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  • Catching up with the Castle Project

    The Castle Project is an open source project that runs on .NET, providing an MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework similar to the popular Ruby on Rails. The Castle Project has been in development since 2003 and released Version 1.0 RC2, in November of 2006. As the project nears its V1.0 RC3 we caught up with Hamilton Verissimo, the founder of the project.

  • Is Java EE 5 easier with EJB?

    Many enterprise Java developers gained some experience with Enterprise JavaBeans and went on to choose technologies they deemed lighter-weight, because they felt that building a solution by hand or with a lighter-weight framework was easier and less time-consuming. With EJB 3.X, is it still true that a POJO-solution is simpler, more-comprehensible code? Adam Bien doesn't think so:

  • Analyzing JavaScript in Respect to Performance

    In a new article Kirk Pepperdine has taken a detailed look at the topic of JavaScript performance. The article looks at common areas such as getters/setters, memory leaks, and bad micro benchmarking.

  • JQuery Gains Live DOM Binding with Live Query Plugin

    Live Query is a new plugin for jQuery that lets you register events or fire callbacks for matching DOM elements. The binding not only applies to elements that exist in the page at load time but also elements that are added later via Ajax.

  • Dojo 0.9 Goes Final with Significant Performance Improvements

    Dojo 0.9 final version was released today after close to 7 weeks in beta release. This release scales down the code base, removing unnecessary items. At the same time significant performance improvements have been made.

  • Prototype 1.6 RC Includes DOM Builder and Event API Overhaul

    Earlier this month the Prototype team released the first RC of 1.6.0. This release contains a number of core API upgrades, bug fixes, and new features. The Event API has been overhauled and a new DOM Builder API has also been added.

  • Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET

    Philippe Leybaert recently released a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creating .NET 2.0 web applications, named ProMesh.NET. The framework was released on Codeplex under an open source license. MVC frameworks have gained popularity lately with Ruby on Rails and most recently with the Castle Project and MonoRails, also an MVC framework.

  • Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore

    SproutIt has released SproutCore a new full MVC application framework for JavaScript. . It is designed to be run against any server back-end setup. InfoQ set out to discover what makes SproutCore different by interviewing creator, Charles, Jolley.

  • Struts 2 Experiments with Hot Deployable Plugins

    Apache Struts, the ubiquitous Java web application framework, received a promising feature that permits hot-deployable plugins. Struts developer, Don Brown, revealed last week that work had begun on allowing plugins to be added, removed and upgraded instantly, without the need to restart the entire application.

  • Is Selenium worth the pain?

    Is Selenium worth the pain? Atlassian developer Nick Menere has asked that very question on the Atlassian Developer Blog. In his blog post Menere looks at the roadblocks found while trying to use Selenium to test two new Ajax features of JIRA 3.10.

  • Laszlo Supports Integration of Web Services with Webtop

    Laszlo Systems continues to carve out their niche in the RIA space with growth in the end user, developer, and customer bases for OpenLaszlo. In addition, they have strengthened their product suite with their recently announced enterprise offering, Laszlo Webtop.

  • Java and Web Application Development: Is Too Much Abstract A Bad Thing?

    RedMonk analyst, Michael Coté, has written a lengthy opinion piece comparing Java web application development to development with frameworks such as Rails and Django. He suggests that Java applications often are developed having a "view" which is the web while other frameworks embrace the web more at their core.

  • Google Gears Continues Momentum with ORM API and Support From Popular Javascript Projects

    The Google Gears team recently blogged about their roadmap and development process. It covers what the focus will be for the next few months and emphasizes their plan to keep Gears' development out in the open. The first (official) version of the GearsORM project has also been released.

  • A Comparison of Push vs Pull Ajax

    Based on their experimental study, Engin Bozdag, Ali Mesbah and Arie van Deursen of the Delft University of Technology have compiled a technical report on the trade offs in Push versus Pull approcahes to achieve real-time event notifications in AJAX applications.

  • QnA on SubSonic

    SubSonic is a .NET Open Source project modeled after Rails. Think of it as a Swiss Army knife for building websites and working with data in Object-Relational fashion. Eric and Rob favored InfoQ with insight into their creation.

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