Federations in MS SQL Azure are a way to achieve greater scalability and performance from the database tier of your application through horizontal partitioning. One or more tables within a database are split by row and portioned across multiple databases (Federation members).
OpenJPA is an object-relational mapping (ORM) solution, open source (distributed under the Apache 2.0 Licence) and extremely extensible.
Syncope recently gained official support for Glassfish 3.1.1: since the JPA layer did - again recently - move to Apache OpenJPA, we faced some issues when trying to deploy Syncope - as OpenJPA-powered web application - to Glassfish.
When writing Java code relying on Spring and JPA, you may eventually come to the need of some scheduling; since Quartz is by far the reference in this field, you think you will solve all of your problems by reading the appropriate page on Spring docs. Wrong, at least if you need some Spring goodies like @Autowired and @Transactional.
How to configure Apache Syncope to send notification e-mails
Apache Syncope already provides powerful, tunable attribute validators, enforced by the Core back-end: what about customizing front-end validation?
We put the latest Apache Syncope and PostgreSQL on the bench to try and push to the limit: here are the results
Tirasa joins Maggioli, Metron and University of L'Aquila to shepherd the Italian Public Administration towards Cloud services
PlainID and Tirasa announced the release of a PlainID Dynamic Authorization integrate solution, to enhance its Authorization management capabilities
AULSS 6 Euganea of Padua makes standard-based Open Source user management and IT authorization