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Java for iPhone urged by Sun official The Java platform may run on 2 billion handheld phones, but not on Apple's trendy new iPhone. Apple's stance was called a mistake by a Sun Microsystems executive Wednesday at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara. The best open source programming language When we started working on the Bossies, we divided the broad Application Development group into many subcategories, including Language. It seemed like a good idea at the time.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in software development The wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono? September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Java Kernel plan proceeds Sun continues to work on the Java Kernel, the idea of which is to provide a subset of the Java Runtime Environment tuned to particular programs. August 24, 2:10 p.m. PDT ILOG JRules 6.5 brings rules to SOA ILOG JRules Version 6.5 is primarily a refinement of the architecture and features first introduced in Version 6.0. With the 6.x line, ILOG adopted the basic architecture seen across the BRMS (Business Rules Management System) industry. As such, JRules combines a rule engine deployed and managed as a stand-alone module (Rule Execution Server); a rule repository for sharing, versioning, and reporting on rules (Rule Team Server); and a set of authoring tools for both business users and technical staff to interact with the repository (Rule Studio). August 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun adds compiler to JavaFX platform Sun Microsystems has been quiet about its JavaFX technology for building graphical applications since introducing it in May, but on Friday the company added a compiler to the platform. July 20, 9:45 a.m. PDT IT immigration: Thoughtful debate amid the flames Wow. My column last week proposing to grant citizenship to immigrant developers, "Open the floodgates to IT immigration," generated a torrent of comments from readers (83 and counting). Many were emotional, some were flames, almost all were opinionated, and the vast majority was – drumroll – thoughtful and rational, and they made me sympathetic to their point of view. As one person wrote, "there's a lot of layers to this onion," and our readers peeled them all back. Thanks, everybody, for taking the time. July 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Java unit tests you forgot to run Unit testing -- a form of software testing done by developers using hundreds of small, fast tests -- is a central practice at sites that are committed to software quality. By following a dictum of "unit test, rather than debug," developers and their managers identify problems early and solve them as they go, giving them confidence in the code under development and assurance that a project will not founder once development completes and the quality assurance engineers start testing. July 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT BEA ready to lock down Workshop 10.1 code BEA Systems will lock down the code for Workshop 10.1 this Friday in preparation for the Java development tool's release next month. June 27, 7:46 a.m. PDT Spring Web Flow boosts Web apps Spring Web Flow, a Web framework built on the popular Spring Java framework that integrates with such frameworks as Spring, Struts, and JavaServer Faces, is being upgraded to improve the flow of activities in applications. June 19, 4:48 p.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Stephan Murer Back in the late '90s, the Private Banking IT division of financial services giant Credit Suisse was at a crossroads. Some felt that the organization’s IT infrastructure was beyond repair and would have to be replaced wholesale. Others maintained that everything was fine and could keep going indefinitely. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft Orcas Beta 1 hints at a killer IDE on the horizon While the Visual Studio team at Microsoft has been burning the midnight oil for some 18 months to bring us Orcas Beta 1, the CLR (Common Language Runtime) team has been hammering away on .Net Framework 3.5 Beta 1. Happily, all the effort appears to be paying off. June 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google improves AJAX apps toolkit Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. May 30, 12:41 p.m. PDT Sun’s JavaFX helps bridge digital divide, McNealy says Sun Microsystems expects that technologies like its JavaFX Script scripting language, and JavaFX Mobile software for mobile devices will help bridge the digital divide. May 10, 7:14 a.m. PDT Intel linking Itanium to Java Intel officials on Wednesday will tout intentions to enable Java to run on the company's 64-bit Itanium processor, but Sun Microsystems, for its part, is not set to build any hardware that would utilize the chip. May 9, 1:10 p.m. PDT McNealy sees roomy market for JavaFX Speaking at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy rejected any notion that the company's new JavaFX Script scripting language might have trouble gaining traction in a crowded market. May 8, 1:30 p.m. PDT Sun's JavaFX to take on AJAX, Silverlight Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space. May 7, 9:01 p.m. PDT BEA blending dev tools in Workshop release BEA Systems is blending open source and commercial developer tools in a release of its Workshop development tool for Java being announced on Tuesday. May 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Spring Java framework gets a Java 6 upgrade Improvements to the open-source Spring Java framework and a companion Web technology being unveiled Monday focus on annotations, scripting, and Java (Java