One of the more intriguing pieces of news to come out of this week's EclipseCon 2005 conference is the Eclipse Foundation's announcement that it has completed its first-ever roadmap. The roadmap document, which the foundation plans to revise annually, is intended to provide visibility to the open-source community around Eclipse and the Eclipse ecosystem, explains Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich.
Software development shops using Seapine Software's Surround SCM for software change management can now seamlessly integrate a Java-based IDE from JetBrains Inc.
Sun Microsystems is coming to this year's RSA 2005 security conference, under way this week in San Francisco, with several "love for the customer" Valentine's Day announcements. And after years of preaching that "the network is the computer," there's a bit of I-told-you-so swagger in the Santa Clara, CA-based systems company.
James Gosling recently claimed that .NET had a giant security hole. Personally,
I wish he'd checked the FUD at the door.
JBoss and Sun said on Monday, Feb. 7, they have signed a new multi-year agreement for JBoss to support the Java 2, Enterprise Edition platform.
Organizations adopt coding standards to ensure the delivery of reliable applications. See how standards can help reduce time for reviews and correct violations automatically.
IT shops discover that sharing code outside the corporation can result in better software.
Compuware has released upgrades of two products: one to assist Java developers and the other designed to improve servicing of Java applications at lower cost.
As RFID technology gathers steam, Sun Microsystems has announced new offerings in the market, including an entry-level Java product.
IBM seen challenging software industry with release of patents to open source community.
Caucho Technology, Inc., which makes a Java application server used by more than 3,500 corporate, education and government clients, has become a J2EE licensee, the company and Sun Microsystems announced Monday.
360Commerce has released its latest Java-based software suite for retailers, the company announced this week.
If you had 90 days to port IPTV software from Microsoft .NET to Java running on Tomcat, you’d have a problem Noam Fogel knows well. Fogel is vice president of research and development for Infogate Online Ltd., a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of software used by telcos and cable operators to offer video and games on demand to their customers.
Oracle is adding some rocket fuel to its tools promotion strategy with a contest that promises to send one lucky developer into space--literally. Announced at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference (but upstaged by the PeopleSoft acquisition drama), the Oracle Space Sweepstakes gives participants a chance to take part in a suborbital spaceflight, experience weightlessness, and view the earth from 62 miles up.
Does the development world really need another IDE? Well, maybe not. But whether
it's needed or not, Omnicore's X-develop (now in open beta) offers an
interesting feature set with some worthwhile innovations.
Want a numeric, financial, charting, and statistical package written in 100% pure Java? Then JMSL ought to get your attention.
Businesses seen adopting the techniques and development practices of the open source community. Corporate IT and R&D organizations face many of the same distributed development challenges already overcome by the open source community, says Colin Bodell, senior vice president of product development at VA Software.
Web services have become a standard for building client/server applications. Learn an approach for using the JAX-RPC SI toolkit to generate a Web service's client-side code.
The open-source stack got a little higher this past week with the launch of a new Java platform for rapid application deployment. Called JOE, and developed by El Segundo, Calif.-based Gluecode, the new offering is built on core open-source technologies from the Apache Software Foundation, including the Pluto portal framework, the Geronimo J2EE application server, the Derby database (formerly Cloudscape), and the Agila business process management (BPM) engine.
Building Java applications
that generate customized
graphs and charts for plotting
business metrics or
that dynamically produce printable PDF
and RTF documents presents a unique
challenge to any software development
team. Creating the kinds of complex, interactive
charts and reports that Quest
Software’s JClass products are capable of
—out of the box—would require a downright
Herculean effort.