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In the absence of any Java 7 JSR (as yet), Alex Miller, who works for Terracotta Tech on the Terracotta open-source Java clustering product, keeps a list of the proposed features in Java 7 and information about them. The list is here, but Miller notes that it doesn't represent the a...
'Am I worried that the Java platform may not last forever...? No.' That was the overriding message of a late-night post by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, in response to the welter of comments left on his blog after his announcement a week ago today of the SUNW-to-JAVA stock ticke...
'I guess Sun is just trying to find that next motivational tool for itself through this ticker change,' wrote one blogger yesterday. 'I hope that they don't continue to invest in products and services that don't make money for their investors, especially shareholders.'
'Java touches nearly everyone - everyone - who touches the Internet,' blogged Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week. 'Hundreds of millions of users see Java, and its ubiquitous logo, every day. On PCs, mobile phones, game consoles - you name it, wherever the network travels, the odds are...
'We look forward to a strong and ongoing strategic relationship with Sun,' said Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, the international provider of industry standard mobile synchronization and device management solutions, as it was announced today that Sun has agreed to license Syn...
'Milestone 2 showcases a major feature set of the upcoming new version,' said Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO, 'and judging by the feedback from our Early Access Program (EAP) members, IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is going to be another big step forward for IDEs.' JetBrains has announced the gener...
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media and events company, has announced the winners and finalists of its 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards.
Goldman Sachs predicted another restructuring at Sun last week amid the euphoria that a first look at Sun's June numbers engendered with investors and, lo and behold, Sun Tuesday confided to the SEC that it's anticipating throwing a unquantified number of its staff from 'various geogra...
When Norman Richards first encountered Seam, he was looking for a way to get away from sticky glue code and micro-managing beans in XML. 'What I found was a fundamentally different way to write web applications,' he says. 'I think Seam not only ups the bar for Java web frameworks, but ...
Andrig (Andy) Miller, JBoss's VP of Engineering, spoke today at the inaugural Real-World Java Seminar in New York City about what's new at the JBoss Division of Red Hat. He covered a variety of topics, including explaining the difference between the Enterprise Application Platform and ...
Speaking at the Real-World Java Seminar in New York City, Tripod Technologies chief architect Reza Rahman shared with the audience in New York City's historic Roosevelt Hotel the results of an interesting comparative analysis between EJB3, Spring, and Hibernate carried out by him and h...
Rossen Stoyanchev, from the company behind the Spring Framework, Interface 21, provided a high-level perspective on Hibernate and the Spring Framework at the Real-World Jave Seminar being held in New York City today, in The Roosevelt Hotel's historic Grand Ballroom.
Java developers are coming from far and wide today to attend the first ever 'Real-World Java' Seminar, a one-day event being presented by SYS-CON Events in New York City.
'Java,' wrote Paul Cunningham this month on the java-dev mailing list, 'is your intellectual middle-ground between static, platform dependent, crashable, dead-end C++ and unpopular, dynamically configurable, idealistic Smalltalk.' But no one at this morning's 'Real-World Java Seminar' ...
Sun, which has always been persnickety and hysterically protectionist about its Java compatibility tests, said Thursday that it was putting 'write one, run anywhere' certification in the hands of the community with the release of an OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit Licens...
If you want to know more about the new features in Java 6.0, want to hear first-hand from the co-author of 'EJB 3 in Action,' are wondering what's new at JBoss, or are trying to figure out .NET and Java interoperability in the enterprise, then there is only one place you will want to b...
Real-World Java Seminar delegates will receive a $500 discount if they register by August 11. The Real-World Java Seminar is the first major Java developer event on the East Coast, and is being held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Monday, August 13. Sun Microsystems's Rima Patel ...
The power of attraction need not only apply to the laws of physics and the occasional odd couple. The rich internet application community's own polar forces (i.e. client- and server-side logic) have their own perfect complement, namely AJAX and JSF. More than just a method of abstracti...
When was the last time Sun's $5 stock was up 10% after it reported its earnings. Yeah, it's a hazy memory here too. But that's exactly what happened in after-hours trading on Monday when optimistic investors evidently decided a turnaround was locked and loaded. The rest of the jury is ...
A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Famil...
Borland/CodeGear big thinker David Intersimone (David I) sat in for this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview from the expo floor at JavaOne 2007, during which he discussed JBuilder 2007, the company's first Java developer environment that builds on top of Eclipse.
The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now, and can serve as a roadmap for your furt...
'The WebRenderer Server Edition 4.0 scales better in server and headless environments than any other Java browser SDK due to the fact that rendering is not performed on the Swing Thread. Keeping rendering off the Swing Thread and multi-threading the rendering leads to major improvement...
The single-day, two-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as a technical track. All attendees will have full access to ...
It is uncommon for an enterprise NOT to encounter multiple environments. Among the more notable and common combinations is that of .NET and Java. Questions this session addresses include: What can .NET interoperate with today?
Companies who do not take steps to assure the quality of the code they are developing can face nasty surprises late in the process. Code quality involves more than testing, but requires an overall methodology from start to finish. This session addresses how software development teams c...
Xoetrope co-founder Val Cassidy discussed his view of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and his Ireland-based company leverages XML and Java technology to create software with which the company aims to 'change the Web landscape.'
Terracotta founder and CTO Ari Zilka sat in for this interview at JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco to discuss recent goings-on at the company, including some additions to its management team and the company's recent growth in the Java applications and scalability space.
Infragistics VP/Marketing and Product Development discusses the company's latest announcement of NetAdvantage for JSF in this interview at JavaOne 2007. This is one product in the company's NetAdvantage line, which also embraces .NET and WPF.
InterSystems is known for its Caché and Ensemble software. Under discussion here is another product, Jalapeño, the company' year-old Java persistence platform. Company VP/Product Development Joe DeSantis discusses recent plug-ins that were announced at JavaOne 2007.
The single-day, multi-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will ha...
In essence, a PHP-Java bridge enables PHP developers to access Java code from within their applications and vice versa. The benefit is that you can reuse libraries or services deployed on one platform from code that exists in a different environment.
'I have yet to see any actual reasons for licensing under the GPLv3, ' Linus said. But 'if Sun really is going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that may be a good reason. I don't think the GPLv3 is as good a license as v2, but on the other hand, I'm pragmatic, and if we can avoid ha...
'The 7240 and 7280 pack enough punch to provide breakthrough scalability and performance to handle the demands of the largest business-critical applications,' said Scott Sellers, chief operation officer and co-founder of Azul Systems. 'The Vega 2 processor is the only solution with a J...
As enterprises evolve toward SOA, many underestimate the impact a proper testing strategy has on the enterprise agility and successful realization of the SOA ROI. In fact, the distributed nature of SOA demands a new paradigm on how reusable services are developed, tested, and evolved a...
Flex Developer Bootcamp is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. The one-day bootcamp will take place on June 24, 2007, at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 'Call for Papers' for the Real-World Java Seminar is now open. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, the Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event with three concurrent tracks and more than 30 sessions, is packed with technical pre...
Enerjy Software CEO Nigel Cheshire will present a session on Code Quality at the Real-World Java Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Monday, August 13. The intensive, single-day event includes three tracks, designed for the diverse group of professionals involved with Java de...
'This week, I abruptly switched gears from working on a green-field Ruby project to pitching in on a well-established Java project. Revisiting Java provided a good chance for me to set down in words how we at Relevance think about platform choice. This week I will be posting a series o...
The 60-minute live presentation will focus on the management of code quality, which has always been a grey area in software development. The main goal of a Java development manager has been to develop a working application and deploy it in a production environment, and on time. After d...