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Groovy Gains Big Sky Sponsorship and aboutGroovy Portal
The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology's funding of Jochen Theodorou's services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.
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Db4o Releases Version 6.0 Including .NET Support and Open Source Licensing Changes
Db4Object has released version 6.0 of their open source object database. The product allows data to be stored at the object level instead of in a relational format. Compatibility with relational databases can be achieved using the db4o replication system. Native support is provided for both Java and .NET environments.
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Stefan Tilkov on REST on new Parleys presentations site
At the SOA conference organized by BeJUG (Belgian Java User Group), InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov gave a presentation on REST. Synchronized audio and slides for this and other presentations are available on the new web 2.0ish online conference presentations site, parleys.com.
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Reasons to choose Wicket over JSF and Spring MVC
A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. Wicket is a component based web application framework.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to JBoss Seam 1.1
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB2, Portlets, and BPM. Seam 1.1 released last week, and InfoQ has published an introduction to Seam, explaining what Seam can do with a HelloWorld example.
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WPF as a Rich Client Technology?
WPF makes it easy to create visually impressive apps, but also has other talents which make it a compelling choice as a rich client over back-ends written in any technology such as Java, Ruby, or .NET. A new article on InfoQ compares WPF to alternatives such as Ajax/DHTML, Swing, and Flash; it will also look at some scenarios where a WPF client makes sense, using Java as the back-end example.
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Adobe Releases Flex Cookbook Online Beta
This week Adobe released an online cookbook for Flex application development tips. There also seems to be a defined path for taking the snippets available online and bundling them into an O'Reilly compilation in the future.
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Industry Prognosticators Look Towards 2007
Sys-Con, publishers of Java Developers Journal, recently polled a number of industry leaders on their thoughts for the software industry going into 2007.
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JRake: Build, Test, and Deploy Java applications without XML
JRake is the latest entry in build tools for Java that is based on a scripting language. JRake leverages JRuby and the Rake build tool for Ruby to make building, running tests, and deploying web applications quick and easy.
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Ajax Framework Comparison Tools article
A new article on BEA's Dev2Dev site provides a way to sort through the numerous Ajax frameworks that are available today. The goal of the technique is to make it easier to understand the distinctions between the various frameworks by placing them on a set of axes including declarative versus procedural and client-centric versus server-centric.
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InfoQ Interview with JBuilder 2007 Product Manager
CodeGear, a division of Borland, recently announced JBuilder 2007, a Java IDE built on Eclipse. InfoQ sat down with Joe McGlynn, product manager at CodeGear to talk about the new release and and transition to an Eclipse based product.
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Spring: unifying themes and complete tour
At The Spring Experience this past weekend, Adrian Colyer keynoted an overview of the unifying themes of Spring and what all the capabilities of the Spring portfolio are. Rod Johnson also weighed in on a debate countering that there is no "not invented here" syndrome at Spring by explaining that Spring only goes as deep as it needs to considering what's already available.
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InfoQ Interview with Mylar Project Lead Mik Kersten
Mylar, the task-focused UI for Eclipse, released version 1.0 recently and InfoQ sat down with Mik Kersten, Project Lead to talk about the release, adoption, and future directions of Mylar.
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JSR 291 (OSGi R4.1) Available for Public Review
JSR 291 Available for Public Review JSR 291 has been made available for public review. JSR 291 is also known as OSGi core spec R4.1.
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Google GWT Toolkit and Development Process Become Fully Open Source
Today Google fully open sourced their GWT toolkit under the Apache 2.0 license. The development process of the toolkit going forward will also be open including development discussions, code reviews, future milestones, and the entire codebase.