InfoQ Homepage News
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The Rise and Fall of CORBA
CORBA guru Michi Henning analyzes the reasons for CORBA's (perceived or real) failure and puts blame on the standardization process.
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Bonita Cooperative Workflow 2 Released
Bonita is a workflow system for handing long-running, user-cooperative workflows, implemented as an EJB 2 and JMS app, released under LGPL. v2.0 adds XPDL support, a re-write of the iterations mechanism, JDK 1.5, internal timer services replaced by EJB 2.x timer service, iteration unit tests, and more.
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InfoQ Article: Real World Rules Engines
Rule engines are a useful tool that can be used to externalize business logic, involve business users, or solve certain classes of problems in an efficient way. In this InfoQ Article, Geoffrey Wiseman explains what, when, and how to use rules engines along with his experiences applying them in finanicial services.
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The Unicode Debate Rekindled
The perennial debate about how best to support multibyte Unicode in Ruby is heating up again, and thanks to the progress of Rails and JRuby, this time there is more at stake...
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"Agile People Do Get It" -- Uncle Bob
Last week, Cedric Beust ranted against the way Agile test practices, particularly TDD, are evangelised in "Agile People Still Don't Get It". He complained about "Agilists' dishonesty ... They offer you all these nice ideas, but they never - ever - disclose the risks and the downsides". He raises a valid point. This week Jeff Langr (the Agile culprit), Bob Martin and others blogged responses.
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Sun backs Dojo Ajax Toolkit; Joins OpenAjax Alliance
Sun has joined the Dojo foundation, as IBM did a couple of weeks ago. Sun has already been working with Dojo on the Java Pet Store (which is based on Dojo), and project Maki uses Dojo. Sun has also joined the OpenAjax Alliance.
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Top 10 New Things You Need to Know About Java 6
Sun Microsystems' Danny Coward and Mark Reinhold have published the top 10 features in Java SE 6 beta 2, as well as a list of approved and co-bundled features, including the bundling of Java DB (Apache Derby) into the JDK.
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Refactoring the EJB APIs
Artima has interviewed EJB 3 spec lead Linda DeMichiel on how EJB was refactored for simplicty between EJB 2 and EJB 3, including three separate spec documents, simplifying EJB interfaces, annotations and when to use them, and dependency injection.
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JBoss Acquires Rosetta ESB Technology
JBoss, a subsidiary of RedHat corporation has acquired the technology for an ESB from insurance company Aviva Canada. This is part of an overall ESB strategy by Open Source giant RedHat.
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A More Holistic View of Organizational Change
Change in the workplace affects more than just our nine-to-five lives. We sometimes feel it at a very deep level, and it's a good bet we'll take that stress home. On the Future Of Work blog, Charlie Grantham has proposed that we lose valuable opportunities to facilitate change when we ignore the deeply personal, or spiritual, aspects of workplace change.
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Agile at Dr. Dobb's Conference
Every year, Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World features important thinkers and teachers. Taking place this year from July 17-20 in Chicago, the roster includes a dozen speakers working in the realm of Agile, including Robert. C. Martin, Scott Ambler, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Brad Appleton and James Hobart. We've compiled the full list of Agile-related sessions to help you plan.
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IBM Donates WSDM Code to Apache
IBM has made a significant code contribution to Apache's WSDM implementation, Muse, and plans to support its evolution with dedicated developers.
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"Literate Testing" for Readable JUnit Tests
How much time do you spend puzzling out the intention of a test? Robert Chatley, Tom White and Brian Marick have been using a more natural sentence style to make Java tests easier to read, calling it "Literate Testing".
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WCF RSS Toolkit for Generating RSS 2 and Atom 1 Feeds posted
The WCF RSS Toolkit has been released. The toolkit supports exposing a service as an RSS 2.0 feed, Atom 1.0 feed and SOAP endpoint simultaneously; it can also be extended to support other wire formats. Yasser Shohoud has also blogged some code examples today.