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(Frank Coyle) This year’s 2005 JavaOne Conference in San Francisco provided an opportunity to celebrate Java’s tenth birthday. At the first JavaOne back in 1995, Java had just emerged from Sun’s labs as a hot, new object-oriented language with the mantra “write once, run anywhere”. That first Ja
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Identity Management with Microsoft Identity Integration Server
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