NEWS & VIEWS

Java: What does its future hold?
11/19/2009 -  Fourteen years ago, a marketing genius at Sun Microsystems changed the name of a cross-platform experimental language from the very dependable-sounding "Oak" to the hyper-caffeinated moniker "Java," and proved once again why engineers are scared of the power that the marketing department can unleash when lightning strikes.
Peter Wayner, InfoWorld

JetBrains upgrades Ruby IDE
11/18/2009 -  JetBrains this week unveiled an upgrade to its IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, adding more code refactoring capabilities.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Apple lets iPhone developers track App Store progress
11/12/2009 -  Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple's strict App Store review process. Many see the move as yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers from defecting to competing mobile platforms -- namely Android.
Jacqueline Emigh, PC World

Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash
11/12/2009 -  JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now."
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Now open source: Several of Google's JavaScript tools
11/12/2009 -  Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

Java, BlackBerry get critical security fixes
11/12/2009 -  Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.
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Microsoft buys bridge between Java and .Net developers
11/12/2009 -  Microsoft announced this month plans to acquire technology that has enabled Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server) software to be an ALM (application lifecycle management) server for different software development platforms. The company will purchase Teamprise-related assets from SourceGear. Teamprise software lets Java developers using Eclipse-based IDEs or developers leveraging operating systems including Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X build applications via Visual Studio TFS.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Palm's Ares WebOS tool allows for easy app dev
11/12/2009 -  Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service

Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade
11/12/2009 -  The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, eyeing improvements in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel said earlier this month.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Spring 3.0 framework for Java to debut
10/20/2009 -  Spring 3.0, a major upgrade to the popular open source Java development framework, is being introduced this week by SpringSource and features full REST support for rich Web applications as well as an expression language.
Paul Krill, InfoWorld

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