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Acceleo is a pragmatic implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) MOF Model to Text Language (MTL) standard. You do not need to be an expert to start using the plug-ins and create your first code generator : using the provided example projects and the powerful completion feature of the Acceleo editor, it is very easy to get started and understand the basic principles.

The aim of this paper is a brief introduction to MDA technology and a summary / comparison to the approachments to MDA of AndroMDA and Acceleo, intending to be a practical and understandable summary Introduction Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. It was launched by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2001 The Model-Driven Architecture approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model (PIM) using an appropriate domain-specific language (DSL). One of the main aims of the MDA is to separate design from architecture. As the concepts and technologies used to realize designs and the concepts and technologies used to realize architectures have changed at their own pace, decoupling them allows system developers to choose from the best and most fitting in both domains. The design addresses the functional (use case) requirements while architecture provides the infrastructure through which non-functional requirements like scalability, reliability and performance are realized. MDA envisages that the platform independent model (PIM), which represents a conceptual design realizing the functional requirements, will survive changes in realization technologies and software architectures.

The Fornax-Platform is a development platform for tools related to the Model-Driven-Software-Development - MDSD. In this context tools are cartridges, transforms, ready-to-use generators or simple enhancements to make it easier to work in a MDSD environment. Another approach is to provide Howto's and tutorials that simplify the undestanding of MDSD. The Fornax-Platform provides infrastructure and tools to simplify the management and the development of such components and tools. It is independent from companies in this area of software development.

"Businesses involve a lot of functions and in any company, large or small, dedicated departments handle the functions assigned to them. This compartmentalization ensures that experts in the respective domain handle things efficiently. But as the company grows there arises a situation when too much time and resources are wasted when each of the departments carry out functions that are redundant. For example, it is too expensive when both the purchase team and the warehouse management team maintain the same list of products but each in their own format. That may be a tiny part of how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can help you avoid redundancies to run an efficient business. Based on the size of the company and requirements, ERP packages are available from a few thousand to millions of dollars. Today we'll check out how to set up Openbravo, a modern and professionally backed open source ERP that is cost effective to acquire, operate and upgrade."

"Activiti is a Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow system targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts. "

"Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro's easy-to-understand API, you can quickly and easily secure any application - from the smallest mobile applications to the largest web and enterprise applications. We recommend you start with the 10 Minute Tutorial which gives you a feel for Shiro and its API. Then feel free to get started using Shiro in your own applications."

"m2eclipse provides comprehensive Maven integration for Eclipse. You can use m2eclipse to manage both simple and multi-module Maven projects, execute Maven builds via the Eclipse interface, and interact with Maven repositories. m2eclipse makes development easier by integrating data from a project's Object Model with Eclipse IDE features. With m2eclipse, you can use Maven within Eclipse in a natural and intuitive interface. Installing m2eclipse is straightforward, simply point your Eclipse IDE installation to the Eclipse Update Sites. For instructions, prerequisites, and a demonstration video, go to Installing m2eclipse. Once you've installed m2eclipse, you can watch our m2eclipse videos to learn how to install m2eclipse and create your first Maven project with m2eclipse. For a more complete introduction to m2eclipse, Developing with Eclipse and Maven. Developing with Eclipse and Maven is a free, online book, which provides comprehensive documentation for the m2eclipse Maven integration for Eclipse."

"Java Authentication and Authorization Service, or JAAS, pronounced "Jazz", is a Java security framework for user-centric security to augment the Java code-based security. Since Java Runtime Environment 1.4 JAAS has been integrated with the JRE - previously JAAS was supplied as an extension library by Sun. JAAS's main goal is to separate the concerns of user authentication so that they may be managed independently."

