson Survives

    Whilst many of Sun's software projects have survived the Oracle acquisition, details are continuing to emerge of projects that are being closed down. Amongst them are Sun's cloud project and Kenai, its source code repository. Work is also being stopped on project Darkstar, the Java based MMOG platform developed by Sun labs, though the code for this is open source and should remain available.

  • Eclipse 3.6M5 released

    This weekend, the Eclipse Foundation released their 3.6M5 of their namesake platform, including the Java IDE for which it has become synonymous. The 3.6 stream, also known as “Helios”, is due to be released in Summer this year; however, the M5 release is likely to be the last feature complete release with the remainder being bug fixes and optimisations.

  • Perspectives on the Conclusion of the Oracle - Sun Acquisition

    After almost nine months of speculation and delay, Oracle has got the green light from EU which has lead to the completion of Sun’s acquisition. The announcement was followed by an all-day event were Oracle presented its future plans for the Sun technologies and platforms.

  • The Java EE 6 Web Tier: JSF 2 Gains Facelets, Composite Components, Partial State Saving and Ajax

    In the second of two articles looking at the Java EE 6 Web Tier we turn our attention to JSF 2.0, looking both at the new features and where the ideas for them came from. JSF 2.0 addresses many complaints about JSF 1.x and adds a large number of new features including Composite Components, Ajax support, Partial State Saving, improved Exception handling and integration with Bean Validation.

  • Scala 2.8 Beta 1 Released

    The long-awaited beta for the new Scala version 2.8 has finally been released. It includes many new features, like for example a redesigned collections library, named and default arguments, and a much improved Eclipse IDE.

  • Groovy 1.7, Grails 1.2 and Groovy Eclipse 2.0 Updates Include Dependency Management,Language Support

    The Groovy language, version 1.7, was recently released supporting refinements to the language itself as well as library enhancements. In short succession, SpringSource has announced the Groovy Eclipse IDE 2.0, which brings debugging, refined content-assist, and stub-less compilation to Eclipse's formerly poor Groovy support.

  • jQuery 1.4 Released with Improved Performance and New API Documentation and Support Forums

    In celebration of jQuery’s 4th birthday, the jQuery team has announced the release of the jQuery 1.4. This release features performance improvements in the most commonly used jQuery methods.

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