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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.
Wily Technology has released Wily 6, a solution for monitoring the availability and performance of Web applications as they cross from browser to backend.
Cloakware has expanded language support for its Cloakware Security Suite to include C, C++ and Java, extending the range of code that can be protected from reverse engineering when the software is stored on a disk, and against tampering when the software is stored on disk or running in memory.
Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz has been talking up the company’s Open Media Commons initiative, an open-source community project developing a royalty-free digital rights management standard. Schwartz is calling for immediate cross-industry collaboration in developing an open, safe and business-friendly approach to the free creation, duplication and distribution of digital content.
The Apache Derby development community has released Apache Derby 10.1.1.0. Derby graduated from the incubator in July and is now a subproject of the Apache DB project.
Here's a statistic worthy of a doubletake: According to Exadel, every Fortune 1000 firm has downloaded its tools—at least to kick the tires.
Justsystem, one of Japan’s largest software companies, is making its first foray into the U.S. market with an integrated XML development, runtime and authoring environment and two toolkits.
New features were recently added to Sleep, an embeddable scripting language for Java applications. Developers use Sleep to design domain-specific languages for their applications.
IBM is participating on a limited basis in Project Harmony, the Apache Software Foundation's effort to create a compatible, independent implementation of Java Standard Edition 5 under the Apache License.
Interwoven, an electronic content management solutions provider, says it has expanded its relationship with Sun Microsystems under which Sun will resell the Interwoven ECM platform.
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The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) open-source J2EE application server project, Geronimo, has cleared a significant hurdle on its way to full J2EE certification: successful completion of Sun Microsystem's J2EE test compatibility kit 1.4.1.
Java users are more likely to use open-source software than non-Java users, according to research by Evans Data Corporation.
UC4 Software recently released software to help companies monitor enterprise job scheduling and data center automation in complex environments.
Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems will serve as co-specification leads for the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 spec, the two companies announced last week (6/29).
IBM is extending its 11-year-old Java licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems for another decade.