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Article: WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on WebSphere Trends 2009
In an exclusive InfoQ article, IBM's WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo outlines the 10 top technology direction he envisions for the WebSphere product line in 2009, including Business Mash-ups, a Middleware-as-a-Service offering, cloud support, WAS.NEXT and REST support in multiple products.
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Eclipse PHP Development Toolset 2.0 released
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the immediate availability of PDT 2.0, a major upgrade to the popular Eclipse PHP Development Tools project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications.
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JavaPassion Speaker Offers Free JavaFX Programming Online Training
The popular online Java training website Java Passion host Sang Shin has a new free online training course on JavaFX technology. The first session of this course will start on January 30. The presentation slides of first session are already available on the website.
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Stephen Chin on WidgetFX and JFXtras
Stephen Chin is the lead developer of two open source JavaFX projects: WidgetFX, a desktop widget platform, and JFXtras, a set of add-ons and utilities for developers working with JavaFX Script. He is also co-authoring the forthcoming Pro JavaFX book with Jim Weaver and Weiqi Gao. In this interview he tells us more about these projects and his thoughts on JavaFX.
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Article: Getting Started With Spring Integration
In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.
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Live Production Clojure Application Announced
A production health-care application built using Clojure (among other languages) has been announced, and is now running live. Several details have been provided regarding the architecture, deployment, and runtime behavior of the application.
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jQuery 1.3 Released with New High Performance CSS Selector Engine
Version 1.3 of the JavaScript library jQuery has been released featuring Sizzle, a brand new CSS selector engine which offers significant performance gains for the most frequently used selectors. Along with the release, a new API browser was presented which is available online or as an Adobe AIR application and can accommodate live running examples with which the developers can experiment.
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Sun Opens Netscape Server Source
Sun's OpenSolaris project has released the Java Enterprise Server as open source under the BSD license. The is largely the same as their commerical product, which descends from the Netscape Enterprise Server of the 90's.
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Sun’s JDK7, OpenJDK & IcedTea: Disambiguation
With JDK7, OpenJDK and IcedTea all evolving in parallel it can get confusing about how these projects relate to each other. David Herron, which is OpenJDK Quality Lead, tries to set the record straight and explains why the JDK7 has taken so long.
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Programming Languages: 2008 Review and Prospects for 2009
In the beginning of last year, Ehud Lamm launched on Lamba the Ultimate a thread about programming languages predictions for 2008. Several subjects popped up: concurrency, functional programming, future of Java, Ruby, C++, and many others… What really happened in 2008 and what are the prospects for 2009? Bloggers have addressed these questions on demand of James Iry, echoing at last year thread.
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QCon London 2 Months Away; Special Discounts by Jan 15th
InfoQ's 3rd QCon London (March 11-13) is a couple of months away and will again feature 15 tracks, 100 speakers, and excellent learning and networking opportunities. The last chance to save £295 expires next week January 15th!
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Web Beans (JSR-299): Q&A with Specification Lead Gavin King
An ambitious and key part of Java EE 6, the Web Beans specification spans JSF/EJB integration, context management, dependency injection and AOP. The specification is currently in public review and the review period has been extended into 2009. An Alpha build is also available. InfoQ talks to Gavin King to find out more about the state of play of the specification and progress to date.
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Data Integration Software XAware 5.2 Supports Data-First Design and Data Services Design Wizard
The latest version of XAware, an open source data integration software, offers data-first design feature. XAware development team recently announced the general availability of XAware 5.2 version.
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Java 7 Roadmap Updated: Reactions
During Devoxx Mark Reinhold, Chief Engineer for Java SE, gave a presentation about the latest directions for Java 7, alongside a release date in early 2010. Although Mark described his presentation as a provisional plan and not binding, there have been many reactions from the community, especially regarding the omission of Closures.
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Top InfoQ News and Exclusive Content for 2008
Looking back at the year that is coming to its conclusion, we wanted to have a retrospective and find out which were the most read news and exclusive content items during 2008. We compiled a list containing top 5 news for each community and top 3 exclusive content items for each type: articles, interviews and presentations. This list considers the number of unique readers for each news.