Java & Eclipse


JavaOne Vendors Offer Open Source Tools

JavaOne exhibitors continue to showcase their offerings this week. Find out about open source products, tools for integration and distributed applications, Java IDEs, and more.

Quest Says Developers Search for New Tools

Quest Software has introduced a new version of its JProbe Suite, a performance toolkit for Java code tuning. The new version is intended to help developers and QA teams diagnose and resolve complex memory and performance problems to find and fix problems faster in their J2EE and J2SE applications, the company says.

Mobile Java: The Power of Millions

With more development for mobile devices than PCs, now's the time to expand the network and capitalize on your investments, said Nokia CTO Pertti Korhonen in his keynote address at JavaOne.

New Dev Tools Showcased at JavaOne

Many vendors are exhibiting their wares--new products, new services, or new technologies--at this year''s JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Get a glimpse of these vendor highlights.

Vendors Embrace Open Source, Eclipse, JBI and SOA at JavaOne

Vendors are making significant announcements this week in San Francisco at the annual JavaOne conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of Java.

2005 Java Community Process Roundtable

The Java Community Process sponsored a roundtable discussion at this year''s JavaOne conference. Read some highlights from this distinguished panel of spec leads on the JCP and where it's going.

Sun Reaches Out to Java Developers with New Initiatives

Sun Microsystems is expected to use its annual JavaOne developer conference, under way this week in San Francisco, as a launch pad for new initiatives aimed at Java jocks.

Sun to Open Source App Server, Service Bus at JavaOne

Sun Microsystems is set to make a number of announcements at the company's annual JavaOne developer conference this week at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

JBuilder Helps Mercy Ships Stay Afloat

With a four-person development team spread around the world, the IT department of global medical charity organization Mercy Ships (www.mercyships.org) turned to Borland’s JBuilder 2005 and Together 2005 products to modernize its IT architecture and to take advantage of Web services and open-source systems.

Winners of JCP 2005 Awards Announced

The JCP recognizes leadership and innovation within the Java community.

Bridging the Digital Divide

In his keynote, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy acknowledged a digital divide in today's world and asked the Java community to help eliminate it. See what else he said about Sun's future.

JBoss to Roll out EJB 3.0 in Three New Products

Developers are justifiably eager for the forthcoming Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification (due with J2EE 5.0), says Pierre Fricke. EJB 3.0 overhauls the Enterprise JavaBean architecture that drives business logic and persistence for J2EE applications, simplifying the programming model to significantly improve developer productivity.

JBoss Releases New Open-Source Portal

JBoss Inc. released the latest version of its open-source, Java-based portal product. The new JBoss Portal 2.0 embraces the Java portlet API specification (JSR-168) and provides an extensible portal framework designed to integrate dynamic Web pages and applications within standardized reusable portlets.

Is Sun's 'Project Looking Glass' More than Mere PostureWare?

How much of Sun’s much-vaunted Project Looking Glass is a serious attempt at defining a revolutionary new kind of desktop user interface, and how much is it simply a case of Sun wielding a new toy and saying "Look what we’ve got!"

Wind River's Workbench 2.3 Reflects Multiple Developer Roles

In the wake of its first-ever worldwide user conference, Wind River Systems made a spate of announcements around "refreshes" across its product line. The biggest news for device software developers is the company's plan to "radically redefine the development tools space" with four new configurations of its Workbench dev tool.

Borland Unveils JBuilder Roadmap; Signposts Include Eclipse

Borland Software recently laid out plans for JBuilder, including continued development of JBuilder products to utilize Eclipse as the integration framework.

Eclipse Brings Open Source to Business Intelligence Market

The Eclipse Foundation says the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 1.0 is now generally available.