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Framework Performance: Ruby on Rails vs Django vs Symfony
Ruby on Rails goes head-to-head with Python's Django and PHP's Symfony frameworks in a battle of speed and stability.
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ZK Ajax Java Web Framework: Ajax with no Javascript
The ZK Ajax Framework allows developers to achieve Ajax style UI experiences in web applications without having to code in Javascript. Leveraging both a client and server engine, ZK enables developers to code the interaction of their UI's in pure Java.
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Six Ruby Presentations (with slides) from European Ruby Meeting Now Online
The audio and slides of six presentations made at a recent Ruby on Rails meeting, hosted by Greenpeace in Amsterdam, have just been made available. Topics include integration with legacy Java apps, CMS development, and Unicode.
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David Heinemeier Hansson's RailsConf Keynote Address Now Online
A defining keynote address by David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, has been made available in video format to watch online.
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JRuby 0.9 Released; Runs WEBrick, Rails, RubyGems, and Rake
Released today, the JRuby 0.9 interpreter for Java can now run RubyGems, the WEBrick Ruby HTTP server, and Ruby on Rails. JRuby co-lead Thomas Enebo told InfoQ that Rake also recently started to work. JRuby 0.9 also includes a number of bug fixes, an improved YAML parser thanks to JvYAML and RbYAML projects, and all non-native standard libraries are bundled in the JRuby distribution.
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Struts and Shale (JSF) Finally Part Ways
After a heated discussion on the Struts-Dev list about the future of Struts and Shale, it has been announced late last week that Shale will become it's own top level Apache project, instead of a sub-project of Struts. This is good news for Struts and JSF developers, as the industry will not have clarity and also both camps will have greater freedom to evolve separately.
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How many production sites run JSF?
Addressing questions about JSF's adoption in the industry, JSF co-spec lead Roger Kitain has published a list of production sites using JSF, and is encouraging end users to you also add their own sites to the list, which currently includes a number of large deployments.
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Article: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails
Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.
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JBoss SEAM 1.0: rethinking web application architecture
JBoss SEAM 1.0 was released today; SEAM extends the POJO + annotation-driven and configuration-by-exception programming model of EJB 3.0 into the entire web app stack, while unifying JSF, EJB, AJAX, and business process management (jBPM) into one tightly-integrated framework. InfoQ spoke to Gavin King and got some more background on SEAM and it's 1.0 release today.
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Watir Adds Support for Modal Dialogs
Watir is a very popular testing tool for web apps. The newest release adds support for Internet Explorer modal dialogs, which are common in enterprise applications.
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Web Beans JSR 299 approved by JCP for further development
The new Web Beans JSR 299 has been unanimously approved by the JCP executive committee for further development. Web Beans aims to integrate EJB 3 session and entity beans to be used as JSF managed beans eliminating the dual layers of web actions and EJB's common in web apps. Web Beans also defines constructs for state and workflow in the web tier.
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Component based webapp framework Wicket 1.2 released
Component based webapp framework Wicket has released version 1.2 today, the third major release of the project. Major new features include Javascript-free Ajax support with even the ability to render multiple page components in one ajax call, component level authorization, Spring dependency injection integration, and more.
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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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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.
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Interview with Mongrel Author Zed Shaw
Well-known Rails programmer Zed Shaw was interviewed by O'Reilly. Zed talked about Ruby on Rails and his work on an up-and-coming new HTTP server named Mongrel that is winning accolades all over the community.