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Is P2 ready for Eclipse?
Eclipse P2 provides a sophisticated way of downloading both OSGi bundles and other artefacts (such as the platform-specific launcher). Its aim is to both replace the Update Manager, and provide a number of improvements to the download process, including multi-threaded downloads and even a standalone installer for Eclipse applications. However, is it ready for next month's Ganymede release?
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Will Sun Add SCA Integration to the Java EE Specification?
While in the past, the Java community debated over backing SCA or JBI, there are some signs that both of them might be formally incorporated into Java EE 6.
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What Makes a Good Stand Up Meeting?
One of the most simple and yet most talked-about agile practices is the Daily Stand Up Meeting (a.k.a. Scrum). The most recent round of discussions around the subject is occurring right now on the scrumdevelopment Yahoo! group. This discussion has resulted in suggestions about what is important about a Daily Stand Up, how to perform one correctly, and several links to articles on the subject.
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Servlet 3.0 Features Spark Debate
The draft specification of JSR-315 (Servlet 3.0) is now available and introduces a number of new features including asynchronous/Comet support, security improvements, and other ease of development features such additional annotations and web.xml fragments. With some of the new features generating considerable debate, the expert group are actively seeking community feedback.
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The ADO.NET Entity Framework Sparks a Debate
A recent blog post written by Danny Simmons, a Microsoft ADO.NET developer, about the ADO.NET Entity Framework has started a series of reactions about the respective topic.
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How Long Should You Sprint For?
What factors influence the length of your sprint? When you're trying to pick a length, between two days and six weeks, what factors should you take into consideration? One coach has taken a stab at identifying shortening and lengthening factors.
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Presentation: Getting Started with Grails
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Grails application, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.
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WinForms 2.0 for Mono is Code Complete
After four years of work, Mono finally supports all 12,776 methods in the WinForms 2.0 API. Weighing in at 115,000 lines, there is the possibility for bugs.
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JBoss Operations Network 2.0 launched: An Integrated Management Platform
Red Hat launched JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that aims to simply application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. It includes a new agent with command-line interface with remote agent configuration, extensible APIs for interoperability and true SSL encryption and authentication for bi-directional server-agent communications.
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SAAJ - Fine in Theory, Broken in Practice?
In a blog entry, Spring Web Services lead developer Arjen Poutsma discusses the sad state of various SAAJ implementations in major application servers.
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Merb and Rack Roundup: Merb 0.9.3, Merbunity, JRuby-Rack
A quick roundup on Merb and Rack related news: Merb 0.9.3 has recently been released. Merbunity is a new site for the Merb community. JRuby-Rack, an adapter to run Rack-based applications in a Java servlet container, was released.
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Are JSR277 and OSGi coming together?
Last month we asked whether Sun were listening about OSGi; at JavaOne, it was clear that many others have. Not only are all of the main J2EE engines now OSGi-enabled, but Spring launched their OSGi-based Spring Source Application Platform. Fortunately, a number of positive changes have occurred behind the scenes with JSR277; read on for what's been happening.
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Interview: James Shore on “The Art of Agile Development”
In this interview taken by InfoQ's Deborah Hartmann during the Agile 2007 conference, James Shore, a prominent figure of the Agile community, talks about the book "The Art of Agile Development".
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Rubinius runs Rails, Merb
A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.
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IdeaBlade announces DevForce EF beta for building Rich Internet Applications
Recently IdeaBlade announced DevForce EF which builds upon the Microsoft Entity Framework and will provide support for Silverlight.