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GridGain Releases Open Source Java Grid Computing Platform with AOP Enablement
GridGain Systems has released version 1.0 of their open source Java grid computing platform. In addition to task oriented grid enabling, GridGain also provides an AOP enablement option. Annotations can be used to grid enable method execution.
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The Consumer Java Runtime Environment in Detail
On May 8th, 2007, Ethan Nicholas and Dennis Gu announced the Consumer JRE at JavaOne. Since JavaOne, Ethan Nicholas and Chet Haase have released additional details about the Consumer JRE, including these elements: Quickstarter, Java Kernel, Deployment Toolkit, Installer Improvements, Windows Graphics Performance, Nimbus Look and Feel.
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Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson
The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.
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Building Domain-Specific Languages in JRuby
Closing out the Java One conference last week was Rob Harrop's presentation "Exploiting JRuby: Building Domain-Specific Languages for the Java Virtual Machine." Domain specific languages (DSLs) have been gaining popularity, as shown on InfoQ with a presentation on an introduction to domain specific languages by Martin Fowler and posts on the debates in the blogsphere.
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Exploring Event Driven Architectures with Esper
At Java One Thomas Bernhardt and Alexandre Vasseur explained the concepts of event driven application servers and the Esper project. Event driven application servers are a new category of servers, proving a runtime and supporting infrastructure services (transport, security, event journaling, high availability, connectors, etc.) to servers designed to be able to process over 100,000 events/sec.
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Is OSGi the Solution for Mobile Java?
Java ME developers face many obstacles that server-side or desktop Java developers never have to contend with. Nokia, Sprint, and IBM teamed for a JavaOne session that outlined a solution to these problems through an service-oriented architecture based on OSGi
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A Wicket User Revisits JSF
Peter Thomas recently took a second look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. Thomas uses the creation of a simple discussion forum for his comparison showing various portions of each implementation side by side including web.xml, dependencies, and business/presentation components.
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Oracle JDeveloper 11g Preview and over 80 AJAX-enabled Open Source JSF Components Released
Oracle has released a technology preview version of its JDeveloper 11g IDE along with over 80 freely-available AJAX-enabled JSF components, bolstering its visual development capabilities with improved support for rich-client interfaces, live database connectivity, data binding, and more.
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Presentation: Event Patterns
Ian Cartwright presents some of his work (developed with Martin Fowler) on Event Patterns (recorded at JAOO), including: Event Sourcing, Event Collaboration, Parallel Model, and Retroactive Event. These patterns can be used in scenarios where a sequence of domain model changes may need to be recorded, reversed, corrected, or simply observed.
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JBI 2.0 at JavaOne
Sun unveils JBI 2.0 technical committee which has its first face-to-face meeting at JavaOne and follows up with a full evening of JBI related events.
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The Future of SCA
In a panel on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) at JavaOne, one of the controversive topics was the SCA client programming model. Moderator David Chappell and Gregor Hohpe share their impressions.
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Database Migration and Refactoring with LiquiBase
In recent years, there has been a fair amount of discussion developing databases through a series of fine-grained, trackable changes with automatic migration, sometimes called 'database refactoring'. If you're not using ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails, and particularly if you're using Java, LiquiBase is an interesting candidate: an open-source tool for database refactoring and migration.
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The Missing Piece of Desktop Java ... The Consumer JRE
Missing from the keynote announcements at JavaOne was discussion on improving the deployment path of desktop Java applications. Hope may finally come later this year in the form a consumer targeted JRE however.
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Motorola Challenges Java Developers to Rethink Mobile Computing
Thursday at JavaOne started with a thought provoking keynote by Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior. Rather than the usual vendor keynote making grand announcements or touting specific accomplishments of her company, Warrior focused on challenging Java developers to think hard about the transformation of the mobile world.
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Interface21 (Spring) gets 10M VC Funding
Interface21, the provider of the Spring Framework has announced that it has received $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital. The new funds will be used to accelerate product development and expand marketing, sales and support infrastructure to scale their professional open source offerings around Spring.