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Profiles & Extensibility Major Refactorings in Proposed Java EE 6
The Java EE 6 (JSR 316) proposal was published today. Two major themes for release are extensibility and profiles. Interface 21 CEO Rod Johnson has written a lengthy commentary on the proposal going so far as to declare his support for the JSR.
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Mono Adds Support For Type Inference in C#
Marek Safar has announced that the C# 3.0 compiler for Mono now supports implicitly typed local variables and implicitly typed arrays using a technique known as type inference.
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Article: Intro to .NET 3.0 for Architects
Mohammad Akif introduces the concepts behind .NET 3.0 that architects need to understand. Mohammad walks through the basics of Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Spaces.
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XQuery Java API JSR 225 Available for Public Review
The first public review draft of JSR 225: XQuery API for Java has been posted for review. The spec (being led by Oracle) aims to provide ubiquitous programmatic access for XQuery implementations in Java.
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New Concurrency Features for Java SE 7
Although the contents of Java SE 7 are still in flux, early candidates of concurrency features for inclusion are are already taking shape: a fork/join framework and a transfer queue. InfoQ spoke with Doug Lea about these features and concurrency in Java SE 7.
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Sun CTO Bob Brewin on Eclipse 3.3 and the Future of Netbeans
InfoQ recently sat down with Sun CTO Bob Brewin to discuss the Eclipse Europa release and the future direction of Sun's Netbeans IDE.
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Interview: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald
Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a framework for modelling and controlling the execution of multi-step work flows in web applications. Flows often execute across HTTP requests, have state, exhibit transactional characteristics, and may be dynamic and/or long-running in nature. In this interview, SWF co-lead Keith Donald talks about how Spring Web Flow works.
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XACML finally ready for prime time?
XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, an Oasis standard approved more than 2 years ago, has been demonstrated to work cross vendor platforms on Burton's Catalyst Conference last week.
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WSDL 2.0 approved as an official W3C Recommendation
WSDL 2.0 has finally been approved as an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation on June 27 2007. The Web Services Description Working Group has been working on the standards for more than 6 years. The recommendation was due on the 31st of December 2006 but has received an extension to the 30th of June this year.
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VB 9 Features – What Made the Cut
With VB 9 getting closer to release, Microsoft had to make some hard decisions about what features were going to make the cut. While most of the important features made it in, there were some notable exceptions. Paul Vic has the rundown.
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QCon San Francisco Enterprise Software Development Conference Nov 7-9
The QCon is coming to San Francsico Nov 7-9; registration is now open (save $600 by July 15th). Our first conf in London this year featured the architectures of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and many leading technologists speaking such as Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Spring founder Rod Johnson, Scrum co-founder Jeff Sutherland, Hibernate creator Gavin King, Dave Thomas, and many more.
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Role of Service Registries in SOA Increasing in Importance
Since the days of UDDIv1, the concept of service registry has evolved under the momentum of innovators and market leaders. The latest vendor to enter this market is SAP. The new SAP registry aims at supporting the alignment of business architecture, enterprise architecture and solution architecture from design time to runtime.
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XWiki 1.0: Extensible Java-based wiki/application platform
XWiki is an open source wiki and an application platform written in Java and released under LGPL license. Its development platform features allow creating collaborative web applications and also provide packaged applications built on top of the platform (second generation wiki). XWiki 1.0 launched last month, but there have been almost 10,000 deployments to date.
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InfoQ Book: Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg last year published wildly popular paper 'Scrum and XP from the trenches' in which he chronicled in pictures and text how his 40 person development team implemented parts of Scrum/XP over a one year period. Henrik has updated his work and published a new version of it as a full book with InfoQ.com.
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Eclipse Releases New Versions of 21 Open Source Projects
The Eclipse Foundation has released its annual coordinated project release, named Europa for 2007. Europa features 21 projects including new versions of the core Eclipse IDE, BIRT, EMF, and the Web Tools Platform.