JetBrains has just announced the final availability from Monday, December 17 of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting...

LiveTime Software announced that LiveTime applications will be available as VMware virtual appliances in the first quarter of 2008. Based on LiveTime's custom JeOS Linux distribution optimized for Java runtime environments and virtual machines, organizations can...

ESRI will host an online seminar this month that will help Java developers learn about how to build custom GIS Web applications using ArcGIS Server. Building Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform will air on ESRI's Training and Education Web site...

Cloudsmith, Inc introduced the Cloudsmith service (www.cloudsmith.com). The site, now in public beta, is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to assemble, use and reuse software components. Cloudsmith?s infrastructure also aggregates the work of ...

Vgo Software, Inc announced the addition of an Object Repository to the 2.0 release of its Forms to Java conversion tool, Evo. 'The Evo Object Repository will allow users to consolidate business logic across thousands of Forms and applications, aiding customers in...

Coverity Inc announced expanded capabilities of the company's open source code analysis site. The open source Scan site will provide static source code analysis for Java-based open source projects as an extension of Coverity's relationship with the U.S. Department...

FFE Software has announced the first release of its new Java DB - FirstSQL/J Embedded Mobile Edition. Embedded Mobile is a special packaging of the standard FirstSQL/J Java DB for a small footprint, supporting JME and suitable for other embedded configurations.

In the wake of the Google's announcement of Android, its Linux-based cell phone platform, on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog said he would 'like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the pl...

Wouldn't JSR 311 - a.k.a. JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services - be more accurately named if it were called the 'Java HTTP Server API'? That is the question asked this week by Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java author and expert. 'I no longer think this API is a b...

In the aftermath of the latest spat between Rubyists and Javaholics, it might be worth noting that Ruby is now the 10th most popular programming language, up from 13th place a year ago. That, anyway, is the story according to the TIOBE Programming Community index ...

NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. Beta 2 comes bundled with MySQL and PostgreSQL drivers, and improvements to Ruby code completion and Woodstock 4.1 Build 14. The focus of NetBeans 6.0 is superior developer productivity with a smarter, faster edit...

'Some folks are far too eager to misinterpret statements and put words in my mouth,' wrote James Gosling recently in his blog, in a post titled 'JavaME Is *Not* Dead!' - a rebuttal to a recent report in the UK media that JavaFX Mobile was perhaps going to eclipse ...

In the canon of anti-Java / Pro Ruby articles, none has achieved the center of attention swifter than the one written last month by blogger-developer Obie Fernandez, who self-describes himself as 'committed to making the world of software development a more enjo...

'In V2, the focus was on understanding how your code is structured today, and where it is tangled or overly complex. V3 takes it to the next level, letting architects define how the code should be structured and communicating this to the team so they can actually ...

IntelliJIDEA is one of the best Java IDE available on the market. While this release is specifically focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and user experience, version 7.0 also provides efficient support for features, technologies, and tools you've asked.

InterSystems Corporation has announced that Four Points Technology will provide the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The contract for enterprise software and maintenance services, with an initial value...

In a demonstration of its commitment to transparency and illustrating its philosophy of 'Innovate, Act, Share,' Sun has released its second annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. The report features the company's progress and exemplifiesits continu...

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. According to Marketwatch.com, the Dow Jones site, 'to date, SAP has been ple...

A new breed of web manager is emerging to link content management more closely to website visitor satisfaction. The new web manager may operate under several professional guises: 'customer advocate,' 'information guru,' or 'metator,' to name just a few. They need ...

According to CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog, where this new strategy was revealed on Monday, 'We'll still be strongly focused on being a multi-platform storage provider (just as our servers run multiple operating systems, and our operating system runs on every vendo...

Sun Microsystems and Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun, are breaking new ground with a pilot of the ISO 20022 global financial messaging standard for end-to-end payment processing. Running on Sun's own Solaris 10 Operating System, the p...

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and ...

Speaking at a conference yesterday, Gordon Moore conceded that there are fundamental limits to Moore's Law and that the laws of physics will render it obsolete in about ten to fifteen years' time.

Having just changed its ticker symbol, belatedly, to Java, Sun now wants to do a one-for-four reverse stock split to give its shares, stuck in the doldrums for years now, more heft. It would have 25% fewer shares, but each would be worth four times more, say a more ...

Offering add-ons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily, a new 6.2 version of Canoo's Java library for Rich Internet Applications was announced today. The new ULC 6.2 test extensions offer an improved way for developers to test the user interface ...

Sun is buying the open source Lustre File System along with most of the rest of Colorado-based Cluster File System's intellectual property, business assets and people on undisclosed terms for Solaris and Linux, pledging to enhance the parallel cluster file system ...

In his blog, Schwartz claims 'Sun did not approach NetApps about licensing any of Sun's patents' and says 'NetApps first approached StorageTek behind the cover of a third-party intermediary seeking to purchase STK patents,' which Sun wouldn't do when it acquired ...

It is a complete myth, says Elliotte Rusty Harold, that Java is somehow incompatible with the LGPL. 'It seems that no matter how many times the FSF and others deny this canard, it just keeps coming back. It is a dangerous meme that seems completely immune to the truth.'

'While many of BEA's key competitors have yet to deliver a Java EE 5 compatible server,' said Wai Wong, BEA's executive vice president of products, 'BEA WebLogic Server 10.3 will bring to market the next wave of enhancements and support for this key specification....

'With RichFaces, we're providing a powerful and simple way for developers to build robust AJAX and Web 2.0 applications while leveraging the power of Java EE,' said Red Hat/JBoss lead architect, as JBoss RichFaces 3.1 was today released at JBoss.org.

Project Phobos is a complete development environment for Web applications running on the Java platform. In Phobos, JavaScript is the main language used on both the client and the server tier, resulting in a unified data and code representation across tiers. Phobos...

As a company driven by innovation, Sun Microsystems is involved in a variety of open source projects related to AJAX technologies. This presentation will recap some of the most important projects that Sun is driving or actively participating in. These include: - ...

For those interested in the history of Java's naming, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week asked James Gosling, Java's inventor, for his recollection. Here's his response. We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a sort...

In the absence of any Java 7 JSR (as yet), Alex Miller, who works for Terracotta Tech on the Terracotta open-source Java clustering product, keeps a list of the proposed features in Java 7 and information about them. The list is here, but Miller notes that it d...

'Am I worried that the Java platform may not last forever...? No.' That was the overriding message of a late-night post by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, in response to the welter of comments left on his blog after his announcement a week ago today of the SU...

'I guess Sun is just trying to find that next motivational tool for itself through this ticker change,' wrote one blogger yesterday. 'I hope that they don't continue to invest in products and services that don't make money for their investors, especially shareholders.'

'Java touches nearly everyone - everyone - who touches the Internet,' blogged Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week. 'Hundreds of millions of users see Java, and its ubiquitous logo, every day. On PCs, mobile phones, game consoles - you name it, wherever the network...

'We look forward to a strong and ongoing strategic relationship with Sun,' said Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, the international provider of industry standard mobile synchronization and device management solutions, as it was announced today that Sun h...

'Milestone 2 showcases a major feature set of the upcoming new version,' said Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO, 'and judging by the feedback from our Early Access Program (EAP) members, IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is going to be another big step forward for IDEs.' JetBrains h...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media and events company, has announced the winners and finalists of its 2007 Java Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards.