By Java News Desk Sun Distinguished Engineer Dr. Hal Stern will deliver the Introductory Keynote at the upcoming SOAWorld 2007/Virtualization Conference at New York's Roosevelt Hotel on June 25. Stern, who also serves as VP of Global Systems Engineering at Sun, is listed as inventor or co-inventor on th... Jun. 10, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,698 Replies: 2 |
By Java News Desk  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, and is packed with technical... Jun. 7, 2007 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,094 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk  A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just 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. Familiari... Jun. 4, 2007 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 43,904 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk The 'Real-World Java Seminar' is an intense one-day educational event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attendees of this event will allow participants to take a fresh look at the architecture of your the projects they are working on now... Jun. 2, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 31,814 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk 'The software industry is going through exactly the same transition (as media companies). Seven years ago, StarOffice and Solaris, to take a couple examples of key products at Sun, were built by our own employees. The source code to both was available under restrictive licenses, but ou... Jun. 2, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,243 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Gil Tene, Co-Founder and CTO of Azul Systems, based in Mountain View, CA, told SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff of the original idea behind the company's launch into providing enterprise compute appliances for Java-driven apps, an idea that was formulated on the JavaOne show... Jun. 2, 2007 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,664 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk  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 furth... Jun. 2, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 21,154 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Azul Systems' Co-Founder and Vice President of Software Engineering Shyam Pillalamarri outlined what the company is calling a '5-50 Guarantee' during an exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff during JavaOne 2007. May. 29, 2007 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,722 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk 'With business down and customers leaving, we had more than a few choices at our disposal. We were invited by one company to sue the beneficiaries of open source. We declined. We could join another and sue our customers. That seemed suicidal. We were offered the choice to scuttle Solar... May. 21, 2007 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,233 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Interface21, the open source Java Spring start-up, has fetched $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital. The money is earmarked for product development, sales and marketing, and fleshing out its support infrastructure. Benchmark has been an investor in Red Hat, MySQL an... May. 21, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,644 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk The GlassFish V2 Beta adds all the enterprise features from Sun's Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition, such as clustering, administration, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and load balancing to support highly scalable, volume enterprise deployments for SOA ... May. 18, 2007 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,237 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Well, there's a thing called JavaFX Script coming, previewed by Sun at JavaOne this week and described as a 'radically simple' scripting language for creating rich content and applications for Java devices like mobile phones, Blu-ray disc players and browsers, all the places that Async... May. 13, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,988 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Ericsson has signed up to co-develop and then license an open source Java-based multimedia application server from Sun and contribute parts of it to the open source GlassFish project. It's also supposed to license the Java System Application Server to embed in solutions and standardize... May. 12, 2007 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,894 |
By Java News Desk  'Could have Java been open sourced earlier?' Calvin Austin asks himself this week, in his blog. 'Yes,' he answers, '[but] Sun kept many communities involved including the Java champions which I have to give them full credit for.' All in all, he concludes, 'This is a great week.' May. 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 24,751 |
By Java News Desk At JavaOne, it released a fully buildable JDK for Java SE to the OpenJDK community under the current GPL 2, remarking that it was delivering on its promise in under a year and pointing out that it was one of the largest source code contributions ever made. It didn't mention how long it... May. 11, 2007 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,835 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Sun has opened a new initiative in support of OpenID, the decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism used across different web sites. OpenID is currently limited to facilitating low-risk transactions like blog comments. Sun wants to explore ways of toughening it up and expand... May. 11, 2007 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 9,511 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Sun has released Java Real-Time System 2.0, which pairs the Java extension with Solaris 10 for creating deterministic systems. RTS helps developers set process priorities according to their importance, something not typically supported by Java apps. May. 11, 2007 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,771 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk The JCP Program Management Office has announced the winners of the 5th JCP Program Annual Awards. The awards ceremony took place at the Community Event organized by the JCP at the JavaOne Conference. May. 10, 2007 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,213 |
By Java News Desk  Through the WebRenderer Swing Edition, the rendering quality of Mozilla is paired with the lightweight drawing of Swing including support for Java Look and Feels (L&F), Swing dialogs and all Swing components. The WebRenderer Swing Edition architecture provides seamless integration into... May. 10, 2007 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 18,559 Replies: 4 |
By Java News Desk Parasoft announced the availability of Parasoft Jtest 8.1 at JavaOne, a comprehensive Java testing solution for development teams building Java EE, SOA, Web, and other Java applications. The new release features enhancements that facilitate the building of more sensitive low-noise regr... May. 10, 2007 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,082 Replies: 3 |
By Java News Desk The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office and the Executive Committees, have announced the nominations for the 2007 JCP Program Annual Awards. The Executive Committees (EC) selected members, specifications leads and Java Specifications Requests (JSRs) in six categories... May. 3, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,155 |
