Ruby hype goes on the defensive, following comments by James Gosling.
''Business should be paying attention,’’ Gosling says.
Cassatt announced general availability of its Collage Web Automation Module. The software, which supports BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, is designed to help IT orgs with their server consolidation efforts by providing Java app virtualization and management for J2EE apps.
Sun Microsystems is preparing to roll out Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology, a battery-operated platform for development of wireless sensor networks, robotics and personal consumer electronics.
Borland's merger announcement with Segue Software on February 8 included the news that Borland plans to exit the tools business.
Software & Support Media, owner of several technology magazines and related events, is presenting JAX Innovation Awards for “outstanding” European contributions in Java and Eclipse.
Howard Lewis Shipp, developer of Jakarta Tapestry and Jakarta HiveMind, writes in his Tapestry and HiveMind blog [http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/02/tapestry-promoted-to-apache-top-level.html] this week that the Apache Board unanimously voted to promote the Tapestry project to the top level.
Rackspace Managed Hosting and JBoss said on Tuesday they have made an agreement to create Intensive Hosting for Linux-JBoss Edition.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
nVision Software released yesterday an enterprise continuous-availability app called AppVision-CA.
Software AG announced a new service-oriented development environment for its Natural app dev platform as the first new product under its Natural 2006 product line.
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community said yesterday that NetBeans IDE is available for download.
Unify has released Unify NXJ Composer, designed to give Lotus Notes developers the ability to build Lotus Notes-like applications in J2EE without having to code by hand.
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 5.1, the latest version of its Java IDE.
Pros and cons of a central component repository for Java
BEA Systems is announcing the latest version of its Eclipse-based BEA Workshop Studio.
Leveraging Java’s networking strengths to ignite its commercial component marketplace
Open-source solution provider Covalent Technologies will offer full commercial support for Apache Geronimo 1.0, an open-source J2EE application server developed and recently made available by the Apache Software Foundation and distributed under the Apache license.
LogicLibrary has announced its flagship Logidex solution now integrates with Eclipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Toolkit (BIRT).