Java

SPC 2009 Wrap-Up

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master pages when you migrate them. The theme seems to be that you invested in branding and customizing 2007, and Microsoft is making it straightforward to move that content to 2010. The idea is to not have to stop doing work in your 2007 instance waiting for 2010 to release. All in all, it looks like going from 2007 to 2010 should be much easier than 2003 to 2007.

Sun Certifying Ubuntu

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has been telling Reuters that Sun is in the process of certifying Ubuntu on some of its low-end and mid-size hardware. The code it's certifying is Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu 8.04 rev that's due out later this month. Sun told the wire service that it's making sure its Java programming language, tools and Java server are compatible with Heron.

Get a Boost of Flex this Monday in New York City

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:00:00 EDT

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is created for people who think that they are way too busy to take several days off and spend them in the class. Just take one day off and attend the Real-World Java event. The discounted rate for this event is $395. To get this discount, enter the coupon code ?JUGgold' while registering

Java Basics: Introduction to Java Threads, Part 2

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

Yakov Fain, in Lesson 9 of his immensely popular online 'Java Basics' series for JDJ Industry Newsletter, talks about using threads for creating more advanced programs than those already discussed in Lesson 8. He analyzes the role they play in major Internet portals like Yahoo, CNN, or your bank's Web site. These portals usually display different types of information like News, Weather, Stock Market quotes, etc. Each of these info pieces appears on the screen instantaneously even though it's coming to the portal from different servers.

Unbreakable Java: A Java Server That Never Goes Down

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:15:00 EST

Developers using Java on clients or in small projects may not believe that there is a fundamental problem with Java's robustness. People working with huge applications and application servers written in Java know about the problem but may doubt that it's possible to build something like an unbreakable Java architecture.

Flashback to 17 March 2005: Sun Relaxes Its Java Licensing Posture

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

Sun plans to ease licensing restrictions for use of Java source code for commercial development of Java applications by increasing the transparency of its licensing with the JCP and the development community at large. 'We're trying to simplify, as best we can, all the legalistics involving application development,' said Sun Fellow Graham Hamilton.

Java Breakthrough: Code That Helps Blind People To Read Maps

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

Take Java computer code that can translate images into sound, via a rudimentary software program capable of converting pixels of various colors into piano notes of various tones, and what you have is a technology that enables blind people to read maps.

Might IBM's Free JDK Really Be On Its Way Already This Week?

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

In a passing remark about how 'there may someday be a redistributable JVM RPM at jpackage,' a mailing list last week prompted new speculation that IBM's version of open-source Java might be on its way since 'someday' - apparently - 'may even be next week.'

Schwartz: "Developers Don't Buy Things, They Join Things"

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

'As we enter the new year, you should expect 2005 to be one in which we place an ever heightening focus on our dialog with the community, and the developer community in particular,' writes Sun's president and COO, Jonathan Schwartz, in his first blog entry of the new year. Firefox comes in for especial praise: 'I'd put the Firefox community (enabled by the Mozilla Public License), near the top of all open source community efforts.'

Improving Swing Performance: JIT vs AOT Compilation

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

The JFC/Swing API, natively precompiled on Linux for the first time, delivers measurable improvement in Java GUI performance. The Excelsior Engineering Team has ported Excelsior JET, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with an ahead-of-time compiler, to the Linux/x86 platform.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Firefox Lessons for the Java Community

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

What does the runaway success of Firefox mean for the Java developer community? According to Harshad Oak, it shows the Java community that it's possible to compete with Microsoft. Firefox users had to relate with the product and promote it as if it was their own creation. 'Linux already did that in the OS space and Firefox is now doing it in the browser space,' he notes.

Linux and Public Safety

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

On June 30, IBM and two U.S. senators announced the initial deployment of a system to link local Mississippi law enforcement agencies to a single database of public safety information. The federally funded project will deliver public safety information across Mississippi to the desktop and a range of mobile devices.

Sun Delivers Four-Way Opteron Server

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

On cue, Sun on Monday wheeled out its expected new four-way Opteron server, the V40z, priced at $8,495 and claiming to best IBM, HP and Dell on price/performance since the industry-standard widgetry runs Solaris and the Java Enterprise System.

Apache Geronimo To Miss August 6 Launch Date Target

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The Geronimo project, which aims to develop an open source, certified J2EE server that is ASF licensed and passes Sun's TCK reusing the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today and adding new code to complete the J2EE stack, will not make its August 6 launch date. Maybe in September, though, says project chair Geir Magnusson Jr.

A Wedding Invitation: CF & Java

Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

If you missed this year's CFUN conference (June 26-27), you missed a lot. In addition to the great time spent meeting and talking with other ColdFusion programmers, Ben Forta gave a keynote demo of the next version of ColdFusion, code-named 'Blackstone'.

Java in the News: Sun's JavaOne Day One - First-Hand Report

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

With demo after demo designed to dispel the notion that Java is not performant and a host of announcements concerning everything from the open-sourcing of Java 3D to the new versioning system for the Java platform, Sun's top executives opened the 9th annual JavaOne yesterday with all guns blazing. Here JDJ editorial board member Bill Roth takes a close-up and personal look at what was said at the opening General Session.

Sun Open Sources "Looking Glass" and Java 3D

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Sun Microsystems today underscored its commitment to open source and desktop technology leadership by contributing Project Looking Glass and Java 3D technology to the open source community. This contribution will unleash a new dimension of developer innovation by making Sun's technology available at Sun's 3D Desktop Technology Open Source Project on java.net.

