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Book on SOAP and Restful Web Services using Apache CXF framework

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By Priyanka13 - Posted on 06 January 2010

Apache CXF Web Service Development is a new book from Packt, which will help developers design and develop SOAP and Restful web services using the open source Apache CXF framework. Written by Naveen Balani and Rajeev Hathi, this book will help to create custom interceptors by implementing advanced features such as CXF Interceptors, CXF Invokers, and CXF Features. It will also provide developers a quick start in developing web services using contract-first and code-first approaches.

Apache CXF is an open source, fully featured, easy to use framework, which provides a flexible deployment model for deploying web services. CXF helps developers build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and develop web services by configuring various CXF transports such as HTTP, HTTP(S), JMS, and CXF.

Apache CXF Web Service Development introduces various Apache CXF framework features and will teach users to build their application according to the requirements by using any of the frontends supported by it. They will learn to develop services in a flexible deployment model offered by CXF, unit test them and finally promote them. Additionally, this book introduces some advanced concepts such as Interceptors and also mentions various tools that will help developers create web services as well as Java and JavaScript-based web services clients.

Confirmit Flex: A new development platform for creating applications

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 17 November 2009

OSLO, Norway and NEW YORK, NY – November 17, 2009: Confirmit, a leading global vendor of software for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback and Market Research, has announced the creation of Confirmit Flex, an innovative new framework that will enable Confirmit, its customers and partners to quickly create new applications for the platform. The framework opens up the Confirmit platform to new developments that take advantage of the latest data collection methods, design technologies and reporting requirements.

Pat Molloy, Chief Strategy Officer at Confirmit explains: “Confirmit Flex is a huge new step for the platform. Our standard development cycle ensures the consistently high performance, security and scalability of the platform, but until now didn’t allow for the speed of change that customers sometimes demand. With Confirmit Flex, we’ve created a way of building fast, agile ‘speedboats’ to run alongside the ‘super tanker’ that is the Confirmit platform.”

Confirmit Flex has two applications running in beta testing, with many Confirmit customers taking advantage of the opportunity to get involved.

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MODx Evolution 1.0.1

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By Bryan - Posted on 29 October 2009

Even though I've wanted to focus more on MODx in this blog, I have to say I haven't done a very good job bringing this CMS and content management framework up for discussion. With the release of MODx Evolution 1.0 and the upcoming release of MODx Revolution 2.0 I have no doubt we'll be seeing more headlines for MODx.

Last week, MODx Evolution 1.0.1 was released. This release contains enough security improvements and bug fixes that the MODx developers consider the update a "mandatory upgrade" for any site running previous releases of MODx Evolution/0.9.X.

Some of the new features and improvements in MODx 1.0.1 include:

Security
Multiple areas have been improved to help protect against unlikely but possible CSRF attacks in the Manager. In addition, Ajax Search has been updated to version 1.8.4 which prevents content injection when JS is off in the browser and the Manager password reminder has been updated to prevent forged logins under different usernames.

ManagerManager
Manager Manager is now a part of the core distribution. This Plugin leverages jQuery to allow developers to completely customize the Manager experience for end users. Some useful input widgets are included by default (tagging, color picker, image TV preview) and new widgets can be developed to streamline your daily content management. ManagerManager gives you the benefits of a fully bespoke/custom CMS, coupled with the support of large Open Source Community and maintaining an upgrade path for future releases.

MODx evolves into version 1.0

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By Bryan - Posted on 03 August 2009

After five years of development, the MODx CMS has finally went to version 1.0. Late last week, the project leaders for MODx made the following announcement:

To say we're excited about this release would be a bit of an understatement. Far, far more than just a new Manager theme and some bugfixes here and there, Evolution 1.0.0 represents a ton of work by a lot of people. Our classic code base is no where close to outdated or obsolete, on the contrary it just took a huge leap forward and sets the stage for continuing development and improvements to our classic code base.

Boatloads of bugfixes and feature requests aside, our 1.0 release focuses on a few key areas. The international communities deserve a huge "thank you" for all their hard work in getting their languages updated, too

MODx Evolution is actually one of two branches of development for the CMS. The release based on legacy code-MODx Evolution-has existed since 2004. There is also a completely rewritten MODx Revolution release that will occur in late 2009. In fact the release candidate for MODx Revolution is due later this summer.

Some of the new features and changes in MODX 1.0 Evolution include:

  • Many updates to Manager and Installer language translations
  • Now handles RSS, Word, Excel, XML, HTML, CSS, JS, PDF and plain documents with custom icons in the Site Tree
  • Remove legacy code no longer needed

New template development framework for Joomla

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By prothemer - Posted on 30 July 2009

The brand new Morph framework for Joomla is now available in second round of beta.

Compared to your average Joomla template, "Morph" is just as easy to install. That said, it is NOT your average template.

Morph for Joomla is a whole new concept, but already a tool that users refer to as "a Joomla game changer".

WHO IS MORPH FOR?

Morph is designed from the ground up to be completely scalable, extensible and usable by everyone developing websites in Joomla, from beginners to advanced.

If you are a seasoned Joomla user you can easily tap into the more advanced features, which gives you fine grained control on a per page basis.