JAVA Developer's Journal

General Dynamics (GD), the big $32 billion-a-year American defense contractor, ushered in four new Tadpole ultra-thin clients Monday, two mobile, two wireless desktops. Those up on their Sun lore will recall that Tadpole was the name of the Texas start-up that created the first ... (more)

Oracle has hired David Boies to argue its case against SAP. Oracle has made it clear in a 2008 filing with the court that its damages "are, at a minimum, well into the several hundreds of millions of dollars and likely are at least a billion dollars." Boies is the guy who won the... (more)

Red Hat's desktop virtualization has joined its server virtualization in the 2.2 rev of its standalone KVM hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV). Like 2.1 seven months ago, 2.2 can host and manage both Red Hat Linux and Windows VMs and now offers a single infrastru... (more)

Lew Tucker, who was CTO of Sun's cloud initiative and was pretty much untouched by the cloud-aborting Oracle, has been hired by Cisco as CTO of its cloud effort, a brand new job with broad pull-it-together remit that reports to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and Service Provider Gro... (more)

Rich Cannings, Android security lead, blogged about remotely removing an app from people’s Android phones [excerpted]: Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes. These applications intentionally misrepresented their p... (more)

Oracle doesn't look like it's choking on Sun any. It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion - 60 cents non-GAAP on expectati... (more)

IBM filed a breach-of-contract / misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year. It's gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek. Olsen,... (more)

Over the course of my career, I've been running lots and lots of training classes on software development. I still do. Teaching software takes 15 - 20% of what I do for a living - the rest is work on real-world projects.  These days I mostly teach Java and Adobe Flex courses, but... (more)

Born to peddle pricey proprietary iron built around exotic multi-core chips that ratchet up the scalability of Java apps - a dangerous exercise that has demanded a $200 million investment from its backers - Azul Systems is now going to start selling software that does pretty much... (more)

The latest Moyea Web Player V2.4.0.8 is released recently supporting JS application in navigation URL and auto-hide control bar in full-screen mode. Shenzhen P.R.C - Jun, 24th, 2010 - Moyea Software Co., Ltd. (http://www.moyeamedia.com): a rising developer of flash applications fo... (more)

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On Tuesday FinancialForce.com announced a new VMforce connector service that will enable Java developers to quickly and easily build FinancialForce Accounting functionality into their own VMforce applications. The announcement was made at The Grape Escape analyst event in Boston.... (more)

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In his sessio... (more)

Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled. Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware wi... (more)

What is an event? Generally speaking, an event is an occurrence that brings about significant change in the state of an object from a certain point of view. For example, the "sunrise" is an event that is defined from the perspective of an earthling. Yet from the perspective of an... (more)

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Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" - that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be? Imagine you a... (more)

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse allows you to view, create, and manage JPA entity relationships. The Entity Editor provides a centralized view of all entity relationships, allows you to modify entity properties, and allows you to navigate between the object model, mapping asso... (more)

We've just released the fifth milestone of our 2.0 Java SCA runtime, check out the release announcement for details of what's in it. It's been a little while since milestone four as we've been hard at work updating the runtime to make sure that we pass the proposed OASIS complian... (more)

iomart Hosting has been signed up by football statistics website 11v11.com to provide round-the-clock managed hosting support in preparation for a surge of interest during the World Cup. 11v11.com is the Association of Football Statisticians' official website and has almost ever... (more)