Eclipse Rich Client Platform has come a looong way since it was first introduced (and used in Eclipse IDE). The new Eclipse RAP (Rich Application Platform) is also becoming more and more attractive for deploying existing or new Eclipse RCP applications to the web. One of my the projects I'm working on is developed on top of Eclipse RCP. It uses additional plugins such as EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) including EMF Editor UI, Teneo (EMF Persistence for Relational Databases), and Hibernate. After some work, I managed to run the whole application on both Eclipse RCP (desktop) and Eclipse RAP (web-based). See the screenshots for proof. Thanks to the recently released EMF Support for RAP I don't have to let go any of the nice EMF generated editor UIs for the web-based RAP version. What's amazing is how little the work I have to do to port the RCP app to RAP. The changes I needed to do is not changing code, but juggling dependencies to plugins and/or packages. Also creating a few platform-specific plugins (different based on whether I deploy on RCP or RAP).

Couchbase: The End of the Trade-off Game Before Couchbase, ops teams managing web applications faced tough compromises when it came to databases. Screaming speed or durable, safe data storage. Super scale out virtually overnight or scaling up with lots of hardware upgrades. Bleeding-edge NoSQL or safe, but inflexible relational solutions. Couchbase eliminates those trade-offs. We supply extraordinary speed with complete safety and incorruptibility.  A growth path that will never force you to rethink your application infrastructure from datacenter deployments to mobile devices - one continuous, synchronized flow. Solutions that complement your other systems - including your RDBMS.  Technology that meets the needs of developers and conforms to the mission-critical demands of ops teams. This really is the beginning of a new era of NoSQL solutions. Couchbase: database solutions for a post-relational world. Learn more.

"This article looks at the new Jobs API available as part of Eclipse 3.0. It describes the main portions of the Jobs API and the use of scheduling rules. It also describes some changes to Eclipse resource management including how the Resources plug-in integrates with the new API. Finally, it describes some new UI functionality that has been added to provide feedback to users about jobs that are run in the background. "

"Opensource Point of Sale for Restaurants Floreant POS is a platform independent Point of Sale application that greatly benefits Restaurant business simplifying order management, automation of kitchen and keeping control of cash."

"Business Process Management functionality has been added to SwitchYard via the BPM Component work done in SWITCHYARD-174. The BPM Component leverages jBPM 5 (currently version 5.1.0.Final) under the hood to accomplish this. To illustrate this new functionality, a new Quickstart Demo has been created. The business process is a "Help Desk" workflow, and is available in the quickstarts git repository under demos/helpdesk/. Let's start by looking at a graphical representation of the process:"

The database administrators are extremely methodical professionals. Though the Enterprise Manager tool automates much of the gathering of information that is needed by database administrators

Garbage Collection Interview Questions 117) What is Garbage Collection? Garbage collection is a process of reclaiming the runtime unused objects.It is performed for memory management. more details... 118) What is gc()? gc() is a daemon thread.gc() method is defined in System class that is used to send request to JVM to perform garbage collection.

"A better way to build. Project automation is essential to the success of software projects. It should be straight-forward, easy and fun to implement. There is no one-size-fits-all process for builds. Therefore Gradle does not impose a rigid process over people. Yet we think finding and describing YOUR process is very important. And so, Gradle has the very best support for describing it. We don't believe in tools that save people from themselves. Gradle gives you all the freedom you need. Using Gradle you can create declarative, maintainable, concise and highly-performing builds. "

Welcome to the community home for Pentaho Data Integration Community Edition (PDI CE) also known as Kettle. Pentaho Data Integration delivers powerful Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) capabilities using an innovative, metadata-driven approach. With an intuitive, graphical, drag and drop design environment, and a proven, scalable, standards-based architecture, Pentaho Data Integration is increasingly the choice for organizations over traditional, proprietary ETL or data integration tools. Community Edition is self supported open source software. An Enterprise Edition (EE) of Pentaho Data Integration including technical support, managed upgrades and enterprise features is also available. For more information about EE or for screenshots and datasheets, visit Pentaho Data Integration EE on Pentaho's corporate site.