Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems' Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds,
according to a Jan. 30 post on the project's official blog.
Chris Kanaracus,
February 2010
Oracle's big bear hug for Java bodes really well
It's been almost 10 months since I first pondered the possibility of an Oracle/Sun merger. Now, with the European Commission's
last objection lifted, that merger is finally a reality. Senior Oracle execs outlined their plans for Sun in a media event
Wednesday, and while most of the attention was on Oracle's forthcoming line of integrated hardware/software solutions based
on Sun technologies, there was encouraging news for Java developers, too.
Neil McCallister,
February 2010
Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years'
Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees
and stakeholders.
Paul McNamara,
January 2010
Report: Oracle plans to hire more employees than it cuts from Sun
With Oracle's anticipated purchase of Sun drawing near, company CEO Larry Ellison disclosed plans to hire 2,000 engineering
and sales employees - more workers than it's expected to cut from Sun's workforce, according a The Wall Street Journal report
posted Tuesday.
Ted Samson,
January 2010
CoffeeScript brewing as variation on JavaScript
CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as "unfancy JavaScript," is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript
but offers a different sense of style.
Paul Krill,
January 2010
It's a (jQuery) cookbook!
Books written by a cast of thousands aren't usually very good. The most common problem is that the multiple-author book winds
up reading like a bunch of chapters written by different people for different audiences in different styles all slapped together,
with a table of contents and index added as an afterthought.
Martin Heller,
December 2009
Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but is silent on Oracle
Sun Microsystems officials introduced last week upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company's latest
implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the room: how the company's efforts might be impacted
by the planned acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
Paul Krill,
December 2009
Sun to shed light on latest Java technologies
Sun Microsystems, which has been pretty much silent in recent months while awaiting its merger with Oracle, will open up on
Thursday about the latest developments in its Java technologies.
Paul Krill,
December 2009
Java EE 6 receives approval
Java Platform Enterprise Edition (EE) 6, featuring a capability for function-based profiles, has been approved by the official
Java standards body, with an implementation of the specification to follow from Sun Microsystems in about two weeks.
Paul Krill,
December 2009
Java, BlackBerry get critical security fixes
Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.
Robert McMillan
,
November 2009
Apple lets iPhone developers track App Store progress
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,
November 2009
RIM extends BlackBerry app development to Web developers
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,
October 2009
Harness Offsprings to divide, parallelize and conquer
Reinventing the wheel over and over again can be fun, but you are probably going to end up with squeaky ones that fall off
the axle. When developers address the scalability and performance of their applications, they often reinvent a solution where
each request is split into batches which are processed concurrently and merged for delivery to the client.
Edward Salatovka, Neal Lester,
August 2009
The 5 Static Code Audits every developer should know and use
In today’s competitive market and economy, developers need every tool they can get to increase productivity, reduce cost and
lower maintenance while ensuring proper execution in production. One of the more under utilized developer tools is static
software audits.
Mike Rozlog,
July 2009
Java yields to other languages on the Java Virtual Machine
Move over, Java. There's more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days -- and the field of languages
for JVM is growing.
Paul Krill,
July 2009