Platform Standard Edition) 6, developers of the framework said. April 30, 9:00 a.m. PDT Update: Apache battles Sun over Java license The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. April 10, 1:36 p.m. PDT Reinvigorated Java IDEs change the development landscape Java IDEs are one of the most used app dev tools in corporate development. They are also among the most capable developer products on the market. With that in mind, it’s time to ask yourself: Are you using the Java IDE best suited to your needs, or is it time to re-evaluate? March 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Java Swing technologies highlighted A potpourri of Java client application technologies is on the agenda at the Desktop Matters conference in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, where the desktop gets top billing over the Web. March 9, 2:30 p.m. PST Desktop Java faces off against AJAX In a world where Web-based applications have dominated the discourse lately, does the desktop still matter? March 8, 5:18 p.m. PST Sun pairs Unix with open-source stack You've heard of LAMP, the popular open-source infrastructure stack featuring the Linux operating system, the Apache Web server, MySQL's database, and the Perl, Python and PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) scripting languages. February 12, 9:01 p.m. PST Chalk one up for rogue IT I met a rogue last week … as in “rogue IT.” You know, where non-IT people go off and work on systems and apps formally outside the CIO’s purview, often establishing huge shadow operations with underworld overtones. January 25, 3:00 a.m. PST Software Development: Simplicity tops the agenda Software development continued to move toward simplicity in 2006. Most evident was the widespread adoption of SOA (services-oriented architecture), which has become the technology of choice for integrating systems of all kinds -- in-house between departments, across stovepipe applications, and in B2B and B2C commerce. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun goes multilingual with Java SE 6 Over two years in the making, Sun Microsystems is due to release the latest version of its Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software Monday, placing particular emphasis on the application development platform's support for other scripting languages. December 11, 6:03 a.m. PST Project checks Java code for security bugs Fortify Software and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. December 11, 4:33 a.m. PST Spring Framework is in the air Although Java itself was only offered up to open source last month, many open source development projects have arisen around Java already. One of the better known ones, the Spring Framework, will be the subject of a technical conference this week. December 6, 4:25 p.m. PST BEA touts folder feature in tools update BEA Systems on Monday is launching its BEA Workshop Studio 3.3 developer tools platform, featuring Web Folder Mapping. December 3, 9:01 p.m. PST Open source Java presents world of opportunities Now that Java is going open source, what exactly does that mean? Developers and others worldwide say it opens up a world of possibilities. November 22, 3:30 p.m. PST Sun expands support for Ubuntu Linux Sun Microsystems is making its Java Enterprise Edition 5 programming platform available on the open-source Ubuntu Linux distribution. November 8, 4:32 a.m. PST Open source rule management Considering that a high-end BRMS (Business Rule Management System) costs about $50,000 just to get started, and that annual maintenance, runtime fees, and professional services can drive the total toward a hefty half-million or more, organizations on a tight budget have incentive to seek alternatives. Thankfully, good options exist. Two of the better low-or-no-cost tools are Jess from Sandia National Laboratories, and JBoss Rules from JBoss, a division of Red Hat. November 2, 5:00 p.m. PST Sun finalizes open-source Java plans Sun Microsystems is gradually providing more details on how it plans to open source its core Java technology, delivering on a promise the company made to developers back in May at its JavaOne conference. November 1, 9:26 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Amnesty tools highlight censored blogs In a push to attract bloggers and techies, Amnesty International UK is offering special code tools to raise awareness about bloggers around the world who are censored or imprisoned for their writing. October 27, 9:50 a.m. PDT Jtest continues its trek toward code-testing supremacy Parasoft continues to send its Jtest Java testing suite out to hunt down bad Java code. And Jtest knows that the definition of bad Java code continues to expand: One bit of code might be bad because its developer didn’t follow best practices for coding style, making it difficult for other programmers to understand and interface with it. Yet another bit might be bad because it is poorly factored and overly complex, or because it crashes when executed. A different bit of code might be bad because it was written with no consideration for security and could be easily compromised by a malicious hacker. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Genuitec brightens up Eclipse The market-share leader among Java IDEs is unquestionably Eclipse, the platform freely available from the Eclipse Foundation. Its success stems from several factors: the foundation’s vendor independence, its considerable ability to forge partnerships, and a key product design decision. September 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mainsoft's Grasshopper 2.0 jumps onto Visual Studio 2005 Mainsoft on Wednesday released a technology preview of Grasshopper 2.0, which lets developers leverage Microsoft Windows development skills to run applications on Linux and Java platforms. September 13, 4:40 p.m. PDT Open source breathes life into Java There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial pace. Committee review and approval are slow, thoughtful processes, but they’re conducted at a pace that cannot be wholly condemned. Java, after all, is the leading platform for enterprise applications and as such, it should evolve slowly, even when needs are pressing. Resolving one set of problems by creating another is never a good solution. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Does “built to last” apply to IT? Over the weekend, I bought an amazing antique chair: a fancy wooden office swivel chair in practically mint condition, including all its original cast-iron hardware. Although probably made between 1900 and 1915 (the patent date is 1897), it’s remarkably modern, with fully adjustable height, tilt, and back support, like the best Aeron chairs of today (well, its wooden surfaces are a tad stiffer). With any luck, it will last another 100 years and be just as functional. August 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Borland set to sell IDE business More than five months after Borland Software announced plans to sell off its IDE business, the company said it is closing in on a sale. July 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT Clash of the Java rule Titans Editor's Note: In this review, we inaccurately stated that we ran the WaltzDB benchmark on ILOG JRules 6 and Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.1. Although we were able to run the benchmark on Blaze Advisor, we were not able to do so on JRules. As noted in the review's supplementary performance chart online, we thus reported one of two benchmark results provided by ILOG. We believed this number accurately reflected JRules' performance. Since that time, ILOG has asserted that the performance number we reported was based on a first-generation RETE algorithm and not the current algorithm which the product now uses. We plan to perform further testing of our own to better assess the performance capabilities of ILOG JRules and will provide those results when they are available. July 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Broaden your options: Don’t fear native code I have prepared an account of the history of .Net and Java that’s intended to balance more fanciful post-mortem accounts (of .Net and Java, not of me). It reads thus: Sun created Java to cash in on the success of Visual Basic and to convince development managers that C++ coders are all slobbering toddlers playing with nail guns. Sun did grant C++ dispensation for “performance-sensitive applications,” a category that covered most of Sun’s software catalog. Microsoft created .Net to keep Java from gaining traction and to put that cross-platform nonsense to rest once and for all. One OS, one run-time, many languages was the best way to go. C#, the Microsoft alternative to Java with the honesty to use “C” in its name, still kept the pencils and paper clips away from the inmates, except, of course, for those developers working on performance-sensitive applications, a category that covered most of Microsoft’s software catalog. July 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Corticon plays by different rules Dr. Mark Allen of Corticon caused quite a ruckus several years ago when he published a paper called “Rete is Wrong,” which took all of the rule-based engines based on the Rete (pronounced Ree-tee) algorithm to task for inefficiencies and poor construction. Allen explained that, in contrast to the Rete engines in market-leading BRMS (Business Rules Management Systems) such as ILOG’s JRules and Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor, Corticon had a DETI (Design-Time Inferencing, pronounced Dee-Tee) engine. July 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Genuitec MyEclipse 5.0 links NetBeans, Eclipse Genuitec will link the rival NetBeans and Eclipse open source technologies in a preview release of the MyEclipse 5.0 environment for enterprise and Web application development being unveiled on Friday. July 6, 3:53 p.m. PDT Sun offers Java beta release Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release the second beta version of Java Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 and add database and visual development to the Java developer kit. June 21, 9:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo worm demonstrates AJAX threat There are few of us in life who really want to dig into the nitty gritty details of how things work -- to visit the proverbial “sausage factory” that makes our favorite food, assembles our cars, or puts cheap gadgets on the shelves at Best Buy and Target. June 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's McNealy urges developers to change the world San Francisco - Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy, who had been the company's CEO for 22 years until last month, issued a call to developers Friday to make a difference in bridging the worldwide digital divide. May 19, 1:00 p.m. PDT BEA dispels misconceptions about middleware SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems executives at the JavaOne conference sought to dispel what they described as marketplace misconceptions, including the notions that Java is being displaced, that middleware is obsolete, and that innovation and commercial software are both dead. May 18, 6:21 a.m. PDT Developers hold key to Sun's future Giving things away is critical to Sun's future financial success. That's because software developers are key to Sun's future, according to Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and CEO, who spoke with analysts Wednesday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco. May 18, 4:09 a.m. PDT Sun makes big open-source moves Sun Microsystems will continue its commitment to eventually make all its software freely available, with the Tuesday release of several additional Java technology pieces to the open-source community. May 16, 11:08 a.m. PDT Upstart startups Startups aren’t typical fodder for InfoWorld stories. For that matter, we don’t devote all that much ink to tech companies in general, preferring to focus on technologies, products, and strategies that help IT do what it needs to do. