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,...

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 pac...

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...

'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...

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...

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 inven...

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...

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 ...

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 t...

'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 restri...

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 formulat...

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 ...

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.

'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 cho...

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 investo...

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 enterpris...

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...

'There have been a number of language coming up lately,' noted James Gosling today at Sun's World Wide Education & Research Conference in New York City. 'PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems but they are scripting languages and get their power through specializ...

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 sol...

'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.'

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...

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 t...

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.

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.

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 s...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 quarte...

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 aggre...

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 instal...

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 c...

'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 ...

'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,' sai...

'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; ...

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...

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 fo...

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 p...

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...