InfoQ Homepage News
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Groovy Marches Toward 1.0 with RC1 Release
Groovy RC1 was released this week. This is a significant milestone in the project with a 1.0 version on the horizon before the end of the year. Among the additions in RC is a re-implemented and reworked Meta-Object Protocol which is the core of Groovy's runtime system.
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Terracotta open sources JVM clustering
Terracotta today open sourced their JVM clustering solution under MPL-based license. Terracotta turns single-node, multi-threaded apps into distributed multi-node apps with no code changes. Also open sourced are customizations for clustering Spring Application contexts and HTTPSessions. The VC-backed Terracotta is switching from a commercial license model to a service & support model.
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IONA Announces Celtix Enterprise
IONA has announced Celtix Enterprise, its ESB offering based on open source products. InfoQ talked to IONA's CTO, Eric Newcomer, about the technical aspects of the release as well as the business implications.
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InfoQ Article: Mark Baker on "The Lost Art of Separating Concerns"
In a short article, Mark Baker claims the default approach to SOA development fails to properly separate concerns, and describes how this is different in Web architecture.
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SQL Server Best Practices Website
Mark Souza of Microsoft has announced a new web site for database administrators and developers called SQL Server - Best Practices. This site offers a wide range of material from top 10 lists suitable for novices to the in-depth technical white papers needed by seasoned professionals.
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InfoQ Interview: Using Agile for SOA Implementation
Current SOA project guidance generally encourages a phase-based approach, fully defining the solution before implementation begins. This autumn, Digital Focus published their experience with an incremental approach, in "SOA, Meet Agile". InfoQ interviewed both the client and the author of the experience report, and on business-IT alignment.
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Editing DSLs using Notepad++
When properly used, a Domain Specific Language or DSL can drastically reduce development time. Unfortunately, editing DSL files usually has to be done manually with simple text editors like Notepad. This is where Notepad++ comes in.
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Parallel LINQ: add automatic multithreading to LINQ queries
With multi-core CPUs finding their way into server farms and the desktop not far behind, new techniques to take advantage of them are desperately needed. Microsoft is seeking to address these with Parallel LINQ, a research project to add automatic multithreading to LINQ queries.
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Team Foundation Server Roadmap Revealed
Brian Harry has released the roadmap for Team Foundation Server. Areas included in the roadmap are Servicing, Out of Band releases, and Major releases. Highlights include two, possibly three, services, support for TOAD and the branched projects.
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InfoQ Interview: Ron Jeffries on Running, Tested Features
At Agile2006, Ron Jeffries told InfoQ that tracking "Running Tested Features" is the essential element of Agility, from which all other practices and activities necessarily follow. Ron who took to the whiteboard to explain how RTF benefits customers, by helping helps teams deliver consistently and reliably.
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Using Java, Groovy, or Annotations to Configure Spring Instead of XML
Rod Johnson recently blogged on configuring Spring via Java instead of XML. While the implementation uses annotations it is unique in the fact that they are in a separate configuration class and not in the core business classes themselves.
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Presentation: Billy Hollis on Building a Smart Client Toolkit
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET. Discover capabilities you never knew existed, learn to use advanced OO capabilities in Windows Forms, find out how to build large, complex Windows Forms applications, and get an advanced look at the changes in Windows Forms 2.0 for Visual Studio 2005.
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RSpec now running on JRuby
RSpec, the Behavior Driven Development(BDD) library for Ruby, is now running on JRuby. This is great news for the RSpec developers but it has wider positive implications for the JRuby and Java communities.
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How should Java UI's be constructed?
Prompted by questions from an author of a Swing GUI design tool, lengthy debate was started on the topic of Java visual designers and resource based GUI's versus code generation on TSS and Slashdot. The TSS piece features the debate starting question of should a visually designed UI be binary / XML based or represented as generated Java code.
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InfoQ Case study: IP Telephony Integration
This case study, takes a look under the cover of an IP telephony integration solution from Litescape. The case study gives an architectural overview and then zooms on interesting technical aspects including phone integration with WebEx/LiveMeeting, Java/.NET interop, HTTP vs. IPC communication between systems installed on the same machine, and over all lessons learned from the project.