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It's only been released since November 2003. Nonetheless, according to Sun, it has already "spawned five compatible products in only six months and 15 more have confirmed development schedules." "It" of course is J2EE 1.4 - the latest version of the specification that now boasts 35 OEMs on board and over four million downloads of its SDK. To an audience that included Marc Fleury, George Paolini, Bob Sutor and assorted Java influentials, Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web Services for Sun Microsystems, was in no doubt about the strength of Java. "J2EE is the leading enterprise platform in the world today, with the proven security, reliability and standards-based innovation to deliver Web services and service oriented architecture," he said. "The rich history of the Java platform can be summarized in two words: leadership and innovation," he continued. Then he ad... (more)

Forrester Report Details Actuate Benefits

Actuate Corporation has announced that a Forrester Consulting study, “The Total Economic Impact of Building Client Reporting Tools on Actuate,” found that the Actuate Enterprise Reporting Platform helps organizations provide reports that meet the strict requirements of their clients, improve IT efficiency in report production and generation, and shift away from capital-intensive print and mail reporting. The study, commissioned by Actuate, examined the total economic impact (TEI) and potential return on investment (ROI) organizations may realize by building client rep... (more)

Blogging and Sun: The RSS Tide Is Rising...

Ever since his arrival at Sun last month, Tim Bray has been supportive of blogging inside and outside of the company, and now a new aggregator, Planet Sun, seems already to reflect a rising tide of blogs devoted to the main technologies fostered by the Santa Clara headquarters, including Java. One Australian developer, Richard Giles, perfectly summarizes the virtues of blogging, as follows: "Blogging is finally getting a fair degree of traction within Sun, which from my point of view is fabulous. This may have something to do with Simon Phipps or Tim Bray, or perhaps it was bound... (more)

PrismTech Releases Java Supported Data Distribution Service Software

PrismTech announced its next generation Data Distribution Service (DDS) software, OpenSplice v2.0. Offering much more than traditional publish-subscribe messaging middleware, OpenSplice v2.0 provides a true real-time 'information backbone' - ensuring the right information is available in the right place at the right time. OpenSplice supports C, C++ and Java language bindings and can thus be integrated with minimum effort into existing, heterogeneous and hybrid systems. To ensure operational advantage, mission-critical systems increasingly require distributed, real-time informatio... (more)

Java Servlets Get a New Lease on Life

(June 2, 2003) - The Droplets platform now fully supports Java Servlets technology, allowing J2EE business logic in Servlets as well as EJBs to be upgraded with real-time, win32-style graphical user interface front-ends, while requiring little or no change to an application's existing business logic. Droplets integrates seamlessly with the J2EE architecture as a technology for the View layer. Until recently, Servlets have been presented to end-users primarily through HTML-based Web interfaces, a once popular but now increasingly critiqued approach, due to their limited user inter... (more)