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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Brussels approves $7.4bn Oracle-Sun deal, Oracle to Outline Strategy Next Week
The EU has now approved Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems. Oracle will be outlining their strategy for Sun via a webcast on January 27th, the company has announced.
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Bundle.update: The Year of Modularity
A lot has happened since the last Bundle.update. SpringSource dm Server becomes an EPL project at Eclipse; a new book on OSGi and Equinox has been published; the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group is nearing completion; WebSphere has released an alpha based on Apache Aries; Maven Tycho is being used at Eclipse; Nimble facilitates OSGi runtimes, and ECF Remote Services are now complete.
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What Are the Trends in Technology Today?
ThoughtWorks has released the Technology Radar 2010 this month, a white paper containing ThoughtWorks' technology strategy and trends in four major domains: Techniques, Tools, Languages, and Platforms. InfoQ looked at this whitepaper in depth to better understand the ideas and suggestions being offered by ThoughtWorks.
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Sun Releases Java 6 Update 18 With Significant Performance Improvements and Windows 7 Support
Sun is updating Java 6 for the first time this year providing fixes for over 300 bugs, plus Windows 7 support, and a significant number of performance improvements. These include a 30%-40% performance gain when using the default Parallel Scavenger garbage collector on machines based on a NUMA architecture with Solaris or Linux as the OS.
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InfoQ User Survey - 11 Questions to Help Us
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Decoupling Your Application From Your Dependency Injection Framework
Dependency Injection has become a much more accepted and accessible approach in recent years, driven by many factors including increased popularity in SOA, TDD, and many other factors. With this has come increased usage of Dependency Injection frameworks. Bob Martin advises, with examples, applying a decoupling approach between your application code and your Dependency Injection framework.