Java Industry News

Twelve Things You Didn't Know About Jetty

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:15:00 EDT

In the past couple of years, interest in Jetty has surged. Jetty is an open source Java-based web and application server and servlet container, but what else do you know about it? To commemorate the 12th anniversary of Jetty, here are 12 things that might surprise you

The Beauty of JavaScript

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:00 EDT

JavaScript is one of the most interesting and misunderstood programming languages in common use today. Most developers will go their entire careers without realizing its full potential. It's not often that you get a language that supports the feature set that JavaScript does, while still being as widely deployed. This talk will spotlight some some patterns surrounding JavaScript's most elegant features such as closures, lambdas, object and array literals, object prototypes, private members and dynamic scope resolution -- all without boring you to tears.

Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT

JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. The best nature of JavaScript was so effectively hidden that for many years the prevailing opinion of JavaScript was that it was an unsightly, incompetent abomination. This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable and maintainable.

Product Review: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:18:00 EDT

The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is self-describing data via the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The benefits of XML over opaque message formats in data interchange are well established. No matter if your focus is SOAP, REST, POX, or syndication with RSS or ATOM, your applications will revolve around XML processing.

Cloud Computing Bootcamp - Updated Simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDB

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But moving to a cloud infrastructure is not necessarily as nice and clean as the providers would want you to think. With cloud infrastructures problems don't magically go away; they just shift: you don't have scalability or storage problems any more, but you need to constantly monitor the cloud and your application in it.

GigaSpaces and GoGrid Launch Cloud Computing Solution

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

GigaSpaces Technologies and GoGrid have announced the availability of the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) on GoGrid's enterprise-grade cloud computing service for Windows and Linux. The two companies’ joint offering enables enterprises to migrate existing and new Java, J2EE, .NET and C++ applications to a cloud computing infrastructure with an hourly pay-per-use pricing model.

SOA World Expo - Web Services Using Apache CXF

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SOA, which is being adopted by more and more enterprises to build their application integration infrastructure.

Terracotta Extends Value of Java Clustering Solution

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:04:00 EDT

Terracotta has announced the latest version of their open source Java clustering solution, Terracotta version 2.7. The new version builds on the adoption of Terracotta in specific vertical markets and applications such as reservation systems, online gaming, and information portals. In addition, it offers extended support for the Spring framework and Glassfish application server, and delivers enhanced scalability, performance, and operational visibility.

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to Ship with Open Source jQuery

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:00:00 EDT

Microsoft said, “Going forward we’ll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new AJAX server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client template support) will be designed to integrate nicely with jQuery as well.”

RIA Conference Keynotes: Adobe & Microsoft

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging, effective user experiences across operating systems and browsers.

The JavaFX SDK Has Landed

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:45:00 EDT

At last year's JavaOne Chris Oliver gave a presentation on JavaFX in which he discussed how he was interested in programming Java2D not in terms of JComponent paintEvent methods that launch into graphics.drawLine(…) or graphics.drawRect(…) code, but instead by allowing the developer to create an object model representing a Java2D picture.

Infragistics Announces NetAdvantage for JSF

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Infragistics has announced the immediate availability of Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 Volume 2, a complete set of pre-built, quality-tested components based on JavaServer Faces that allows developers to create Java UIs. With these AJAX-enabled components, developers can leverage the power of JSF to build and deliver high-performance, robust Web 2.0 applications.

InterSystems Introduces DeepSee

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Responding to the growing demand for business intelligence (BI) capabilities that enable real-time decision-making for operational business processes, InterSystems Corporation has announced InterSystems DeepSee embedded real-time BI software. DeepSee aims to broaden the use of BI to decision makers at all organization levels driving more effective day-to-day execution across the enterprise.

IBM's Got Its Head in the Clouds

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid computing, Web Services, virtualization and utility computing. IBM calls its initiative Blue Cloud - like it could have another name - and claims it's a 'game-changing model for Internet-scale computing,' providing customer with just the right size computer power while at one and the same time being 'green' as well as 'self-healing and self-managing' based on open standards and Linux. Lordy, if this thing was a cute guy with money, it would be every mother's dream.

