Application developers have a new tool that might make dealing with mainframe software a little easier.
The Java Enterprise Edition specification (Java EE 6) has been approved by the Java Community Process (JCP).
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The momentum behind the OSGi-based modular approach to developing and deploying applications and libraries got some additional horsepower last week when Oracle and SpringSource announced that they would be the first two companies backing a newly proposed Eclipse project.
JRuby project co-lead Charles Nutter points to packed sessions at the annual Qcon conference as evidence of Ruby's growing popularity.
Google's previously under-wraps operating system is now available to developers as open source code, the company announced on Thursday.
Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
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Adobe released the public betas of its namesake Flash Player 10.1 and its next-generation Adobe Integrated Runtime, dubbed AIR 2.
Microsoft's dev confab keynote spotlights Windows Azure and cloud development.
Thousands of attendees are expected to gather in Los Angeles this week to learn more about Microsoft's developer platform strategy.
Visual Studio plug-in lets Windows developers create .NET-compatible Mono applications that run on Linux, Unix and Mac-based systems.
The latest release of JRuby, the 100 percent Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, marks another solid step in the evolution of this dynamic scripter.
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is adding features to the next release of its core interop tool that will integrate distributed transactions between enterprise Java and .NET platforms.
Microsoft releases APIs that support Windows 7 updates for Vista apps.
CA intends to provide real-time visibility into its disparate distributed and mainframe application performance management platforms.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally unveiled Windows 7 at a ceremony in New York City, and announced a deal with Amazon to put its Kindle e-book reader software on touch-enabled Windows 7 tablet PCs.
Zend Technologies, creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, Wednesday kicked off its ZendCon conference by releasing the first public beta of its Zend Server 5.0 Web-app server.
One-third of expenditures on development projects are squandered by three-quarters of organizations, because they lack consistent requirements and discovery management processes, according to a recently released study.
Oracle last week released a new version of its Application Testing Suite with a new Java-based scripting engine that automates both functional and load testing.