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Distributed transactions in Spring, with and without XA
Before you settle on a transaction-processing pattern for your Spring application, make sure you understand the variety of options (XA-based and not) and how each one will impact the performance, safety, reliability, and data integrity of distributed applications.
Dr. David Syer, January 2009

Open source Java projects: NetBeans plugins
NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own plugins for NetBeans 6.5.
Jeff Friesen, December 2008

Year in Review: The Java tools roundup
As Agile techniques become more mainstream, tools for the software development lifecycle are adding new features and optimizations to make developers happy. Find out what's new in build automation frameworks, testing tools, and IDEs, with this year-end review from Java Power Tools author John Ferguson Smart.
John Ferguson Smart, December 2008

REST for Java developers: Restlet for the weary
'Tis the season of weariness for many around the world, so sit back and enjoy a long, tall sip of Restlet: A toolkit for building and consuming RESTful Web services in Java. This article also introduces JSR 311: JAX-RS.
Brian Sletten, December 2008

Continuous integration with Hudson
Looking for a continuous integration server solution? Hudson is free and open source, and configuration is a snap. This article gets you started with Hudson in a Windows or Linux environment using JBoss AS or Tomcat 6.
Nicholas Whitehead, December 2008

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NEWS & VIEWS

Rails and Merb to merge
12/24/2008 -  Developers for Rails and Merb have announced that the two Ruby-based frameworks will merge, a welcome end to the cold war that some say has "torn the community apart."
James Niccolai, IDG News Service

Sun's plans for open source JavaFX
12/23/2008 -  A VP of Sun's Client Software Group has offered an updated roadmap for JavaFX, saying the company will open source more of its RIA framework in time.
Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

ICEsoft picks up Project Woodstock
12/19/2008 -  ICEsoft Technologies has announced it will pick up Project Woodstock, recently abandoned by Sun Microsystems. ICEsoft will provide UI components for Woodstock via its JSF-Ajax framework, ICEfaces. InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Server virtualization's tricky math
12/17/2008 -  Server virtualization is meant to save cash by consolidating enterprise resources, but those numbers don't exactly add up. InfoWorld's Tom Kaneshige reports on the hidden costs of virtualization, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Tom Kaneshige, InfoWorld

Intel Parallel Studio to boost parallelism
12/12/2008 -  Intel has released a beta version of its Intel Parallel Composer for Windows. The company plans to create a family of tools that will speed up the shift to parallel computing and the creation of applications able to run on multicore processors.
Agam Shah , IDG News Service

Is this software project doomed?
12/10/2008 -  Is your project on a death march? Seasoned developers share 27 real-life warning signs that a software project is going nowhere fast. CIO's Esther Schindler reports.
Esther Schindler, CIO

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Best of 2008: A developer's list

JW blogger Dustin Marx names his top 10 technology events of 2008. Highlights include updates to Java SE 6, runtime support in OpenLaszlo 4.2, and the clash of the titans that occurred early in the year, when Sun acquired MySQL on the same day that Oracle announced its acquisition of BEA. No two lists are alike and it's not too late: What were your top 10 for 2008?

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