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OASIS Composability Within SOA Symposium
OASIS announces a 2008 symposium on Composability within SOA to address the technical and business facets therein. The symposium will be an opportunity for researchers and business users to discuss challenges, best practices and experiences.
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Article: What's New in Spring 2.5: Part 1: Annotation-Based Configuration
Spring 2.5 was released on November 19th, 2007 and with it, the first article in a series Mark Fisher of SpringSource (Interface21) about the annotation-based configuration options available in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.
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Qi4j introduces Composite Oriented Programming
"Classes are dead, long live interfaces" was declared by Rickard Oberg at Oredev this week where he announced Qi4j. Qi4j brings the new idea of Composite Oriented Programing, in which is no behaviour at all is put in a class, instead the class becomes a 'composite' of mixins and interfaces declared on the class via annotations.
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Microsoft announces Microsoft ESP
Today Microsoft announced plans for a new a visual simulation platform, Microsoft ESP, which uses gaming technology to enable use of simulation for both learning and decision-making.
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OASIS Announces OpenCSA Webinars
In a further attempt to help spread the message about the SCA standardization effort and educate the community, OASIS has announced a series of webinars around the various OpenCSA specifications.
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Microsoft: Hypercall API extended to Open Specification Promise
Today Microsoft announced its hypercall API will now be included under the Open Specification Promise. Microsoft co-announced with Citrix and Novell.
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InfoQ Japan Launches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. In April InfoQ China launched, and this October InfoQ Japan has launched and is already attracting an average of 3500 visits a day.
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Open Source: The .NET Framework
Today Microsoft announced it will release the source code for its .NET Framework under the Microsoft Reference License.
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JRuby compiler finished
As Charles Nutter reports, JRuby's Ruby to Bytecode compiler is finished. This is used for AOT and JIT compilation, and will go into JRuby 1.1. Future plans include a compiler that could help with Java integration by turning Ruby classes into Java types.
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Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Speaking at QCon SF Nov 7-9
Kent Beck & Martin Fowler will be keynoting & delivering tutorials at the QCon San Francisco Nov 7-9th conference. Also, the schedule has been finalized with a new complete track covering security from a development perspective, and also a panel on the future of Java development including Joshua Bloch, JRuby's Charles Nutter, Spring's Rod Johnson, and .NET's Erik Meijer.
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SOA Software Adds SOA Management for Microsoft BizTalk Server
SOA Software, a provider of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance, Security, Mediation, and Management solutions, announces a partnership with Microsoft to provide SOA Governance features for BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
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Agile Bibliography Wiki
George Dinwiddie announces the Agile Bibliography Wiki to track readings on the subject of agile, particularly those that are useful to back up a point, or which are useful references, and invites the community to help fill out the reading list.
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Nimbus Look-and-Feel: Vector UIs for Java
In his announcement that the Nimbus Look-and-Feel (LAF) is nearing completion, Jasper Potts indicated that the Nimbus LAF will be based on vector graphics, with support for high-dpi resolution-independent user interfaces and assembled using a new visual tool for creating painters.
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RubyConf 2007 Registration Open
The registration for RubyConf 2007 is now open. Since RubyConf is a quite small conference, speed is of the issue to get a spot. The Agenda promises interesting talks on Ruby implementations and more.
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Agile Alliance Elects New Directors
After Agile 2007 the Agile Alliance announced the election results of its ballot for board members for the 2007-2008 period.