Developers seeking to support a combination of data formats won’t have to look beyond XQuery 2.0, which will optimize the deployment and integration of XML, relational and legacy data.
Designed specifically for enterprise Web 2.0 app dev, ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 hit the market this week, bringing Web 2.0 LAMP technology to Java servers like Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Sun Java System Application Server and JBOSS.
The Eclipse Foundation is making history this week with the Callisto Simultaneous Release initiative, which coordinates 10 Eclipse project upgrades, including BI and reporting tools, a modeling framework, a Web tools platform, test and performance tools, integrated development environments, and the latest version of the Eclipse tooling framework.
Appistry’s New Workload Management offers features it says bring real-time capabilities to grid computing though the company’s Enterprise Application Fabric. The additions enhance apps for three workload management policies and virtualize commodity hardware into a single system.
Are PHP, Ruby, and other languages a threat to Java? Is there room on the platform for the others? See what experts said about programming languages at the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable.
An Evans Data Corp. dev survey released this week revealed that Asian developers are implementing Java EE 5 at a rapid rate. But results also show the continued strength of .NET apps, sparking a competitive market in the region.
Compuware’s Vantage now offers full-time monitoring and root cause analysis for .NET apps, rounding out the company’s Web services solution by enabling end-to-end, transaction-level support for hybrid .NET and Java apps.
JBoss says it has released for general availability, JBoss Seam 1.0, a new framework for Web 2.0 apps that integrates AJAX, JavaServer Faces, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Java portlets, BPM and workflow.
In any discussion of Java and the Java platform, tools can't be ignored. See what the expert panelists at the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable had to say about IDEs and other tooling issues.
A new version of Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition provides end users with the ability to intermingle ASP.NET and Java apps within Web portals.
The latest version of Altova’s XML tools suite adds features such as CSS support in StyleVision, hyperlinked error messaging in XMLSpy, and Visual Studio and Eclipse integration for MapForce.
Open sourcing Java was the buzz at JavaOne, and discussions among attendees influenced part of the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable. Find out the experts' views on the state of Java.
The 2006 Java Technology Roundtable comprised a colorful cast of industry thought leaders. Get to know the panel, wikipedia style.
What impacted the Java community most this year? See who the JCP recognized as outstanding innovators in its fourth annual awards.
Java mobile development is a hot topic in the IT industry these days, as evidenced by considerable discussion at the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable. Here's a highlight from the event.
Headline-grabbing news at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, which wrapped up on Friday, was CEO Jonathan Schwartz's announcement that Sun Microsystems would release its industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source license—eventually.
Another attention grabber was Sun's new Operating System Distributor's License for Java that allows Linux and OpenSolaris distros to repackage JDK binary bits as appropriate for those open-source operating system platforms.
Sun Microsystems honored the winners of its 4th annual Duke's Choice Awards last week at the JavaOne conference. The awards are given to the most innovative Java-based apps of the year. The contest attracts a wide range of submissions from developers and companies around the world. The winners are selected by James Gosling, VP and Sun fellow, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun.
Just in time for JavaOne, the JCP approves the openly developed Java EE 5 spec unanimously. The latest platform offers ease-of-use features and an overhauled programming model.
The Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 specification was approved by the Java Community Process Java EE/SE Executive Committee in a unanimous vote last week. The spec brings ease-of-development features and a simplified component model to the platform.
JavaOne brought them to San Francisco, and FTP brought them to the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable. Get a sampling of what industry thought leaders had to say about the state of Java.