WSO2 releases new framework

WSO2 is releasing its open source WSO2 Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0, says InfoWorld.com.

This will provide users of the Spring Java framework with an Apache Axis2/Java Web services engine for use in developing applications.

Users get access to the Axis2 library, said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO. "It basically puts the configuration and setup of that library all in a Spring framework," he said.

Java is not the slowpoke of the old days, and performance now matches or exceeds applications developed in C, technologists stressed last week during a presentation at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas, states Computerworld.

Java Virtual Machines and garbage collection, for example, have improved and Java itself has come a long way, the technologists argued.

"The reality is, Java is pretty fast these days," Goetz said. Java performance now measures up to C but lags behind in memory consumption, he said.

AMD has revealed a new plug-in that provides the Eclipse community with increased performance management and monitoring of Java software code, says AjaxWorld Magazine.

Called CodeSleuth, this new plug-in delivers the functionality of AMD's CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer, a suite of tools that analyse software performance on AMD processors, including Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

To help ensure the plug-in is readily available to the Java technology community and evolves with the community's needs, AMD is making CodeSleuth open source and available as a no-charge download within the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment.