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Presentation: Security Assertion Markup Language
SAML has emerged as the gold standard for building Cross-Domain SSO solutions and is a key technology in the domain of federated identity management. This presentation from Javapolis presents the basic concepts of SAML including assertions, attributes, artifacts, bindings and profiles, the problems SAML solves, how it works in real life.
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Ajax Framework Comparison Tools article
A new article on BEA's Dev2Dev site provides a way to sort through the numerous Ajax frameworks that are available today. The goal of the technique is to make it easier to understand the distinctions between the various frameworks by placing them on a set of axes including declarative versus procedural and client-centric versus server-centric.
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Fun: Important Facts about SOA
There are many opinions on what SOA is or is not. There are many books on what SOA is or is not. Far too much information to digest for the average human being. So it's with great pleasure that we can announce the discovery of an important summary of pertinent facts about SOA (soafacts.com)
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Windows Assessment Numbers and a Lesson on Avoiding Unsafe Code
Windows assessment numbers are expected to be very useful for comparing computers in the store or for identifying performance bottlenecks in systems you already own. Other possible uses include altering an application's behavior depending on the system's capabilities. But using them from managed code isn't exactly easy, especially when you have to deal with raw pointers.
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Released Today
The long awaited, and some say much needed, service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 has been released today.
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InfoQ Interview with JBuilder 2007 Product Manager
CodeGear, a division of Borland, recently announced JBuilder 2007, a Java IDE built on Eclipse. InfoQ sat down with Joe McGlynn, product manager at CodeGear to talk about the new release and and transition to an Eclipse based product.
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Spring: unifying themes and complete tour
At The Spring Experience this past weekend, Adrian Colyer keynoted an overview of the unifying themes of Spring and what all the capabilities of the Spring portfolio are. Rod Johnson also weighed in on a debate countering that there is no "not invented here" syndrome at Spring by explaining that Spring only goes as deep as it needs to considering what's already available.
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Gender Gap Continues to Increase in IT: Gartner
A recent Gartner report on the gender gap in IT states that although many feel that women are "innately better suited than men" to navigate the new global economy, they are not choosing to enter IT - and some are leaving. Gartner predicts that by 2012, 40% of women in the IT workforce will leave traditional IT career paths.
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InfoQ Article: DrySQL ORM for Rails
In this exclusive article, Bryan Evans of the DrySQL project explains how to avoid situations where you're averse to changing your database schema, because of the resulting effort to change your app code.
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Channel9: .NET client with Java integration at Industrial and Financial Systems
Dan Johansson, CIO of the Swedish company Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) talks about is over all architecture and experiences, including how they integrate multiple client types (including .NET) over a J2EE backend and Oracle DB.
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InfoQ Interview with Mylar Project Lead Mik Kersten
Mylar, the task-focused UI for Eclipse, released version 1.0 recently and InfoQ sat down with Mik Kersten, Project Lead to talk about the release, adoption, and future directions of Mylar.
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BEA SOA Cost Benefits Survey Results
BEA commissioned a survey on SOA cost/benefits in large comanies in North America and Europe who are doing SOA. 46% of companies intend to deploy 1-50 services within a year, 24% 51-100, and 15% 101-200 services. 75% of companies expected 11-40% reuse. ESB's were listed as the most expensive investment.
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JSR 291 (OSGi R4.1) Available for Public Review
JSR 291 Available for Public Review JSR 291 has been made available for public review. JSR 291 is also known as OSGi core spec R4.1.
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Getting Agile with MS VSTS for Database Professionals
Last month, Microsoft released Visual Studio for Database Professionals, one of the first toolsets offered to help teams extend Agile practices to the DBA community. We tracked down some information to help teams and DBAs get started with VSTS for DB Pros.
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Enhancing Scrum with "The Core Protocols"
Alex Champandard has written a piece on using Scrum within the game development industry, and how Scrum can be augmented with Jim and Michele McCarthy's "Core Protocols."