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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.
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Atlassian's Pete Moore Discusses The New Features of Clover 2
Atlassian fresh off their acquisition of Cenqua earlier this year, has released Clover 2. Clover is a code coverage tool for Java. InfoQ caught up with Atlassian's Pete Moore to discuss Clover 2 and the recent Atlassian acquisition.
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JSR-292 and the Multi-Language VM
The JSR-292 effort formed in early 2007 to improve support for dynamic languages on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Thus far, the effort has focused on an invokedynamic instruction for the JVM, but has recently included movement towards the creation of a multi-language virtual machine project.
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KonaKart: Free Java-based online shopping cart
KonaKart, a free Java-based online shopping cart, just released version 2.2.0.7. InfoQ spoke with KonaKart founder Paolo Sidoli to learn more about this release, and how KonaKart fits into the online shopping cart space.
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Interface21 and Tasktop Discuss The Upcoming Spring Tool Suite
Interface21 and Tasktop Technologies recently announced they would be collaborating on the Spring Tool Suite. InfoQ sat down with both companies to discuss the application and how it relates to the existing Spring IDE.
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Netbeans Ruby Support: A Detailed Walkthrough by Roman Strobl
Sun has put a large investment into Ruby in the last year with JRuby and the addition of Ruby language support to their Netbeans IDE. InfoQ will be featuring a series of articles by Netbeans Evangelist Roman Strobl exploring the new Ruby features of Netbeans. The first article takes a look at code completion, debugging, and refactoring support.
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J2flex - A Persistence Store for Flex applications
j2flex.com has started rolling out their j2flex product over the last month, blogging about a number of details, and putting the API documentation online. j2flex is a “Persistence Store for Flex applications,” similar in basic features to Hibernate or iBATIS from the Java community.
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Catching up with Terracotta: Transition to Open Source, Adoption, Hibernate Support
As reported on InfoQ, the VC-backed Terracotta went open source at the end of 2006, since then things have taken off. InfoQ spoke to Ari Zilka about the transition to open source and new features in the recently released version 2.4.
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InfoQ Japan Launches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.
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Gartner on Disruptive Trends in Platform Middleware
A Gartner Report elaborates how emerging Event Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture programming models, as well as the continued growth in adoption of key open source technologies (in particular Spring) have all combined to put significant pressure on traditional platform middleware vendors and may lead to disrupt the industry landscape.
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Mylyn 2.1: Refactoring the Eclipse User Interface to increase productivity
Mylyn, an Eclipse plug-in which was integrated into Eclipse 3.3, recently released version 2.1. InfoQ spoke with Mylyn project lead Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and what changes Mylyn 2.1 brings to Eclipse-based development.
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Adobe AIR Application: Spaz - a Twitter Client
Last week, arstechnica.com published an interview with Ed Finkler, the creater of Spaz – an open source Twitter client written using the Adobe AIR platform. In the interview, Finkler discusses Spaz, how and why he selected the AIR platform, and some of the challenges of upgrading Spaz to the latest AIR beta 2 release.
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Eclipse RAP 1.0 Brings RCP and OSGi to Ajax
The Eclipse Foundation released the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) 1.0 on Monday. The Eclipse RAP is an Ajax toolkit for creating and deploying Rich Internet Applications geared towards enterprise developers.
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JSR-275: Units and Measures Introduced
JSR-275: Units Specification aims to add support for units to Java software development, with the hope of reducing a certain class of errors. Jean-Marie Dautelle, co-spec-lead, introduces the API.