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Community Begins Reviewing Java Module System (JSR 277) Early Draft
The early draft of JSR 277 was recently released. Community review is open until Nov. 13th. This JSR seeks to improve the distribution of Java applications by defining a distribution format and a repository for collections of Java code and related resources.
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Book Excerpt: What is the Ruby Way?
Author Hal Fulton has finished updating his modern classic, The Ruby Way. The publication of the second edition, due the third week of October to coincide with RubyConf 2006, marks the launch of Addison Wesley's Professional Ruby Series.
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What Creates Individual Productivity? Can We Improve It?
Is it helpful, or even possible, to change the productivity of individuals in a collaborative team? What exactly constitutes productivity, when deliverables come from teamwork? It's a tricky subject. We bring you highlights from a conversation held a few weeks ago on the AgileProjectManagement list.
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Agile Tooling Survey - What Is Your Team Using?
Pete Behrens of TrailRidge Consulting wants to know what kind of tooling Agile teams are using, and not just software engineering tools: also requirements management, project management, acceptance testing and remote collaboration software. This is a quick, vendor-independent survey.
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Using Native Platform Security in Java 6
Java 6 will enhance the ability to leverage the native security features of the underlying deployment platform. Included in Java 6 is the ability to access the Microsoft CryptoAPI, PKCS#11 services, use the native GSS-API implementation, and import and export PKCS#12 Keystores.
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Panelists: Business Alignment the only thing NEW about SOA
At the JAOO conference a discussion panel of SOA personalities including Gregor Hophe (integration patterns, Google), Beat Schwegler (Microsoft), Ivo Totev (SAP), Frank Buschmann (POSA books), and Iona's Steve Vinoski agreed that business alignment is the only thing NEW about SOA. Amazon's Chief Architect Werner Vogels also attended and made similar comments.
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Migrating to Struts 2, Part 2; First Struts 2 Dev Build Released
Part 2 of the Migrating to Struts 2 article series has been published, and the first dev build of Struts 2 has also recently been launched. In this a Struts and Struts 2 app is compared and migrations identified including converting actions, config changes, and commonalites.
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Hibernate 3.2 Released with Java Persistence Provider Support
The Hibernate team has released Hibernate 3.2 GA. This release is ready for production use and includes final releases of the Java Persistence provider, Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager. The Hibernate Java Persistence provider has been certified with the Sun TCK.
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Rails Live CD 0.2.1 Released
Brian Ketelsen releases an update to the popular Rails Live CD Rails development and deployment environment.
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Bringing Eclipse RCP to Cellphones
The embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) for Eclipse has recently released version 1.0. eRCP provides many of the same features for J2ME environments that the RCP does for the desktop, including OSGI and extension points, a version of SWT called eSWT, and eUpdate to provide dynamic updates. eRCP attempts to solve some of J2ME's shortcomings.
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InfoQ Article: Do Agile Practices Make it an Agile Project?
As adoption of Agile methodologies grows, challenges abound, including the possibility of dilution as teams copy practices rather than growing them, implementing them without understanding. InfoQ's own Deb Hartmann gives us a frank discussion about how failure to teach the basics puts much at risk: the integrity and engagement of team members, and the trust of their customers.
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InfoQ Video: Architecting Toronto.com with .NET Casestudy
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 unique visitors per month, and offers comprehensive and searchable access to business and event listings. Originally built in 1997, the previous J2EE foundation for the site was found hard to evolve in the face of new requirements. In this presentation, Scott talks about how the site was re-architected to .NET 2.0.
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Things to know about Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. Harry Pierson delves into the details of WF in a recent blog post. Update: Paul Andrew responds on his blog with "Ten Reasons why WF is not a Toy".
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The State of Accessibility with Ajax
One of the items of concern as a result of the Ajax revolution is accessibility. Screen reading technology has found it difficult to keep pace with advancements in application design. Access Matters has published a roundup of articles to serve as a starting point for further discussions on accessibility in Ajax applications.
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Agile at Microsoft: Developing XML Notepad
InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Chris Lovett of Microsoft's XML team regarding XML Notepad and its development process. XMLNotepad is a free XML editor written in C# with features like a search tool that supports RegEx and XPath, an XSLT transformation results view, and a schema validator. The interview is about software development processes used to build the product.