Java & Eclipse


Java PaaS CloudBees Donates 5 Plugins to Jenkins

Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees continues its support of the open-source, Java-based Jenkins continuous integration (CI) tool by contributing five plugins to the community.

Oracle Proposes Roadmap for JDK 8; Release Set for Sept. 2013

Oracle has proposed several new implementation milestones for version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK 8), beginning with Milestone 1 on April 24 and ending with Milestone 6 on Jan. 30, 2013.

Cloud Foundry Celebrates First Year, Releases Deployment Tool

VMware celebrated the first anniversary of its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) today with a mid-day party, the announcement of several new partnerships and the launch of a new deployment tool.

Apple Patches Java Flaw

Apple says a Java update the company released on April 3 fixes the headline-grabbing security flaw exploited by the Flashback Trojan botnet.

Scala Creator's Company Goes for Scale with Scala/Java Dev Platform Update

The company is billing the new version of Typesafe Stack as a comprehensive platform for building both Scala and Java applications "that can scale to the largest workloads in cloud computing and virtualized enterprise data center environments."

Java/.NET APM Provider AppDynamics Adds End-User Monitoring

Java/.NET Application Performance Management (APM) company AppDynamics has just added end-user monitoring (EUM) to the commercial edition of its namesake APM solution.

New Open Source Mobile Testing Platform for iOS and Android

Gorilla Logic this week released MonkeyTalk, a free and open source tool for testing native and hybrid apps built for both iOS and Android.

JNBridge Launches Free Java/.NET Interop 'Labs'

The first of these some-assembly-required-kits is JNBridge's SSH Adapter for BizTalk Server.

Java Debugging Added to Updated Micro Cloud Foundry

VMware this week released a new version of its Micro Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) with support for Java debugging.

Sonatype Java Repository Now Accepts .NET Components

Sonatype today released a new version of its Maven-based component repository that supports software developers using the .NET Framework.

eXo Platform Advances 'UXP as a Service' for Java Devs

eXo, the French company best known for its GateIn-based enterprise Java portal, just released version 3.5 of its flagship eXo Platform.

EclipseSource Launches RAP Mobile

EclipseSource has just unveiled RAP mobile, an alternative for developing apps in Java based on the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP).

Apps Manager Supports Oracle and IBM JVMs

ManageEngine has extended performance monitoring support for Oracle's JRockit Java virtual machine (JVM) and IBM's JVMs in the latest release of its Applications Manager software package.

Jaspersoft's Java Reporting Engine Integrated with Cloud Foundry, Red Hat Virt

Open-source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft recently made its popular Java reporting engine, JasperReports Server, available in the products of two fierce cloud competitors.

ForgeRock Updates Java-Based OpenIDM

ForgeRock has released version 2.0 of its OpenIDM identity management offering.

Cloud Hoster Jelastic Adds HA for Java Apps

For Java developers working on the nascent Jelastic Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), it now requires just a mouse click to activate new automated high availability (HA) features for their applications, the company announced.

Oracle Big Data Appliance Featuring Hadoop Released

Oracle this week officially released the Oracle Big Data Appliance, its new "engineered system" that tightly bundles servers and software into a unified system.

Java Community Process Approves JSON API Spec Request

The Java Community Process (JCP) has approved a Java Specification Request (JSR) submitted by Oracle to create a Java API to process JavaScript Object Notation, the lightweight data-interchange format better known as JSON.

NetBeans 7.1 Released

Oracle on Thursday announced the availability of the NetBeans 7.1 IDE, the first upgrade of the open source development environment since the 7.0 release in April.

Oracle Releases Java 7, Java 6 Updates

Oracle has released software updates for Java Standard Edition 6 and 7.