Kabira Technologies announced that it is building a Java technology-enabled product to work with its core product technology, the Kabira eXtreme Transaction Platform (KXTP) software. Marrying a Java technology development environment to the Kabira Runtime enables an application develop

Apple picked up PA Semi, the low-power PowerPC start-up, last week to do who knows what with, and Sun picked up the assets of Montalvo Systems, the laconic, heading-for-the-crapper start-up that was supposed to be doing an Intel-competitive low-power/mobile four-core x86 chip for reaso

In his opening keynote at the annual CommunityOne open source developer conference, Ian Murdock, vice president for Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems, will discuss the increasing role communities play in the software industry, how technologies and the companies and

Sun's back in the red again after five profitable quarters and five years in the red following the dot.com bust. The March quarter turned sour on it, starting, it said, with the first week in March when the channel stared reporting a drop in sales, a miasma that spread to its end-user

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community announced the availability of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Early Access for PHP scripting language, bringing the power of NetBeans to Web 2.0-style developers. Additionally they announced the general availability of t

Sun Microsystems announced two new offerings that will expand customer choice by providing users with access to Sun's innovative open source software running on the Amazon Web Services platform. Sun's OpenSolaris Operating System (OS) will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Clo

Sun is now offering a new virtualization service that will let ISVs run their Solaris apps in a multi-tenant on-demand environment without having to rewrite any code. The trick is in Solaris' Containers virtualization and its xVM widgetry. The new Solaris On Demand program will provide

What do - in no particular order - Microsoft's GM of Virtualization, VMware's CTO, the Founders of JBoss, XenSource and VirtualLogix, the former and current CEOs of Sun, the Presidents of WaveMaker and Embotics, the CTO of Adobe, the executive leader of DataDirect Technologies and the

Many young programmers don't read books anymore. They google. They argue, 'When I need to find a solution it's just a click away. Why bother purchasing books that are outdated by the time of printing? Real programmers learn by doing - trial and errors'. I do not agree with this.

Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to

Sun Microsystems, Canonical and Red Hat announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions, furthering the promise of Sun's open source Java technology initiative. In addition, the NetBeans 6.0 Integr

Sun Microsystems announced the addition of developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. Over 3,000 members and 30+ projects within

Zeus Technology announced the release of ZXTM 5.0 (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager). This latest version is equipped with Java Extensions, enabling application architects, administrators, and developers to control their application delivery using policies that build on the body of reus

Sun Microsystems announced details on the CommunityOne conference General Session that will be held May 5, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. CommunityOne is a free, one-day event that allows developers and students to benefit from the innovation and choice of the free and open s

Metallect announced the public beta release of its new architecture modeling software for Java developers, XMuddle for Java. 'Architecture models on whiteboards are commonly used to facilitate collaboration and understanding, but as the pace of development increases, it's just too hard

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office (PMO) and the Executive Committees, have announced the nominations for the 2008 JCP Program Annual Awards. Among the international honors for Java technology, the JCP Program Awards recognize excellence in Java standards develo

BlueWave Technology announced the availability of PipelineClaims 3.0. A Java-based web application that combines traditional claims administration with business process management to centralize claims operations into one business platform, the new version of the product also guides int

In last month's article I wrote about Open Source and Open Standards. This month, having just returned from the QCon conference (http://jaoo.d k/london-2008/conference/ ) in London, during which I discussed the role of community in the JCP, and particularly the role that individual ('non

Apple's taken some heat lately for their decision to push Safari to anybody who runs their Apple Software Update utility. I didn't want Safari, but unless I opt out of it I'll get it. Now Sun and Google are doing the same thing with the Google Toolbar. It isn't enough that they allow y

After a $1.5 million angel round, Desktone, which was started in 2006 by Eric Pulier, who also started SOA Software, US Interactive and IVT, picked up $17 million in first-round funding about a year ago from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital, Citrix Systems and the China-base

Is software development a science or an art? The software industry treats it as a science. It uses processes like MRDs, PRDs, and functional specs to convert customer needs into software that solves their problems. Various roles like product managers, engineering managers, project mana

Zimbra announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to the complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source and N

With only two weeks to go now before JavaOne, its annual Javaganza for developers, Sun has revealed that Java is at long last to be made 100% open source. 'We're trying to get Java into places it's never been before,' Rich Sands, group manager for developer marketing at Sun, told an in

Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl appl

Sun Microsystems and the Java Card Forum (JCF) announced the availability of version 3.0 of the Java Card (TM) platform specification. The new Java Card 3.0 platform specification is available in two separate editions: Java Card Platform v.3.0, Classic Edition and Java Card Platform v.

Openadaptor is a software toolkit that may be classified as a lightweight Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution. It provides a configurable component framework for connecting various systems and middleware implementations. In less technical parlance, the components are akin

Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex

Sun Microsystems announced that ITT has selected the Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS) and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) as the software development platform for its Eglin Control and Signal Processing Upgrade (CSPU) program. The Eglin Space Surveillance Radar (FPS-85), w

Guiffy Software announced that Systar has licensed the Guiffy SureMerge diff/merge library. Guiffy is bundled with and integrated into the Systar BusinessBridgeNG upgrade tool. BusinessBridgeNG is Systar's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution.

Terracotta and Hyperic announced a technology license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Hyperic's SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) has been incorporated into Terracotta 2.6. Hyperic's cross-platform SIGAR enables Terracotta to obtain key operating system and

Terracotta announced that Pearson VUE has deployed Terracotta's software following a thorough technology evaluation. Pearson VUE selected Terracotta to achieve scale and high performance for its web-based application, while reducing its cost of custom application coding. Pearson VUE is

Terracotta announced the latest version of the open source Java clustering solution, Terracotta version 2.6. Building on the growing adoption of Terracotta, the new version offers a host of new features including cluster visualization, improved performance and official support for Tomc

Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The

The real bummer is that Java 6 is not there. Who should we blame for it? Steve Jobs who openly states that nobody uses Java anymore? There are about 5 million professional Java developers around the world. Can you give them a good reason to buy MacBook Pro? I can't.

My friends recently debated who the greatest baseball player was. Names that popped up right away were Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Nolan Ryan, Cy Young, and Sandy Koufax. Cy Young had 511 wins, 14 seasons where he won 20 games and five other seasons where he won 30 games. But Sandy Koufax

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has been telling Reuters that Sun is in the process of certifying Ubuntu on some of its low-end and mid-size hardware. The code it's certifying is Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu 8.04 rev that's due out later this month. Sun told the wire service that it's makin

2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T

Clerity announced that it has entered into an agreement to invest and take controlling interest in Veryant, a software technology firm focused on COBOL development and Java deployment solutions. With an estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL in use today, there is opportunity to enhance

Aonix announced the release of PERC Ultra 5.1 with support for Wind River Linux. The characteristics of Java found in PERC Ultra to address the scalability, manageability, reliability, security, and performance needs of networking and telecommunications equipment providers are also add

This article presents a case study of the use of meta-programming in Java compatibility testing. It shows how parts of the source code can be shared between different products and modified to generate programs targeting specific functions and describes the approach Sun Microsystems has