Disaster recovery planning is on just about every company's to-do list these days. Prompted a few years ago by 9/11, spurred by new regulatory requirements and amped up by images of hurricane-ravaged coastal communities on the 11:00 news, a lot of organizations have implemented disaster planning and assessment projects. But planning for trouble is one thing, says Jim Sangster, director of marketing for Sun Microsystems' Cluster and N1 products, putting those plans into action is another.
Things that worry Java development managers who oversee teams of five or more developers are code quality and the inability to minimize bugs before code is released. That’s the upshot of a survey released this week by Clear Horizons, a technology research company.
What's the biggest stumbling block for the Symbian device OS? According to D’arcy Salzmann, senior product and tools partners manager at Nokia, it's the lack of a coherent tools story.
Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has integrated Java Enterprise Systems (Java ES) and its suite of developer tools within the Solaris OS to provide developers a complete, open and affordable software solution.
Systinet announced on Monday the release of version 6.0 of its Systinet Server product family for creating Java and C++ Web services.
IBM on Tuesday announced new open-source software and support, based on core technology from the J2EE-certified Apache Geronimo application server.
ObjectWeb, an international nonprofit consortium of companies and research organizations, yesterday announced Petals, a project aimed at developing an ObjectWeb Java Business Integration (JBI) platform.
Healthcare IT specialist DINMAR, in conjunction with the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, announced on Monday the completion of the first stage of a broad-scale implementation of DINMAR’s Java-based electronic health record platform, Oacis EHR.
Big Blue this week plans to contribute software development blueprints to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers make fewer coding mistakes.
Nokia's announcement that it joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member should come as no surprise to anyone watching either the software development tools market or the embedded systems space, says Nasser Iravani, director of the developer support network, Forum Nokia.
IBM recently introduced a Java library for developers to create collaborative, mitigation and multi-device applications.
The Google/Sun alliance (whatever it shapes up to be) is the latest evidence that Sun is partnering in all the right places: definitely a good thing for Java.
Looking to learn Java? Try Learning Java Through Applications, a new book by Duane J. Jarc, professor of computer of science at the University of Maryland-University College. Learning Java Through Applications’ unique approach “emphasizes Java’s graphical capabilities and the ability to create graphical user interfaces,” according to its publisher.
Versant has enhanced Java support, including an Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 application programming interface, in the new version of its object database.
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?
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.
Ted Farrell addresses the challenges of SOA-based implementations.
Sun Microsystems' China strategy continues apace this week at what is being billed as the largest-ever developer conference in that country.