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Were starting to think about speakers and sessions for TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 taking place in Prague, October 27-28.

Simpl Web is another full stack Java web framework. But why? Why do we need another Java web framework? And worse, why do we need to tie all these different frameworks together to built just websites? What's a website anyway?

Over the last several months Ive had number of opportunities to present about Native Cloud Application (NCA) and I think deserves a bit more explanations. Ill try to give very practical introduction to what stands behind this new type of application.

PAW empowers users to import, integrate, convert, massage, and summarize data in a series of captured steps that are then automated. Users can create lists of data that can be edited offline and synchronized online with the PAW Online collaboration service. PAW helps streamline data management for everything from small businesses to large corporations.

The <a href="http://www.springsource.com/node/1103">Tomcat Expert Seminar Series</a> has added new session dates for North America in May: New York, Boston, Atlanta, Toronto, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. The seminar series is designed for operations staff, engineers, and developers who need expert advice on how to optimize and manage Tomcat in production.

The 2009 Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference was a rousing success. Listen to audio of key sessions and interviews on the Chariot TechCast podcast.

This post is covering the basics of the Quartz Plugin that is used to schedule background operations in your grails application.<br><br> In this tutorial I'm showing (with snippets and screencasts) how you can build a simple Feed Reader to read your favorite feeds.<br><br>Take a look: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3of25-quartz" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3of25-quartz</a>

The ModelPro modeling engine connects with the Cameo SOA+ suite to bring a more graphical approach to services modeling. Underlying the tools is SoaML, an emerging OMG-backed profile for UML.

<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/develop-powerful-web-applications-with-spring-web-flow-2/book">Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development</a> is a new book that provides developers with a platform on which they can develop and test their own applications and services.

Zend Server, for the first time also available in a community edition free of charge, was announced by Zend on Tuesday. In addition to all-in-one PHP stack, it also has web admin panel, DB drivers, opcode caching built-in, native install on Linux (RPM or DEB pkgs) and Windows (MSI), and comes w/capability to execute Java code from PHP scripts.

This article contains a short list of new features and improvements included into the release.

This article proposes a way to reveal latent bugs in Java applications by running them on different JVMs. It is illustrated with a real world example involving a popular Java application server.

This release adds even more control for developers, more browsers, preliminary support of the full remote control feature and modal layers.

Last night, while watching JavaRebel win a JOLT productivity award on Twitter, I couldnt help but think, how wrong is it that Im awake at 3:30am (Central European Time), hitting refresh in firefox, again, and again, and again - and getting a sense of excitement out of doing it?

See how to make phone calls from your JRuby-Rails application with JBoss and Mobicents Sip Servlets.

EmForge is project management software integrated task-management based on full-featured workflow engine (jBPM), project documentation (based on JspWiki) and reporting (based on JasperReports).

In what is likely the first-ever database benchmark conducted on an off-the-shelf mobile phone, McObject® has successfully deployed its TestIndex database benchmark Java application on T-Mobiles Android-based G1 smartphone.

A bit off-topic, but the stories of patent-driven shakedowns in technology always make amusing reading.

By taking advantage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Bamboo let's you instantly add capacity to your continuous integration environment. It's simple really.. provided with an EC2 account, Bamboo can launch remote build agents, or elastic agents, into the cloud.

Integration with RAD eases migration and maintenance of legacy code. Tailored specifically for WebSphere, MyEclipse Blue delivers the most comprehensive development environment for WebSphere 7.0. Try it free for 30 days, <a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/blue.php">here</a>.