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The third milestone release of version 1.1 ( version 1.1 M3) of COMPASS is released. It includes the following major features…

• Support for polymorphic relationships
• Better cyclic mappings support
• FS Transactional Log
• Runtime Settings
• JdbcDirectory support Oracle 9
• Initial XA Support
• Performance Improvement

At the same time one other important news is that, hibernate is already started to add more features which will helpful to integrate Lucene directly to an application without using Compass framework.

Read more about this from it’s founder’s blog
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An agreement between YouTube and US mobile firm Verizon Wireless will lead the popular video-sharing website extended to mobile phones. Users who subscribe to Verizon’s Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles. The user can also post video clips from their phones to this site. Because of this feature anyone can capture small video clips using their mobiles and can upload them to YouTube directly. This will increase the use of YouTube as well as the popularity and usage of the mobile company. The trial of this will begin in this December.

Source : BBC

Related post : Its ‘YouTube’s turn now…

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Spring 2.0.1 : This is the first maintenance release for Spring 2.0, including fixes for most bugs that have been reported since 2.0 final as well as many minor enhancements. This release also introduces OpenJPA support and GlassFish weaving support.

JUnit 4.2 : JUnit is a regression testing framework used for implementing unit tests in Java. Its new version JUnit 4.2 have released . This is a bug fix release. JUnit 4 takes advantage of Java 5 features like annotations, varargs, and generics to simplify unit testing still further.

JOOConverter 2.1.0: This is an Open Source Java/OpenOffice Document Converter, ie a tool to perform conversions between different office document formats. Its 2.1.0 version is released.

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In the new MSOffice 2007 microsoft is added a feature called Reduced Functionality Mode to stop piracy. This reduced Functionality mode is triggered whenever Office 2007 fails activation. In reduced-functionality mode, programs function similarly to viewers. When a program runs in reduced-functionality mode, many commands are unavailable or dimmed. Therefore, you cannot access those functionalities. Some of the limitations of reduced-functionality mode include the following:

• You cannot create new documents.

• You can view existing documents. However, you cannot edit them.

• You can print documents. However, you cannot save them.

Reference : here

Related posts : MSOffice 2k7 User Interface, MSOffice 2k7 Package

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