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Article: Iterative, Automated and Continuous Performance
A new InfoQ article looks at evaluating performance in an iterative and continuous manner.
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IBM and SAP Open Source their JVM Diagnostics Tools
IBM recently announced their Java diagnostic tool suite that includes the products Dump Analyzer For Java, Extensible Verbose Toolkit (EVTK) for Garbage Collection (GC), and Java Lock Analyzer (JLA) tools. SAP also made an announcement last month about their heap analyzer tool called SAP Memory Analyzer and the tool's integration with Eclipse IDE.
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Eclipse is elected for JCP Executive Committee
The final results of 2007 Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee elections were announced on Tuesday. Eclipse Foundation is among the newly elected members in Java Standard and Enterprise Edition category. This is the first time an open source tooling vendor won a seat in the JCP executive committee. Time Warner Cable is the newly elected member in Java Micro Edition group.
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Sun’s Promise: Reliable, Portable, Functional Java Plug-In
InfoQ recently interviewed Nicolas Lorain, the product manager for Java SE, and discussed the rewrite of the Java plug-in slated for Java SE 6 Update N.
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Open Source Java Turns One
This month marks a year since Sun announced the open sourcing of Java SE. InfoQ looks at the events that resulted.
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Unified Rules Engine and Processes
Mark Proctor, the JBoss Drools Project Lead, and Kris Verlaenen the Ruleflow lead present their vision for unifying rules and processes to provide a truly unified modeling environment with rules and processes as first class citizens, tightly integrated modeling GUIs, single unified engine and apis for compilation/building, deployment and runtime execution.
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Article: What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1: Annotation-Based Configuration
Spring 2.5 was released on November 19th, 2007 and with it, the first article in a series Mark Fisher of SpringSource (Interface21) about the annotation-based configuration options available in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.
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Dalvik, Android's virtual machine, generates significant debate
With the release of Google's Android SDK earlier this week, there was much discussion of the APIs and the expected impact in the mobile space. However, one particular area which generated significant debate in the Java community was the Dalvik virtual machine which is the basis of the Android platform.
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Qi4j introduces Composite Oriented Programming
"Classes are dead, long live interfaces" was declared by Rickard Oberg at Oredev this week where he announced Qi4j. Qi4j brings the new idea of Composite Oriented Programing, in which is no behaviour at all is put in a class, instead the class becomes a 'composite' of mixins and interfaces declared on the class via annotations.
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Atomikos TransactionsEssentials: JTA/XA transaction management outside of Java EE
Atomikos TransactionsEssentials, a Java-based transaction manager, just released version 3.2. InfoQ spoke with Atomikos CTO Guy Pardon to learn more about this release, and also about TransactionsEssentials and third-party transaction managers in general.
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Ari Zilka on Terracotta, Clustering and Open Source
Ari Zilka, co-founder and CTO of Terracotta, spoke with InfoQ about the capabilities of Terracotta, the use cases it supports, and the rationale and impact of taking Terracotta to an open source model.
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Naked Objects adds Java 1.5, Injection, Hibernate
Naked Objects is an architectural pattern and a framework for developing applications where domain objects takes a central role. Naked Objects recently released version 3.0 with support for Java 1.5, injection, an alternate UI, Hibernate object store, integrated security and contributed actions. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Richard Pawson, inventor of the Naked Objects pattern.
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Understanding the ActionScript Virtual Machine for Java Developers
The ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) executes ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) bytecode in the Flash Player 9 runtime. ActionScript 3 is an Object Oriented programming language, used by developers to build Flash based applications in Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Google's Android SDK Bypasses Java ME in Favor of Java Lite and Apache Harmony
Today Google released the Android platform SDK for Open Handset Alliance devices. Android contains a custom Dalvik virtual machine for running applications written in a subset of Java.
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Is the future of JavaScript ECMAScript 4?
The discussion on the future of ECMAScript has been quite lively lately. Brendan Eich kicked off a flurry of posts about ECMAScript 4 and if that is the right path.