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  • Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing

    Earlier this week Amazon introduced a beta of SimpleDB, a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. SimpleDB compliments Amazon's other computing services Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The announcement comes roughly a month after IBM announced their Blue Cloud initiative.

  • IBM Adds PowerShell Support for WebSphere MQ

    PowerShell is starting to gain acceptance with major players. IBM has announced that WebSphere MQ can now be managed using PowerShell. WebSphere objects such as Channels, Listeners, Queues, and Services can be created, examined, and modified from the command line. IBM's WMQ blog has posted a series on how to perform these actions.

  • SpringSource Announces Commercial Software Strategy, Spring Integration

    At The Spring Experience yesterday, SpringSource (the company behind Spring) announced their commercial software subscription strategy as well as Spring Integration, a new EAI framework. Spring Certification will also be coming in 2008. InfoQ video interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson & SpringSource COO Neelan Choksi to get the news from the source.

  • Continuous Integration and Code Inspection with Hudson and FindBugs

    A recent article published in IBM developerWorks talks about automating Continuous Integration and Code Inspection tasks in a build process using open source tools. It explains how to install and configure Hudson server with Subversion, Ant, and software inspection tools like FindBugs and PMD to create a build process with continuous feedback on test results and defects.

  • Sun Releases Open-Source PDF Renderer

    Sun has released a new open-source project as part of SwingLabs: PDF Renderer, "a 100% Java PDF Renderer and Viewer." PDF Renderer can parse the Portable Document Format (PDF) from a file and display it, as an AWT image, in a panel, or using any Graphics2D implementation.

  • Using Axis2 for Asynchronous Web Services

    A new article by Eran Chinthaka, Develop asynchronous Web services with Axis2, provides several examples of using the asynchronous APIs of Axis2 in client and server side applications.

  • Multiple Techniques Seek to Bring Dynamic Deployment to JEE

    Web application developers using dynamically typed interpreted languages like PHP, Python or Ruby are used to being able to make a change in their application and see it immediately by refreshing the browser. A number of vendors are looking to improve the situation for Java with two techniques being actively researched.

  • Adobe Open Sources Remoting and Messaging Technologies Along With AMF Protocol Specification

    Today Adobe announced they are opening sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies from LifeCycle Data Services as BlazeDS. They are also open sourcing the AMF protocol specification.

  • Debate: What role will the JCP play in Java's future?

    Recently, Alex Blewitt described the Java Community Process (JCP) as dead, likening it to a headless chicken which "doesn't realise it yet and it's still running around, but it's already dead". This touched off a debate over the usefulness of the JCP and how much it will play a role in Java's future.

  • Forrester Looks at Increased RIA Adoption in the Workplace

    Forrester released a new report written by Eric Driver and Ron Rogowski. The report is titled RIAs Bring People-Centered Design to Information Workplaces.

  • A Look at the Buzzword Spell Checker Implementation

    In Buzzword’s September release, spell checking support was added to the online word processor built using the Adobe Flex Framework. This week, David Coletta from the Buzzword team is sharing details on this part of their implementation in his blog posting, "Buzzword Spell Checking Internals."

  • Catching up with Apache Felix OSGi Container

    Felix is the Apache implementation of OSGi Release 4 specification. Richard Hall, a project committer, did a presentation on Felix at ApacheCon last month. InfoQ spoke to Richard about current state and future roadmap of the Felix project.

  • Article: What's New in Groovy 1.5

    Over the weekend the Groovy team released version 1.5 which contains numerous Java 5 language additions, enhanced tooling support, and performance improvements. In conjunction with Groovy Project Manager Guillaume Laforge, InfoQ is running an article detailing the new features of the release.

  • Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions

    At QCon, Adobe's James Ward shared with InfoQ.com the top Adobe Flex misconceptions that he encounters in his travels evangelizing the Flex application framework.

  • Zoho Leverages Google Gears to Provide Offline Support for Ajax Applications

    Zoho, a online office productivity software company, recently extended its flagship AJAX based RIA product Zoho Writer with offline capabilities using Google Gears. InfoQ.com spoke to Raju Vegesna of Zoho to learn more about the process.

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