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New Networking features with PPF grid toolkit: Releases in v1.1

Recently JPPF i.e. Java Parallel Processing

Framework was released with version 1.1. New features of JPPF:

Several bugs are fixed

• Provides a new networking tool i.e. the TCP port multiplexer that allows it even
• To work in the fire walled environments
• Addition of new node monitoring feature
• PPF grid takes no time to be up and run
• provides highly scalable, distributed framework for the execution of Java tasks.
• Better graphical and programmatic tools
• reliability through redundancy
• failover recovery capabilities

Apache Tuscany SCA Java 1.1 -incubating released

Apache Tuscany team has announced the release of the Java SCA project of version 1.1. It provides a runtime environment based on SCA (Service Component Architecture), which is a set of specifications to simplify SOA application development, standardized by
OASIS.

This release has added features like JMS binding, improved policy support and an implementation extension for representing client side JavaScript applications as SCA components.

New Run Time Editor 3 (RTE3) for Java Released The new RTE3 is the control system interface design environment that has been designed for network control in java. RTE3 is fully written in

Java so it is very expandable. It is available for Windows and Linux environment.

RTE3 provides some new capabilities like multithreaded, multi-processor aware, easy socket communication, MP3 and MPEG capabilities, access dlls, shell scripting, unlimited run time editing/ scripting, multiple windows, multiple pages, grouping, group editing, built-in database access, unlimited undo/redo etc.

Theory and Practice of Ropes for Java String Manipulations

Java language’s default String and StringBuilder classes poorly serves to large quantities of data manipulated by the Systems. A rope data structure may be a better alternative. A rope implementation for the Java platform; provides pointers for effective use of the library and
defines performance issues. Iteration over a flat Rope (a Rope having depth of 1) is much faster than pulling data character by character from a String is the most considerable thing for an enterprise Java developer. If you do not need to do this, then Ropes are completely
meaningless to you.

Carlos Perez: Top Five Java Technologies to Learn in 2008

Carlos Perez has posted a list of the top five Java-based technologies to learn in 2008.

They are:

• OSGi, a specification for dynamic modules for Java
• The Java Content Repository spec, appeared first time in the JCP in February 2002
• Google Web Toolkit, first version released in May, 2006
• Groovy, first version released in May, 2004
• Cloud computing, a concept designed around the use of virtual servers, or distributed computing without using
  EJB