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  • Eric Newcomer on the future of OSGi

    Eric Newcomer, co-chair of the Enterprise OSGi working group, talks about OSGi and where he sees it going in the future, including its relationship to ESB and SOA technologies.

  • Azul Systems: Next generation Java-based 768 core server released

    Azul Systems has announced the release of their third-generation Java-based computing appliance with 768 processing cores. Azul also recently settled a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems. InfoQ caught up with Azul's Gaetan Castelein to discuss these recent events.

  • jQuery: A new way to write JavaScript for rich web UI

    jQuery is a JavaScript Library that simplifies traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding Ajax interactions to web pages. jQuery provides an API to develop feature rich web UI much faster and with fewer lines of code than the traditional JavaScript.

  • Grails Misconceptions

    Marc Palmer, a Grails committer, posted about some of the common misconceptions that developers have about Grails, such as "Grails is not mature enough for me". Graeme Rocher followed up with his own list of misconceptions and questions, discussing where Grails fits in with JRuby on Rails and Ruby on Rails.

  • Gavin King's Second Wishlist for Java EE 6: JSF and EL Enhancements

    Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the second and third parts to his wishlist for Java EE 6. In these installments he focuses on enhancements for JSF and Unified EL.

  • Lucene 2.2: Payloads, Function queries, and more speed

    Lucene Java 2.2 is now available. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. There are several new features in this version, and InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll, a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for the Lucene project, to learn more about this release.

  • Three approaches to JRuby GUI APIs

    Ruby already has a host of bindings for various GUI toolkits. JRuby now allows the use of Java's Swing and there are already a few libraries trying to make Swing less tedious to work with. We look at the approaches taken in Profligacy, Cheri, and the JavaFX Script clone Swiby.

  • OpenJDK Project Releases Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity (JSR 294) EA Snapshot

    The OpenJDK project has released early an access snapshot of the Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity Support (JSR 294). JSR 277 addresses modularity from a deployment unit perspective. JSR 294 addresses modularity from a development perspective, introducing a new language construct, called superpackages, for information hiding.

  • Profiles & Extensibility Major Refactorings in Proposed Java EE 6

    The Java EE 6 (JSR 316) proposal was published today. Two major themes for release are extensibility and profiles. Interface 21 CEO Rod Johnson has written a lengthy commentary on the proposal going so far as to declare his support for the JSR.

  • XQuery Java API JSR 225 Available for Public Review

    The first public review draft of JSR 225: XQuery API for Java has been posted for review. The spec (being led by Oracle) aims to provide ubiquitous programmatic access for XQuery implementations in Java.

  • New Concurrency Features for Java SE 7

    Although the contents of Java SE 7 are still in flux, early candidates of concurrency features for inclusion are are already taking shape: a fork/join framework and a transfer queue. InfoQ spoke with Doug Lea about these features and concurrency in Java SE 7.

  • Sun CTO Bob Brewin on Eclipse 3.3 and the Future of Netbeans

    InfoQ recently sat down with Sun CTO Bob Brewin to discuss the Eclipse Europa release and the future direction of Sun's Netbeans IDE.

  • Interview: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald

    Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a framework for modelling and controlling the execution of multi-step work flows in web applications. Flows often execute across HTTP requests, have state, exhibit transactional characteristics, and may be dynamic and/or long-running in nature. In this interview, SWF co-lead Keith Donald talks about how Spring Web Flow works.

  • QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9

    The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.

  • XWiki 1.0: Extensible Java-based wiki/application platform

    XWiki is an open source wiki and an application platform written in Java and released under LGPL license. Its development platform features allow creating collaborative web applications and also provide packaged applications built on top of the platform (second generation wiki). XWiki 1.0 launched last month, but there have been almost 10,000 deployments to date.

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