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By Java News Desk Think of Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) and you probably think about screen popping IT systems and automated dialling. And you might also think CTI is a complex system development. Rostrvm Solutions? new Java toolbar provides easily-deployable standard CTI functions and more. Dec. 19, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 7,564 | By Java News Desk  Sun's SwingLabs is releasing a 100% Java library which can parse PDF files and draw them to the screen. Named the SwingLabs PDF Renderer, and hosted at pdf-renderer.dev.java.net, it uses the same license as the rest of SwingLabs - LGPL. Soon to be an ISO spec, PDF is the standard way o... Dec. 15, 2007 09:45 AM EST Reads: 9,255 | By Java News Desk Jinfonet Software has announced the general release of JReport 8.2, the latest release of its reporting solution, with more than 60 enhancements. JReport 8.2 delivers enhancements in three key areas: performance improvements, greater developer flexibility and an enhanced user experienc... Dec. 13, 2007 09:00 PM EST Reads: 9,003 | By Java News Desk Ikivo AB and Sun Microsystems announced that Ikivo has joined the NetBeans Strategic Partner Program. This alliance will assure that the NetBeans community of developers, have access to enhanced authoring tool solutions for rapid creation and deployment of Mobile SVG content and rich... Dec. 12, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 9,235 | By Java News Desk The IM3910 is the newest member of Imsys' IM3000 platform family of Reconfigurable System on Chip - RSoC products. The combination with Java makes it useful for applications such as automation networking, battery powered devices, Internet connected equipment, and Java enabled remote co... Dec. 11, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 8,146 | By Java News Desk db4objects, Inc announced that db4o runs on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. db4o fills the gap by providing a fast and secure, native Java object database that makes storing objects and sharing of data bet... Dec. 10, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 7,790 | By Java News Desk  JetBrains has just announced the final availability from Monday, December 17 of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy an... Dec. 10, 2007 01:30 AM EST Reads: 12,022 | By Java News Desk LiveTime Software announced that LiveTime applications will be available as VMware virtual appliances in the first quarter of 2008. Based on LiveTime's custom JeOS Linux distribution optimized for Java runtime environments and virtual machines, organizations can deploy LiveTime on exis... Dec. 3, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 8,905 | By Java News Desk ESRI will host an online seminar this month that will help Java developers learn about how to build custom GIS Web applications using ArcGIS Server. Building Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform will air on ESRI's Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/lts o... Dec. 3, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 10,277 | By Java News Desk Cloudsmith, Inc introduced the Cloudsmith service (www.cloudsmith.com). The site, now in public beta, is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to assemble, use and reuse software components. Cloudsmith?s infrastructure also aggregates the work of developer communities to... Nov. 28, 2007 02:00 PM EST Reads: 6,719 | By Java News Desk Vgo Software, Inc announced the addition of an Object Repository to the 2.0 release of its Forms to Java conversion tool, Evo. 'The Evo Object Repository will allow users to consolidate business logic across thousands of Forms and applications, aiding customers in creating code that bo... Nov. 28, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 8,307 | By Java News Desk Coverity Inc announced expanded capabilities of the company's open source code analysis site. The open source Scan site will provide static source code analysis for Java-based open source projects as an extension of Coverity's relationship with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ... Nov. 20, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 10,930 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk FFE Software has announced the first release of its new Java DB - FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition. Embedded Mobile is a special packaging of the standard FirstSQL/J Java DB for a small footprint, supporting JME and suitable for other embedded configurations. Nov. 15, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 11,142 | By Java News Desk In the wake of the Google's announcement of Android, its Linux-based cell phone platform, on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog said he would 'like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the platform, as we throw Su... Nov. 11, 2007 03:45 PM EST Reads: 19,728 | By Java News Desk  Wouldn't JSR 311 - a.k.a. JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services - be more accurately named if it were called the 'Java HTTP Server API'? That is the question asked this week by Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java author and expert. 'I no longer think this API is a bad thing,' he commen... Nov. 2, 2007 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 14,895 | By Java News Desk  In the aftermath of the latest spat between Rubyists and Javaholics, it might be worth noting that Ruby is now the 10th most popular programming language, up from 13th place a year ago. That, anyway, is the story according to the TIOBE Programming Community index which gives an indicat... Oct. 31, 2007 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 29,125 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk  NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. Beta 2 comes bundled with MySQL and PostgreSQL drivers, and improvements to Ruby code completion and Woodstock 4.1 Build 14. The focus of NetBeans 6.0 is superior developer productivity with a smarter, faster editor, and the integratio... Oct. 29, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,712 | By Java News Desk  'Some folks are far too eager to misinterpret statements and put words in my mouth,' wrote James Gosling recently in his blog, in a post titled 'JavaME Is *Not* Dead!' - a rebuttal to a recent report in the UK media that JavaFX Mobile was perhaps going to eclipse JavaME for good. 