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Robert Bell on Java and Silverlight Interop
Robert Bell, Microsoft Solution Architect, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.
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XHTML 2 and HTML 5 continue to diverge
These two specs have quite different purposes and solve two distinct problems. XHTML 2 is document-centric. HTML 5 is targeted at sites that aren't best represented by a document. Both are supported by the W3C. Is another standards war brewing?
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Jason Van Zyl Discusses Sonatype, The Eclipse Foundation and Maven
Sonatype, the main company which drives Maven development, recently announced that they are joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. InfoQ spoke with Sonatype CTO and Maven founder Jazon Van Zyl to learn more about this partnership and what it means for the future of Maven.
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FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application
Struts is a Java framework based on standard Java technologies, such as Java Servlet, JavaBean, ResourceBundles and XML. Java developers have been enjoying Struts as a solid server side framework for many years. Recently, a technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Anirudh Sasikumar, developed a new solution by integrating Flex as Struts' front end. Sasikumar calls it FxStruts.
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Google Introduces GWT Overlay Types
Javascript Overlay Types is a new feature in GWT 1.5 that simplifies the process of interacting with native Javascript data structures in GWT applications.
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Java Pattern Framework Jt 2.6 Supports JtWizard and Enhancements to Jt Components
The latest version of Java pattern framework Jt supports JtWizard and enhancements to Jt Components. The Jt development team recently released version 2.6 of the open source pattern oriented framework. JtWizard can be used for generating Java applications based on design patterns including Gang Of Four, Data Access Object, Model-View-Controller and J2EE design patterns.
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Soltice Fuses the Power of Flex and OSGi
Over recent months, the Open Source Gateway Initiative (OSGi) has been gaining attention in the application server technology space. While OSGi makes application server products more modular and flexible, its adaptation in the rich Internet application (RIA) area is only getting started. Solstice is the first framework to integrate Flex and OSGi in a single out-of-the-box package.
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Versioning JPA Entities
Maintaining a historical view of database records has been a problem that has been solved before but not easily. Being able to restore entities to their previous versions including basic properties as well as their relationships is more than a trivial task. Recently Envers 1.0.0 GA was released, aiming to simplify JPA entity revisioning.
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New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access
Kasper Sørensen has created a new open source project at eobjects.dk called MetaModel. The project is a common domain model, query engine, and optimizer for different types of datastores, such as relational databases and flat files. MetaModel is a Java library that provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for SQL compliant queries.
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JSR 277 Debate Renews Around Versioning
Debate has once again arisen in the community around JSR 277, which is a proposed dynamic module system for Java 7. The flashpoint of the debate this time around is the version numbering system that is planned for JSR 277 Java Modules (JAMs). InfoQ examined the discussions and arguments to understand more about the current state of JSR 277 and it's acceptance by the community.
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From Concept to Reality: JavaFX SDK Preview Released
Fifteen months after it was first announced, Sun has released the first public preview of JavaFX for Windows and Mac OS X.
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Interview: Guy Steele on Programming Languages
Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, interviewed Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow working for the Programming Language Research Group at Sun, about programming languages, the lessons to be learned from the past and what to expect from the future.
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Alternative Flash RIA Development Tool FDT 3.1 Beta Released
FDT is alternative RIA development tool in Flash, ActionScript or Adobe AIR. The latest release improves Flex SDK based application development.
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Article: An Overview of the eXo Platform
This article by Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provides an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.
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Presentation: The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability
In this presentation, Cameron Purdy discusses Java scaling. Topics include performance improvement versus scaling improvement, serial bottlenecks, queue theory, rewriting existing frameworks, avoiding the database, single points of failure, avoiding abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, large JVM heaps, network failures, and trusting product claims.