By RIA News Desk  Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,... Oct. 15, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 23,058 Replies: 4 |
By Joe Winchester  At last year's JavaOne Chris Oliver gave a presentation on JavaFX in which he discussed how he was interested in programming Java2D not in terms of JComponent paintEvent methods that launch into graphics.drawLine(…) or graphics.drawRect(…) code, but instead by allowing the develope... Oct. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,865 |
By Mauro Carniel  Before describing solutions available for rich client application development, it would be a good idea to explain what exactly a rich client application is and which rich client topologies can feasibly be built using the Java platform. In the main, a rich client is a part of a software... Oct. 15, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 368 |
By Patrick Curran  It's sometimes argued that the Java Community Process's development procedures are secretive and that the general public is excluded from participating. While this may have been the case in the past, it's no longer true. The majority of JCP Expert Groups now do their work in an open an... Oct. 14, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 227 |
By Paul O'Connor  The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is self-describing data via the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The benefits of XML over opaque message formats in data interchange are well established. No matter if your focus is... Oct. 13, 2008 10:00 PM Reads: 562 |
By Adam Lieber  In the past couple of years, interest in Jetty has surged. Jetty is an open source Java-based web and application server and servlet container, but what else do you know about it? To commemorate the 12th anniversary of Jetty, here are 12 things that might surprise you Oct. 10, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 767 |
By RIA News Desk JavaScript is one of the most interesting and misunderstood programming languages in common use today. Most developers will go their entire careers without realizing its full potential. It's not often that you get a language that supports the feature set that JavaScript does, while sti... Oct. 10, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 691 |
By RIA News Desk JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includ... Oct. 10, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 771 |
By RIA News Desk JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScrip... Oct. 9, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 631 |
By Alan Williamson  Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But moving to a cloud infrastructure is not necessarily as nice and clean as the providers would want you to think. With cloud infrastructur... Oct. 7, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 421 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  GigaSpaces Technologies and GoGrid have announced the availability of the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) on GoGrid's enterprise-grade cloud computing service for Windows and Linux. The two companies’ joint offering enables enterprises to migrate existing and new Java, ... Oct. 6, 2008 10:00 PM Reads: 421 |
By Jinsong Yang  Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SO... Oct. 6, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 35,742 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Terracotta has announced the latest version of their open source Java clustering solution, Terracotta version 2.7. The new version builds on the adoption of Terracotta in specific vertical markets and applications such as reservation systems, online gaming, and information portals. In ... Oct. 6, 2008 02:04 PM Reads: 548 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft said, “Going forward we’ll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new AJAX server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client... Oct. 6, 2008 03:00 AM Reads: 792 |
By .NETDJ News Desk Infragistics has announced the immediate availability of Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 Volume 2, a complete set of pre-built, quality-tested components based on JavaServer Faces that allows developers to create Java UIs. With these AJAX-enabled components, developers can lever... Oct. 2, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 1,224 |
By Java News Responding to the growing demand for business intelligence (BI) capabilities that enable real-time decision-making for operational business processes, InterSystems Corporation has announced InterSystems DeepSee embedded real-time BI software. DeepSee aims to broaden the use of BI to de... Oct. 1, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 700 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com... Sep. 29, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 27,168 Replies: 2 |
By RIA News Desk AccuRev announced that Avid Technology has standardized on AccuRev for software development process management. Avid selected AccuRev after an evaluation of providers to support multiple cross-platform development teams spread across several geographically distributed locations through... Sep. 24, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 451 |
By RIA News Desk AccuRev announced AccuRev 4.7 for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM), with major new scalability and personalized process visualization capabilities. These new capabilities enable enterprises to easily scale as development teams grow beyond thousands of... Sep. 24, 2008 12:33 PM Reads: 464 |
By RIA News Desk  In this session that no developer who uses JavaScript or ActionScript will want to miss, delegates will learn how to: Overcome common hurdles and pitfalls of client-side only JavaScript development, Speed up development time by cutting out extra server-side code and processing scripts ... Sep. 22, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 1,616 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Infobright has announced availability of its new open source data warehouse software, Infobright Community Edition (ICE). This enterprise-class, self-managing solution is an alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance data warehouse products. Infobright is also launching www.infobright.... Sep. 19, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 724 |
