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ICEFaces Ajax/JSF Framework Open Sourced Under MPL
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. has announced that their ICEFaces Ajax Development Platform is now available under the Mozilla Public License. This release also includes tighter IDE integration and enhanced JBoss Seam support.
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Interview: David H. Hansson on the Future of Rails
I had the pleasure of asking my friend David some hard-hitting questions about the future of Rails in the enterprise, profiting from his success and whether a vendor will fork Rails someday. He was very confident and relaxed, so there are tons of entertaining and priceless comments on Rails adoption, service-oriented architecture and scaling Rails applications...
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Tim Bray compares intrinsic qualities of Java, Rails, PHP
A firestorm was set off on a TSS thread about a slide from Tim Bray's keynote at a PHP conference with a bar graph showing PHP more scalable than Java. Tim Bray put the slide in context in a thoughtful comparison of Java, Rails, and PHP on his blog, as well giving InfoQ his own personal take on it.
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Dojo Gains Charting Engine
Today, Greenplum and SitePen announced the contribution of the new Charting engine to the Dojo Toolkit. The Charting engine is a cross-browser way of creating very complex charts easily, that can be updated on a regular basis.
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The Problem with JSessionId
An article on RandomCoder.com looks at the negative aspects of using the jsessionid technique for cookieless sessions in Java web applications. The author recommends requiring cookie support to store sessions and includes an example servlet filter to disable jsessionid urls.
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IronPython for ASP.NET
Microsoft has released an extension that allows IronPython to be used with ASP.NET. More importantly, they have created a route for other dynamic languages to tie into the ASP.Net framework.
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Google's Bruce Johnson on GWT 1.2 RC Including OS X Development Support
The first release candidate of GWT 1.2 has been announced. Among the changes are full support for OS X development, faster hosted mode, a new HTTP request module, and widgets in TreeItems. InfoQ sat down with GWT tech lead Bruce Johnson to discuss the release.
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Phil Zoio Discusses Bringing Java 5 Features to Struts with Strecks 1.0
Strecks version 1.0 was recently released. Strecks is a set of Java 5 specific extensions to the original Struts framework. Making heavy use of Java 5 annotations, it adds a number of modern features to Struts-based applications, including POJO actions, dependency injection, declarative validation and data binding, interceptors, pluggable views, as well as Spring integration.
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Keith Donald on Reuseable UI Flows with Spring Web Flow 1.0
The Spring Web Flow team has released version 1.0 after 20 months of active development. The release comes after 11 milestone releases and 50k early access downloads. Spring Web Flow allows developers to build reusable, self-contained controller modules called flows. InfoQ discussed the release with Interface21's Keith Donald, Spring Web Flow lead.
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Migrating to Struts 2, Part 2; First Struts 2 Dev Build Released
Part 2 of the Migrating to Struts 2 article series has been published, and the first dev build of Struts 2 has also recently been launched. In this a Struts and Struts 2 app is compared and migrations identified including converting actions, config changes, and commonalites.
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Backbase Releases Struts Edition
Backbase, a provider of AJAX-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) software, has released Backbase AJAX Struts Edition. The company hopes to extend the life of existing Struts based applications by enabling the addition of AJAX features.
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Create Your Own ASP.NET Providers
With version 2.0, ASP.NET has allowed developers to create their own custom providers that plug into the website framework. These providers cover the areas of Membership, Roles, Site Map, Session State, Profile, Web Event, and Web Parts.
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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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BLINQ Web Application Generator
The BLINQ demo allows developers to quickly develop CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) style applications. With one command, an entire web site with insert, list, and detail pages is created.
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Migrating Applications to Struts2
Struts was first released in June of 2001 and has become the de-facto standard for web application development. In December 2002 it was announced that WebWork and Struts Ti would join forces to become Struts Action Framework 2.0 and the official successor to Struts. In a new InfoQ article series, Ian Roughley looks at the task of moving applications from Struts to Struts2.