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JBoss recently released a beta version of its development software designed to simplify writing complex Web applications in Java.
Swing is becoming more and more capable of looking cool on the desktop. But is it also becoming more advanced – as in, more difficult (therefore expensive) to program?
Ted Farrell addresses the challenges of SOA-based implementations.
If Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich has said it once, he's said it a thousand times (to us, anyway): Eclipse is not just about Java.
It came and went last month with relatively little fanfare, but the release of the latest version of EclipseME, the open-source plugin for the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, was big news for Java developers working in small spaces.
Sun Microsystems' China strategy continues apace this week at what is being billed as the largest-ever developer conference in that country.
Red Oak Software today introduced an Eclipse-based version of its Legacy Composer to help developers integrate legacy applications across enterprises and eventually integrate these apps into service-oriented architectures.
JavaChina 2005, running this week, is reportedly drawing 10,000 Chinese Java
jocks to Beijing for two days of workshops, breakout sessions, hands-on labs,
and to hear Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Java progenitor James Gosling hold forth
in keynote presentations.
Is the World Wide Web evolving from a collection of Web sites into a full-fledged computing platform—the so-called Web 2.0? The recent resurgence of interest in Ajax is one for the Web-as-a-platform-model column.
The emergence and rapid proliferation of business rules management systems (BRMS) over the past couple of years is strong evidence that IT/business alignment is a front-burner issue. These software tools, designed to automate business-rules decision making in enterprise IT applications, are fast becoming a must-have.
The current Java IDE war appears to be about stealing features and copying the way other IDEs do things. The result could eventually be a bland, homogenized landscape.
The result of the partnership between LogicLibrary and TopCoder reached earlier this year is that TopCoder’s components for Java and .NET are now stored in Logidex, LogicLibrary's collaborative SDA management solution.
Borland Software released this week an upgrade to JBuilder, Java integrated development environment, Borland JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities designed to help software teams more effectively collaborate in real time, even across geographic boundaries, with new peer-to-peer developer collaboration features and integrated application lifecycle support for requirements management, source code management and unit testing.
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Your management system must ensure that the business processes running and exposed as services in the SOA live up to expectations. Paul Lipton shows you the way to effective SOA management.
The ServiceMix project team has released ServiceMix 1.0, an open-source enterprise service bus and SOA toolkit built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache license.
Java tools undergo an extreme makeover...
Thanks to the influence of Eclipse's open-source tooling platform, the new face of the Java IDE will
resemble a lean plug-in environment rather than the traditional feature-stuffed tool suite.
At Java Pro Live!, IBM's Lee Nackman spoke of the convergence of Java, Eclipse, and SOA and how aligning business goals with IT projects reflects the collapse of communication barriers worldwide.