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Granite Data Services: Open Source Flex DS Alternative
Granite Data Services (GDS) is an open source alternative to Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services and the recently open sourced Blaze Data Services. Last week, GDS reached production status with their 1.0 release. GDS is available under the LGPL license. InfoQ.com spoke with the GDS project founder, Franck Wolff, to learn more about the open source project.
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Grails 1.0 Released: ORM DSL, Filters, REST and more
Grails 1.0 has been released. InfoQ spoke with Graeme Rocher, Grails project lead and co-founder, and CTO of G2One about the release of Grails 1.0 to deliver in-depth coverage about the feature-set, maturity, ease of use and future plans for Grails.
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JSPWeaver removes the first-person penalty from JSP development
ZeroTurnaround's JSPWeaver is a real-time interpreter for JSP which aims to remove the first-person penalty encountered when the server creates and compiles the background servlet from the JSP mark-up.
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The Grinder 3.0: "The Programmer's Load Tester" Adds Scripting Support
The Grinder is an open source Java load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. Its new release brings significant enhancements including integration with a scripting engine (Jython) that allows flexible test recording, script customization and replay.
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FlexSpy: Component Inspection for Adobe Flex
Brian Deitte explains how FlexSpy, a component inspection tool for Flex, helps the time-consuming process of fine-tuning Flex layouts.
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A Look at Flex 3.0's Java-based Compiler API
Integrating Java and Flex has proven challenging in some cases. Adobe is trying to make things easier with its release of Flex 3 which includes a Java-based compiler API. This API lets you compile SWF and SWC files from Java applications, supporting the same options as mxmlc and compc command-line tools.
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FlexReport For Printing In Adobe Flex
Rob Rusher, a Flex developer and enthusiast, points us to FlexReport. Poor printing support in Flash is a common problem for Flex applications.
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Dependency Injection: New Ground or Solid Footing?
Dependency Injection seems like a shiny new tool in the toolbox. Andrew McVeigh tells us that DI shares a long history with architecture description languages (ADLs), simple yet sophisticated languages for component-based development through descriptive wiring. This article looks at the history of ADLs and sheds light on possible future directions of dependency injection.
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Presentation: Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco, Adobe Senior Technical Evangelist Cristophe Coenraets discusses the benefits of Adobe Flex for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, the API that Flex provides to developers, the new AIR runtime, and several examples of RIAs built using Flex, Flash and AIR, such as a word processor, a call center application, and a book viewer.
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A Look at the First HTML 5 Working Draft
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a draft of the HTML 5 specification, which reflects the changing nature of the web since HTML 4 was released more than 10 years ago.
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Debate: Is Maven the right tool for builds?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate around the usefulness Maven, which is a Java-based build and dependency management tool being used in many projects. InfoQ took a closer look at this debate to understand what issues are being encountered, and what has resulted from the debate.
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New Scala Tutorials for Java Developers
Scala continues to make news with two more tutorial series, one by Ted Neward at IBM’s developerWorks and one by Daniel Spiewak on his blog.
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Apache Jackrabbit 1.4
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR), and has released version 1.4 after over 9 months of hard work. In the 1.4 release are 220 new features, improvements, and bug fixes since the 1.3 release, making 1.4 the largest release to date.
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Comet: Sub-Second Latency with 10K+ Concurrent Users
Comet - technology that allows a sever to send over HTTP a message to the client when an event occurs, without the client having to explicitly request it - has been considered by some to scale poorly in the past. Recent tests using Cometd and Jetty as well as Lightstreamer production implementations prove the opposite.
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SpringSource Expands Service and Support Offerings by Acquiring Covalent
Today SpringSource announced the acquisition of Covalent Technologies. The acquisition comes 10 months after SpringSource (formerly Interface21) announced it had received $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital.