ESRI's Java Developer
Webinar on December 13
ESRI will host an online
seminar this month that
will help Java developers
learn about how to build
custom GIS Web
applications using ArcGIS
Server. Building
Applications with ArcGIS
Server Using the Java
Platform will air on
ESRI's Training and
Education Web site...
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Wouldn't JSR 311 - a.k.a.
JAX-RS: The Java API for
RESTful Web Services - be
more accurately named if
it were called the 'Java
HTTP Server API'? That is
the question asked this
week by Elliotte Rusty
Harold, Java author and
expert. 'I no longer
think this API is a b...
In the aftermath of the
latest spat between
Rubyists and Javaholics,
it might be worth noting
that Ruby is now the 10th
most popular programming
language, up from 13th
place a year ago. That,
anyway, is the story
according to the TIOBE
Programming Community
index ...
NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is
now available for
download. Beta 2 comes
bundled with MySQL and
PostgreSQL drivers, and
improvements to Ruby code
completion and Woodstock
4.1 Build 14. The focus
of NetBeans 6.0 is
superior developer
productivity with a
smarter, faster edit...
'Some folks are far too
eager to misinterpret
statements and put words
in my mouth,' wrote James
Gosling recently in his
blog, in a post titled
'JavaME Is *Not* Dead!' -
a rebuttal to a recent
report in the UK media
that JavaFX Mobile was
perhaps going to eclipse
...
In the canon of anti-Java
/ Pro Ruby articles, none
has achieved the center
of attention swifter than
the one written last
month by
blogger-developer Obie
Fernandez, who
self-describes himself as
'committed to making the
world of software
development a more
enjo...
In a demonstration of its
commitment to
transparency and
illustrating its
philosophy of 'Innovate,
Act, Share,' Sun has
released its second
annual Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR)
report. The report
features the company's
progress and
exemplifiesits continu...
BEA, Cognos, and
Informatica have all been
named yesterday by a
Credit Suisse analyst
Jason Maynard as possible
acquisition targets in
the wake of the SAP
acquisition of Business
Objects. According to
Marketwatch.com, the Dow
Jones site, 'to date, SAP
has been ple...
A new breed of web
manager is emerging to
link content management
more closely to website
visitor satisfaction. The
new web manager may
operate under several
professional guises:
'customer advocate,'
'information guru,' or
'metator,' to name just a
few. They need ...
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
...
Speaking at a conference
yesterday, Gordon Moore
conceded that there are
fundamental limits to
Moore's Law and that the
laws of physics will
render it obsolete in
about ten to fifteen
years' time.
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 ...
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.'
'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....
For those interested in
the history of Java's
naming, Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz this week asked
James Gosling, Java's
inventor, for his
recollection. Here's his
response. We ended up
with a board covered with
essentially random words.
Then he put us through a
sort...
'Am I worried that the
Java platform may not
last forever...? No.'
That was the overriding
message of a late-night
post by Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz yesterday, in
response to the welter of
comments left on his blog
after his announcement a
week ago today of the
SU...
'I guess Sun is just
trying to find that next
motivational tool for
itself through this
ticker change,' wrote one
blogger yesterday. 'I
hope that they don't
continue to invest in
products and services
that don't make money for
their investors,
especially shareholders.'
'Java touches nearly
everyone - everyone - who
touches the Internet,'
blogged Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz last week.
'Hundreds of millions of
users see Java, and its
ubiquitous logo, every
day. On PCs, mobile
phones, game consoles -
you name it, wherever the
network...
SYS-CON Media
(www.sys-con.com), the
world's leading
i-technology media and
events company, has
announced the winners and
finalists of its 2007
Java Developer's Journal
Readers' Choice Awards.
Goldman Sachs predicted
another restructuring at
Sun last week amid the
euphoria that a first
look at Sun's June
numbers engendered with
investors and, lo and
behold, Sun Tuesday
confided to the SEC that
it's anticipating
throwing a unquantified
number of its staf...
When Norman Richards
first encountered Seam,
he was looking for a way
to get away from sticky
glue code and
micro-managing beans in
XML. 'What I found was a
fundamentally different
way to write web
applications,' he says.
'I think Seam not only
ups the bar for Jav...