Desktop Java: JDNC Released as Open Source Project

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

JDesktop Network Components (JDNC) has been released by Sun as an open source project, so that the technology is available to the community early enough to allow it to directly shape the vision, the feature set, and even the code. 'There is still a lot of work to do,' says Sun's Amy Fowler, 'the JDNC feature set is far from complete and there remain rough edges, especially in the API, which has not had extensive usage outside of unit testing and markup-driven use-cases. But, that is exactly why we need your involvement.'

Taking the World by Storm

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Linux is taking the world of Java application servers by storm. Recently, Sun Microsystems hosted an event to tout the adoption of the latest version of the enterprise Java platform, known as Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition, or simply J2EE 1.4. At this event, many of the application server vendors were present.

Java and Open Source Play Nice Together in Brazil

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'While the aims of the F/OSS movement in Brazil are liberty not (necessarily) economy,' reports Simon Phipps in his blog from a conference in Porte Alegre, 'the people are open-minded, reasonable and friendly and recognise the value of platform independence as a vehicle of freedom.' By far the largest technology contingent in the 'User Groups' area of the conference, Phipps adds, was the contingent of Java user groups.

Why It Makes Sense for Sun to Open-Source Java Libraries & Solaris Kernel

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'Customers don't want lock-in slavery anymore,' argues David Mohring. Sun should, he says, open-source license the J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME framework libraries and release a fork of the Solaris Kernel under the GPL license.

Sun Will Open-Source Java "Today, Tomorrow or Two Years Down the Road"

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Hard on the heels of the announcement by Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz earlier this week that Solaris will be open-sourced comes confirmation from Sun's Java technology evangelist: 'We haven't worked out how to open-source Java - but at some point it will happen,' says popular speaker and expert in Java technology and distributed systems, Raghavan 'Rags' Srinivas.

Java on Linux: State of the Union

Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Linux is making huge gains as the platform of choice for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications. Sun has seen more than 1 million downloads of the Linux version of its latest application server release, and all application server vendors uniformly agree that Linux is a fast growing platform.

Following in Linux's Footsteps

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Is open source and the commoditization of certain technologies cannibalizing software license revenue? Possibly, but many argue that this market dynamic stimulates many vendors to accelerate innovation and to create new technologies and applications. And, while this market dynamic can be disruptive, it creates a roaring buyer's market for IT decision makers.

"Have a Little Faith," Says Gosling

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

McNealy & Schwartz agree that 'This Internet Thing Has Legs!' - plus industry veteran Satya Koachina on the subject of Java on Linux, Faisal Islam on the rivalry between Sun and Microsoft on the desktop, and other comments about Java technologies culled from the world's news media, online communities, magazines, and Web sites.

Flashback: Investing in 'Professional Open Source' - Exclusive 2004 Interview with David Skok, Matrix Partners

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In February 2004 David Skok's new VC firm - Matrix Partners - orchestrated, with Accel, a $10 million investment in JBoss, Inc. This first round of funding in an open source company was a bold play, but then David Skok, famous in the Java arena as the founder of SilverStream Software - acquired by Novell in 2002 - is no stranger to bold moves.

Show Off Those Mad, Cross-Platform Game Development Skillz

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

Use the open source Java game APIs - designed to meet the requirements of Linux and OS X, among other OS's - and you could be a winner in the Java Technology Game Development contest announced by Sun this week at the GDC.

Filtering the FUD from Java Politicking on "Open-Source Java"

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

The ongoing thumb-wrestling match for world domination between Sun and IBM, says Sean Gallagher, spilled over from being a quiet debate to having the lid blown clean off it recently by a series of very public moves by Sun and IBM. The results are less about who's right than they are about who can play the media trump card better. Here he tries to give the gist of the most recent developments.

"Letting Java Go" - James Gosling in 2003 on Open-Sourcing Java

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

With the recent call to 'Let Java go' in mind, here's what James Gosling, now CTO of Sun's Developer Platforms Group and famous as one of the co-inventors of Java, had to say about open-sourcing Java back at last year's JavaOne in San Francisco.

Co-founder Returns to Sun

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

Sun CEO Scott McNealy went to a reunion-style meal with the now scattered founders of Sun, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Andreas 'Andy' Bechtolsheim, and when he got up from the table he had bought Bechtolsheim's latest stealth-mode start-up Kealia Inc, a company whose Web site only gives directions to its offices in Palo Alto.

"Java on the Desktop Won't Beat Microsoft," Chuang Concedes

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:00:00 EST

With Linux on the desktop now going so well for Sun, it's interesting to hear the CEO of BEA Systems too concede that 'it's not Java on the desktop that is going to keep Microsoft from owning all computing...' Read an exclusive interview here.

Automated Error Prevention for Linux

Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:00:00 EST

Most organizations that use Linux as a business operating system are developing their own applications for Linux - perhaps in response to the current scarcity of packaged applications available on Linux. With so much internal development for Linux, it is critical that the IT groups building your Linux-based applications have a means to efficiently produce reliable code.

Ballmer Takes On Linux in China

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

Steve Ballmer has started a new campaign to strengthen Microsoft's ties with governments and businesses on mainland China, in response to Sun's recent success with bringing the Linux-based Java Desktop System to the People's Republic.

"The No. 1 Linux Desktop Play on the Planet" - Sun Hits Chinese Jackpot

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

At COMDEX yesterday Scott McNealy announced a mega-deal between Sun and The China Standard Software Company to put the Java Desktop System on 'half a million to a million' desktops in the coming year...and on 500 million Chinese desktops ultimately.

The Expanding World of Embedded Linux with Java

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Embedded Linux delivers the reliability, openness, and performance required by the new generation of smart devices. This article is part of Michael Mathews' feature in the next issue of LinuxWorld Magazine. To read more about embedded Linux with Java, be sure to pick up the November/December issue of LWM