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Enterprise Application Vendors Likely To Reevaluate Commitment To Java

Content Team — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:35:16 +0000

An AMR Research report on global enterprise applications market notes how Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and Java, could wreak havoc on enterprise applications vendors in the future. AMR Research estimates over 60% of enterprise software vendors have applications that rely on Java, including many Oracle competitors, large and small. Of the 50 largest enterprise application companies, [...]

Google Takes On Microsoft Windows With New Chrome Operating System

Content Team — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:57:41 +0000

Finally, after years of wait and speculation, Google has challenged Microsoft on its home turf, the desktop operating system. Google today announced the Chrome operating system. The operating system will initially target netbooks , most of which currently run Windows XP, which is almost 8 years old. Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for [...]

Java Centric Look At The New Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Harshad Oak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:38:35 +0000

Oracle today launched the much awaited Fusion Middleware 11g. Below is a quick Java centric look at what to me are the highlights of the new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g - The Weblogic application server is now the standard platform for Oracle middleware deployments, OC4J is history. Oracle continues to be committed to JDeveloper. JDeveloper today is [...]

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Released

Content Team — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:06:10 +0000

Oracle today announced availability of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the next generation of its middleware product suite. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g claims to significantly improve the agility and intelligence of business applications while enabling organizations to exploit new hardware and software architectures for efficient IT execution and cost savings. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g also claims to [...]

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Released With Kenai and Maven Support

Content Team — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:55:52 +0000

NetBeans 6.7 features integration with Project Kenai, Sun’s collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects and support for Maven, a community software project management and comprehension tool. “The advances in the latest version of NetBeans will have a huge impact in the productivity of developers,” said Jim Parkinson, vice president of Developer Products and [...]

Java Language Isn’t That Important - It’s The JVM That Matters

Content Team — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:30:57 +0000

James Gosling talks of how Java the language isn’t that important but the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is what matters. He also takes an open approach to dynamic languages but thinks they are at times too slow for use. Below are the relevant excerpts. You can read the full interview at eweek Q: Where are we with [...]

Glassfish Server Now Supports The Django Web Framework

Content Team — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:02:04 +0000

Glassfish server has announced support for Django. Django is a Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Vivek Pandey, the technical lead of scripting languages support in Glassfish, in his blog says- “GlassFish v3 Preview is available and I am excited to announce support for Django applications. Django is a Python based framework, [...]

Optimize Website Performance With Google Page Speed

Content Team — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:41:32 +0000

Google has open sourced Page Speed, a tool that was being used internally at Google to analyze and optimize web page performance. The performance best practices section of the Page Speed guide lists and discusses various web site performance optimization strategies and is a good read. The best practices are grouped into five categories that cover [...]

Adobe Releases Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst And The Flex 4 framework

Content Team — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:23:46 +0000

Adobe Systems has announced the beta availability of Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly named Adobe Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework. Adobe Flash Builder is a professional development tool designed to help software developers build rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for [...]

Diagnosing Production Java Applications Using JVM Memory Structures

Content Team — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:26:04 +0000

Troubleshooting production Java applications is a challenging task. Madhav Sathe presents a new approach to diagnose production applications by peeking into memory structures of the Java Virtual Machine. Most of the usual monitoring and diagnostics tools are inadequate in a production environment because of one or more of the following reasons: 1) Requires code changes [...]