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The merger drama continues
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 04:19.Some people just don't have much patience! For instance, the big news in the snack food world this month was that Utz and Snyder's of Hanover were going to merge -- except then the two companies called it off, citing the protracted review process that they had to endure. The total time they were held in limbo by regulators? 15 days.
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Oracle: Your Java-related products are going to be fine, just fine
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 03:24.Hey, Java fan, are you still anxious about the fate of future Java-related technologies after the Oracle takeover? Well, fear not, because Oracle has put an updated FAQ on the subject! They actually discuss two of the products people have been most agitated about -- GlassFish and NetBeans -- by name, with varying degrees of reassuringness. The mentions are actually short enough to reproduce here in full.
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Java Store limps to daylight
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 14:32.While we all wait for the Sun-Oracle merger to wind its way to a close (by January, maybe?), let's pause to acknowledge what should be kind of big Java news: the advent of the Java Store, which should be open to shoppers "in the next week or so"! And if you're wondering about the selection, know that the number of apps on the shelves is already ... approaching 50!
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Java speaking for itself
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 00:54.In the light of the delayed Sun-Oracle merger (and see the New York Times Dealbook blog for a brutal analysis of how the deal was structured to put Sun in a poor position in case of just such delays), there's been a lot of anxiety about Java's future. With the companies unable to really comment on future plans, of course, this has led to anxious seizing on any little tidbit to guide the way.
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The Sun-Oracle merger is going great!
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 22:59.So in case you've (a) been under a rock and (b) have difficulty recognizing sarcasm, that headline is sarcastic. The Oracle-Sun merger is, in fact, not going well. Let's review all the ways it didn't go well this week!
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Spring: Simple getting complicated?
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 11:26.It's no secret that large, unwieldy products tend to get larger and less wieldy over time. It's not anybody's fault, really; it's just that large, unwieldy products have huge user bases, all of whom use it for somewhat different things, all of whom pay good money for it, all of whom want their needs met and their use cases improved. Then one day everyone wakes up and realizes the thing is a mess, and start looking for something easier to use.
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Oracle will be dogfooding it when it comes to Java
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 01:09.Tags:
"Dogfooding" is a verb that derives from the phrase "eat your own dog food" -- which, in IT circles, means using the products you sell internally. A rather famous example was Microsoft's moves to shift the infrastructure behind its Hotmail service from BSD to Windows servers.
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Oracle is going to be so nice to Java! (Plus: An escape plan)
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 20:42.Tags:
Oracle used the opportunity of its recent OpenWorld conference to proclaim that it has nothing but good things in mind for Sun once the EU finally relents and allows the merger to go through. Some highlights:
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Oracle OpenWorld developer track promises to be super awkward!
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:05.To hear The Register tell it, Sun execs were very much taken aback by the spanner thrown into the Sun-Oracle merger works, thus extending the twilight period in which Sun spins its wheels waiting to be absorbed into Oracle and the products it sells and develops to be integrated into Oracle's roadmap.
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Flash also threatening to be written once, run everywhere
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 01:00.At the Adobe MAX conference/dog-and-pony show, Adobe revealed with much fanfare Flash Player 10.1. Why should this be of interest to the world of Java? Well, once 10.1 becomes something other than vapor sometime in 2010, it will run not only on desktop browsers, but on most major smartphones as well. And we're not talking about some sort of stripped-down mobile version; Flash 10.1 will be full-on flash, running on palm-sized devices.
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Java isn't dead -- it's just fossilizing
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 00:11.So here's a thing that everyone thought was going to be in Java 7 and now isn't -- the Swing Application Framework (which in January I called a JSR to watch in 2009, whoops). Work on it hasn't progressed, now it's being pushed back to Java 8 maybe, etc. It wasn't really a core bit of the language, though it would have given heart to those worried that Sun was done with Swing.
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A dying Sun shows how the Java brand was wasted
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 18:20.Tags:
If, like me, you have a Google Alert for "Java" in your RSS reader, you'd know that today's big news was the release of the latest version of the Sun Java Communications Suite. If, unlike me, you don't pay attention to the minutia of the Java ecosystem, you might think that this is an exciting communications product based somehow on Sun's flagship Java technology.
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Write once, run (and sell) anywhere
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:50.Tags:
This week a story bounced around in the lower levels of the Java Web press about a new mobile development "solution" from RealNetworks. Tellingly, very few of the stories had any details not found in the RealNetworks press release, which describes the EMERGE "development platform" as a tool that will port your mobile game to all the cool mobile platforms, including Java ME and, of course, the iPhone and Android.
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Polyglottism and its discontents
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 11:22.Tags:
With Google jumping on board the polyglottism bandwagon, surely this is an idea that's arrived, right?
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Google's Noop steals the show at the JVM Language Summit
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 17:58.Tags:
Has it really been a year since the first JVM language summit? The second one is underway right now, and who made the biggest splash but the biggest gorilla in the tech industry, Google? The search giant has unleashed its own JVM language, called Noop.
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