JavaFX SDK Preview released
Early adopters will be able to get their hands on a preview SDK for JavaFX as of Thursday, marking Sun's entry into the RIA
framework wars.
Chris Kanaracus,
July 2008
Tim Bray slams SOAP ... and Java
Tim Bray at OSCON lauds REST as an SOAP alternative and declares the future of programming will be 'multilanguage.'
Paul Krill,
July 2008
NetBeans to support Jython
NetBeans widens reach by adding support for Python/Jython and eventually PHP.
Paul Krill,
July 2008
JBoss AS 5 coming ... soon
JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey announces the coming release of JBoss AS 5 and explains the long delay.
Chris Kanaracus,
July 2008
Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support
Java modularity is just one piece of Sun's effort to 'rightsize' the Java platform.
Paul Krill,
May 2008
Ruby faces off against PHP, Java
Rubyists compared PHP and Java during a panel session at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Paul Krill,
May 2008
Low marks for Eclipse 'integrated everything environment'
Still tops for tools integration, a recent survey shows Eclipse losing ground to other IDEs in ease of use, debugging, documentation,
and built application performance.
Paul Krill,
April 2008
Is Agile at a standstill?
Scott Ambler's SD West conference hit a low note on Monday, with news of Agile's slump.
Paul Krill,
March 2008
Guess who's learning Cobol?
With 75% of business data still processed using Cobol, a new generation of programmers is needed to replace retirement-age
boomers.
Tam Halbert,
February 2008
Android's cross-platform potential in doubt
Android dangles the prize of "write once, run anywhere" development, but can it deliver?
Ephraim Schwartz,
February 2008
Android clicks to life at Mobile World Congress
Fast development cycle makes Android a 'disruptor' in packed mobile phone market.
Peter Sayer,
February 2008
JEOPARD to leverage multicore for real-time
The Open Group has partnered with a consortium of European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers, universities,
and research organizations to build a framework for Java-based, real-time applications on modern multicore chips and parallel
processor systems.
Paul Krill,
February 2008
Grails 1.0 released
Nearly 3 years in the making, 1.0 release is a milestone.
Paul Krill,
February 2008
Java EE 6 profiles bright for Spring
Java EE 6 profiles could enable standardized combinations of technologies without the weighty legacy of the full Java EE platform.
Paul Krill,
January 2008
SpringSource acquires Covalent
Merger deepens support for Spring-plus-Tomcat as a lightweight alternative to Java EE.
Paul Krill,
January 2008
Recent top five:
Let's talk about exceptions ...
How do you handle exceptions? Do you think upfront about the type of exceptions that you want to catch or do you just let
the outside world handle it?
-- Jeroen van Bergen in JW Blogs
