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The State of Enterprise Architecture
As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more common. Recently, several people in the EA community have spoken about its current state.
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EQATEC Profiler: An Application Code Profiler for the .NET Compact Framework
EQATEC has recently released a free code profiler for applications written for the .NET Compact Framework.
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JavaFX at JavaOne 2008
So far, JavaOne has been heavy on JavaFX content. It is clear that a lot of work has been done since the initial announcement at last year’s conference. Although, the technologies do not appear to be ready for the typical developer.
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Java 6 Hotspot Performance
Sun Microsystem's Kohsuke Kawaguchi examines the assembly code that the Hotspot JIT produces in JDK6.
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SCA and JBI, Best of Both Worlds?
At JavaOne 2008, Jos Dirksen and Tijs Rademakers talked about using Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration</a> (JBI) frameworks together to get the best of both worlds. Using a sample application, they explained how to deploy an SCA application on a JBI container. In another SCA related session, Mike Edwards gave an overview of SCA architecture model.
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JavaOne 2008 Day 1 - JavaFX, OSGi, and Android Smoke and Mirrors
JavaOne kicked off Tuesday in San Francisco with a keynote largely centered on JavaFX. OSGi also made an appearance with the keynote highlighting of the new Glassfish micro-kernel being 98k in size.
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Evaluating and Improving Architectural Competence - A New SEI Paper
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) recently published a paper entitled "Evaluating and Improving Architectural Competence", which looks at using four models of human behaviour to help assess and improve software architecture competence.
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Collection Initializers in VB
Collection initializers were supposed to be released along with LINQ in C# 3 and VB 9. While C# did get them, they were cut from the VB release. Part of the reason was the Visual Basic team wanted to make VB's version more powerful. We present the leading options for the new syntax.
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Fine Grained Versioning with ClickOnce
ClickOnce makes it easy to deploy WinForms applications. But while it has some versioning support, it has no built in way to deliver different versions to different people. This makes partial rollouts to a test audience difficult. David Cooksey shows how to fine grained versioning to a ClickOnce deployment using an HttpHandler written with ASP.NET.
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JRuby Roundup: 1.1.1 with Profiler, Startup Performance Boost, GSoC '08
JRuby's 1.1.1 release brings a few improvements over the initial 1.1 release, including a fix for a problem on IBM VMs and it now ships with the JIP profiler. Users of the JRuby 1.1.x trunk can also try out a new performance improvement that promises to seriously boost startup performance. Also: a look at GSoC '08 project related to JRuby.
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SPARQL Update to Complete RESTful SOA Scenario
The Linking Open Data Community Project has accomplished a global RESTful SOA giving access to over two billion interlinked statements (RDF triples) from some 50 distributed providers with one serious limitation: this stunning network provides read access only. The upcoming SPARQL Update language is going to overcome this.
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Interview: Segundo Velasquez and Agile as Seen Through the Customer's Eyes
In an interview taken during the Agile 2007 conference, Deborah Hartmann interviewed Segundo Velasquez, co-founder of Mano a Mano Medical Resources, about his experience as customer with an Agile team during the initial phase of software design of a product.
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Netbeans 6.1 Adds JavaScript Support, PHP Support Debuts as Early Access
Last week Sun released Netbeans 6.1. At Monday's CommunityOne event this announcement was followed by the release of an early access preview of PHP support for Netbeans.
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Article: Implementing Manual Activities in Windows Workflow
Windows workflow is an excellent framework for implementing business processes. One thing that is missing in it is direct support for human activities. Several approaches to solving this problem exist, but they are not generic enough for general usage. In this article we will define one of the approaches to a completely generic implementation of human activities in WF.
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Silverlight 2 Beta Controls Source Code Available for Download
Microsoft has made available the source code and unit tests for Silverlight 2 Beta controls.