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.
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.
Vendors are making significant announcements this week in San Francisco at
the annual JavaOne conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of Java.
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.
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 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.
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!"
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 Software recently laid out plans for JBuilder, including continued development of JBuilder products to utilize Eclipse as the integration framework.
The Eclipse Foundation says the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project version 1.0 is now generally available.
On Java’s 10th birthday, Javarss.com sums up the impact Java has had on the technology industry: “4 million Java developers. 1.75 billion devices run Java. Java is everywhere.”
The Java Development Kit Community is seeking interested parties to help create its project page, which details projects that are being developed as part of the community and defines the available roles.
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are collaborating to enhance interoperability between .NET- and Java-based technologies.