'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.

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...

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: - ...

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 sort...

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 d...

'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 SU...

'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...

'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 h...

'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 h...

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 staf...

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 Jav...

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 A...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 pl...

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 Micr...

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...

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. Th...

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 Ja...

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...

'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 lead...

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 wil...

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 softwa...

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....

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....

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, ...

'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 on...

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,...