AccuRev Selected by Avid

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

AccuRev announced that Avid Technology has standardized on AccuRev for software development process management. Avid selected AccuRev after an evaluation of providers to support multiple cross-platform development teams spread across several geographically distributed locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

AccuRev Adds Personalized Process Visualization Capabilities

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:33:00 EDT

AccuRev announced AccuRev 4.7 for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM), with major new scalability and personalized process visualization capabilities. These new capabilities enable enterprises to easily scale as development teams grow beyond thousands of users managing hundreds of thousands of assets. AccuRev improves a development organization’s ability to fully understand the dynamic relationships between projects, and drives maximum software code reuse.

Server-Side JavaScript - All the Cool Kids Are Doing It!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:00:00 EDT

In this session that no developer who uses JavaScript or ActionScript will want to miss, delegates will learn how to: Overcome common hurdles and pitfalls of client-side only JavaScript development, Speed up development time by cutting out extra server-side code and processing scripts that are no longer necessary, and Clean up your code base by reducing (or even eliminating) the number of languages needed to leverage to accomplish common tasks (i.e. Why bother with server-side PHP scripts to fetch database results when you can do it all in JavaScript on the server? Why mess with Curl to fetch content that your JavaScript code can grab in one line?)

Infobright Launches Open Source Data Warehouse Offerings

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:30:00 EDT

Infobright has announced availability of its new open source data warehouse software, Infobright Community Edition (ICE). This enterprise-class, self-managing solution is an alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance data warehouse products. Infobright is also launching www.infobright.org, the new community home and development portal for open source enthusiasts with corporate data warehouse needs.

Transforming J2EE Applications Into Web 2.0 Using GWT

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDT

The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive; adding AJAX widgets results in a complex, unmaintainable application. Both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers. Google Web Toolkit -- the SDK that allows you to write AJAX interfaces in Java -- enables your Java developers to layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, to change HTML views into XML or JSON services, and to resist opening security holes by putting state and control flow logic into the client.

Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:45:00 EDT

The amount of JavaScript code on the client side is increasing significantly with the growing popularity of Ajax and Web 2.0. Web developers rely on JavaScript heavily these days in order to deliver a richer user experience. Including a either home-grown or third party JavaScript library and application specific code, today’s web applications can easily have several thousand lines of JavaScript code, or even tens of thousands of lines.

Lesson Learnd from Using Rhino to Process JavaScript

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:04:00 EDT

This entry documents a few tips related to using Rhino JavaScript Engine to process JavaScript code. If you are using Rhino, you probably won’t run into the issues covered in this post during development or even testing. However, you are fairly likely to run into these issues after your system goes live. It would easily result in days or even weeks of soul searching (speaking from my personal experience:-)). Part of the problem seems to be the lack of documentation from the web. The other part of the problem is that the problem is rather a Java language problem(very convoluted). - Java limits the maximum method size to be 64KB.

From Enterprise to Cloud, Virtualization Today on SYS-CON.TV

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:00:00 EDT

Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who joined me in the 4th Floor Reuters TV Studio overlooking Times Square in New York City for a special SYS-CON.TV "Virtualization Power Panel."

Using Spring as an Object Container

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:15:00 EDT

When you work with open source ESBs, you can use other tools and frameworks to help you solve common problems. Spring is one of the tools that extends the basic functionality of the ESBs Mule and ServiceMix and makes solving integration problems a lot easier. Spring is a component framework that makes it easy to work with Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs).

A Brief Overview of Java EE 6

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:45:00 EDT

During the last several years JEE became a stable and mature but not too exciting environment. People routinely were bashing JEE for not being cool and a number of Java developers defected to Spring trying to get high. But JEE6 looks really interesting.

SOA World Expo - Logging for SOA

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

What could be a problem with logging in SOA in the presence of such wonderful tools like log4j, Java’s logging library and similar? Why might we need something special for SOA and why aren’t existing techniques enough? The answer is simple and complex simultaneously – in SOA we are dealing with distributed and composed entities that cause problems in log maintenance, not in log creation.

