Clojure, more than just another Lisp

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 12 February 2009
Clojure is a new dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which is helping to redefine what features belong in a general-purpose language. If you program in Lisp, use a functional language such as Haskell, or write explicitly concurrent programs, you will enjoy Clojure. It's author Rich Hickey wrote it by combining ideas from Lisp, functional programming, and concurrent programming, with the aim to make them ...

Introducing Milton: An open source webdav API for servers

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 25 October 2008
Milton is an open source java library for implementing desktop integration in your web apps with WEBDAV. For those not familiar with WEBDAV, its like FTP but implemented in HTTP. Its a mature standard and supported natively in all operating systems. Once integrated, your users can ...

Velosurf 2.2 released

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 05 September 2008
Velosurf is a java database mapping layer for Apache Velocity template engine. Velosurf provides an 'out-of-the-box' automatized mapping of database tables and fields, along with the ability to easily define custom entities, queries and actions in SQL. It is a lightweight and flexible placeholder to persistence systems. Velosurf main features are: ...

DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0 (final) released

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 04 September 2008
DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0 (final) has just been released. Access Platform provides access to a range of datastores for Java applications using JDO/JPA API's. It is fully compliant with JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, JPA1, and provides preview features for JDO2.2 and JPA2. It currently supports persistence to RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, XML, Excel, NeoDatis ODB, and JSON. It additionally allows ...

Simple HTTP Engine 4.0.1 released

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 20 August 2008
The Simple HTTP framework has released version 4.0.1. The goal of Simple is to bring the power of simplicity to the world of server side Java. The primary focus of the project is to provide a truly embeddable Java based HTTP engine capable of handling enormous loads. Simple provides a truly asynchronous service model, request completion is driven using an internal, transparent, monitoring system. This allows Simple to ...

Lift, the first Scala web framework

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 14 August 2008
Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift is an open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. Lift borrows from the best of existing frameworks, providing ...

OpenDS: the next generation directory service from Sun

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 11 August 2008
With version 1.0 released less than one month ago, OpenDS goes ahead in the Sun's open-source porjects room. OpenDS is an open source community project building a free and comprehensive next generation directory service. OpenDS is designed to address large deployments, to provide high performance, to be highly extensible, and to be easy to deploy, manage and monitor. The directory service includes not only the Directory Server, but also ...

JDOInstruments 3.0 OODB released

written by Roberto Chiaretti on 07 August 2008
Today, version 3.0 of JDOInstruments OODB has been released. Beside other major improvements and bugfixes, this version also contains a new "Automatic Crash Recovery" and "Schema Evolution" features. JDOInstruments is an embedded object-oriented database programmed in java, it is also an implementation of Sun's Java Data Objects (JDO) specification for the transparent persistence of Java objects. Because of this, it doesn't need ...
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