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Article: SimpleTicket Railway Story
In this first installment of the Railway Stories series, we cover SimpleTicket, a newly open-sourced Rails app that provides insight into the progress and innovation enjoyed by Ruby on Rails advocates, and paints a vivid picture of a dynamic, modern startup.
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Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2
Sun today announced that Java SE, Java ME, and Glassfish are being open source under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2) with Sun today releasing an early build of the Java SE 7 HotSpot JVM, the javac compiler, and JavaHelp. The fully buildable Java SE 7 JDK classlibraries will be available in Q1 2007. Plans for Java's governance model have not yet been announced.
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Sun Refines Timetable for Open-Sourcing Java
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz stated at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference this week that Sun will announced the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days. This is a more aggressive timetable than previous comments by Sun's Rich Green who had indicated portions of Java being open-sourced starting this year and continuing into 2007.
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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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Opinion: Use an Eclipse-style Governance Model for Open Source Java
Java Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich suggests that a way for Java to be truly free and independent would be to use an Eclipse-style governance model. InfoQ sat down with Milinkovich to futher discuss the idea of an Eclipse governance model for Java and its implcations. Community feedback is welcome.
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Google Releases Search Engine Specifically For Code
Google has released Google Code Search, a search engine explicitly for code. Google is crawling all the publicly available code they can find including archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. Searches can be performing using regular expressions and limited by language and license.
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ESB Technology Goes Open Source
Backed by Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler ventures to the tune of $4M dollars, CEO Dave Rosenberg and Mule ESB Open Source Leader Ross Mason are ready to take on the biggest ESB players with their Open Source ESB strategy. But not only are other ESB companies waiting, but the field is already crowded with other Open Source options.
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JBoss Releases JBPM Orchestration Beta
The JBoss jBPM team has announced the release of jBPM BPEL 1.1.Beta2 , a web services orchestration offering. It is the last beta version before the GA release in October.
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Sun Officially Backs Ruby, Brings JRuby In-House
Charles Nutter, one of the developers of the JRuby (Ruby on JVM) project, announces JRuby is being brought into the Sun Microsystems fold.
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freebXML 3.0 Final Released
The freebXML Registry team announces the release of version 3.0-final of the royalty-free open source implementation of the ebXML Registry standard. InfoQ gets some information about this release from Farrukh Najmi, one of the leaders of the project.
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Marc Fleury on what makes open source business models tick
After presenting to numerous investors, JBoss founder Marc Fleury has distilled a very coherent description of what makes an open source business model tick and how it's different from traditional proprietary license-revenue business models. It's a useful read from a trends perspective.
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Sun Releases Identity Management to Open Source
OpenSSO is an open source access management software distribution that provides the means to build authentication, authorization, and session management for Java and web applications and web services. Sun will be basing the Sun Java System Access Manager product on OpenSSO.
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Ruport: A Ruby Report Builder and Reporting Library
Gregory Brown releases a free library and toolset for Ruby that makes building reporting applications easy.
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Sun: A real open source Java community: "That is our Goal"
Sun has committed to open sourcing Java Micro Edition this year, and all of Standard Edition next year. InfoQ spoke to Sun's Bob Brewin, co-CTO of Software to find out the details. InfoQ also spoke to Geir Magnusson, lead on the Apache Harmony open source Java effort to get a community perspective on the news.
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Could Glassfish become the next major open source appserver?
Sun has been putting a lot of resources into Glassfish, Sun's Java EE 5 open source appserver. But with an open source application server market dominated by JBoss, with ObjectWeb's JonAS and IBM supporting Apache's Geronimo project, just what is the intention and status of Glassfish? InfoQ has been been following the project and talking to the committers over the last few months to catch you up.