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle to boost AJAX, Java Oracle will make software contributions intended to boost AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java programming at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week. May 11, 12:45 p.m. PDT Gosling: Java source code already available Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling's perspectives on these issues. May 10, 2:45 p.m. PDT Enterprise Java update readied The enterprise version of the Java programming language is expected to get a boost this week, with approval of the Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5 specification anticipated from the Java Community Process, according to a representative at Sun Microsystems. May 1, 5:15 p.m. PDT Merged Red Hat and JBoss could be headed for a fall Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss came as something of a surprise. Like many others, I expected Oracle would be the one to snap up the open source J2EE vendor. Still, stranger things have happened. April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT ILOG extends the tools for rules ILOG delivered JRules 6.0 at the end of March, just a little more than a year since the introduction of Version 5.0. JRules 6.0, in keeping with the company’s push to extend development and maintenance of business applications to business experts, includes new vocabulary features that are similar to regular expressions and are far friendlier to nondevelopers. In addition to performance and reporting improvements, Version 6.0 ushers in a Web-based rules repository and integration with any Eclipse-based IDE. April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT JBoss, LogicBlaze introduce open source middleware Last week saw the debut of two new open source products from JBoss and LogicBlaze, each aimed at the enterprise middleware market. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source When Orbitz launched its online travel site in June 2001, it had two well-entrenched competitors: Travelocity and Expedia. Orbitz's goal was to offer something better, quickly. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Frustration drove Owens Forest Products to open source The IT group at Owens Forest Products went the traditional route of many smaller companies: a custom ERP system using tools such as Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.Net, and Business Objects’ Crystal Reports. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT The move to open source is good for BZ Results Fast-moving technology that works is what BZ Results wants in its IT tools. That’s why CTO Rob Lackey’s policy is to make sure there is at least one open source bid for each project. “Commercial software can’t compete with the open source development effort,” Lackey says. He cites the frequent, fast security updates available for Apache servers as an example of how the open source community delivers faster than traditional providers. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT State of Java perspectives offered by Spring Framework author Rod Johnson holds a prominent status in the Java development community. He is the founder of the Spring Framework for Java, a consultant and author. He wrote the books, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development and Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB. He also is CEO of Interface21, an international consulting firm. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill spoke with Johnson during TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas last week about topics such as simplifying and open sourcing Java, aspect-oriented programming, the Spring Framework, and how .Net stacks up as a competitor to Java. March 29, 12:00 p.m. PST Java facing pressures from dynamic languages LAS VEGAS -- Java faces encroachment from dynamic languages such as Ruby in the Web application tier, but Java can be improved and JVM functionality can be extended to dynamic languages, said panelists at TheServerSide Java Symposium on Saturday. March 25, 12:35 p.m. PST Java session focuses on Web app obstacles Las Vegas -- Obstacles to developing Web applications was a critical issue on the minds of Java developers at TheServerside Java Symposium on Thursday. March 23, 1:45 p.m. PST In Brief: Sun, Genuitec preview NetBeans GUI Builder for MyEclipse Sun Microsystems and Genuitec, a provider of low cost RAD tools for Java and JEE development, on Monday announced a preview of the Matisse4MyEclipse GUI Builder plug-in. March 20, 7:35 a.m. PST In Brief: Sun delivers NetBeans Enterprise Pack for Mac developers Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a free preview version of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5, Java development tools for Apple's Mac OS X that enable developers to quickly create service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications that run on both Power PC and Intel-based Macintosh systems. March 17, 8:05 a.m. PST Model-driven development, AJAX shortcomings aired SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Interest in model-driven software development and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is high, but plenty of room for improvement remains for both technologies, according to speakers and attendees at the SD West 2006 conference on Wednesday. March 15, 4:45 p.m. PST In brief: Switchvox brings voice, apps convergence to SMBs Switchvox has introduced what it says is the only IP PBX system to offer a Call Event Notification API to allow companies to integrate phone systems with applications for features such as click-to-call from within Microsoft Outlook. Other features include Firedialer, which allows click-to-call from a number viewed on a Web page in the Firefox browser, and IM-style presence. Built on open source software and operating with open standards, the new PBX works with all SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) hardware and software phones and is aimed at the SMB starting at $2,495. Switchvox SMB was launched at the VON conference in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday. The company’s chief executive, Joshua Stephens, said of the new turnkey offering: “Growing organizations now have a solution that is easy to install and manage, while giving them the appearance of a larger company.” March 15, 4:43 p.m. PST HP Labs India working to bridge TV and Internet HP Labs India is working on technology to integrate satellite TV with the Web, according to an executive at the lab. The company will soon be testing with broadcasters a technology that lets a user click on hyperlinks embedded in TV content, which will take the user to a Web site. March 3, 8:15 a.m. PST ObjectWeb plans Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 project Europe's ObjectWeb consortium is developing an EJB container based on the EJB 3.0 specification, giving developers another open-source option for Java application development. February 17, 8:20 a.m. PST Speeding retrieval with in-memory data management My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its charms. February 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: Borland to exit IDE business, focus on ALM Borland Software plans to sell off its struggling Java development tools business to focus instead on selling services and products for managing software development, the company announced Wednesday. February 8, 5:25 a.m. PST Mustang version of Java racing toward beta release Web 2.0 and expanded support for scripting languages are expected to be key themes of the planned Mustang version of Java, which is due in a beta release later this month. February 7, 1:00 p.m. PST Sun offers support to NetBeans users Sun Microsystems will provide code-level customer support for the NetBeans open source tools platform, the latest version of which is being released by the Sun-driven NetBeans community on Wednesday. February 1, 11:00 a.m. PST Java developer tool backs AJAX AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) programming figures prominently in a free upgrade of the Sun Java Studio Creator developer tool being released by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday. January 25, 8:00 a.m. PST Oracle, Sun chiefs take the stage together Redwood Shores, Calif. -- If there was one key message at a public summit meeting of sorts between the chief executives of Sun Microsystems and Oracle on Tuesday, it was that the companies have been and will continue to be partners. January 10, 5:35 p.m. PST Eclipse rises victorious Although it began as an IBM endeavor in 2001, the Eclipse open source tools platform has come into its own, emerging as both an alternative to Microsoft in the application development space and the de facto standard for developing in Java. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Schwartz: Sun to break out software revenue Sun Microsystems plans to begin breaking out the financial results of its software business separately on its financial statements, the company's No. 2 executive said at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Thursday. January 6, 4:14 a.m. PST Java, .Net get boosts Java and .Net application development are being advanced through an upgrade to Java and an implementation of the Python programming language for .Net. January 4, 4:35 p.m. PST Application development tools focus on team process and code quality It was a year that saw the resurgence of old tools and the redesign of new ones. Static code analysis, which was abandoned long ago, became the latest craze in 2005 following concerns about security, code quality, and code ownership. Today, impressive offerings in all three areas are available; 18 months ago, the vendors themselves barely existed. Likely, these products will coalesce and one or two packages will emerge that can perform all three forms of code analysis. