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Registration for TheServerSide Java Symposium Las Vegas now open

Bree Matturro@nospam.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:59:07 -0500

Register now for the TheServerSide Java Symposium Las Vegas taking place in March, 2010. Visit the event website to register and for more information.

Mule Data Integrator released for graphical data transformation

Mahau Ma@nospam.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:27:15 -0500

One of the biggest challenges in implementing SOA is figuring out how to handle the data. Data can exist in relational databases and in various file formats. To address the issue, MuleSoft has released Mule Data Integrator. It includes an Eclipse-based designer that is fully integrated with Mule IDE.

Jailer 3.2 Released: Database Subsetting Tool

Ralf Wisser@nospam.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:22 -0500

The Jailer crew announced the release of 3.2.Jailer which exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases.

OpenCL Standard Speeds Compute Intensive Applications

George Lawton@nospam.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:13:53 -0500

The OpenCL standard blurs the lines between writing code for processors, GPUs, and other types of hardware. It is poised for take-off with more products and supporters.

Data-Driven webtest of Drupal using Grails

Phillip Rhodes@nospam.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:32:33 -0500

Wait... Drupal is PHP based, why grails? Because it's easy and super fast to get things done. Grails takes just a couple of minutes to install, installation is a 3 step process: 1) extract 2) update path 3) set env variable. And once it's installed, it's nothing to create a grails app to do some testing.

Apache Mahout 0.2 Released

Grant Ingersoll@nospam.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:40:40 -0500

Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public download. Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license.

JProfiler 6.0 released

Ingo Kegel@nospam.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:37 -0500

JProfiler 6.0 has been released by ej-technologies. Among the highlights in JProfiler 6.0 are reworked thread profiling, a new method statistics view, exceptional method run analysis, tree maps, auto-tuning for instrumentation and support for FreeBSD x86 and Linux PPC.

Challenges to adoption of Jigsaw

Vitaly Mikheev@nospam.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:58:30 -0500

With Project Jigsa in mind, a poster offers some insights on the challenges that any implementation of modularity for the Java SE core may face, all derived from practical experience.

Use Sun SPOTs as your build canary

Frank Charles@nospam.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:24 -0500

Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) is introduced for use as a build canary to monitor CruiseControl. The goal: To monitor the health of your continuous build process with Small Programmable Object Technology.

SAP Asks Sun/Oracle to Let Java Be Free

George Lawton@nospam.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:49:32 -0500

In a recent blog post raising concerns about the prospect of Oracle managing Java to the detriment of developers worldwide, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka noted JCP domination by Sun Microsystems. Sikka sees more of the same with Oracle in charge of Sun.