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A Status Update on the OpenAjax Alliance
Coach Wei, CTO of Nexaweb, has written a status update on the OpenAjax Alliance and the challenges he see that exist for Ajax Adoption. He sees the biggest hurdle to Ajax being confusion as a result of numerous Ajax architectures. He also lists several technical issues that he feels the alliance should address such as toolkit loading, name collision, and event interaction between Ajax toolkits.
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A Common API for Accessing Portlet Repositories
This week Roy Russo announced the creation of the Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) which seeks to create a common web service API that can be used to communicate with portlet repositories. This would allow any portal vendor to browser repositories and download/update portlets like developers currently do when browsing/installing/updating plugins for their IDE of choice.
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Project Orbit: Sun and OpenLaszlo to support J2ME as compile target
OpenLaszlo has teamed up with Sun to extend their platform to also compile J2ME apps. The goal of becoming a multi-platform runtime platform was first announced in June, when OpenLaslzo announced Legals, which would provide cross-browser pure DHTML as a compile target in addition to Flash.
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Study: Co-Located Teams vs. the Cubicle Farm
Many trainers agree that co-location is essential to really see the benefits of Agile, but proof of this has been largely anecdotal. On the ScrumDevelopment list recently, an interesting conversation was launched when a member pointed out a study conducted at a Fortune 50 auto maker, comparing productivity gains in collaborative workspaces versus traditional cubicle culture projects.
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InfoQ Article: Using SEDA to Ensure Service Availability
SEDA is a new strategy for incorporating event driven architecture for scalability and availability of services in the context of SOA. These strategies are based on queuing research pioneered for the use of highly abailable and scalable services, initially in the Web context, but moving into the SOA and Web services context. This article describes SEDA with an implementation using Mule.
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Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for .NET
The Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer gives developers the ability to quickly find guidance on a variety of topics. Documents in the Patterns and Practices Library are currently divided into categories such as Checklists, Code Examples, Guidelines, Principals, and Test Cases.
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SOA Reference Model 1.0 Approved as OASIS Standard
The SOA Reference Model, an attempt to develop an abstract Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture within the OASIS group has officially been approved by vote to become ratified as an OASIS standard. This document helps establish the constituent parts of SOA and their relationships at an abstract level.
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Distributed Software Development for Java and .NET
TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service offers cross-platform messaging for Java and .NET developers.
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Changing the way you work with Mylar
Mylar is an Eclipse plug-in that changes Eclipse into a task focused UI. Mylar lets you define tasks and then it associates information (such as classes, methods, or compilation errors) with it, based on your activities. Mik Kersten, the project lead for Mylar, has recently published a two part article on IBM's developerWorks site.
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InfoQ Interview: John Crupi on Enterprise SOA
At the time of this recording John Crupi ran Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice and consulted on SOA at a number of large enterprises. John Crupi is also one of the main authors of the book Core J2EE Patterns. In this interview, John shares his insights on what SOA means to the Enterprise, SOA analysis and design vs. OO, effective service composition, governance, and more.
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Tibco open-sources General Interface with new beta release
Tibco has released a beta of version 3.2 of the Tibco General Interface (GI). Tibco GI is a toolkit that abstracts away the pain of dealing with AJAX development. Tibco acquired GI in 2004 and until now has been a closed-source tool for generating AJAX RIA's for IE 6. Tibco GI's license is a BSD license. Tibco is introducing a dual-license, open-source model with the beta release of version 3.2.
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Catching up with the Java Content Repository
The Java Content Repository (JCR) API provides a standard way to access content repositories. Content repositories is a superset of a traditional data repository that adds features such as full text searching and storing of structured/unstructured data. OnJava has released a new article by Sunil Patil detailing the installation, configuration, and usage of a Version 1.0 implementation.
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Easing into XP - for the Harried and Stressed
One can't always start from scratch with Agile - sometimes it's used to salvage troubled projects, but Emanuel Gaillot notes that "What's tough about XP is, the more you need it to get your project in a better shape, the harder it is to start doing it." Can a team really afford to switch in the middle of a troubled project? Gaillot recently shared his approach to gradual XP implementation.
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Data Dictionary Creator - Rapid Database Documentation for SQL Server 2005
Data Dictionary Creator by Jon Galloway allows developers to quickly generate documentation for SQL Server databases.
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CruiseControl.Net 1.1 Released
The team behind CruiseControl.Net has released version 1.1. CrusieControl.Net provides continuous integration capabilities for .NET developers. A cornerstone of Agile development, continuous integration is used to ensure that team members stay in sync and the integration issues are discovered early. This marks the first major release of CuriseControl.Net in nearly a year.