JAVA Developer's Journal

Currently I’m teaching a Java class online, and Vitaly O., one of my students, ran into an interesting situation. He sent me the program below, which, to his surprise, printed 1. public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Integer t = new Integer(0); t=1; test(t... (more)

Clerity Solutions, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solutions, announced that Interamerican Insurance has selected Clerity’s UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software and Veryant vCOBOL Enterprise as part of a strategic plan to modernize i... (more)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the economy continues through its recovery and corporate earnings show signs of improvement, companies across North America are reinvesting in IT projects that had been put on hold during the recession. Modis, a leading provid... (more)

REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/12 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Corsair Components, Inc. (Corsair), a designer and worldwide supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming industry, has upgraded to the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 to help streamline a... (more)

SHELTON, CT -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/12 -- TranSwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing consumer electronics and telecommunications markets, today announced that its Atlanta 2000™ LTE Gateway reference design has succ... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefit... (more)

1. Working With Microsoft Security Tools Security as one of the most important concerns of an IT department. This post covers four popular Microsoft security products: Forefront Family, Microsoft Security Essentials,Windows Intune / Windows Update / Microsoft System Center Family... (more)

In the past, Bob had been vigorously keeping up with the Titans of the Tech industry. His posts are here and here. These posts should give a picture of how the technology world is moving (and over time, identify trends). We have used market capitalization as our key indicator, bu... (more)

Whether or not you are a fan of U.S. football - it was really hard to avoid this huge sports event on February 5. In addition to the actual game, it's the Super Bowl commercials that - besides being very expensive to air - usually drive a lot of load on the websites of the compan... (more)

Migration failures may occur when migrating application run-time configurations for a large complex network deployment to a higher version of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployment (ND) on an AIX platform. The WebSphere migration utilities such as WASPreUpgrade and... (more)

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- Tanis Communications, Inc., a Silicon Valley integrated communications firm, has appointed Judy Radlinsky vice president, Public Relations. Radlinsky brings to Tanis a personal passion for content creation and deep industry expertise, h... (more)

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- Jahia, the creator of Open Source CMS solutions for the next generation, announced today the new online presence of HEP Vaud in Switzerland created with Jahia 6.5. As teacher training institution HEP Vaud has launched its new cor... (more)

When Sun's developers created Java, they tried to keep the syntax for Java similar to the syntax for C++ so it would be easy for C++ programmers to learn Java. In addition, they designed Java so its applications can be run on any computer platform. In contrast, C++ needs to have ... (more)

Gartner says, in three years, mobile application development projects will outnumber PC projects by 4-1 ratio and in four years, 50% of the people will primarily access their emails from a mobile device. So, the necessity of establishing a mobile channel for your customer is – we... (more)

There are literally thousands of different REST APIs available today, and new APIs are being created and exposed daily. There are API aggregator sites such as apigee.com and programmableweb.com that collect APIs from various sites. apigee.com makes available a very nice API conso... (more)

REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), a leading provider of cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net o... (more)

AhnLab, Inc. (www.ahnlab.com), a leading provider of integrated security solutions, recently cautioned against the increasing ZeuS bot threat that attempts to steal personal banking information. Lately, the AhnLab Security Emergency Response (ASEC) identified the distribution of ... (more)

MOSCOW -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/12 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts: Independent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their opera... (more)

WOBURN, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/12 -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today unveiled new lower pricing and a simplified fee structure for its runtime services, RUN@cloud. CloudBees' runtime services allow developers to quickly and eas... (more)

AppFog, the leading cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), today announced the addition of Blitz.io and Iron.io to its recently introduced add-on program for third-party service providers. Since the program’s conception in December, AppFog has built a strong foundation for its... (more)