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ServiceLayer for Point-and-click Web Services
With ServiceLayer, adding SOAP and REST web service to your Java applications is as easy as point-and-click... and it can all be done at runtime. By using the graphical user interface, you explore an application, select classes and methods to deploy as services, and your done. Coding is no longer required.
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J.B. Rainsberger: "Integration Tests Are A Scam"
Well-known agilist and TDD expert J.B. Rainsberger has begun a series of posts to explain why his experience has led him to the thought-provoking conclusion that "integration tests are a scam".
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JRuby Roundup: Google App Engine Support, BiteScript, New Compiler
With JRuby 1.2 released, the JRuby community is working on new projects such as a new Ruby to bytecode compiler, a standalone JRuby parser and a first release of the bytecode generating DSL Bitescript. Also: JRuby works on Google App Engine's newly announced Java support.
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Google Brings App Engine's Pros and Cons to Java
Google has broadened their Google App Engine (GAE) support to include Java in addition to Python. However, it also imposes a number of limitations on the GAE Java applications to further Google's ability to scale and cluster them with minimal effort.
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Presentation: Interactive Websites with Comet and DWR
In this session filmed during QCon London 2008, Joe Walker presents Comet, a long polling AJAX method used for updating the browser’s page, and DWR, a Java library for writing web sites using AJAX.
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Google Eclipse Plugin released
Google has released an Eclipse plugin specifically for increased productivity with Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit.
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Pruning The Deadwood from Java EE
Java EE 6 begins the process of pruning APIs from the platform, with five likely to get the chop.
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IBM-Sun Takeover Talks Collapse
IBM's talks to acquire Sun Microsystems have broken down according to media reports.
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Transaction Strategies Based on Java Transaction Models
It is a common mistake to confuse transaction models with transaction strategies. Mark Richards discusses the three transaction models supported by the Java Platform (Local Transaction, Programmatic Transaction, and Declarative Transaction) and four transaction strategies (Client Orchestration, API Layer, High Concurrency, and High Speed Processing) that can be based on those models.
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Clojure Roundup: Clojure on CLR and Javascript, Terracotta, New Release
Clojure has attracted a lot of interest recently. A new project allows to use Clojure with Terracotta to run code across many JVMs, ports of Clojure to .NET and Javascript have become available, and a new Clojure release adds new features and makes sequences fully lazy.
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JavaRebel 2.0 supports WAR/EAR hot-deployment and Spring integration
The latest version of JavaRebel, a JVM plugin used for dynamic deployment of application code changes, supports WAR/EAR hot-deployment and integration with Spring and Struts 2 frameworks. ZeroTurnaround development team recently announced the release of JavaRebel 2.0 version.
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Aptana Cloud Connect for Java
Last week, Aptana, developers of the PyDev Python IDE for Eclipse, announced the availability of cloud support via Aptana Cloud Connect. Aptana Cloud is a general cloud hosting service which is portable between Amazon EC2 and other cloud environments.
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Eclipse BIRT reporting and BIRT Exchange
Actuate has announced the BIRT Global Partner Connection at BIRT Exchange, for organisations wishing to develop with BIRT, an open-source reporting framework for Eclipse. BIRT provides reporting functionality and is one of the top ten projects at Eclipse.
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Amazon Rolls Out Hadoop Based MapReduce to EC2
It has been possible to run Hadoop on EC2 for a while. Today Amazon simplified the process by announcing Amazon Elastic MapReduce which automatically deploys EC2 instances for computational use and includes a API for interacting with them.
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Critical Security Vulnerability Found in Quicksort
In what is sure to become one of the most wide-reaching security vulnerabilities yet known, a researcher with L0pht Heavy Industries has uncovered a flaw in the standard implementation of the Quicksort algorithm. InfoQ spoke with Dildog of L0pht to learn more about this vulnerability and it's ramifications.