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Project Tango - WCF And Java Interop
Sun Microsystems has launched the open source initiative called Project Tango. Windows Communications Foundation Engineers are working together with Java Web Services Engineers on the interoperability of enterprise features.
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Database Regression Testing: Isn't It Time to Bring Quality to Data Management?
Mission-critical business functionality is often implemented in stored procedures within your databases, and data is an important corporate asset. This article overviews a strategy for effective DB regression testing.
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Open JPA: A real competitor to Hibernate emerging
BEA will be open sourcing a large part of the formerly commercial Kodo persistence engine from SolarMetric into the Apache OpenJPA project. Going forward, the commerical Kodo and WebLogic will be built on top of OpenJPA which will recieve a large commitment of resources from BEA for further development. OpenJPA may become a viable alternative to Hibernate this year.
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Worth Repeating: The BigBook Technique
Mark Hedlund has a favourite story: he tells of the BigBook Technique, a simple ploy engineers once used to communicate with their CEO about a death-march project. With yet another big-project implosion in the news, Hedlund felt the need to roll out this simple remedy, again. In effect: nine women simply cannot deliver a baby in one month. If that sounds familiar, this story may be of use to you.
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Interview with SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
In an interview at their annual user conference, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann talks about the role SOA plays in SAP's application strategy.
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db4o User Conference in London
The db4o User Conference (dUC) will take place in London from July 10 to 11, featuring keynotes from Carl Rosenberger, Ted Neward, and Christof Wittig.
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Benefits and Challenges of Open Source for Agile Teams
Open source technologies have had a positive impact on both the development and runtime environments of software applications - teams find they are better able to deliver expected functionality within timeframes acceptable to stakeholders. But open source is different, and Jeff Hodson has written about how an architecture-centric approach can help address some valid developer concerns.
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RailsDay 2006 Announced
RailsDay 2006 is a 24 hour competition scheduled to be held in mid-June, right before RailsConf. During the contest, teams of Ruby on Rails developers from around the world will compete for valuable prizes to see who can author the best Rails application in just a day.
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Jetty Founder Proposes Asynchronous Servlet API
Jetty founder Greg Wilkins has blogged about the need for the Servlet spec to evolve into an asynchronous model in order to, among other things, deal with the new challenges brought on by Ajax. Greg proposes standardizing a coordinator which could be called by the container in response to asynchronous event and would coordinate the call of the synchronous service method.
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SOA 2.0
Not content with the SOA concept, Gartner and Oracle have created "SOA 2.0" as a label for a more advanced approach to service-orientation.
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Microsoft Launches CodePlex Online Development Environment
Microsoft has launched the Beta of CodePlex, an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. Codeplex was developed from scratch using C# 2.0 with Team Foundation Server as the backend.
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Agile Well Represented at Better Software Conference 2006
Intrigued by all this Agile talk? Do you have a colleague you'd like to introduce to Agile concepts? While not explicitly an Agile event, almost one third of sessions at this conference represent Agile topics, and the roster of Agile speakers is impressive. It takes place this year in Las Vegas, June 26-29. TestDriven.com has compiled a list of the conference's 13 Agile sessions.
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"If you can't say something nice..."
David Anderson reflected recently on one simple tool for building trust in the workplace. What a difference a few words can make.
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Meeting the Challenge of Collective Code Ownership
The challenge: find the balance between pure practice and local compromise. Martin Fowler has brought us a story of a team in trouble, which took a step back to improve coding discipline and brush up on the basic practices that support collective ownership. In addition to the short-term gains of increased velocity and improved morale, the overall quality of the team's output improved as well.
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Web Beans submitted to JCP, aims to unify EJB and web tier
JBoss has submitted "Web Beans" to the JCP, with support from Oracle, Sun, Borland, and Google. Web Beans aims to enable EJB 3 session and entity beans to be used as JSF managed beans (known as actions in other frameworks) eliminating the dual layers of web actions and EJB's common in web apps. Gavin King will be the spec lead.