Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.
Typesafe, the chief commercial backer of the open source Scala project, expects its recent acquisition of Spray.io to broaden the appeal of the Typesafe Platform to Java developers with "one of the best performing REST/HTTP libraries in the Java ecosystem."
Genuitec has updated its SDC Cloud Connect platform that uses a simple push technology to allow Java developers to speed their established Eclipse packages to the cloud.
SOASTA has updated its automated Web application testing solution, CloudTest, with a new Java Module.
"Java is back," Mark Reinhold told attendees at this year's JavaOne conference technical keynote.
The presentations covered a range of topics -- including strategic positioning of Java as the best open platform for the Internet of Things -- while maintaining a sharp focus on the critical role Java continues to play in the enterprise.
The 18th annual JavaOne conference got underway on Sunday in San Francisco.
Oracle this week released a preview build of Java Standard Edition 8 for testing by developers.
On Tuesday Oracle announced the latest update of version 7 of the Java Development Kit.
Java runtime maker Azul Systemsunveiled a new solution for developers of highly-tuned, low-latency Java applications this week.
Java-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Jelastic last week announced another update of its rapidly evolving Java and PHP cloud hosting platform.
Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language.
The open source OpenXava project, which recently announced its 4.8 release, is filling a niche among enterprise developers charged with building Web apps fast.
Alachisoft recently released a native Java implementation of its in-memory .NET distributed cache, NCache.
Agitar Technologies this week released an app deployment package for Java teams that aims to support java jocks who want to adopt Agile practices.
Among the improvements in version 1.8.2 is an update of the Google Plugin For Eclipse.
The new distro will be freely distributed and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Oracle today announced the latest update of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) is specifically optimized for some popular ARM-based embedded chip architectures.
An attack campaign focused on government agencies is employing phishing e-mails to deliver a malicious payload containing a Java Remote Access Tool (RAT) called jRAT.
The goal of CapeDwarf is an implementation of the Google App Engine (GAE) API that allows Java developers to deploy their applications on Red Hat's JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) unmodified.