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST ECMAScript: The Switzerland of development environments? There is a perpetual debate in programming circles about the pros and cons of static vs. dynamic typing. I've always favored dynamically typed languages, such as Lisp, Perl, and Python, because my own coding efforts tend to focus on application prototyping, content wrangling, data analysis, and system automation. December 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun adds support for open-source Java database Sun Microsystems is incorporating its open-source Java DB database into the latest version of the Sun Java Enterprise System, it announced Tuesday. The company also announced that a plug-in for Java DB will come with NetBeans IDE 5.0, an upcoming version of its software development environment. December 14, 4:12 a.m. PST JBoss extends partner training program JBoss is hoping to sign up partners who will offer more complete training services around its stack of open-source Java middleware, the company said. December 13, 4:22 a.m. PST 2005 survey spots trends in software development Software developers are often important augurs of IT technologies’ direction and rate of adoption. Managers who responded to trends among developers would have been the first to detect the growth of Linux and the open source movement, the emergence of Java as a significant platform for server-based computing, and the arrival of integration technologies such as XML and Web services. November 30, 12:30 p.m. PST C and C++ give way to managed code One important trend highlighted by this year’s research is the ongoing transition away from C and C++ -- the two languages that have been programmers’ mainstays for many years -- in favor of Java, and, more recently, C#. This shift might seem peculiar to some. After all, C remains the implementation language of choice for Linux, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database, and other key open source projects, which points out the fundamental position of C: It’s a terrific language for systems programming and infrastructure-level software, but it’s less suited to the needs of straightforward applications. November 30, 12:30 p.m. PST Sun to offer enterprise developer tool for free Focusing on the familiar theme of developer productivity, Sun Microsystems on Wednesday is unveiling its Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 development tool, featuring a visual UML modeling interface. The tool will be provided free to Sun Developer Network subscribers. November 8, 8:00 p.m. PST Making SOA work Implementing SOA (service-oriented architecture) is one of the most daunting projects that an enterprise IT organization can undertake. Service orientation represents a whole new way of thinking and doing, one that changes the way developers operate and interact with the business. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST BEA buys Java tools developer SolarMetric BEA Systems Inc. said Thursday it has acquired Java tools maker SolarMetric Inc., a small, private company in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. November 3, 11:05 a.m. PST Sun's Java middleware to support Windows, HP-UX Sun Microsystems made a flurry of announcements centered around its Solaris 10 operating system Wednesday. The news included the release of a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) subscription-based enterprise middleware, which will now support additional non-Sun operating systems. October 26, 9:13 a.m. PDT AJAX cleans up The answer to the riddle on this week’s cover -- which e-mail client is running in the browser? -- may be a little obvious (see below, left). After all, it can’t be the one on the right: That’s desktop stalwart Microsoft Outlook. But the app on the left, written using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), looks just as rich as Microsoft’s fatware, even though it’s delivered strictly through the browser. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Is a Web-based office suite on the way? The Google/Sun press conference on Oct. 3, which announced a deal to jointly “promote and distribute software technologies,” is generating a great deal of speculation. October 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft, JBoss link up Bowing to market realities, Microsoft said Tuesday it will begin working with an ideological foe, open-source development and services company JBoss, on optimizing interoperability between JBoss' middleware and Microsoft's Windows Server software. September 27, 11:51 a.m. PDT Sprint rationalizes its infrastructure with SOA As far back as four years ago, Sprint’s IT staff was already headed toward SOA (service-oriented architecture). They just didn’t know it yet. September 12, 4:00 a.m. PDT ARM's Jazelle to speed DoCoMo handsets Arm Holdings PLC's Java acceleration technology, Jazelle, will be used in a new line of handsets to be sold by Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. the company said Tuesday. Arm officials said they hope that the win may open the door to Jazelle being used across the mobile industry. September 7, 8:50 a.m. PDT Handsets are the last frontier for Linux We’ve all heard the Microsoft pitch a thousand times -- if you’re running Windows on the server and the desktop, it only makes sense to run it on the handheld. But if that argument is valid then perhaps Microsoft is soon to be hoisted on its own petard. August 16, 4:00 a.m. PDT IT's seven dirty words Remember the George Carlin routine “The Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television”? (No, I’m not going to print them here; if you’re really curious, Google ’em.) I got to thinking the other day that IT has its own set of dirty words. Try saying any one of these in polite IT company, and someone will hand you a bar of soap to wash your mouth out. My filthy seven: August 15, 5:00 a.m. PDT Software AG acquires rich client development tools Software AG has agreed to acquire Web application tools developer Casabac Technologies GmbH in a move to expand its portfolio of business integration products, Software AG said Thursday in a statement. August 12, 5:07 a.m. PDT Midnight Coders adds AJAX to rich Internet apps platform Midnight Coders is shipping an upgrade to its rich Internet application platform, which now supports AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) on the client side and ColdFusion at the back end. August 11, 4:20 p.m. PDT > Application development |
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