Progress Software has launched a new Type 5 JDBC driver, which the company is billing as an industry first.
Although it's clear that the iPhone platform is still the place to be for mobile developers, results from a recent Ovum survey indicate that there's a lot of development activity around all the major platforms.
VMware's SpringSource division announced today that it will be adding a newly acquired lightweight messaging system, RabbitMQ, to its implementation of the Java-based open source Spring Framework.
According to analysts at IDC, Oracle losing the "Father of Java" James Gosling this week is the least of Oracle's Java challenges.
James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, has left his position at Oracle Corporation, he revealed on Friday in a blog posting. Gosling says he actually quit the company on April 2.
The Eclipse Foundation has given a thumbs up to two new projects under the Eclipse Runtime (RT) project.
Red Hat showed off the latest incarnation of its JBoss Developer Studio IDE at the annual EclipseCon developer conference, underway this week in Santa Clara.
Two Oracle execs kicked off the annual EclipseCon conference with a keynote focusing on the future of Java under the stewardship of Oracle.
VMware subsidiary SpringSource on Wednesday unveiled a new, lightweight edition of its tc Server.
The Mylyn project is being divided into subprojects designed to accelerate the evolution of this open source framework for integrating task and ALM tools with the Eclipse IDE.
Terracotta on Tuesday released Ehcache 2.0, the first major upgrade of the widely deployed open source Java caching solution since the company acquired it last August.
Mergers and acquisitions, Windows 7 and the Web are driving a legacy migration to .NET. Developers tell how they unlocked their old technology and made the sometimes-painful journey to the modern platform.
Project Kenai projects no longer need to find a new host -- they'll be moved to java.net.
Instantiations recently upgraded its popular Eclipse-based Ajax/Java GUI builder to allow developers to take advantage of new features in the latest major release of the Google Web Toolkit.
VMware wants developers to build software for its vCloud infrastructure, and it's giving them the tools to do it.
Oracle on Wednesday laid out its plans for integrating Sun's software and hardware systems into its own product lineup.
The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.
A new version of the MyEclipse Java IDE aimed specifically at developers using the Spring Framework is being developed jointly by Genuitec and Skyway Software.
SpringSource wants the Eclipse community to take over ongoing development of its dm Server.
AT&T has joined the board of directors of Java Verified, an IT industry group that promotes testing standards for Java ME applications.