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Presentation: JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.
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IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's new features and future plan for Flex, InfoQ spoke with Ann Oreshnikova, marketing director of JetBrains.
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APIFinder - Your Guide to APIs
Developers today are constantly creating applications that consume services of other web sites. Consuming these services requires figuring out and understanding the sometimes complex Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
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Hands-off Load Testing with JMeter and Ant
Automation expert Paul Duvall highlights in a recent post the value of earlier and continuous integration of load tests throughout the development cycle and presents simple step-by-step techniques to create a scheduled integration build that runs JMeter tests.
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Flex Startup Helps Learning New Languages
It's not uncommon lately for startup companies utilizing RIA technologies to delivery their ideas and services. Adobe Flex based startup Babbel is one good example. To allow our readers learn the insight on how a Flex startup's architecture is designed and implemented, InfoQ spoke with Thomas Holl, CTO of Lesson Nine GmbH, the company behind Babbel.
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Spring Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1 Released; Adds Ajax, JSF, and Security Integration
InfoQ sat down with Keith Donald and Jeremy Grelle of the Spring Web team to discuss the release of Web Flow 2.0.0.RC1, the first production release candidate for the next major release of Web Flow. Web Flow is an extension to Spring MVC for implementing flows in a web application.
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Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Overall, Flex is a powerful framework that is easy to use, but today let's focus on some of the common mistakes that are made when building Flex applications.
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Interview: Attila Szegedi Discusses Rhino
In this interview, Attila Szegedi discusses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Topics covered include the implementation of Rhino, Rhino's featureset, continuations, usage patterns for embedding Rhino, running JavaScript on the server, scripting capabilities for Rhino, JavaScript versus Ruby, JavaScript on Rails, and future plans for Rhino.
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eBay's Presentation Architecture and Eclipse
eBay insider Michael Galpin has written a two part article describing the evaluation of eBay's presentation architecture from its early Perl roots to a Java solution using Eclipse plug-ins and code generators to improve the developer experience.
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Spring Web Services 1.5 Released
After 6 months of work, Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been release. Based off contract-first development using SOAP service development, Spring-WS can be manipulated through XML to create document-driven Web services. Some of the highlights of the release include:
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Comparing JEE Servers
When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Recently Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, coming up with surprising results as well as informative comments.
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Could eRCP become an OSGi standard?
A post to the eRCP newsgroup over the weekend put forward a proposal of putting forward eRCP as an OSGi standard.
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WebSphere Updates: sMash, eXtreme Scale, Virtual Enterprise, Business Events
At IBM IMPACT this week, IBM announced a several new and re-randed upgraded products dealing with virtualization (Virtual Enterprise), clustering & caching (eXtreme Scale), complex event processing (Business Events), and RESTful web apps (sMash). InfoQ spoke to various execs and product managers to find out more.
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Article: QCon London 2008 Key Takeaways and Lessons Learned
QCon London took place March 12-14th and attendees have blogged summaries and take aways for 62 of the 96 sessions. There were 600 registrations for this second annual QCon in London, 70% of the attendees self-declaring as being team lead, architect and above. Over 100 speakers presented at QCon London including Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and Erich Gamma.
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Extended Java SE 1.4 Support through Java SE for Business
Sun has recently announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business - a new product subscription aimed at extending Sun's support for Java SE releases, provide faster updates to technology updates and offer enterprise deployment features for its customers.