'This... Oct. 29, 2007 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,033 | By Java News Desk  In the canon of anti-Java / Pro Ruby articles, none has achieved the center of attention swifter than the one written last month by blogger-developer Obie Fernandez, who self-describes himself as 'committed to making the world of software development a more enjoyable, productive place.... Oct. 25, 2007 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,557 Replies: 7 | By Java News Desk 'In V2, the focus was on understanding how your code is structured today, and where it is tangled or overly complex. V3 takes it to the next level, letting architects define how the code should be structured and communicating this to the team so they can actually make it happen' explai... Oct. 23, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,534 | By Java News Desk IntelliJIDEA is one of the best Java IDE available on the market. While this release is specifically focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and user experience, version 7.0 also provides efficient support for features, technologies, and tools you've asked. Oct. 16, 2007 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,409 | By Java News Desk InterSystems Corporation has announced that Four Points Technology will provide the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The contract for enterprise software and maintenance services, with an initial value of approximately $34.... Oct. 16, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,958 | By Java News Desk  In a demonstration of its commitment to transparency and illustrating its philosophy of 'Innovate, Act, Share,' Sun has released its second annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. The report features the company's progress and exemplifiesits continued practice of openness ... Oct. 11, 2007 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,196 | By Java News Desk  BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. According to Marketwatch.com, the Dow Jones site, 'to date, SAP has been pleased to see its softwa... Oct. 9, 2007 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 21,432 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk 'Using bytecode modification and a little bit of magic,' writes Jevgeni Kabanov, announcing a novel piece of software, 'JavaRebel extends the JVM with ability to reload almost arbitrary changes to classes on-the-fly.' Oct. 9, 2007 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,345 | By Java News Desk  A new breed of web manager is emerging to link content management more closely to website visitor satisfaction. The new web manager may operate under several professional guises: 'customer advocate,' 'information guru,' or 'metator,' to name just a few. They need to employ a very diffe... Oct. 7, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,869 | By Java News Desk According to CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog, where this new strategy was revealed on Monday, 'We'll still be strongly focused on being a multi-platform storage provider (just as our servers run multiple operating systems, and our operating system runs on every vendor's servers), but we'r... Oct. 5, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,600 Replies: 2 | By Java News Desk Sun Microsystems and Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun, are breaking new ground with a pilot of the ISO 20022 global financial messaging standard for end-to-end payment processing. Running on Sun's own Solaris 10 Operating System, the pilot will help Sun achie... Oct. 2, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,142 | By Java News Desk  SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well as by t... Sep. 30, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,753 | By Java News Desk  Speaking at a conference yesterday, Gordon Moore conceded that there are fundamental limits to Moore's Law and that the laws of physics will render it obsolete in about ten to fifteen years' time. Sep. 19, 2007 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,842 Replies: 6 | By Java News Desk Having just changed its ticker symbol, belatedly, to Java, Sun now wants to do a one-for-four reverse stock split to give its shares, stuck in the doldrums for years now, more heft. It would have 25% fewer shares, but each would be worth four times more, say a more presentable, peer-li... Sep. 18, 2007 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,898 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk  Offering add-ons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily, a new 6.2 version of Canoo's Java library for Rich Internet Applications was announced today. The new ULC 6.2 test extensions offer an improved way for developers to test the user interface of their applications ... Sep. 17, 2007 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 25,558 | By Java News Desk Sun is buying the open source Lustre File System along with most of the rest of Colorado-based Cluster File System's intellectual property, business assets and people on undisclosed terms for Solaris and Linux, pledging to enhance the parallel cluster file system for multi-vendor Linux... Sep. 16, 2007 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 13,157 | By Java News Desk In his blog, Schwartz claims 'Sun did not approach NetApps about licensing any of Sun's patents' and says 'NetApps first approached StorageTek behind the cover of a third-party intermediary seeking to purchase STK patents,' which Sun wouldn't do when it acquired StorageTek but 'instead... Sep. 14, 2007 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 12,179 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk  It is a complete myth, says Elliotte Rusty Harold, that Java is somehow incompatible with the LGPL. 'It seems that no matter how many times the FSF and others deny this canard, it just keeps coming back. It is a dangerous meme that seems completely immune to the truth.' Sep. 13, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,569 | By Java News Desk  'While many of BEA's key competitors have yet to deliver a Java EE 5 compatible server,' said Wai Wong, BEA's executive vice president of products, 'BEA WebLogic Server 10.3 will bring to market the next wave of enhancements and support for this key specification.' Wong was speaking as... Sep. 13, 2007 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,582 | By Java News Desk 'With RichFaces, we're providing a powerful and simple way for developers to build robust AJAX and Web 2.0 applications while leveraging the power of Java EE,' said Red Hat/JBoss lead architect, as JBoss RichFaces 3.1 was today released at JBoss.org. Sep. 13, 2007 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,820 | By Java News Desk Project Phobos is a complete development environment for Web applications running on the Java platform. In Phobos, JavaScript is the main language used on both the client and the server tier, resulting in a unified data and code representation across tiers. Phobos supports multiple AJA... Sep. 10, 2007 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 16,182 Replies: 1 | By Java News Desk As a company driven by innovation, Sun Microsystems is involved in a variety of open source projects related to AJAX technologies. This presentation will recap some of the most important projects that Sun is driving or actively participating in. These include: - jMaki: an AJAX framewor... Sep. 10, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 13,920 Replies: 3 | By Java News Desk  For those interested in the history of Java's naming, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week asked James Gosling, Java's inventor, for his recollection. Here's his response. We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a sorting process where we e... Sep. 4, 2007 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 14,335 Replies: 1 |
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