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Another Chapter Begins
At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and undoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opportunity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lea
* JRockit Mission Control Now On Eclipse! *
JRockit Mission Control is now available via BEA's Eclipse Update Site.
** Fastest Ever: Workshop 10.2 released **
Workshop 10.2 is available now. Its the fastest and highest quality product we've ever produced.
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Reporting live from the Keynotes at BEA World 2007 Shanghai
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** BEA Workshop Studio NOW WITH FLEX! **
The BEA Workshop bundle with Adobe Flex is now available. (Updated with Example)
Sun's Conflated Benchmark
File this in the "Just So You Know" category. Sun recently announced a new benchmark from their app server. It is an interesting announcement, but you need to read what they say carefully. First off, the are conflating Glassfish with...
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online shopping wrote: There's definitely something to be said for Resource Oriented Architecture in terms of simplicity but let's move on and start discussing not how simplistic it is when pitted against Service Oriented Architecture but how useful it is. Take a look at the ...
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Ruby on Rails News Desk wrote: You've just finished writing your Ruby on Rails application, your test suite tests your models and controllers in depth, but you still can't tell from your tests if your RJS responses are functioning properly, or if a Javascript error is happeni...
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