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Comparing Eclipse Extensions and OSGi Services
In an article recently re-published on his blog, Neil Bartlett performs a comparative analysis of Eclipse extensions and a variety of flavors of OSGi services.
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Article: An Introduction to NetKernel
Last month the NetKernel project released version 3.3 which added an Optimized HTTP Transport Layer, Enhanced Dynamic Language Support, and Reorganized/Re-written Documentation. The documentation enhancements were "to make the concepts of resource-oriented computing easier for adopters". Continuing with that theme InfoQ is proud to present a new article, An Introduction to NetKernel.
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Case Study: Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex
In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective.
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WebLogic Server 10.3 Adds HTTP Pub/Sub Server, Optional Services Startup and FastSwap Deployment
WebLogic Server 10.3 technology preview released by BEA systems includes a HTTP Pub/Sub Server for web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP. Other new features in this release include modular server component installation and startup, and application deployments using the new "FastSwap" feature.
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Adobe Flex Basics
InfoQ.com has covered a number of advanced and intermediate topics on the who, how, and whys of the Adobe Flex development framework, including: Who Is Using Flex, Flex Misconceptions, The Proprietary Nature of Flash, and Open Source Flex Frameworks. Ted Patrick, a Technical Evangelist for Adobe, takes us back to the basics with his blog post, ‘What is Flex?’
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Open Source FlurineFx Integrates Flex and .Net
RIA technologies often need to integrate with established platforms such as .Net or JEE. FlurineFx is an open source library that bridges Flex and .Net. InfoQ spoke with FluorineFx's project manager and learned more details about it.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers
Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon's EC2.
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Mark Mahieu Creates CICE Closure Prototype
One of the hottest topics in Java in recent years has been around adding full closure support to the Java language. Given the complexity that closures could introduce however, it is difficult to judge their full impact without being able to experiment with prototypes for the various proposals.
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Interview: Didier Girard, are GWT and Volta GCC for the Web?
Microsoft released a preview of Volta last month. Some people have commented that Volta was a direct competitor to GWT. InfoQ talked to Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR and GWT expert to ask him how they compare and share his perspective on what they represent for developers.
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In a World of Web Framework Choices, Some Developers Still Build Their Own
Many developers faced with too many choices when selecting a web framework prefer to make the easy choice of using the framework they have used in the past or build their own. This is especially true for Java frameworks, as Neal Ford finds out; he also puts this paradox of choice in the context of other languages and draws some interesting and debatable conclusions.
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Interview: IBM CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero
IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about REST and Project Zero, IBM's new Groovy & PHP based RESTful app mashup / scripting / dev tool.
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GWT Shows Momentum With the Creation of Numerous Open Source Framework Projects
GWT (Google Web Toolkit) is continuing to see adoption in the RIA (rich internet application) community. This has triggered the initiation of a number of frameworks and libraries that either supplement GWT, or use it as a foundation for more feature-rich functionality.
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Python Web Framework on the JVM
Recently there has been a lot of news about numerous languages making their way onto the JVM, providing endless possibilities. Python has been around for years and its JVM implementation, Jython, hopes to bring a Python web framework to the JVM. It could prove to be what Rails is to Ruby and Grails is to Groovy.
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MapReduce A Step Backwards: Is Comparison to Relational Databases Fair?
A recent article on the Database Column by David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker attempts to compare the increasingly popular MapReduce programming paradigm to a relational database. The blogsphere has quickly called foul on the comparison and its reasoning.
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An OSGi Success Story
Bill Kayser of Nagarro recently detailed his experience moving an application to OSGi from a custom infrastructure and build process.