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  • Enunciate: Java code-first, compiled-contract WS deployment framework

    enunciate 1.0, a J2EE web service deployment framework that provides a complete development-to-deployment system for creating SOAP, REST, and JSON endpoints, was released last week. enunciate is not a web service stack like Axis2 or XFire. Rather, it uses XFire and Spring to provide a code-first development model (not in itself novel) that enforces compatibility contracts at compile time.

  • What Should be In JEE 6? Gavin King's Wish List

    Gavin King, Hibernate creator and Seam project lead, has posted the first of a series of posts containing his wish-list of features for JEE 6. Among his suggestions are increased concurrency options, simplified JMS/JavaMail, and optional business interfaces for EJB's.

  • DON'T PUBLISH THIS (THE ENGLISH CONTENT WAS MADE BY MISTAKE)

    Sun于2006年11月13日宣布在GNU通用公共许可证第2版(GNU General Public License v2, GPLv2)下开放Java SE、Java ME以及 Glassfish的源代码,同时Sun发布了Java SE 7 HotSpot JVM、javac编译器和JavaHelp的早期构建版本。完全可构建的Java SE 7 JDK类库计划于2007年第一季度发布。关于Java管理模式的计划尚未宣布。

  • InfoQ China Unlaunches

    InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. To maximize InfoQ's positive impact, InfoQ is extending to serve communities where English is a strong barrier, starting with China, and in a few months Japan, and hopefully Brasil by the end of the year.

  • Five Common Ajax Anti-Patterns

    Jack Herrington has written about common pitfalls in Ajax code, calling out five specific problems he sees often enough to consider anti-patterns: Polling on a timer when you don't need to, not inspecting the return results in the callback, passing complex XML when HTML would be better, and more.

  • Does Groovy need a GUI Builder

    Geertjan is integrating Groovy support into NetBeans 6.0 and is impressed with the ease of writing Swing code in Groovy. He questions whether a Matisse-like GUI builder is necessary for Groovy. Danno Ferrin responds that layout, specifically GroupLayout is the reason.

  • JBoss Messaging Matures with Clustering & Transparent Failover Support

    A couple of weeks ago JBoss (now part of Red Hat) released JBoss Messaging 1.2, replacing JBossMQ and adding clustering and transparent failover one would expect from a production messaging system. InfoQ spoke to JBoss Messaging Project Lead (Ovidiu Feodorov) and Technical Lead (Tim Fox), to ask them about their latest release as well as their thoughts on JMS & SOA in general.

  • MapReduce Gaining Traction: Tools Plugin Released for Eclipse and Amazon EC2 Support

    IBM's Alphaworks website has released an Eclipse plugin to simplify the development of applications using Hadoop, the open source Java MapReduce framework. Work has also been done to easily allow Hadoop applications to run on Amazon's EC2 and S3 platforms for processing and storage.

  • Presentation: Simplifying Enterprise Development with Groovy

    Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project manager, teaches how scripting with Groovy can increase your productivity and help you build and test solutions faster on the Java platform. Topics include Groovy the language, Ant builder, XML support, Swing support, Groovy's Meta Object Protocol, and more.

  • Guice and JavaConfig: Two Approaches to IoC through Annotations

    Now that the dust has settled a bit from the initial release of Guice, the comparisons with Spring IoC and specifically with Spring JavaConfig are available. Guice and JavaConfig offer different approaches on putting IoC configuration into code using Java annotations.

  • Presentation: Dynamically Typed Languages for the JVM

    Scripting languages are of growing importance, and they are typically dynamically typed. This session discusses improved support for these languages in the JVM, through the use of the new invokedynamic bytecode and through improved support for hot-swapping--modifying code and classes on the fly while maintaining the JVM software's security and integrity.

  • Considering Grails vs Rails Benchmarks

    The Grails community recently posted some unscientific benchmark numbers comparing a simple crud app written in Grails and Rails.

  • Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy

    Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.

  • SCA/SDO go to OASIS

    The proprietary SCA and SDO specifications, often seen as competing with JEE and JBI, are taken to OASIS. With Sun now a member, is this a case of happy families?

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon

    In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.

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