Being a Java and Mac guy I looked for Java on iPhone. Java is no where to be found. For years I've listened to Jonathan Schwartz, CEO at Sun Microsystems, talk about monetizing its Java investment because of the wide-spread availability of the Java runtime - today on 700 Million mobile

According to CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog, where this new strategy was revealed on Monday, 'We'll still be strongly focused on being a multi-platform storage provider (just as our servers run multiple operating systems, and our operating system runs on every vendor's servers), but we'r

Tomcat is a great reference implementation of the Java EE specification and is intended for desktop use by developers who are starting to learn about Java EE or those who work on enterprise applications and need an EE server for development. However because Tomcat is free it finds its

Interface21 has partnered with Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project, to develop the Spring Tool Suite. This new Spring-specific tool solution will build on Eclipse and Mylyn to dramatically reduce the complexity of enterprise Java application development and main

SAP has announced that for the first time, individual developers can now purchase an annual developer license for the SAP NetWeaver platform, allowing them to create various types of customized user interfaces for SAP NetWeaver applications that can be based on either Java or ABAP.

Sun Microsystems and Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun, are breaking new ground with a pilot of the ISO 20022 global financial messaging standard for end-to-end payment processing. Running on Sun's own Solaris 10 Operating System, the pilot will help Sun achie

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well as by t

AJAX has forever altered user expectations regarding the experience delivered by the Web. In today's world, users sit at the edge of their seat waiting to see what scrumptious eye candy AJAX will serve them next. Some of the more notable visual effects and desktop-like interactions inc

This morning, Sun Microsystems has arranged a conference call with about twenty five Java Champions from around the world. We were talking about JavaFX, a new language for development of the GUI for rich Internet and desktop applications. Java Champions were not shy to ask direct quest

Virtualization technology is transforming the IT landscape and holds significant promise for those looking to maximize hardware utilization as well as reduce the time associated with provisioning and administering separate physical systems. According to the Yankee Group, today more tha

Parasoft Corporation has announced the award of their latest technology patent for validating test data. The patented technology, which is incorporated into Parasoft's technology suite, strengthens regression test suites and enables development organizations to find the root cause of s

Software development is an inherently creative process. Many developers compare it to art, and - like artists - take great pride in their work. However, creative processes are typically not efficient. The software development process is no exception, as the quote below clearly indicate

According to the boys at Sun, the super-saturated market for application servers is cracking open again because of the money it takes to keep them stoked. Sun made this observation when it turned up the other day to usher in the new major version of the open source Java EE 5 applicatio

Oracle earned $840M for the three months ended Aug. 31, a massive a 25% improvement from net income of $670M in the same period last year. That is the company's biggest increase in software sales since the dot-com bust.

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let

Ajax4jsf has turned one and what a year it has been. It was an amazing ride for all of us here at Exadel. The popularity of Ajax4jsf is evidenced by the size of the community, available resources, examples, blog entries, and articles. Also, a significant number of organizations today u

While these experts differ on issues like the importance of SOA ROI, how to calculate SOA ROI (if at all), and why we don't have more/better of it, they all seem to agree on one thing: 'Enterprise-wide support for SOA hinges on the ability to demonstrate value to the business at large

The other day when I arrived at work my phone's voice mail light was lit up. Cool, except that after pressing the voice mail button I was asked to enter my password. Issac Asimov's first law of robotics states that 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a hum

Having just changed its ticker symbol, belatedly, to Java, Sun now wants to do a one-for-four reverse stock split to give its shares, stuck in the doldrums for years now, more heft. It would have 25% fewer shares, but each would be worth four times more, say a more presentable, peer-li

Offering add-ons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily, a new 6.2 version of Canoo's Java library for Rich Internet Applications was announced today. The new ULC 6.2 test extensions offer an improved way for developers to test the user interface of their applications

The recent activity and interest around virtualization including the VMware IPO and Citrix acquisition of XenSource is indicative of the importance of virtualization as the leading technology of the 21st century. In a week where the market was headed decidedly south, the VMware IPO eme

Sun is buying the open source Lustre File System along with most of the rest of Colorado-based Cluster File System's intellectual property, business assets and people on undisclosed terms for Solaris and Linux, pledging to enhance the parallel cluster file system for multi-vendor Linux

ICEsoft Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise AJAX solutions, and the 'Gold Sponsor' of the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, announced the release of Enterprise Ajax Security with ICEfaces, a new white paper providing a pioneering solution to the security proble

In his blog, Schwartz claims 'Sun did not approach NetApps about licensing any of Sun's patents' and says 'NetApps first approached StorageTek behind the cover of a third-party intermediary seeking to purchase STK patents,' which Sun wouldn't do when it acquired StorageTek but 'instead

'While many of BEA's key competitors have yet to deliver a Java EE 5 compatible server,' said Wai Wong, BEA's executive vice president of products, 'BEA WebLogic Server 10.3 will bring to market the next wave of enhancements and support for this key specification.' Wong was speaking as

It is a complete myth, says Elliotte Rusty Harold, that Java is somehow incompatible with the LGPL. 'It seems that no matter how many times the FSF and others deny this canard, it just keeps coming back. It is a dangerous meme that seems completely immune to the truth.'

'With RichFaces, we're providing a powerful and simple way for developers to build robust AJAX and Web 2.0 applications while leveraging the power of Java EE,' said Red Hat/JBoss lead architect, as JBoss RichFaces 3.1 was today released at JBoss.org.

A quick refresh on Thinlet. Thinlet is a XUL styled UI development tool in which the UI can be designed using XML and the business logic is kept cleanly separate. From a Java class perspective, the version of Thinlet I used was MIDP 1.0 compliant and was pretty easy to work with, with

So, for those of you who were on the fence about building iPhone applications using Web 2.0 technologies, think about this: Your potential list of application users is about to grow beyond users of the iPhone, and will include a crapload of people buying new iPods. If you think about t

In a recent presentation I attended, the speaker warmed up with a couple of bulleted lists that outlined the agenda of the session before moving onto his third slide that was clearly many days, work of stitching together powerpoint glyphs and figures in a sort of three dimensional loop

Project Phobos is a complete development environment for Web applications running on the Java platform. In Phobos, JavaScript is the main language used on both the client and the server tier, resulting in a unified data and code representation across tiers. Phobos supports multiple AJA

As a company driven by innovation, Sun Microsystems is involved in a variety of open source projects related to AJAX technologies. This presentation will recap some of the most important projects that Sun is driving or actively participating in. These include: - jMaki: an AJAX framewor

The idea then came up again with the push to integrated software in the early 80s. Mitch Kapor and Lotus were selling the idea of an all-in-one package, Symphony, which was a word processor, database, spreadsheet, graphics and communication program, with a macro language tying it all t

This is an attempt to bring more attention to investors that just love Java as the programming language. Individual software engineers having some extra cash to invest (mainly the impulse buyers who do not have time to learn the rules of gambling on stock market) will quickly purchase

SourceLabs announced the availability of SASH 2 complete with a major new milestone - integrated support for Apache Tomcat. Comprised of the most widely deployed open source Java technologies used by the Global 2000, new SASH 2 is a robust platform that simplifies the development of en

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://aja xbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S

SYS-CON Events announced today that the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative ed

The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is busy sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadline for proposals is

A number of very significant development efforts are underway that bode well for Desktop Java's future. On the language side is the Java FX script project http:// www.sun.com/software/java fx/index.jsp. Java FX is neat because it provides a high-level scripting interface that runs on top