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Article: Getting Started With SharePoint Web Services
Trent Swanson walks through accessing SharePoint Web Services from both Java and .NET.
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JSPWeaver removes the first-person penalty from JSP development
ZeroTurnaround's JSPWeaver is a real-time interpreter for JSP which aims to remove the first-person penalty encountered when the server creates and compiles the background servlet from the JSP mark-up.
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WebLogic Server 10.3 Adds HTTP Pub/Sub Server, Optional Services Startup and FastSwap Deployment
WebLogic Server 10.3 technology preview released by BEA systems includes a HTTP Pub/Sub Server for web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP. Other new features in this release include modular server component installation and startup, and application deployments using the new "FastSwap" feature.
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Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems
Oracle and BEA reach an agreement wherein Oracle buys BEA's outstanding shares for ~$19. How will they resolve their product-line redundancies? Reactions are interesting and varied, and the spectre of insider trading has already been reaised.
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Understanding Seam Nested Conversations and Timeouts
Jacob Orshalick recently explored Seam's nested conversation model and related timeouts using Seam's demo booking example.
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JBoss Rolls Out Developer Studio 1.0 and Tools 2.0
JBoss recently released new versions of their JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools products.
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Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2 and IIS 7
Version 7 brings a major rewrite to Internet Information Server. The most important of these revolves around the new integrated mode, which allows .NET modules to be plugged into any stage of the IIS pipeline. However, when running ASP.NET in integrated mode reveals several breaking changes.
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Rules versus Procedural Code
Paul Haley, rule technology visionary, discusses criteria for choosing rule engines versus procedural code in business process solutions, as well as examining the current state of BPM/BRM integration.
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IBM Adds PowerShell Support for WebSphere MQ
PowerShell is starting to gain acceptance with major players. IBM has announced that WebSphere MQ can now be managed using PowerShell. WebSphere objects such as Channels, Listeners, Queues, and Services can be created, examined, and modified from the command line. IBM's WMQ blog has posted a series on how to perform these actions.
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Multiple Techniques Seek to Bring Dynamic Deployment to JEE
Web application developers using dynamically typed interpreted languages like PHP, Python or Ruby are used to being able to make a change in their application and see it immediately by refreshing the browser. A number of vendors are looking to improve the situation for Java with two techniques being actively researched.
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Tomcat used by 64% of Java Developers
According to a recent study conducted by BZ Research, Tomcat is used by almost two thirds of corporate Java developers. With its support for clustering & server monitoring, Tomcat has gained more popularity compared to other application servers. IBM WebSphere and RedHat JBoss came second and third in the research study.
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Microsoft Ups Their Support for PHP
PHP is a cornerstone of LAMP development. In an attempt to lure PHP developers off Linux and MySQL, Microsoft is beginning to offer deep support for PHP in IIS 7 and SQL Server.
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Raible Revisits Comparing Web Frameworks
This past week Matt Raible gave a presentation at ApacheCon comparing Java Web Frameworks. This is a follow up to a presentation he gave a few years ago. It is interesting to note the changes in the frameworks being evaluated.
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Unified Rules Engine and Processes
Mark Proctor, the JBoss Drools Project Lead, and Kris Verlaenen the Ruleflow lead present their vision for unifying rules and processes to provide a truly unified modeling environment with rules and processes as first class citizens, tightly integrated modeling GUIs, single unified engine and apis for compilation/building, deployment and runtime execution.
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Create Windows Home Server Add-Ins with VS Express
Windows Home Server is essentially a stripped down version of Windows Server 2003 meant for the consumer market. While it does expose a desktop, most users access it via a special admin console. In a Channel 9 interview, Chris Gray demonstrates using Visual Basic Express to create a new home server console add-in.