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Sun to Enhance Video Support with Java Media Components
Some have argued that Java needs to fix its support for media and video, fast, or risk being shut out of the desktop and rich internet application space. Java Media Components may bring some relief: "This new feature, hopefully shipping in Java SE 7, is intended to support basic playback for Java applications. JMC is also, eventually, intended to address capture and streaming capabilities."
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Can Agile Separate Team Concerns from Organizational Ones?
When it comes to agile methods, almost everyone agrees that agility can apply to the software development team and to the organization. This raises some questions: To what extent can the one be separated from the other? Can an agile team succeed if the organization around them doesn't wish to adapt to an agile approach?
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CentraSite: Registry/Repository and Free Community Edition
Software AG and Fujitsu have released CentraSite Registry/Respository 3.1. InfoQ talks to Software AG's Gerd Schneider about the role of a registry/repository in SOA and the CentraSite product in particular.
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Java and .NET Libraries for Open XML
With the new OpenXML format, there is the promise of an clean and efficient way to manipulate Office documents via XML. But with a 6000+ page spec, finding the exact nodes one needs to manipulate is a non-trivial task. To address this, OpenXML libraries for both Java and .NET are in the works.
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Ruby x Agile: Matz explores the relationships between Ruby and Agile
Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto recently starred in the first of six short videos exploring the relationship between Ruby and Agile methodologies. Matz features along with Kenji Hiranabe and Shintaro Kakutani. Kenji is a self confessed ‘Agile agitator’ and Japanese translator of multiple XP/Agile books. Shintaro is a strong Ruby proponent.
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Apache Synapse 1.0 and WSO2 ESB 1.0 Released
<p></p> <p>The open source mediation platform Synapse 1.0 has been released, as well as a commercial ESB product which based on it. InfoQ spoke to WSO2's CTO and Synapse committer Paul Fremantle, about the details.</p>
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Does Cost Accounting Cause Crappy Code?
Cost accounting , the standard accounting approach to analyzing the monetary value of a project, treats all parts of a project independently and encourages local optimization. Local optimization of costs means that you focus on task completion time. A focus on minimizing task completion time means that you don't have time for refactoring and other niceties - they are too expensive.
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Gardens Point Ruby.NET internals interview
An option for running Ruby on the CLR today is the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. A lot of work has gone into compatibility with Ruby and, recently, interoperability with other languages on the CLR. We talked to John Gough, of the Ruby.NET team, about technical details, compatibility and future plans for community participation in the project.
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What can Math and Psychology teach us about Agile?
With Agile, we avoid early commitments to gain flexibility later. APLN members Chris Matts and Olav Maassen have noted a connection here with the math behind financial options. Their article introduces "Real Options," applying both psychology and financial math to our thinking about Agile practices. They propose it will help us refine our agile practices and take agile in new directions.
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Article: SOA Governance: The Basics
In this article, MomentumSI's Ed Vazquez explains the basics of SOA governance, with an explicit focus on the need for a holistic SOA governance model and shared governance principles.
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Apache Solr: Lucene Based Server Provides Highly Scalable Enterprise Search
Apache Solr is a Lucene-based enterprise search server that delivers out-of-the-box indexing and query capabilities in a portable war file. Users interact with Solr via an HTTP interface, submitting content for indexing and making queries using XML documents and HTTP GET parameters.
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Entity Services - Pattern or Anti-pattern?
Entity Services or business-centric entities are considered by some to be a corner stone of Service Oriented Architecture - however not everyone agrees with this view. So are Entity Services a pattern or an anti-pattern for SOA?
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Article: Unit-Testing XML
In this exclusive InfoQ article, Stefan Bodewig explains how to use the XMLUnit Java framework to write tests in the presence of XML.
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The Microsoft OBA Framework
Microsoft has been touting a new way to build composite applications using the acronym, “OBA”. The intended sweet spot for OBA is within the Lines of Business within the greater Enterprise cloud. The OBA framework capitalizes on the large number of Microsoft Office licenses that have been sold world-wide.
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Google GData/Atom Publishing Protocol too limited for Microsoft
Dara Obasanjo writes about the limitations of the Google Data API (Google's implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol with some extensions) as a general purpose protocol and explains why Microsoft will not support or standardize on GData.