Google Collections Library 1.0 released
On December 30th, Google released version 1.0-final of its Google Collections Library, an extension of the Java Collection Framework. Google […]
Interview: Open sourcing of IntelliJ IDEA
A few weeks ago, JetBrains announced the open sourcing of its IDE platform IntelliJ IDEA. We spoke with Roman Strobl, technology evangelist at Jetbrains, about the goals of the new strategy, plans for the future and the new Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA 9.
Interview with Craig Russell on JPA 2.0
Craig Russell is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is specification lead for Java Data Objects (JSR 12 and 243) and leads the implementation team for its reference implementation and technology compatibility kit. In this interview we asked him about the new JPA 2.0 version, about persistence in general and the future of O/R mapping.
JVM Language Summit 2009: Stars and Starlets
The JVM Language Summit 2009, a conference dedicated to the advancement of programming languages executing on top of the JVM, […]
Interview with Charles Nutter: We were unable to plan the future
Yesterday we heard the news, that the JRuby team at Sun Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Nick Sieger are leaving the company and heading to Rails application hosting company Engine Yard. We talked to Charles Nutter to find out the circumstances and the future of JRuby.
Charles Nutter and JRuby team leave Sun
The JRuby team at Sun – Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Nick Sieger – are leaving the company and heading […]
Microsoft’s profits continue to fall
Hit by recession Microsoft’s profit continues to fall at an accelerating speed. For the quarter ending June 30, Microsoft’s revenue […]
AMD ships 500 millionth x86 processor
AMD, the second largest global supplier of microprocessors, has announced it has just shipped 500 million x86 processors. The company […]
RSA introduces SecureID token for iPhone
RSA has launched a new SecureID token for iPhones that can be used to authenticate enterprise applications and resources. Available […]
Michael Spector talks about PDT 2.1 and PHP 5.3
The Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), among the most popular Eclipse projects, have reached a high level of maturity with the latest release 2.1. Michael Spector explains what´s new in the Galileo version of PDT and what we can expect in future releases.
100,000 users to try Google Wave
Gmail’s much anticipated sibling Google Wave is getting ready to enter semi-public beta phase. The tool that blends email and […]
Open Source For America
A new coalition has come into existence to promote open source software in the United States government. OSA (Open Source […]
The Human Side of SOA
Application architectures have evolved greatly over the last 30 years of computing. Theyve shifted back and forth from proprietary character-mode terminals with centralised processing to client-server applications with distributed processing. Then, they shifted to the centralised hosting of applications but this time with open standards-based, web-delivered front-ends. Each of these trends included a variety of methods to connect disparate systemsmany proprietary, some without any re-usable characteristics and all typically requiring the developers, operators and maintainers to learn a new set of skills and the organisation to put new processes in place. These upheavals invariably created friction and frustration for the individuals and the organisation involved.
Spring Roo Grails only with Java or more?
In his keynote at the SpringOne at the end of April in Amsterdam Rod Johnson introduced Spring Roo as the new project of SpringSource, the manufacturer of the well-known Spring Open Source Framework. What is behind that?
