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.
Aiming to get more developers outside the company involved in the process of refining the Java platform, Sun Microsystems last week posted an early-release of version 6.0 of its Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), code-named "Mustang."
Zach Cox is a software engineer at Charles River Analytics, Inc. Cambridge, Mass.-based development shop that for the past 20 years has built intelligence and decision support applications for military, government and commercial business use. Most recently it developed software NASA scientists used for planning treks for the Mars Rover. Cox is the chief developer of BNET Builder, an IDE designed to make it easy to build Bayesian networks for making predictions and diagnoses based on available information.
ObjectWeb, the open-source infrastructure consortium, announced this week that it has added eXo Platform SARL to its roster. The privately held French company provides support and services for the eXo Platform, an open-source enterprise portal, which will now be hosted by ObjectWeb.
The big brains on the Java team at Sun Microsystems have what Graham Hamilton, Sun's VP and Fellow for Java Platform and Architecture, calls "a secret obsession." "The Java developer base is large, and we're happy about that, but we want to grow that base even more," he says. "To do that, we believe that we have to simplify development to make it easier for all developers to write large, rich applications."
Providing law offices and citizens with specific data on court schedules and other judicial information without compromising security was the challenge Robert McDonald faces as chief architect of Court Services Online.
Architected Rapid Application Development (ARAD) is a new category of tools with a proven ROI edge, according to a recently completed user survey by Gartner, Inc.
There are a ‘bazillion’ different ways of going about it, says one expert.
Architects, developers, and IT managers must take collective responsibility for creating secure solutions. Exploit Java's language- and enterprise-level security features to build a secure environment.
Sun has designed Java Studio Creator to be the Visual Basic of Java and J2EE Web development. It’s not there yet, but JSC is a major improvement over NetBeans, Eclipse, and even IntelliJ and JBuilder for quickly creating JSP applications that use JavaServer Faces.
After 18 months of “hard work,” the proposed Java Business Integration (JBI) specification was released for public comment on Wednesday, Sun Microsystems announced.
Tony Nadalin, distinguished engineer and chief security architect for IBM, started working on Java security models with colleagues from Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s, and says that work is now paying off for Java developers.
IBM is collaborating with Sharp Corporation in Japan to develop a high-capacity flash memory card equipped with IBM's Java Card Open Platform (JCOP) OS, the two companies disclosed last week. The 1-megabyte IC cards represent a big step up in storage capacity from conventional 16 to 32 KB cards, said Angus McIntyre, IBM’s product line manager for embedded Java products.
As promised, a week after releasing a new version of WebSphere, IBM announced a new integrated toolset that draws heavily on its Rational technology.
Seeking to provide programmers with the open-standard, copyright-free, event-processing equivalent of SQL, iSpheres announced last week that it has developed the Event Processing Language (EPL).
Finding that the majority of coders using its Java server are working with Eclipse, Systinet is coming out with a set of tools specifically designed for the popular open-source IDE.