Vringo announced the addition of Discovery Channel video ringtones to its offering. Vringo users can share video clips of volcanoes, bees, skyrockets and any of 20 other videos, using their mobile phones. Vringo subscribers worldwide will be able to personalize their own video ringtone

IT Mill Ltd has released version 5.0 of its IT Mill Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 open source license. With IT Mill Toolkit 5 developers now have the building blocks for RIAs that will allow them to work with Java alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites client-side AJAX tools with server-side Java to

Redmond Developer News has published an interview with Dr. James Gosling, creator of the Java language, where among other things, he talks about JavaFX and competing technologies. And he made a comment I can't agree with. Here it is: 'If you look at something like Flash, when you get t

Is it easy yet to make AJAX applications that easily go offline? Are developers better off using an AJAX framework, a toolkit or just coding their own AJAX/JavaScript? Will JavaScript 2.0 be a success, or a dud? How can AJAX apps be made secure? Sessions on these and dozens of other to

Front-end engineering rocks right now. The era of boring web sites is over and we're all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application. New companies building quick-turnaround web products spring up l

McObject announced that Perst, its all-Java object-oriented, open source embedded database, has been verified as compatible with the Android mobile device platform backed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

In October we announced the winners of the first round of this year's JCP elections, during which members voted for three Sun-nominated candidates on each Executive Committee (EC). To refresh your memory, the winners on the Java ME EC were Research in Motion (RIM), Samsung, and Time Wa

The open source Mobile & Embedded Community is a gathering place where developers can collaborate, innovate, and drive the evolution of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). Launched in November 2006, more than 500 active members are participating in more than 80 projects, most of

JavaFX is a scripting language that provides more powerful client applications in term of features for the user interface experience as well as being incorporated with server platform technology such as RMI, Web Services, and EJB. Its ability to reuse all Java libraries opens an opport

Introduced commercially by Sun Microsystems in 1995, the Java programming language will be a teenager in 2008. Java has seen tremendous growth in its 13 years. Its design, ease-of-use, and most importantly its portability has made Java the fastest-growing programming language in comput

To wish you Happy Holidays (and if you'll permit me, a very merry Christmas) I wrote this Compiled JavaFX Script Applet (that executes in a browser). For fast deployment I used the latest version of Java SE 6 Update 10 (formerly known as Java SE Update N, formerly known as Consumer JRE

froglogic GmbH today announced version 3.3 of the leading, cross-platform automated GUI testing tool Squish. Squish supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on many user interface technologies including Trolltech's Qt, Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans, Java SWT/Ec

Unit tests give us the confidence to change applications, even legacy applications that we didn't write ourselves. To avoid the drudgery of writing a test case for every edge and boundary, we can let JUnit Factory generate a large set of characterization tests for us. If we need to exp

One of the most fundamental design principles of Java is captured in its motto 'Write Once, Run Anywhere.' It describes how a .class file encodes its instructions at the bytecode level, allowing portability between different machines that, through a specific virtual machine implementat

In a surprise move Thursday Red Hat named the former COO of Delta Airlines Jim Whitehurst president and CEO, replacing Matthew Szulik who remains chairman. Szulik said he was stepping down after almost 10 years with the company because of serious health issues with his family that he h

With any new technology, best practice documents are invaluable in helping developers avoid common errors and design quality systems. There is much literature already available regarding best practices for using Java Management Extensions (JMX) in monitoring and management applications

A mere 5 ½ months after contract singing, net-linx is pleased to announce that Folha de Londrina has taken nxAdvertising into live use, including 12 remote locations, supporting some 30 remote users. Folha de Londrina, a daily metro, is located in Londrina in the state of Parana, app

Objective Interface Systems, Inc. announced that ORBexpress RT, its high-performance CORBA ORB, now supports Mentor Graphics Corporation's Nucleus operating system. Developers of a wide variety of resource-constrained devices can now get a high-performance, small-footprint software dev

Think of Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) and you probably think about screen popping IT systems and automated dialling. And you might also think CTI is a complex system development. Rostrvm Solutions? new Java toolbar provides easily-deployable standard CTI functions and more.

Jinfonet Software has announced the general release of JReport 8.2, the latest release of its reporting solution, with more than 60 enhancements. JReport 8.2 delivers enhancements in three key areas: performance improvements, greater developer flexibility and an enhanced user experienc

In my opinion this is THE biggest announcement that I?ve heard from Adobe since the release Flex 2 in the Summer of 2006. This is bigger than open sourcing Flex. This is bigger than AIR. Here's the news: Adobe is open sourcing AMF protocol and messaging under LGPL V3. Christophe Coenra

In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com

Application development organizations lag behind their business and IT peers when it comes to their use of metrics, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Borland Software. Despite the pivotal role of IT in enabling business agility and support

JetBrains has just announced the final availability from Monday, December 17 of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy an

Sun, which has not exactly rallied the open source community around it - for all its belated overtures - is now proposing to pay developers prize money to work on OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSparc, NetBeans and OpenOffice. According to Simon Phipps' blog - he's Sun's chief ope

Red Hat has swept up its messaging, real-time and grid mojo into a little beta pile it's calling Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a distributed computing platform that's optimized to run on top of RHEL, of course, but can work on other platforms as well, it says, either individually or in combi

Sun says it's got the first piece of its proposed xVM virtualization platform, the thing it says it's going to put $2 billion in R&D into and open source. It's the xVM Ops Center, described as a highly scalable data center automation tool for managing heterogeneous environments. And it

In the last two days lots of compiled JavaFX Script features became functional, including many of the UI components, and much of the graphics functionality. I would like to publicly extend my thanks and appreciation to the talented and diligent JavaFX Script Compiler team for achieving

db4objects announced that db4o runs seamlessly on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced recently by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. The Android stack comes complete with application framework, development environment, tools, debuggers and vital a

ClearApp has announced support for Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, with the latest version of its flagship ASM solution, QuickVision 7.5. The product's support of Oracle SOA Suite can provide customers with a top-down topology of their SOA applications across

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions

Coach Wei, whose Java credentials are impeccable, opened up a can of worms by raising the issue of why Java's not in favor any more for building web sites, even complex ones. Even a complex site like Facebook, Wei noted, is not written in Java. 'Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to

A critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, com

In a very short time Ruby on Rails has gained popularity in the enterprise development community among both programmers and system managers. As an open source platform, Ruby is proving to offer a number of advantages for powering enterprise applications, not the least of which is a sho

Zenoss has released a new version of Zenoss Enterprise. The new version adds several enterprise-grade capabilities for network, server and application management including discovery and monitoring of virtual servers, new application monitors including templates for the most popular Jav

As I've mentioned before, compiled JavaFX Script is currently under development, and one of the last pieces of the puzzle is the UI features. Currently there are a few UI features that are operational in the compiled version, for example Frame, BorderPanel and Button. Fortunately, the

Software virtualization is the ability to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same computer. The basic premise is that for most of the day your server is basically idle and the CPU and memory are not tasked with processes all day long, the server has excess capacity

Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon

VS 2008 can also be used to build AJAX-based web apps. It can be used to target multiple versions of software like existing .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 programs and continue to deploy them on .NET 2.0 machines. .NET Framework 3.5 supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Wor

The first round of this year's JCP elections is complete. In this round Sun nominates members for election to six ratified seats on the Executive Committees (ECs): three seats on the Java ME Executive Committee (EC) and three on the Java SE/EE EC. A second round of elections takes plac