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Article: InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List
Members of the InfoQ editorial team discuss a number of books which have influenced how we think about software development, architecture and managing projects.
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Eclipse Banking Day London
Last week's Eclipse Banking Day in London saw 80+ attendees discuss the use of Eclipse in banking. Sponsored by the Eclipse foundation, in conjunction with Sybase, Cloudsmith, Actuate, Itemis and WeigleWilczek, there were eleven presentations and four short talks by members of the banking and Eclipse communities.
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Article: Blaze Data Services or LiveCycle Data Services?
This article, by Ryan Knight, compares two similar products: Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) and Open Source Blaze Data Services. The comparison is necessary to know the differences between the two products in order to choose the right one for a certain situation.
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Interview: Rob Harrop on SpringSource dm Server and OSGi
In this interview made by InfoQ’s Srini Penchikala, Rob Harrop talks about SpringSource dm Server, its OSGi based modularity and the advantages it offers. He also touches other adjacent topics like support for Java EE6, cloud computing, JMX, and others.
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Sun Launches JavaFX Mobile
Sun Microsystems has launched JavaFX mobile today just in time for the mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week.
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Profiling Just Got Easier With Perf4j
When you start to think about profiling Java applications, many tools come to mind - but did you think profiling could be as easy as adding logging statements? This is the goal of the Perf4j project.
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JRuby and Clojure - A Good Match?
Clojure is a JVM based LISP with interesting properties for concurrency (persistent data structures, STM). New libraries for Clojure are popping up - and some of them are inspired by Ruby libraries such as HAML, ActiveRecord, Rack, and others. We also look at combining JRuby and Clojure to get the best of both Ruby and LISP world, as well as access to technologies such as STM.
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Dynamic Report for Java and Grails
Reporting is a common feature found in many software applications and DynamicJasper aims to make it a simple and easily configurable process.
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Article: Distributed JBI
Officially, the JBI (Java Business Integration) standard is limited to a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance. In a new article, Sun's Derek Frankforth describes and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses two different styles of setting up a distributed JBI topology using OpenESB, and shows how they complement each other in the end.
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SonarJ Community Edition Offers Architecture Analysis and Management for Java Applications
SonarJ Community Edition offers architecture analysis and management for small to medium size Java applications. hello2morrow, the company behind SonarJ software, recently launched the free version of the architecture analysis tool. The community edition can be used to analyze Java applications with upto 500 internal classes (approximately 50 to 60 KLOC).
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Article: JavaScript Test Driven Development with JsUnit and JSMock
This article by Dennis Byrne is a crash course in writing maintainable JavaScript. Dennis uses stubs, mock objects and a little bit of dependency injection. He also uses JsUnit to run unit tests and a JavaScript mock object library called JsMock.
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Apache Ivy 2.0 Final Released
Apache Ivy 2.0, a project dependency manager, has been released. 2.0 is the first release of Ivy as an official Apache project.
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Oracle launches Rich Enterprise Application (REA) site
For developers interested in building multi-channel-capable applications which are pre-integrated with enterprise technologies, Oracle has launched its Rich Enterprise Application (REA) site. There it features a set of Rich Client JSF Components which are part of its Application Development Framework (ADF).
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Presentation: How (7 years of) Eclipse Changed my Views on Software Development
Erich Gamma shares the lessons learnt being deeply involved in the development of the Eclipse platform over the years. From being a platform in closed development, Eclipse turned into an open source one supported by a large and growing community. Erich also talks about Jazz, IBM’s software development platform which incorporates the lessons learnt from Eclipse.
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Article: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform Use at CAS Software AG
Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) in the real world is covered in this case study which looks at how CAS Software AG used RAP on a recent new product offering. Eclipse Equinox is also used by CAS and covered in the case study.