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In this white paper you will see how to boost performance with Terracotta’s Ehcache caching products, identify how to select which Ehcache product is right for your application, and see in performance comparison based on Spring’s PetClinic application how Terracotta stacks up against t...Dec. 2, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 906
JetBrains have announced the general availability of RubyMine 2.0, a powerful IDE for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine's second major release this year delivers many additions and improvements and is a free upgrade for all existing users, according to the "year of free updates" lic...
Intalio, the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the immediate availability of Jetty 7, the leading lightweight open source Java application server. The new release includes features and capabilities that extend Jetty's reach into mission-critical environments, as well as support...
To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite 7. With more than 170 million seats of earlier versions deployed, thi...
Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support for the low-cost BeagleBoard with its flagship product PERC Ultra. More developers and projects will be able to quickly and more cost efficiently launch deve...
Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC Ultra for embedded and rea...
Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...
Hosted Solutions, a provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), announced today that the company has significantly expanded its suite of application hosting and management capabilities to include support for a full range of leading business applications, including Microsoft SQL ...
SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has announced that iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, has deployed SpringSource Hyperic HQ, a key part of SpringSource’s full solution set, which covers the entire b...
Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effect...
"This was another amazing JavaOne," wrote James Gosling in his first post-conference blog. "It was also the weirdest: between the Oracle situation, the global meltdown, and the financial situation, it was very different." Sun nearly panicked, Gosling admits, fearing that "no one would ...
Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for a...
With the advent of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application technologies, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive. Popular web sites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and highly interactive. Do...
This report provides critical tips for building a long-term customer retention strategies and maintaining growth in a tough economic environment. 
The majority of information delivery approaches fail to meet two core requirements of success, scaling while adding features and adapting to changing requirements. Learn about an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that meets the business reporting and analysis needs of any user ...
“SpringSource is taking responsibility for streamlining enterprise Java to fully cater to the needs of developers, IT administrators and operators who create, deploy and manage business-critical applications,” said Rod Johnson, SpringSource CEO, as it was announced this morning that Sp...
The conventional approach to scaling Java applications – distributing applications out on a large number of instances – yields diminishing returns, which leads to unpredictable scalability and escalating costs and complexity. Azul Compute Appliances have proven to dramatically increase...
What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Jav...
Want an easy way to build installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, Mac OS X, and more? Try InstallAnywhere 2009! From the makers of InstallShield, InstallAnywhere is the most popular installation tool for Java developers. Create bulletproof installers for any platform in minut...
Charles Fitzgerald suspects IBM is going to regret not acquiring Sun, and letting Oracle do so instead. "They regretted giving Microsoft control of the software crown jewels for the PC; they may face similar situation now on the server." Fitzgerald knows whereof he speaks, having been ...
"Casualties? Java and MySQL for sure, and perhaps Sun's hardware business," says CyberTech Rambler; "Oracle can utilize Sun's Solaris and Java platforms....However the future of MySQL has not been mentioned and may not be so rosy," notes Steve Kennedy. The blogosphere is abuzz with new...
According to Web visionary and SOA expert Miko Matsumara, there was only one certain result of there being two board factions at Sun Microsystems, one in favor of the IBM deal (the Jonathan Schwartz faction) and the other opposing (the Scott McNealy faction): "Mark my words, Schwartz i...
Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. "We expect this a...
PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to protect, monitor and manage software development investments, announced the immediate availability of DashO Version 5, integrating application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applications. This late...
Questions are flying around the Web in the wake of yesterday's reports that IBM is interested in buying Sun for $6.5BN. They include "Has Jonathan Schwartz finally found success?" (Therese Poletti) and "Why isn't Cisco buying Sun?" (Lawrence Walsh).
In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.
Javaground has announced a new component of its Xpress Suite allowing developers to automatically generate a native iPhone program from a Java source code. Traditionally, developers target the iPhone by re-writing their Java source code in Objective C. Now, their existing Java code can...
This paper by Fiorano presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics fo...
Tidal Software has announced a development agreement with SAP AG to integrate the Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform with the SAP Solution Manager application lifecycle management solution. This integration is intended to reduce meantime-to-resolution (MTTR) of issues that impact bu...
"At Sun, we're planning on maintaining Java's ubiquity as the number one runtime environment, backed by the world's most price performant datacenter infrastructure, all powered by Sun's cloud." That, in no uncertain terms, is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's vision for Java and stresses the...
Spime has released JSR-293, a standard API to access mapping, geocoding, reverse geocoding, navigation and POI content and services. Spime’s implementation of JSR 293 is compliant with the Java Community Process, and provides standardized access to LBS services from Java ME application...
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community announced new third-party support for the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). These new modeling, business intelligence and mobile application development partner offerings continue to enhance the productivity and choice that d...
O3SIS AG has announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards, the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capab...
Esmertec, a Swiss firm specializing in Android and Java virtual machines, is acquiring Purple Labs, French vendor of mobile stacks compatible with the LiMo Platform. In a stock deal worth about 19.7 million shares, the two European companies will be renamed as Myriad Group AG. The new ...
Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the JavaFX Mobile platform, enabling the Java wireless ecosystem to create expressive solutions, which leverage the power and ubiquity of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). The JavaFX Mobile platform delivers rich content and servi...
This white paper highlights the major problems with developing UNIX installer using shell scripts. It also discusses how Java is being used as a successful alternative to shell scripting for enterprise installations. The paper additionally covers how Java developers use InstallAnywhere...
Sun Microsystems has announced the expansion of its disk storage portfolio with two new high-performance disk storage arrays that enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data center footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays com...
Caché is a high-performance object database that is ideal for providing data persistence to Java applications. Caché eliminates object/relational mapping, which shortens development time and boosts runtime performance. Caché gives you several options for persisting data, allowing you t...
SoftSlate is pleased to release version 3.0 of SoftSlate Commerce, a flexible shopping cart program written purely in Java and JSP. The focus of this major upgrade has been on revamping the application's web-based administration with non-technical users in mind. Now, managing an online...
Instantiations has announced version 6.0 of CodePro AnalytiX. The new features help developers decrease potential code security vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle, improve Java code quality and reduce development costs through increased developer productivity. ...
