Google on Thursday announced a free preview of Google Cloud SQL, which adds a MySQL database Web service to Google's cloud-based App Engine development stack.
Just some of the many announcements includes plans to "bridge the gap" between Java ME and Java SE, an approach to modularizing Java SE 8 that will rely on the Jigsaw platform, and a new project that aims to use HTML5 to bring Java to Apple's iOS platform.
The Eclipse Foundation's release last week of Eclipse "Indigo" 3.7.1 was more than the usual maintenance release.
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform, the company announced Wednesday.
Terracotta today launched a release candidate of version 3.6 of its namesake in-memory software with upgraded versions of both its BigMemory and Ehcache technologies.
Sonatype this week launched a new suite of products and services designed to help companies better manage their usage of open source Java components.
Spring Social lets developers connect Java applications to SaaS APIs from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and others, and to interact with those services on behalf of their users.
Another family of Java components will soon be available from the open source Maven Central Repository.
GigaSpaces Technologies has just rolled out the public beta of its Cloudify for Azure enterprise Java application platform for on-boarding JEE, Spring and big-data apps to Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository.
Red Hat announced today that its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).
Tasktop Sync is designed to provide "real-time ALM server synchronization" for Agile enterprise shops.
The Apache Lucene project has reported that the Java SE 7 release "contains hotspot compiler optimizations" that "miscompile some loops," which can cause the JVMs in some Apache projects to crash and result in i bugs in some applications.
David Ramel follows up his "Highest Paid Programmers" article with a look inside the world of high-frequency trading (HTF), where coders earn top dollars and even nanoseconds count.
Oracle on Thursday announced the availability of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7).
JetBrains has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language, code-named "Kotlin."
ZeroTurnaround and Genuitec have collaborated to create JRebel for MyEclipse.
Potix Corporation has just made its ZK Studio integrated development environment (IDE) available as an Eclipse plug-in.
Genuitec and Skyway Software today released a new IDE -- MyEclipse Bling -- aimed at IBM shops adopting Spring in their WebSphere-deployable applications.
Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company CloudBees wants to give Java jocks a more integrated process for developing, building and deploying their cloud applications.