In November 2001, IBM open sourced an internal project focused on creating a common component framework for developers -- and open source Eclipse was born.
Neo Technology brought the Neo4j open-source NoSQL graph database to the Spring framework this week with the launch of Spring Data Neo4j 2.0.
Hivetext Technologies announced this week that its Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Jelastic will be supporting the Nginx Web server.
Cloud-based hosting service AppFog has added Java to the growing list of languages it supports, the company announced this week.
Google officially launched its new programming language, Dart, last week during the opening keynote presentation at the GoTo conference in Denmark.
Google on Thursday announced a free preview of Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack.
Just some of the many announcements includes plans to "bridge the gap" between Java ME and Java SE, an approach to modularizing Java SE 8 that will rely on the Jigsaw platform, and a new project that aims to use HTML5 to bring Java to Apple's iOS platform.
The Eclipse Foundation's release last week of Eclipse "Indigo" 3.7.1 was more than the usual maintenance release.
Terracotta today launched a release candidate of version 3.6 of its namesake in-memory software with upgraded versions of both its BigMemory and Ehcache technologies.
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform, the company announced Wednesday.
Sonatype this week launched a new suite of products and services designed to help companies better manage their usage of open source Java components.
Spring Social lets developers connect Java applications to SaaS APIs from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and others, and to interact with those services on behalf of their users.
Another family of Java components will soon be available from the open source Maven Central Repository.
GigaSpaces Technologies has just rolled out the public beta of its Cloudify for Azure enterprise Java application platform for on-boarding JEE, Spring and big-data apps to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.
Red Hat announced today that its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).
Tasktop Sync is designed to provide "real-time ALM server synchronization" for Agile enterprise shops.
The Apache Lucene project has reported that the Java SE 7 release "contains hotspot compiler optimizations" that "miscompile some loops," which can cause the JVMs in some Apache projects to crash and result in i bugs in some applications.
David Ramel follows up his "Highest Paid Programmers" article with a look inside the world of high-frequency trading (HTF), where coders earn top dollars and even nanoseconds count.
Oracle on Thursday announced the availability of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7).