By RIA News Desk  The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive; adding AJAX widgets results in a complex, unmaintainable application. Both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers. Google Web Toolkit -- the SDK that allows you to write AJAX i... Sep. 16, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 2,211 Replies: 1 |
By Coach Wei The amount of JavaScript code on the client side is increasing significantly with the growing popularity of Ajax and Web 2.0. Web developers rely on JavaScript heavily these days in order to deliver a richer user experience. Including a either home-grown or third party JavaScript libra... Sep. 15, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 528 |
By Coach Wei This entry documents a few tips related to using Rhino JavaScript Engine to process JavaScript code. If you are using Rhino, you probably won’t run into the issues covered in this post during development or even testing. However, you are fairly likely to run into these issues after y... Sep. 15, 2008 11:04 AM Reads: 494 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who join... Sep. 12, 2008 04:00 AM Reads: 17,910 Replies: 2 |
By Jos Dirksen; Tijs Rademakers  When you work with open source ESBs, you can use other tools and frameworks to help you solve common problems. Spring is one of the tools that extends the basic functionality of the ESBs Mule and ServiceMix and makes solving integration problems a lot easier. Spring is a component fram... Sep. 11, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,126 |
By Yakov Fain During the last several years JEE became a stable and mature but not too exciting environment. People routinely were bashing JEE for not being cool and a number of Java developers defected to Spring trying to get high. But JEE6 looks really interesting. Sep. 11, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 2,078 Replies: 1 |
By Michael Poulin  What could be a problem with logging in SOA in the presence of such wonderful tools like log4j, Java’s logging library and similar? Why might we need something special for SOA and why aren’t existing techniques enough? The answer is simple and complex simultaneously – in SOA we a... Sep. 10, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 1,360 |
By Java News Sun Microsystems has announced the addition of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stésud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open source MySQL database and GlassFish application server software. This Belgium-based enterprise company ... Sep. 9, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 1,291 |
By .NETDJ News Desk OpTier has announced the immediate availability of CoreFirst 3.0. Deployed in complex IT environments, CoreFirst links business and IT so that transactions flow smoothly through the IT infrastructure, ensuring that services remain uninterrupted and business goals are met. OpTier also a... Sep. 9, 2008 10:52 AM Reads: 566 |
By Virtualization News Desk Aonix released PERC Ultra 5.1 cross development and target support on Sysgo's PikeOS 2.2 real-time operating system. PERC Ultra support of the PikeOS POSIX PSE52 profile provides a solution for the increasing need for portability across multiple operating systems as industries such as ... Sep. 2, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 464 |
By Ravi Kumar  What's the key to team and individual developer productivity in maintaining and extending a large application? Let’s start by making the following assertions: A developer's knowledge of an application code base is likely the single biggest factor of individual productivity. Correspon... Sep. 2, 2008 07:40 AM Reads: 1,574 |
By Maha Sengottiyan  An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet can th... Aug. 28, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 1,401 |
By Prabhu Balashanmugam; Yanbing Lu  Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI, ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a pr... Aug. 28, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,818 |
By Eclipse News Desk Furthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. This release marks the first free Eclipse 3.4 environment to support Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release... Aug. 27, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 955 |
By Patrick Curran  Government intervention and direction has long been critical to the development of the computer industry. The Internet, after all, was derived from the ARPANET, developed in the early 1970s from a U.S. government-sponsored research project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Toda... Aug. 20, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 2,138 |
By Adrian Marriott  Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke ... Aug. 20, 2008 03:24 PM Reads: 1,827 |
By RIA News Desk Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0 milestone 1. This milestone release delivers advanced AJAX tooling for Java EE and full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities for Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, among other enhancements. Aug. 19, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 1,079 Replies: 1 |
By RIA News Desk Genuitec announced the availability of the first milestone release of MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition. This release provides WebSphere developers with advanced AJAX tooling, enhanced reporting technologies and Eclipse 3.4 support, among other enhancements. Aug. 19, 2008 05:30 AM Reads: 989 Replies: 1 |
By Flex News Desk Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems that they were using internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects. This toolkit will be available free of charge. Aug. 16, 2008 06:41 AM Reads: 1,291 |
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