Sun Microsystems Strikes Multi-Million Dollar Deal with ERP Software Company

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:45:00 EDT

Sun Microsystems has announced the addition of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stésud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open source MySQL database and GlassFish application server software. This Belgium-based enterprise company joins Australian online travel pioneer Wotif.com and hundreds of other companies that now rely on MySQL and GlassFish as a lower-cost, higher-performance alternative to traditional database and application server software.

OpTier Unveils CoreFirst 3.0

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:52:00 EDT

OpTier has announced the immediate availability of CoreFirst 3.0. Deployed in complex IT environments, CoreFirst links business and IT so that transactions flow smoothly through the IT infrastructure, ensuring that services remain uninterrupted and business goals are met. OpTier also announced that CoreFirst 3.0 now supports the Microsoft Application Framework (.NET).

Aonix Ports Deterministic Virtual Machine to PikeOS

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Aonix released PERC Ultra 5.1 cross development and target support on Sysgo's PikeOS 2.2 real-time operating system. PERC Ultra support of the PikeOS POSIX PSE52 profile provides a solution for the increasing need for portability across multiple operating systems as industries such as military and aerospace, transportation, telecommunications, automotive and industrial automation, face the challenge of maintaining legacy systems. The deterministic behavior and real-time performance of Aonix's PERC Ultra meets the stringent requirements of these applications and enables developers to apply Java's portability to their modernizing efforts.

Application Factories – An Application-Driven Development Methodology

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:40:00 EDT

What's the key to team and individual developer productivity in maintaining and extending a large application? Let’s start by making the following assertions: A developer's knowledge of an application code base is likely the single biggest factor of individual productivity. Correspondingly, the team's collective knowledge of an application code base is the single biggest factor of team productivity.

Stepping Out of the Sandbox

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet can then access the client system resources by way of the security manager.

The Role of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Applications

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI, ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a proven paradigm in system-level programs, war and military simulator applications, gaming, and other areas. EDA has started to shape how general-purpose business applications are architected.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Now Available

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Furthering its dedication to providing Java developers productivity with choice, Oracle announced the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. This release marks the first free Eclipse 3.4 environment to support Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.

Java, Standards, and Free Software in Europe

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Government intervention and direction has long been critical to the development of the computer industry. The Internet, after all, was derived from the ARPANET, developed in the early 1970s from a U.S. government-sponsored research project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Today local, national, and supranational governments from Latin America to the United States to Europe continue to influence the development of our industry.

Maximizing Java Performance with Bespoke Programming

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:24:00 EDT

Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke implementation and show that writing programs that utilize novel data structures and new algorithms designed with knowledge of the specific problem context is a necessary complement to the generic components and automatic optimizations offered by compilers and modern JVMs to maximize performance.

MyEclipse Delivers Advanced AJAX Tools for Ganymede

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0 milestone 1. This milestone release delivers advanced AJAX tooling for Java EE and full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities for Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, among other enhancements.

WebSphere Gets An AJAX Booster Shot, Eclipse Ganymede Support

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Genuitec announced the availability of the first milestone release of MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition. This release provides WebSphere developers with advanced AJAX tooling, enhanced reporting technologies and Eclipse 3.4 support, among other enhancements.

Clear Toolkit for Flex Goes Private Beta

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:41:00 EDT

Clear Toolkit 3.0 is a set of components, code generators, and plugins created by software engineers of Farata Systems that they were using internally in multiple Flex enterprise projects. This toolkit will be available free of charge.

ESRI and i-cubed's Launch of DataDoors for ArcGIS Advances User Acquisition of National and International Imagery Data

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Aerial and satellite imagery, topographic maps, and terrain data available from ESRI's ArcGIS Online Services can now be accessed and purchased via the Web application DataDoors for ArcGIS. Developed by ESRI business partner i-cubed, the application enables geographic information system (GIS) users to select, order, and acquire a variety of raster data, available online, for offline usage in their GIS projects.

Advertising on Google.com Requires No Personally Identifiable Information (PII), States Executive

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:30:00 EDT

"Advertising on Google.com is contextual, requires no personally identifiable information, is not provided by a third-party, and does not collect any information in addition to the basic information collected to provide search results," asserts Google's Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Alan Davidson.