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Technology

Leonardo - An Open-Source Java Drawing Application

Leonardo is written in Java and designed for creating UI mockups, presentations and sketches. The hope is that one day the application can take full advantage of the Internet. Designers could download online images for a presentation, share their designs with an online community or even pool design components. The application hasn't made it to an official release just yet but the daily builds (and source) are available for download at the Leonardo website.

Technology

Big Numbers and Bean Validation for Flex

Operations with big numbers are now possible in Flex and GraniteDS may be configured in order to (de)serialize BigInteger and BigDecimal instances between Flex and Java. Integration with code generation tools (Gas3 Ant task and Eclipse builder) is also provided so entity beans that contain big numbers values are replicated in ActionScript3 with corresponding big numbers variables and accessors. See more in the documentation here.


Technology

Terabyte-sized Java applications now possible

The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory for a single application and its data. The software, Ehcache 2.2, can also hold up to several hundred million Java objects in a single cache, according to Terracotta's CEO, Amit Pandey. He added that this terabyte of memory can be run from as few as 10 servers
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