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Mitch Pronschinske01/31/11
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Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta

JBoss' grand, all-encompassing Java development framework is nearly finished.  This weekend, the 3.0 version reached Beta 1 status.  It is the first release to have all of the Seam modules (Drools, Errai, Servlet, JBoss ESB, etc.) bundled into a single...

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/11
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Daily Dose - Oracle Threatened Hudson Creator With the Lawyer Stick

As the Hudson community chooses sides today with a vote for or against renaming the project and moving development away from Oracle, the creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi made "One last plea" in the Oracle divorce drama:

Mitch Pronschinske01/27/11
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WebMatrix - Set up a Website in 5 Minutes!

Web Development is about to get easier. WebMatrix 1.0 is here, and it's changing the way we build websites.  Sure, lots of developers can build their own site from scratch, but if you don't need to, why spend all the extra time....

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Apache Solr: Get Started, Get Excited!

In this article you'll be introduced to Apache Solr and a wealth of applications have been built with it. URL:  http://java.dzone.com/articles/apache-solr-get-started-get

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Jack Into The WebMatrix

DZone recently got the inside scoop on a new lightweight development tool called WebMatrix.  See how deep this rabbit hole goes. URL:  http://css.dzone.com/news/jack-webmatrix

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Daily Dose - Rymer's "Future of Java"

John Rymer of Forrester Research blogged today about his research and predictions for the future of Java SE and the Java ecosystem.  "Java's future in the enterprise is alive and well but limited," he said.  "Oracle's plans so far fail to...

Mitch Pronschinske01/24/11
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Daily Dose - Spring Data Graph - Bringing NoSQL, MapReduce, and Cloud Data to Spring Apps

A new project from Spring has been announced recently with its first milestone release.  Spring Data Graph 1.0 will focus on making it simpler for developers to build Spring-based apps that hook into things like MapReduce, NoSQL data stores, and cloud data...

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/11
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Daily Dose - On April 4th, Co-Founder Larry Page Will Become CEO of Google

A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO.  And who will take the helm of the world's most powerful web technology company?  None other than Larry Page, a co-founder...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/11
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Daily Dose - Will NetBeans Have to Remove JUnit?

NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group.  "We have new lawyers," he said, and they're concerned about the JUnit license—the Common Public License, which is a bit dated in Tulach's...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/11
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Using WebMatrix and the Entity Framework 4 Together

Microsoft's new WebMatrix development tool has just hit version 1.0 and some .NET developers have been wondering if they will be able to use the Entity Framework 4 with it and include, for example, a Microsoft.Data.Entity.CTP.dll reference to a WebMatrix...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/11
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Daily Dose - Tomcat 7 Servlet Container Declared Stable

Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL.  The developers just announced that the new release of Tomcat 7.0.6 is the first stable release in the 7.x branch.  The other new features in this...

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/11
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Daily Dose - JPA 2.1 and JAX-RS 2.0: Voting Now Open

Two major components of Java EE 7 are up for a vote this month: JSR 338: Java Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339: JAX-RS (RESTful Web Services on Java) 2.0.  JPA 2.1 will support multitenancy, more event listeners and callback methods, and custom types and...

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/11
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Jack Into The WebMatrix

Sure, it's great if you can build a website from scratch with ASP.NET or any other web framework, but what we're seeing these days is a whole other class of technical designers, light web developers, and tech-savvy business people who just want to use a...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/11
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Daily Dose - Hudson Renamed "Jenkins" as Oracle Clings to Naming Rights

You may recall the controversy that surfaced in December over the naming rights and trademarks surrounding the open source continuous integration engine, Hudson.  As those discussions between Oracle, CloudBees, and other Hudson contributors continued quietly...

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/11
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Daily Dose - Cassandra 0.7 Complete

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today.  New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and online schema changes.  Secondary indexes allow the querying of data through node-local storage on the...