NEWS & VIEWS

JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE
10/15/2009 -  JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, open source version of the IDE.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Fate of some Sun technologies still up in the air
10/14/2009 -  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been fawning all over Sun Microsystems technologies lately, such as Java, the Solaris OS, the MySQL database, and the Sparc CPU platform. But it still remains to be seen how Oracle will deal with redundancies in the Java enterprise application server and IDE spaces once Sun becomes part of Oracle.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Oracle shows off sheer technology volume
10/14/2009 -  An Oracle official at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference gave a glimpse into the volume of technologies coming out of the company. The company this week also detailed a host of software development-related product plans.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Sun, Oracle chiefs vow: Sun technologies will live on
10/14/2009 -  Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both took the stage at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference Sunday evening to offer reassurances that Sun technologies will not go away should Oracle complete its planned acquisition of Sun.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

OpenWorld to shed light on Oracle's Java plans
10/09/2009 -  Oracle's long-term agenda for Java may come into focus next week as the company plans to place Sun's application development technology in the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 spotlight, beginning with Sunday's keynote, which will feature Sun Chairman Scott McNealy and Sun Vice President James Gosling, considered the father of Java, alongside Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Eclipse Pulsar smartphone app dev platform gets an upgrade
10/07/2009 -  In an upgraded release of its Eclipse Pulsar tools platform for smartphone application development Wednesday, the Eclipse Foundation will add support for Ericsson and Sony Ericsson developer communities.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

RIM extends BlackBerry app development to Web developers
10/06/2009 -  Research In Motion (RIM) will preview on Tuesday  technologies enabling application builders to use Web development skills to build programs for the company's BlackBerry smartphone.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

IBM tool eases JavaScript development
10/05/2009 -  Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Google Noop project features JVM-based language
10/05/2009 - 

Google is hosting a language project called Noop, which initially targets the Java Virtual Machine and is intended to encourage industry best practices and discourage "worst offenses."


Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Genuitec readies Eclipse IDE update
10/05/2009 -  Genuitec has rolled out a milestone release of its MyEclipse 8.0 Java IDE based on the Eclipse 3.5 open source tools platform and featuring a Java profiler and anti-bloat capabilities.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

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