NEWS & VIEWS

REST: Tying AJAX to the cloud
01/06/2010 -  In December, I said that 2010 could be the year of AJAX and REST services. I wrote at some length about my own journey, which generated quite a bit of discussion, so I thought I would follow up that post by going into more detail about how I tie AJAX to the cloud.
Martin Heller, InfoWorld

CoffeeScript brewing as variation on JavaScript
01/05/2010 -  CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as "unfancy JavaScript," is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

New version of Groovy cozies up to Java, SQL
01/05/2010 -  A new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language's developers note.
Joab Jackson, IDG News Service

Rails 3 beta eyed for late January release
01/05/2010 -  Ruby on Rails 3, an upgrade to the popular Web development framework that merges Rails with the alternative Merb framework, is due to be offered as a beta release by the end of this month, the founder of Rails said on Monday afternoon.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

It's a (jQuery) cookbook!
12/28/2009 -  Books written by a cast of thousands aren't usually very good. The most common problem is that the multiple-author book winds up reading like a bunch of chapters written by different people for different audiences in different styles all slapped together, with a table of contents and index added as an afterthought.
Martin Heller, InfoWorld

Latest Grails framework is set for the JVM
12/23/2009 -  SpringSource, which is now a division of VMware, released on Wednesday the 1.2 version of the Grails dynamic language framework for the Java Virtual Machine.
Paul Kill, InfoWorld

JetBrains and Electric Cloud offer new build tools
12/15/2009 -  JetBrains and Electric Cloud have announced new build tools that are free for some users.
Martin Heller, InfoWorld

Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but is silent on Oracle
12/14/2009 -  Sun Microsystems officials introduced last week upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company's latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the room: how the company's efforts might be impacted by the planned acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Oracle-Sun merger gains favor in Europe
12/14/2009 -  Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems seems set for regulatory clearance in the European Union. The companies' latest promises to safeguard competition in the market for database software, make the Commission optimistic that the case will have a satisfactory outcome, it said Monday.
Paul Meller, IDG News Service

Sun updates Java Store beta
12/14/2009 -  Sun Microsystems unveiled last Friday an updated beta release of Java Store, a storefront for discovering and acquiring Java and JavaFX applications.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

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