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JBoss Rolls Out Developer Studio 1.0 and Tools 2.0
JBoss recently released new versions of their JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools products.
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JEE 6: Extensibility, Profiles and Pruning
Whilst the public details are still a little sketchy, the general direction of Java EE 6 is becoming apparent and reflects the changing role of the Java EE standard.
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MarkMail Takes Mailing List Archives to the Next Level
Late last year MarkLogic rolled out MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives based on their MarkLogic XML content server. Currently MarkMail supports Apache.org, Mozilla.org, PHP and MySQL lists. InfoQ sat down with Jason Hunter of MarkLogic to find out more details on site and where it is heading in the future.
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Bitemporal Framework Adds Time Dimension To Rich Domain Models
Tracking time is a very common requirement in business domain models. Bitemporal framework from ErvaCon, created based on the Temporal Patterns, addresses these time related requirements in rich domain models.
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JavaFX: Current Status and What’s Upcoming
In October, InfoQ.com published an overview of JavaFX. Sun Microsystem’s Chet Haase followed-up to share additional details with InfoQ.com on what’s to come with the addition of JavaFX to the Java platform.
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JPA Frameworks Compared
java.net is hosting an article written by Sharad Acharya titled "Java Persistence Framework: Which, When, and What?" that compares four popular persistence frameworks: CMP Entity EJBs, JPA, Hibernate, and TopLink. Acharya discusses each technology and summarizes his findings in a matrix.
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OpenLaszlo Working to Support Flash Player 9 Runtime
OpenLaszlo is working to support the Flash Player 9 Runtime. OpenLaszlo was one of the first application development frameworks to target the Flash Player Runtime (starting with version 7). Since that time, the Adobe Flex framework has surged ahead in adoption, partly because of their support for the Flash Player 9.
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Presentation: Linda DeMichiel on EJB 3 & JPA
In this talk from last year's QCon London, Linda DeMichiel, who has been leading the EJB spec since the 1.0 days, presents EJB3 with a focus on JPA. The talk covers key aspects of the Java Persistence API and its role in the development of EJB 3.0 apps, including use of the EntityManager API, persistence units and persistence contexts, queries, object/relational mapping, etc.
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How-to Make your AJAX Applications Scream on the Client
AJAX is hot, no one will argue, but what is often the case is your Web 2.0 applications don't perform as well as you had hoped. Learn how a few simple optimizations can help.
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File System Transactions - still a problem area?
Historically transaction-processing systems have relied primarily, if not solely, on databases to handle the ACID aspects of any IO activities that required to be transactional. The support for transactions for file system operations has been weak at either the libraries/frameworks, languages or file system levels. Lately, this situation is starting to show signs of improvement.
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Debate: Should the Java language stop adding new features?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate over the future of the Java platform, with some arguing for more features to compete with languages such as C# and Ruby, and others saying that Java should become a more stable language lest it become too complicated to use. Bruce Eckel started a new round of debates by stating that Java should stop adding new features entirely.
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Why Scala?
Scala is one of the newer languages for the JVM, but why would developers want to choose Scala over Java? There are many reason, but for many Scala provides many of the language features of Ruby in a statically-typed environment.
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Boost your Java Test with Ruby and JtestR
The ease of Ruby for scripting tasks makes it a very powerful candidate for writing your Test suites. Until recently there was no real standalone framework to test your Java with Ruby. JtestR, written by Ola Blini (a member of JRuby team) and Anda Abramovici, makes it possible now. Ruby coupled with powerful Ruby tools such as RSpec, mocha will make writing Java tests smoother.
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James Gosling on Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR
Kathleen Richards of Redmond Developer News published an interview with Sun Microsystems’ James Gosling, in which they discussed JavaFX and its competition in the RIA space. Gosling shared some pointed thoughts on how he believes JavaFX compares to the Flash / Flex platform.