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GridGain Releases Open Source Java Grid Computing Platform with AOP Enablement
GridGain Systems has released version 1.0 of their open source Java grid computing platform. In addition to task oriented grid enabling, GridGain also provides an AOP enablement option. Annotations can be used to grid enable method execution.
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Brian Marick Proposes Refocusing the Agile Alliance
In response to his "disquiet in the state of Agile", Brian Marick proposed a refocusing of the Agile Alliance. After Rachel Davies stepped down from being the chair of the Agile Alliance, Marick ran on the platform of following through on his proposal, and was elected. Brian Marick is looking for help to "stir things up". Join in the conversation and add your voice.
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The Consumer Java Runtime Environment in Detail
On May 8th, 2007, Ethan Nicholas and Dennis Gu announced the Consumer JRE at JavaOne. Since JavaOne, Ethan Nicholas and Chet Haase have released additional details about the Consumer JRE, including these elements: Quickstarter, Java Kernel, Deployment Toolkit, Installer Improvements, Windows Graphics Performance, Nimbus Look and Feel.
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Presentation: Bringing SOA to Life: A New Danish Infrastructure
In this presentation, Mikkel Hippe Brun introduces Denmark's national Service Oriented Infrastructure. Topics covered include the infrastructure's WS-* based architecture and the choice of standards.
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Refactoring the Agile Manifesto
The Agile Manifesto is six years old. Many have become disillusioned with Agile as it has spread and (inevitably?) been diluted. Post-agilism has been discussed even before Agile has become truly mainstream. Some have suggested that we have learned much over these years and the Agile Manifesto needs to be updated.
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ASP.NET Futures to Include Support for Ruby?
The Microsoft website ASP.NET has released the May 2007 edition of ASP.NET Futures. This release demonstrates potential features for post-Orcas versions of ASP.NET including Sivlerlight controls and dynamic language support.
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Microsoft's Roadmap through 2020 to Focus on the Scientific Sector
Microsoft has always put the needs of business customers and home users first. There is another sector that relies on computers, one that has been neglected for decades: the scientific community.
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Case study: A new approach to integrating architectures post-merger at Lawson
The merger of Lawson and Intentia in 2006 left developers with an important problem to solve - the integration and presentation of legacy applications and business services that are constructed in Java, .NET, and other technologies. This case study looks under the hood at the new architecture at Lawson and how they got there.
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On Intermediation in SOA
Nick Malik writes about "The Value of Intermediation in SOA", which started an interesting discussion. In his first blog post on the subject he asked the question: "Is it Service Oriented if the message cannot be intermediated?".
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Interview: Linda Rising on Collaboration, Bonobos and the Brain
Seasoned practitioners packed a small room at Agile2006 to hear Linda Rising's "Are Agilists the Bonobos of the Software Community?" where she shared her thoughts on the evolutionary roots of teamwork. In this InfoQ interview, Linda talked with editor Deborah Hartmann about how writing her book "Fearless Change" led her to read on the science of the human brain and the social rituals of apes.
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Building Domain-Specific Languages in JRuby
Closing out the Java One conference last week was Rob Harrop's presentation "Exploiting JRuby: Building Domain-Specific Languages for the Java Virtual Machine." Domain specific languages (DSLs) have been gaining popularity, as shown on InfoQ with a presentation on an introduction to domain specific languages by Martin Fowler and posts on the debates in the blogsphere.
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Exploring Event Driven Architectures with Esper
At Java One Thomas Bernhardt and Alexandre Vasseur explained the concepts of event driven application servers and the Esper project. Event driven application servers are a new category of servers, proving a runtime and supporting infrastructure services (transport, security, event journaling, high availability, connectors, etc.) to servers designed to be able to process over 100,000 events/sec.
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Is OSGi the Solution for Mobile Java?
Java ME developers face many obstacles that server-side or desktop Java developers never have to contend with. Nokia, Sprint, and IBM teamed for a JavaOne session that outlined a solution to these problems through an service-oriented architecture based on OSGi
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Accurate Estimates - the ultimate oxymoron?
Amit Rathore questions the value of real time task based estimates in the planning and execution of software projects, taking a lean stance on what they bring to the software delivery party.
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A Wicket User Revisits JSF
Peter Thomas recently took a second look at JSF after developing most recently with Wicket. Thomas uses the creation of a simple discussion forum for his comparison showing various portions of each implementation side by side including web.xml, dependencies, and business/presentation components.