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Red Hat Joins Open JDK Community
Red Hat announced that it is joining the OpenJDK project and has licensed the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).
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Dojo Toolkit 1.0 is Released with Google Gears Integration, Accessibility Support and Charting
The Dojo Foundation has released Dojo Toolkit 1.0. Dojo is used in products from companies such as AOL, BEA, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.
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JBoss Releases Seam 2.0 with Groovy Support and JSF Enhancements
Today the JBoss Seam team released Seam 2.0. This version comes 8 month after the last major release and includes deployment and web services enhancements in addition to support for JSF 1.2.
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IBM Discusses Record Setting SPECj Results and the Benchmarking Process
IBM WebSphere Application Server recently established new heights for SPECjAppServer2004 benchmarks in performance and scalability. InfoQ was able to talk to Andrew Spyker and John Stecher of IBM about the results and the benchmarking process.
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JSLoader Provides Shared Sourcing of JavaScript Libraries
JSLoader, a non-intrusive “JavaScript-on-demand” packaging convention has been released to help manage the growing complexity of JavaScript libraries and their dependencies.
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Apache to incubate its first Ruby Project: Buildr - Ruby Build System for Java Projects
Buildr is a simple and intuitive build system for Java projects. After 10 months of development and a lot of positive feedback, it will be incubated by the Apache Foundation, which will be opening its doors to its first Ruby project.
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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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JNBridge releases two new JMS Adapters for Microsoft .NET and BizTalk Server
Today JNBridge, one of the leading suppliers of Java/.NET interoperability tools for software developers, announced the release of two new Java Messaging Services (JMS) Adapters for the Microsoft .NET platform.
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Who is Using Flex?
When considering new tools, decision makers in the software industry often consider the rate of adoption as a key metric in their assessment on whether or not to embrace a given tool. Adobe’s Flex framework seems to be nearing a critical point in this cycle, as a number of large companies are now using Flex to implement new features. So, who is using Flex anyway?
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Debate: Why are most large-scale websites not written in Java?
Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces recently asked why most large-scale websites were written in languages other than Java. This question touched off a large debate in the Java community, and InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about the major viewpoints surrounding this issue.
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Interview: Joe Walker discusses DWR
InfoQ spoke with Joe Walker at QCon London 2007 about the DWR toolkit. Walker discussed DWR 2.0 including new features such as details about reverse AJAX, the deal with TIBCO, DWR support in IDEs, the integration with Spring, future plans for DWR, and interesting applications of DWR from the very large to the very flashy.
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JavaRebel: Dynamic Classloading in the JVM
JavaRebel brings Ruby and PHP style dynamic reloading of classes to Java. While it currently has several limitations it can speed up development dramatically.
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Presentation: Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again
Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started.
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Adobe and the Future of Software
Adobe has been up to some interesting things of late from their work with Adobe Flex, to their efforts on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and their recent announcement that they intend to move all of their software to the web in a model know as Software as a Service (SaaS).
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Crap4J Seeks to Use Algorithms to Determine Code Quality
Despite its humorous name the Crap4J project has a serious goal. The project seeks to define an algorithm using factors such as code complexity and test code coverage to determine the quality of code.