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jQuery Gaining Traction With 1.2 and jQuery UI
jQuery is quickly becoming the Ajax library of choice for many. jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and has many new features. A preview/teaser of jQuery User Interface was shown as well.
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Nimbus Look-and-Feel: Vector UIs for Java
In his announcement that the Nimbus Look-and-Feel (LAF) is nearing completion, Jasper Potts indicated that the Nimbus LAF will be based on vector graphics, with support for high-dpi resolution-independent user interfaces and assembled using a new visual tool for creating painters.
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Presentation: Transaction Management Strategies in Mission Critical Applications
A core part of Spring's middle tier support is the transaction management support. This session presents several interesting "mission critical" cases and shows you how to properly handle them using transactions driven by Spring 2. You'll learn the ins-and-out of the "dark art" that is transaction management within a high-volume mission-critical JEE application.
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OpenJPA 1.0: Enterprise O/R Mapping with full JPA 1.0 compliance
Apache OpenJPA, an open-source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), recently released version 1.0.0. InfoQ spoke with OpenJPA project lead Patrick Linskey to learn more about this release.
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Michael Stonebraker: Major RDBMSes are legacy technology
Michael Stonebraker, co-founder of the Ingres and Postgres relational database management systems (RDBMS) and CTO of Vertica Systems, laid the framework for a debate in the database community by declaring that most major databases should be considered legacy technology.
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RubyConf 2007 Registration Open
The registration for RubyConf 2007 is now open. Since RubyConf is a quite small conference, speed is of the issue to get a spot. The Agenda promises interesting talks on Ruby implementations and more.
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Apache Tuscany Open Source SCA Implementation Approaches 1.0 Release
The Apache Tuscany team has released version 0.99 of its open source Service Component Architecture (SCA) implementation. InfoQ talked to Jean-Sebastien Delfino, one of the lead developers, about Tuscany, the parts of SCA that are missing, and the role of the assembly and programming models.
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MyEclipse Moves to Eclipse 3.3 Adding Rapid JEE Support
Genuitec recently release version 6 of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, now built on Eclipse 3.3/Europa with support for Java 6. Now that the dust has settled, some comments on the new release have started to appear.
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JNA brings native code to JRuby
The Java Native Access (JNA) library brings simple POSIX support to JRuby, and might just make native extensions possible.
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TrimPath Junction - Bringing Rails Style MVC to JavaScript
TrimPath Junction has been quite active since it was reinvigorated by Google Gears back in July. A new OnLamp walkthrough showcases the project which bring Rails style MVC to JavaScript.
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Is Java EE 5 easier with EJB?
Many enterprise Java developers gained some experience with Enterprise JavaBeans and went on to choose technologies they deemed lighter-weight, because they felt that building a solution by hand or with a lighter-weight framework was easier and less time-consuming. With EJB 3.X, is it still true that a POJO-solution is simpler, more-comprehensible code? Adam Bien doesn't think so:
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OpenJDK 6 to be based off of OpenJDK 7
Sun recently announced a plan for releasing a Java 6 version of OpenJDK, which will involve back-porting the OpenJDK 7 codebase to create a Java 6 compliant implementation. InfoQ spoke with Joseph Darcy of Sun to learn more about this decision.
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Eclipse Business Intelligence Reporting Tools Version 2.2 Adds MSOffice File Type Output Support
BIRT 2.2 has been recently released with major enhancements as a part of Eclipse Europa release. BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for Java and JEE based web applications. Among the new features of 2.2 are enhanced charting featuring and support for XLS, Word, Power Point and Post Script formats.
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JLINQ: Runtime JDBC Generator for Eclipse
Azadeh Ahadian of IBM has published an article introducing JLINQ on IBM's developerWorks site. Despite the name, JLINQ does not have much in common with Microsoft's LINQ, rather it is an Eclipse plugin providing integration with a database and runtime DAO code generation. The plugin is part of IBM's Developer Workbench that is coming with Viper, the next release of DB2.
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Analyzing JavaScript in Respect to Performance
In a new article Kirk Pepperdine has taken a detailed look at the topic of JavaScript performance. The article looks at common areas such as getters/setters, memory leaks, and bad micro benchmarking.