Archive for the 'Java' Category
Google gears Java 5 Web Toolkit
Google is this week expected to release the long-awaited update to its Web Toolkit (GWT) adding support for Java 5 Standard Edition language features to speed development and performance of JavaScript.
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JavaOne ‘08: Sun starts delivering
At JavaOne in San Francisco, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun.
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Sun gears JavaFX for consumer move
JavaFX, introduced by Sun last year as a Java-based platform for building visually oriented applications, will be leveraged in the growing consumer application space.
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Sun fixes Java SE for a fee
Sun Microsystems is extending the working life of Java Standard Edition 1.4, through a support program to carry the software beyond this summer’s official retirement and onto 2017.
This is for paying customers only. Others must upgrade to the latest edition of Java SE, with free support slashed from six to three years - or fend for themselves using Sun’s OpenJDK.
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Is Java Windows for Unix?
Java is an incredibly successful toolset - but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular?
To understand what it is and how it got this way you have to start with the problem it was meant to solve: manufacturers working on digital consumer products like cell phones and set top boxes (intended to add internet connectivity to television sets) wanted their software to be updateable in use and able to run unchanged on multiple hardware generations.
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JavaOne Conference Is May 6-9 in San Francisco
2008 Conference Adds New Tracks, Including Next-Generation Web, Rich Media, Consumer Technologies and More.
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Reuters Selects Sun Java Real-Time System Software
The Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is a software product that provides a high-level development platform for creating applications which require absolute execution predictability. Compliant with The Real-Time Specification for Java it uses the power and scalability of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and the flexibility of the Java platform to provide the environment necessary for the growing demand of predictable computing applications in industries such as financial services, aerospace, industrial automation and scientific research.
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Open source Java - one year later
A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun’s strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade.
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Report: Sun Microsystems, Samsung developing ‘Java phone’
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are jointly developing a mobile phone to challenge Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a South Korean newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting Sun Chairman Scott McNealy.McNealy said Tuesday in Seoul that the companies were working on a “Java phone” that would surpass Apple’s iPhone in functionality and cost less, the mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo reported.
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Sun patches multiple flaws in Java
Sun Microsystems has issued patches for several vulnerabilities in its Java Runtime Environment that leave users on Windows, Linux and Solaris wide open.
By our count, there are 11 separate vulnerabilities plaguing versions 6, 5, 1.4 and 1.3 of the JRE, Sun said on its security blog.
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Programming message services in Java
The Java Message Service (more commonly referred to as JMS) is a standard Java Standard Edition API that can be used to access a variety of different message servers. Although the name might suggest otherwise, it’s not of itself a message service, but rather a generic interface to a message server.
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The Open Road: Looking Ahead to Java 7
This introductory article is a broad and link-heavy overview of Java 7 and the open projects developing code for Java 7. As those projects release code that we can try out, future articles will dive into that code!
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