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LOGBack: Evolving Java Logging
Ceki Gülcü is well known in the world of Java logging. He founded Log4J and then worked on replacing Jakarta commons-logging with SLF4J. InfoQ spoke with Ceki about his new project, LOGBack, "the reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java." With a 1.0 release just around the corner and some positive reviews from adopters, this may be the right time to take a look at LOGBack.
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IBM affirms Restful SOA & dynamic languages with Project Zero
In a recent interview, IBM WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo affirms that REST has become a core focus for IBM with Project Zero, a new web application development framework continues the trend away from pure java and towards dynamic languages for web application development and also emphasizes RESTful service development.
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Adobe Announces HD Video Support for Flash and AIR
Adobe has announced that the Flash Player and their AIR application platform will support the H.264 codec, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players. They are also adding High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support.
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Dojo 0.9 Goes Final with Significant Performance Improvements
Dojo 0.9 final version was released today after close to 7 weeks in beta release. This release scales down the code base, removing unnecessary items. At the same time significant performance improvements have been made.
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Does Adobe AIR's Future Include An Office Competitor?
A piece on wired.com featuring Adobe's Mike Downey early last week, Tipping the Microsoft Cash Cow Could Be Adobe's Next Move, set off a lot of speculation and debate about their intentions and the opportunities in the Office Suite space. Downey clarified his remarks later in the week to reaffirm Adobe's focus on AIR as a platform.
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Prototype 1.6 RC Includes DOM Builder and Event API Overhaul
Earlier this month the Prototype team released the first RC of 1.6.0. This release contains a number of core API upgrades, bug fixes, and new features. The Event API has been overhauled and a new DOM Builder API has also been added.
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Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, Yahoo! architectures to be presented @ QCon SF
The 'architectures you've always wondered about' track at QCon San Francisco this year will be featuring the architectures of Linked-In, Second Life, eBay, Orbitz, & Yahoo!, presented directly from key architects at those companies. QCon itself also has a number of other tracks on architecture, Java, .NET, Ruby, Agile, research technologies, and more.
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TestMaker 5 Adds Distributed Test Support and Performance Comparison Utility
PutshToTest has released TestMaker 5.0 which allows developers to turn their unit tests into functional tests, load tests, and automated monitors. Among the new features in 5.0 are distributed test support, integration of SoapUI, and a new performance comparison utility.
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ORM with JRuby - ActiveHibernate
The ActiveHibernate project brings Hibernate features to JRuby - for those tricky ORM use cases that go beyond what ActiveRecord offers. We talked to project maintainer Johan Andries.
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Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0: Now with JPA and JSF tools
As part of the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) release two months ago, Version 2.0 of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) was released. InfoQ spoke with WTP co-lead Jess Garms to learn more about this release and about WTP in general.
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Eclipse DLTK 0.9 Supports Tcl, Ruby and More
In the Eclipse Europa simultaneous release, in addition to Eclipse 3.3, a number of other Eclipse projects were released, including Eclipse DLTK 0.9. DLTK, or Dynamic Language Tool Kit is a plugin designed to add support for dynamic languages within Eclipse. InfoQ took the opportunity to speak with Andrey Platov, the Eclipse DLTK Project Lead.
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 7 M2 Adds Groovy/Grails Support, Dependency Analysis
JetBrains has released the second milestone of IntelliJ IDEA 7. Among the features of M2 are enhanced Groovy/Grails support, dependency analysis tools, and better Spring/Hibernate integration.
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Is Erlang the Java for the concurrent future?
The future of computing is going to be concurrent. Even desktop CPUs are multicore nowadays, and when customers are buying more and more CPUs to their servers, they expect their applications to scale well to utilize their new investment. But that's not going to happen with many software systems of today. Can Erlang help?
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Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore
SproutIt has released SproutCore a new full MVC application framework for JavaScript. . It is designed to be run against any server back-end setup. InfoQ set out to discover what makes SproutCore different by interviewing creator, Charles, Jolley.
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Mozilla Paints the Future of Web Scripting with Monkeys
There has been a lot of Monkey talk going on in the Mozilla circles centered around 5 different projects at Mozilla. All of the projects are powerful and telling about the future of browser scripting.