CouchDB vs Couchbase
Damien Katz's decision to move towards commercially viable CouchDB causes community backlash
A mixed bag for OSGi as 2012 begins
They may have lost inspirational director and evangelist Peter Kriens, but receive huge boost for JavaSE 8 modularity
A busy year for the guys at Eclipse
Eclipse 4 becomes base platform, the Github move and much much more in store
Landmark release for the revolutionary IDE
First time Java FX 2.0 has been in the open source IDE. Also includes a vastly improved Swing GUI builder
A big year for JavaFX
Richard Bair details his goals for 2012, leaving many excited at the prospects for JavaFX and OpenJDK
Save the date...
Compromise over date and structure of the trial to keep both hopefully appeased
The first of many IBM acquisitions this year?
Deal should give IBM much needed revitalisation in the cloud department
New Release
Burgeoning community gets new features such as ThreadPoolFactory
The patent war heats up!
Google looks to be bulking up their portfolio ahead of more legal wrangling with Oracle in the coming year.
Optimum PrimeFaces?
The popular open source JSF component suite reaches its third major release
Column
Joachim Arrasz discusses why developers ought to be more pragmatic than dogmatic, using a Spring scenario
After six years of gestation, it's finally here
2012 is the year of the yellow elephant as enterprises all shift to Hadoop
Apocalypse Now?
Stephen Colebourne and James Governor offer their predictions for Java and the entire industry as we head into the new year
The path couldn't be clearer for cloud computing
Nodeable CEO Dave Rosenberg offers some interesting thoughts for cloud computing - is the hybrid cloud a reality?
A glimpse into the crystal ball
John Stevenson offers three predictions for the year ahead
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