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Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi: simplified development of OSGi applications
The Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi project, formerly known as Spring OSGi, released version 1.0 today. InfoQ spoke with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer and Spring Dynamic Modules project lead Costin Leau to learn more about this release and what it provides for the Spring community.
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Lucene 2.3: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project
The Apache Lucene project, a high-performance full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java, released version 2.3 today. InfoQ spoke with committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member Grant Ingersoll to learn more about this release and the future plans for Lucene.
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Comparing Eclipse Extensions and OSGi Services
In an article recently re-published on his blog, Neil Bartlett performs a comparative analysis of Eclipse extensions and a variety of flavors of OSGi services.
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Prefer Broad Design Skills over Platform Knowledge
In his latest article Martin Fowler suggests that what matters most while building a team is not experience or thorough knowledge of the specific platform and business domain, but rather some broader skills that allow building quality software and delivering value.
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InfoQ Interview: Dave Thomas on the Joys of Life-long Learning
Guest interviewer Jim Coplien chatted with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas at QconLondon 2007, covering everything from 'agile' publishing and academia to staying limber with code katas. Dave's career advice: Cultivate the passion of a 5-year old!
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Article: Building Asynchronous Services With SCA
In an InfoQ exclusive article, Mike Edwards discusses how to create asynchronous services within the Service Component Architecture.
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Introducing Windows HPC Server 2008
A new version of the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, rebranded as Windows HPC Server 2008, is in the works. This adds a host of monitoring and configuration tools on top of Microsoft's MPI 2 based clustering technology.
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Concept Programming
Looking for a way to cope with the increasing complexity in software? Concept programming introduces a new way to look at how software is conceived and created, by closing the gap of how you represent the business problem concepts in your head and in code.
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Article: An Introduction to NetKernel
Last month the NetKernel project released version 3.3 which added an Optimized HTTP Transport Layer, Enhanced Dynamic Language Support, and Reorganized/Re-written Documentation. The documentation enhancements were "to make the concepts of resource-oriented computing easier for adopters". Continuing with that theme InfoQ is proud to present a new article, An Introduction to NetKernel.
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Another Look at Anonymous Types in VB
Anonymous types in C# are a rather simple affair, as they are always immutable. VB allows both mutable and immutable anonymous types, with subtly different rules for each.
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Case Study: Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex
In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective.
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Inside the full speed Rubinius debugger
Debugging Ruby code just got much faster - at least with Rubinius. Unlike the debuggers for MRI or JRuby, the Rubinius full speed debugger allows programs to run at normal speed while they're debugged. We take a look at how the Rubinius VM's transparent design made this possible.
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MPI for .NET
MPI or Message Passing Interface is the standard for distributed programming such as that used in supercomputers and implementations can be found for FORTRAN, C, and C++. There are several projects in the works to bring that power to .NET. Today we look at two of them.
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WebLogic Server 10.3 Adds HTTP Pub/Sub Server, Optional Services Startup and FastSwap Deployment
WebLogic Server 10.3 technology preview released by BEA systems includes a HTTP Pub/Sub Server for web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP. Other new features in this release include modular server component installation and startup, and application deployments using the new "FastSwap" feature.
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Iterating and Incrementing to 'Get What You Need'
In "Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it", Jeff Patton described a few ways in which Agile teams and business users miscommunicate, and argued that the agile community needs to be clear about the terms 'iterating', 'incrementing' and 'shippable'.