By Java News Desk InterSystems Corporation announced that its Ensemble rapid integration software ranked number one for interface engines in the survey of healthcare enterprises conducted annually by KLAS Enterprises LLC, a leader in healthcare technology research. The awards were announced in the 2006 ... May. 2, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,605 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Sun, one of the walking wounded, earned $67 million, two cents a share, on revenues up 3.3% to $3.283 billion in the March quarter. It lost $217 million this time last year. This is the second time in a row it managed to squeak out a small profit after five quarters of losses but its r... May. 1, 2007 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,406 Replies: 2 |
By Java News Desk Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps outlined his commitment to 'free and open source software' during an exclusive interview with two of SYS-CON Media's publications. Phipps made his comments in the run-up to the JavaOne 2007 event, which has taken an aggressive stance on suppor... Apr. 24, 2007 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,321 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Sun Supports GNU/Linux Community by Distributing a Complete Java Stack, Including NetBeans, Packaged for Ubuntu 7.04 will be available in the Multiverse component of the Ubuntu repository on April 19. These technologies will be available for Ubuntu users to install easily over the netw... Apr. 21, 2007 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 13,464 |
By Java News Desk DataArt, a high-end software outsourcing company, announced expansion of its development facilities with the opening of a new R&D center at the University of Kherson, in the southern Ukraine. The company's third development facility will handle projects in all core competencies of Data... Apr. 12, 2007 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 10,297 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk 'At the end of 2005, we believed wage growth would continue to be strong into 2006. It's evident from this data that this trend continues unabated in 2007,' says Jim Lanzalotto, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Yoh. 'The technology sector continues to demonstrate its streng... Apr. 12, 2007 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,228 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk 'Membership in The Green Grid reflects the commitment of Azul and other leading IT organizations to develop and promote energy-efficient technologies and processes that will enable continued progress while minimizing and even reversing damage to our planet,' said Stephen DeWitt, presid... Apr. 11, 2007 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,586 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk 'The filmless PACS system gives our physicians and caregivers the ability to access patient information no matter where they are,' said Paula Smith, chief information officer at OHI. 'They no longer have to go over to the Radiology Department to request the film; they can pull it up on... Apr. 10, 2007 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,324 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk The pack will be bundled into the Sun Java Application Platform SDK Suite update 3 preview which includes the GlassFish V2 Beta, available for download today. Available with a NetBeans plug-in, the Web Developer Pack enables developers to easily and rapidly deploy Web 2.0 applications ... Apr. 6, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 29,228 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day attendees will also gain admission to Thursday evening's JavaOne conference After Dark event and Friday morning's General Session with James Gosling, vice president and Sun Fellow. More information on Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day can be found at: http://java.su... Apr. 4, 2007 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,609 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Farata Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Midnight Coders to offer Web reporting and data-bound components and services that can be used in Flex, Flash and Ajax-based rich Internet applications. 'This partnership is an important step in improving productivity and time-t... Apr. 3, 2007 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,916 |
By Java News Desk  You can probably guess from my background and earlier writings that I'll be advocating that Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be competitive; that while as I believe Solaris needs to change in some ways, I also believe deeply in the importance of backward compatibi... Apr. 3, 2007 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,384 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Sun is going to reprise its standalone Microelectronics unit - the one that was melded into its server operation when the wolf came knocking on Sun's door - in the expectation of selling some Sparcs outside the company, something it tried once before and then tried - Steve Jobs-like - ... Apr. 2, 2007 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,614 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Remember JOnAS, the European consortium-backed open source J2EE-based application server that had Red Hat's backing there for a while until Red Hat up and bought JBoss? Well, sans Red Hat, JOnAS 4.8, the first enterprise edition, has just been released, promising to be a cornerstone of... Mar. 17, 2007 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 12,025 |
By Java News Desk An analysis of open source Java code has just been released by Fortify Software, looking at four well-known Java packages: Hibernate, Spring, Struts and Tomcat. The good news, says the report, is that these packages are by and large safe. The bad news: developers are prone to incorpora... Mar. 12, 2007 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 14,663 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider ofgeographic intelligence solutions, today announced support for KML (KeyholeMarkup Language) for MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) and MetaCartageOdrive. For the first time, companies and governments can now searchunstructured text document... Mar. 9, 2007 11:30 AM EST Reads: 14,032 |
By Java News Desk The OSGi Alliance announced it has released the mobile specification for OSGi Service Platform Release 4 (R4). This specification received final approval from the Java Community Process as the specification for JSR 232 'Mobile Operational Management.' Mar. 8, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 23,778 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk  JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, has launched iReport Plug-in for Eclipse, a graphical report designer that lets developers using Eclipse quickly add sophisticated reports to their applications. JasperSoft's new Eclipse plug-in, as well as... Mar. 7, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 26,858 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Infragistics, the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Microsoft .NET and Java platforms, announces that Jonathan Cohen has joined Infragistics as Vice President of Marketing & Product Management. Jonathan will drive key strategic initiatives a... Mar. 6, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 10,132 |
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