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  • POJO Service Registry brings OSGi to the Classpath

    A new project on Google Code, the Pojo Service Registry, aims to provide an OSGi-lite mechanism for Java applications, but outside of a OSGi runtime. Instead of requiring all JARs to be bundles, it scans the startup classpath and emulates a bundle layer, whilst providing the service hookups that would be wired together in a full OSGi container.

  • Capture the Application, not just the Screenshot with VS Lab Management

    Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is a highly integrated virtualization, development, and testing tool. When testers encounter an error they can create a snapshot of the virtual environment at that moment: not just a screenshot, but the current state of the application or website and all the servers involved.

  • NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond

    The 451 Group has published earlier this month the conclusions of a report detailing the growing set of options in the information management space. In the process they also clarified what they meant by "NewSQL".

  • Axon Framework 1.0 Released

    The Axon framework from JTeam - an implementation of the CQRS and EDA patterns - has been released.

  • NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources

    The NuGet team has announced a feature that allows package authors to package their sources along with their assemblies for distribution through NuGet. This enables developers using these packages to debug through the sources of the referenced packages easily, without having to search for the source code on the project hosting server or do complicated setups.

  • jQuery Mobile Alpha 4 released, with support for Windows Phone 7

    The jQuery Mobile team has released Alpha 4 of their cross-platform mobile framework. Positioned as the last Alpha release before Beta, in addition to resolving many issues since Alpha 3, this new build also ships with several new features.

  • Microsoft Virtual Academy on Cloud Computing

    Microsoft has opened a free online virtual academy for students interested in learning and graduating in Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies.

  • What Is Enterprise Architecture?

    There is a lot of discussion about the role of enterprise architecture, and they way it should operate in the enterprise. New posts by Jason Bloomberg and JP Morgenthal are suggesting a new form of enterprise architecture.

  • JAX London 2011 Review

    Last week's JAX London included an OSGi specific day as well as others on Agile, Spring, JavaEE and tools. As well as the JAX Awards, other products were introduced such as the free GlobalsDB, an overview of Cloud Foundry, and Adobe Flex 4.5 running on top of iOS and on a demonstration BlackBerry playbook. Read on to find out more.

  • How To Split User Stories

    Many new Agile teams have difficulty splitting their user stories small enough to work well with Agile techniques. In several articles, members of the Agile community provide guidance on how to split user stories effectively.

  • Oracle Offloads Open Office

    Oracle has finally let go of OpenOffice.org, stating that it will not be offering commercial products based on the codebase nor supporting development of the OpenOffice codebase, instead hoping to get the community involved in on-going maintenance. Given that LibreOffice forked some time ago and appears to be a healthier fork, what chances are there that OpenOffice will survive?

  • Creating a new JVM language

    Creating a new JVM based language has recently hit the for with the news of the proposed Ceylon project. In fact, the JVM already has a diverse set of languages, both statically typed and dynamically typed. What does it take for a new language to hit the mark?

  • Footsteps: Deterministic Logging and Replay for JavaScript

    Debugging event driven applications has always been notoriously difficult. The research project Footsteps project seeks to address the problems of reproducibility by offering a logging and replay framework that records non-deterministic events such as mouse clicks and random number generation. No plugins or special browsers are needed, this done entirely with JavaScript.

  • Mono Brings Silverlight to the Android Tablet and Phone

    Under the mantra, “We love .NET more than Microsoft”, Mono has been making the promise of cross-platform .NET development a reality. First there was the native toolkit support for iOS and Android, now they are opening up the world of Android tablets to Silverlight developers.

  • Oracle Coherence 3.7's Elastic Data Offers Transparent Overflow from Memory to Solid State Storage

    Oracle has today released version 3.7 of Coherence, its distributed in-memory data grid. The new product introduces a feature called Elastic Data. According to Cameron Purdy, Vice President of Development for the Coherence product, this allows near memory speed access to data, regardless of storage medium.

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