JAVA Developer's Journal

Sometimes clouds are just ground fog. After more than two years of promising the imminent arrival of Volly, Pitney Bowes - the Fortune 500 that back when there were such things as letters had a vise-like monopoly grip on postage meters - has failed to materialize the cloud that ... (more)

The supposed talks between IBM and Lenovo over the Chinese company buying IBM's x86 server unit have reportedly broken down over price, which should come as a surprise to no one. Wong Wai Ming Lenovo's CFO and chief negotiator reportedly left Armonk, got on a plane and went back... (more)

Cloud Computing is booming and so is Cloud Expo – now with Big Data and Software-Defined Networking as fully integrated themes. Here are the nine tracks we are serving up for you June 10–13 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and below this brief note from me is a complete A–Z... (more)

Do you know how long your customers are going to wait for a page load? More importantly, how long are you making them wait right now? Back in the misty eons of time, it used to be easy to measure the performance of your application. You’d grab a stopwatch, load up your web applica... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Enterprises should have a clear understanding of potential security benefits and risks associated with cloud computing to set realistic expectations with their cloud provider. With this baseline knowledge, enterprises can effect changes in ... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! With more than one million downloads to date, Citrix XenServer has become a leading server virtualization platform powering some of the world's largest production clouds. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tim Mackey, XenSe... (more)

A question that every online application provider will face eventually is: Does my application scale? Can I add an extra 100 users and still ensure the same user experience? If the application architecture is properly designed the easiest way is to put an additional server behind... (more)

This review covers both Core Java Volume I--Fundamentals (9th Edition) and Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features (9th Edition). Both books are part of the Prentice Hall Core Series. I actually got Volume II first and liked it so much I ordered Volume I. I felt like I was missin... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Analyzing Hadoop jobs and speeding them up is often a tedious and time-consuming effort that requires experts. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, a technology strategist in the Compuware APM center of excellen... (more)

If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either mo... (more)

ForgeRock, the pioneer of open source identity and access management, will hold its first Open Identity Summit June 12-14 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. The conference will explore solutions to current IAM challenges, using ForgeRock’s Open Identity ... (more)

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become a famous paradigm and also the bandwagon in the networking industry today. SDN is primarily considered to be a methodology or approach to solving some of the wider-known problems in the enterprise and service provider networking space.... (more)

QASymphony is the company behind qTest, a new test management tool that's aiming to empower test teams. As software development has increasingly moved towards Agile methodology, with its focus on fast delivery, thorough documentation has fallen by the wayside and test cycles have... (more)

Bonjour Foxes! I started my career as a Telecom Engineer for Rational Software in the load testing space back in the late '90s, and when I look back on the last decade, there were enormous advances in the broader IT world including development methodologies, processing speeds, n... (more)

PORTLAND, Ore., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hoffman Agency, a global communications consultancy based in San Jose, Calif., today announced that it has expanded operations to the Pacific Northwest. Nautilus, Inc., a leader in innovative home fitness equipment based in Vancouve... (more)

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/03/13 -- Continuuity, the industry's first Big Data application fabric, today announced it has been named to UBM Tech Channel's CRN 2013 Big Data 100 list. The award recognizes companies innovating in Big Data technology and covers three categ... (more)

George Newstrom, Dell executive director and general manager for the federal government defense and national security business, has penned an article for the company's official corporate blog on what he calls the "third platform" of technologies as he charts the evolution of info... (more)

Some people really love using big words. I am not sure what drives this passion, whether it is genuinely the way their mind operates or if they are just trying to impress. I always suspect it is the latter. For me I prefer simple language that everyone can understand. That said, ... (more)

TraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications. It gives you insight into your web application performance such as this: and a per request drill-down that shows you the nitty gritty detail of where time is spent in individual requests (full-size): ... (more)

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! A growing number of organizations looking at building APIs are wondering what existing capabilities they can leverage. Many concepts are common to APIs and Services while others are not, but should be. In his session at the 12th Internationa... (more)