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 trie...

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, promisin...

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 ar...

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 searchunst...

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.'

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 Eclip...

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 s...

Sun Microsystems announced a beta release of GlassFish V2, which is based on Java EE 5. Sun will also a release the Sun Web Developer Pack, the toolkit that enables development of RIA with Java. Sun wil make these two announcements at the AJAXWorld Conference & Ex...

Chariot's team of Java architects includes some of the best and brightest J2EE experts in the region, the company says. They are authors (books, white papers, articles, etc.) and frequent speakers at the international JavaOne convention and regional Java User Groups.

DataSynapse has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with enterprise infrastructure software leader BEA Systems Inc. The agreement allows DataSynapse to embed BEA WebLogic Server into its FabricServer software, which is designed to enable J...

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Ex...

Zend Technologies has announced the general availability of Zend Studio 5.5. This new product strengthens Zend Studio?s position as the leading Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for professional PHP developers, with new capabilities for enhanced integration...

Canoo has just released UltraLightClient (ULC) Mobile, aimed at facilitating development of Enterprise Web 2.0 applications with a desktop user experience that will run on both Java SE and Java ME clients.

James Gosling has just been named as a member of the Order of Canada, which recognizes 'outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country' by Canadians from all walks of life.

InetSoft has introduced a new way to manage business intelligence with the release of its new Style Report 8 software. The new Style Report 8 software combines award-winning enterprise reporting and powerful data analysis functions in an open standards based, (J2E...

JReport and Composite Software announced the companies have partnered to offer a new joint solution: JReport OnDemand Integration. The companies will co-market and co-sell the new reporting solution with out-of-the-box information integration capabilities.

Jinfonet Software announced the release of JReport 7.3. This new version of the market- Java reporting offering provides numerous improvements to the product's usability, information delivery capabilities and enterprise-class embedded reporting. Topping the list...

iScope software combines InetSoft's patent-pending data block technology with an easy-to-use graphic interface and the ability to easily access disparate data sources for highly dynamic, real-time exploration and analysis. Its unique open-standards architecture an...

Sun Microsystems Inc. , a leader in helping customers virtualize their computing environments for over 20 years, today outlined its three-pronged approach to virtualization: harnessing commodity technologies, delivering Sun's own advanced products and technolog...

Parasoft co-founder and CEO, Dr Adam Kolawa, anticipates a significant demand for Web services orchestration in the upcoming year, especially in the United States. 'Many organizations now have at least one Web service, and a growing number already have two or more...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Backbase has been named a 'Gold Sponsor' of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, to be held in New York City on March 19-21, 2007. With enterprise clients like Sony, Heineken, Motorola, TNT, Canon, ABN-AMRO, The Home Depot, NY...

Bostech Corporation, a leading provider of embedded integration software solutions, announced ChainBuilder ESB, a new Java Business Integration (JBI) compliant solution for use in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments. ChainBuilder ESB is a product th...

IBM is releasing an SDK for Java 6 and is sponsoring an Early Release Program to gather feedback from the Java community. Product binaries and documentation are available for Linux on x86 and 64-bit AMD, and AIX for PPC for 32- and 64-bit systems.

Whizlabs Software Pvt. Ltd. launched its online training program for the SCJP 5.0 certification exam. This training is aimed not only at ensuring the success of its participants in the SCJP 5.0 exam but it also enables them to build proficiency in Java 5.0.

'Compuware Quality Management represents a crucial step on the path to helping organizations systematically mature their quality processes,' said John Williams, SVP of Product Management and Strategy at Compuware Corporation, as Compuware today introduced its newe...

InterSystems Corporation announced the immediate availability of CACHE 2007 with innovative technologies for rapid Web application development. This new version of the CACHE post-relational database introduces InterSystems Zen, a framework for building rich plat...

Infragistics, the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC and Java, has announced the official opening of its newest local office in Tokyo, Japan, as a subsidiary of Infragistics, Inc. called Infragistics Japan.

With the ever growing popularity of the Prototype JavaScript library, software developer - and JDJ contributing editor - Jason Bell has created an alpha release of a JSP Tag library on sourceforge.net.

Canoo has announced the release of ULC XML, a tool that allows developers to create UltraLightClient user interfaces from XML files. ULC XML is a free and open-source tool for Canoo's Java RIA library. It is available for download at the ULC XML project site (http...

Canoo Engineering, a Swiss software company specialized in products and services for enterprise web applications, has ported its Visual Editor for Java Rich Internet Applications (RIA) to Eclipse 3.2 and Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2. With this new release, the Cano...

At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 (East) in New York, 19-21 March, 2007, there will be over 100 sessions and presentations given by 125 different speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds, offering a complete range of perspectives on AJAX, RIA, and Web 2.0. By...

Sheetster offers advanced features such as sharing among user-specified groups and version control. Version control supplies a history of spreadsheet changes, a feature that is particularly useful to track spreadsheet modifications and updates among multiple users.

Extentech Inc. released ExtenXL 5, the latest version of the powerful and scalable solution for automating Excel-compatible spreadsheets with live data from any source. This latest version incorporates dozens of new features and improvements made in direct respo...

Extentech Inc., a leading developer of Java components and development tools, and Infoteria Corporation, the largest EAI vender in Japan, announced a joint venture software development project for enterprise SOA computing. We are extremely pleased to announce the...

Parasoft Corporation, a provider of process improvement for IT organizations, has announced that Parasoft Jtest, a Java code analysis and unit-testing solution, has won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.

'2005 started a trend that got stronger in 2006 and will explode in 2007: With tools and technologies like Rails and AJAX challenging the way a lot of us have been conceiving of the limits of internet technology and the software development process, the software d...

Intalio, the open source BPMS house, is going to put its BPMS Community Edition out under the Mozilla Public License amended with the Generic Attribution Provision submitted to the Open Source Initiative earlier this year. It's targeting Q1.

JetBrains recently sponsored a plugin contest with over $25,000 in prizes (including cash and software licenses). IntelliJ IDEA has inspired many Java developers to write plug-ins from J2EE and code editing tools to games. Now it has a robust plugin ecosystem wi...

OpenMobile IS has won the Gold Award in the 'Company Management' category of the Free Software Awards 2006. OpenMobileIS is a Java Framework conceived to integrate mobile application developement business. Open Mobile IS Java framework aims to provide all the fu...

GigaSpaces Technologies has integrated McObject's Perst open source, object-oriented all-Java embedded database for real-time data management in its massively scaleable distributed application technology. GigaSpaces embeds Perst in version 5.1 of its software, whe...