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InfoQ Article: EJB 3 Essential Glossary
InfoQ is hosting an EJB 3.0 glossary of new terms and API elements introduced in EJB 3. It explains buzzwords like Inversion of Control (IoC), Configuration by Exception, POJO, POJI, Dependency Injection etc, etc. The glossary is an ongoing work in progress. Updates will continue to be made to it.
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Richard Monson-Haefel: It's too late to save Java EE
Richard Monson-Haefel's recently released analyst report predicting the demise of Java EE has set off a storm of controversy. But what did Richard Monson-Haefel, well known for his popular books on EJB, actually say? InfoQ summarized the main points from a podcast with RMH.
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IBM ObjectGrid Distributed Transactional Cache Available
IBM has been quietly working on ObjectGrid, a distributed cache product as part of their Websphere Extended Deployment platform which also runs standalone with any server. Some key differentiators include transactional access, authorized cache access via JAAS and scalability to 100's. An limited eval version of ObjectGrid is available.
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WebLogic Server 9.2, Portal 9.2, Workshop on Eclipse Released
BEA last week released the WebLogic 9.2 platform family of products including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal (which now runs on WL 9.2), and Workshop for WebLogic (now built on Eclipse for the first time).
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Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim
Firestar Software has filed a patent claim against Red Hat for Hibernate 3 allegedly infringing on a patent covering O/R mapping. Firestar, who has not released it's ObjectSpark O/R product since 2003 claims that it "has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages."
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Apache Geronimo 1.1 Released
With this release of Geronimo you can finally run it on Sun Java 1.5 VM, as long as you don't require CORBA. Another notable change from the 1.0 release is that Geronimo now is available in two distributions, one full and certified J2EE distribution and one "stripped down" distribution that only incudes a minimal installation with a Jetty or Tomcat http server.
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JBoss ESB: a chat with Mark Little
InfoQ had an opportunity to chat with Dr. Mark Little, the director of the JBoss ESB effort. Since the recent acquisition of the Rosetta ESB by JBoss (now a subsidiary of RedHat), the SOA community at InfoQ has been interested in some more details about this project. Here's the story as told by Mark to InfoQ.
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JBoss Acquires Rosetta ESB Technology
JBoss, a subsidiary of RedHat corporation has acquired the technology for an ESB from insurance company Aviva Canada. This is part of an overall ESB strategy by Open Source giant RedHat.
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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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SOA Software and WSO2 Bring in VC Money
Draper Fisher leads an $11 Million investment round in SOA Software. Intel Capital, the Venture arm of the Santa Clara chipmaker has invested $4 Million dollars in WSO2, an open source software company.
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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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JBoss Rules 3 (Drools) is out
JBoss is timing a number of releases to coincide with next weeks JBoss world in Las Vegas. The latest is JBoss Rules 3.0, which is the new brand for the Drools rules engine project under JBoss' umbrella and support model. Drools is a Rules Engine implementation based on Charles Forgy's Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.
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Implementing SOA with JEE 5 and JBI Paper Published
Sun has published a technical article, "Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures with the Java EE 5 SDK", that shows how to combine custom business logic with JBI, JEE, BPEL and a SOAP binding component to implement a service-oriented composite application.
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RedHat completes JBoss Acquisition
RedHat today announced the completion of the acquisition of JBoss; RedHat's goal with this acquisition is "to create a complete, end-to-end open source solution across the IT life cycle, from application development to testing and certification to production deployment." JBoss will become a distint division within RedHat and its open source projects and it's brand will be maintained.
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JBoss after Redhat
People have been wondering what is going on at JBoss and what the soon-to-close Redhat acquisition will mean for the company. ZDNet interviewed JBoss CEO / Founder Marc Fleury recently; summarizing the responses: there will be no change in direction, JBoss aims to commoditize the SOA space, a new ESB product is in the works, open source java would be nice, and JBoss is better than WebSphere CE.