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Java Card 3.0 To Revolutionize Smart Cards

Sun Microsystems and the Java Card Forum today announced the availability of version 3.0 of the award winning Java Card platform specification. This release is the most significant architectural expansion in the dynamic, 10 year history of Java Card technology and a revolutionary step forward for smart card chip manufacturers, smart card vendors, and Java Card platform implementation providers.

JavaOne 2008 Sessions & Speakers

Sun Microsystems today announced the speakers for the 2008 JavaOne conference General Sessions, as well as details on JavaOne conference Pavilion “villages”, areas of the exhibit hall focused around particular themes.

TheServerSide.com's 3rd Annual Java Symposium Europe, 18-20 June, Prague

This year's TheServerSide Java Symposium-Europe is being held in Prague, 18-20 June. Created by TheServerSide.com, TSSJS-Europe is editorially-driven, vendor-neutral, and focused exclusively on Java in the enterprise. IndicThreads readers can save an additional $200 with the code INDT08!

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Basics for Java Developers Webinar

NetBeans IDE 6.1 RC Offers Support For Spring, MySQL And Scripting

NetBeans has announced the availability of the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Release Candidate.This release provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, tighter MySQL integration, and an improved way of sharing libraries among dependent projects. The acclaimed support for Ruby/JRuby has been enhanced with new editor quick fixes, a Ruby platform manager, fast debug support for JRuby, and many other new features and fixes.

Web Applications Using Google App Engine

Google has released a new hosted software platform offering developers access to its application servers. Google App Engine service that includes a distributed Web server, database and storage, software development kit, which enable developers to write Web applications in Google's SDK, and upload them to the company's servers for hosting.

JBuilder 2008 Introduces Reusable Developer Intelligence

JBuilder 2008 adds a major innovation to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java: a methodology and associated collection of tools known as Application Factories. Application Factories is a new approach to software development and code reuse that addresses one of the biggest challenges faced by Java developers today: navigating the complexity of framework choices, open source, internal code, and deregulated technology standards trying to determine how to use and reuse them together in order to deliver high-quality solutions with ever-increasing time pressures.

Azul Systems Announces Application Performance Guarantees for Java-based Web Portals

Azul Systems today announced a comprehensive program targeted at B2C customers to help accelerate performance by 5X while reducing traditional server footprint by 5X.

CommunityOne Free and Open Developer Conference

Sun Microsystem today announced details around its second annual CommunityOne conference that will be held May 5, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition, Sun will host its fifth Sun Startup Camp(SM) event May 4-5, 2008, as part of CommunityOne. CommunityOne is a free, one-day event that allows developers and students to benefit from the innovation and choice of the free and open source ecosystem. CommunityOne will offer more than 70 sessions led by contributors and committers of more than 30 different open source and community projects; from chip design to operating systems, to web servers and databases, to scripting languages and tools.

Jax India 2008 - Bangalore 8-11 April 08

JAX India 2008 is now just four weeks away. The event is all set to roll in Bangalore, from 8-11th of April. Jax India 2008 offers its participants a three-fold conference experience: JAX India 2008, Enterprise Architecture India 2008 and Eclipse Forum India 2008. It is an extensive collection of information, learning and networking event with a difference for IT professionals. Attendees come from far and wide to network, acquire and be at the receiving end of this priceless knowledge platform.

Java Mobile Applications On The Apple iPhone

The past couple of days have seen a lot of interest and speculation as regards the recently announced iPhone SDK and about Java finally getting on the iPhone. The iPhone SDK provides developers with a rich set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tools to create innovative applications for iPhone and iPod touch. With the iPhone SDK, third party developers will be able to build native applications for the iPhone with a rich set of APIs, including programming interfaces for Core OS, Core Services, Media and Cocoa Touch technologies.

Sun Invests Into Python On Java VM - Hires Jython Developers

James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow announced today as part of his keynote at Sun Tech Days in Sydney that Ted Leung, author, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) member and long-time Python developer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), and Frank Wierzbicki, lead implementor of the Jython project (Python on the Java VM), will become Sun employees this month. They'll be working full-time on Jython and in particular paying attention to developer tools.

PERC Pico Tool Chain with Real-Time Memory Analysis Tools for Java Programmers

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Pico product—the first commercial offering based on an emerging Java Specification Request (JSR)-302 for development of hard real-time safety-critical code. Rivalling the capabilities of optimized C-language programs, PERC Pico 1.1 enables developers to use the Java language in low-level code requiring small memory footprint, fast performance, and predictable tight response-time latencies.

TheServerSide Java Symposium: March 26-28, 2008

The top Java experts, framework founders, go-to bloggers, and best-selling authors will be presenting at TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 26-28. Created by the minds behind TheServerSide.com, TSSJS has 60+ sessions, panels and keynotes covering Languages and Coding, Frameworks, High Performance Computing, Architecture, SOA, Persistence, The Presentation Tier, and industry Case Studies. With a speaker to attendee ratio of 1:9, TSSJS gets you up close with leading experts in the enterprise Java space. TSSJS is focused solely on enterprise Java.

Digging Deeper Into Google Web Toolkit (GWT) - Session @ Java Meet

The session at the last Java meet gave an overview of Google Technologies and APIs. In continuation with that theme, the session this month delves deep into GWT territory. Rohit Ghatol speaks about "Ajax using Java - Digging Deeper Into GWT".

First Java Champion in India!

Pleased to announce that I have been selected as a "Java Championâ and happen to be the first one in India. Java today is a mature technology that is being taught and used throughout the software world. However it is still evolving and venturing into new domains and uses. This is an exciting time to be working on Java and the âJava Championâ selection makes it that much more fun.

Sun TechDays to focus on Java SE, EE, Glassfish and NetBeans

The Sun Tech Days program is a 15-city world tour designed to educate developers in local markets on various technologies. The events are typically a two-day format and range from hands on education, university training, community programs and technical sessions. Tech Days travels the globe to share expertise with the community about Solaris OS, the Java EE, SE, and ME platforms, the NetBeans IDE, Sun Studio, Open Source and more.

Session On Web 2.0 using Google Technologies at Java + Google Meet

The expert session for the next IndicThreads Java meet is about "Using Google technologies and APIs for Web 2.0 development". Google technologies like Maps, Searches and Docs are very popular. However realizing that the innovation in Web 2.0 has to come from communities on the web, Google is now empowering them with tools and APIs to build their own innovative yet practical applications.

Sun Acquires MySQL, Oracle Acquires BEA Systems

Although this might sound like a 1st of April joke, it isn't. Sun has acquired MySQL and Oracle has picked up BEA. Both acquisitions certain to have a big impact on the software development space, particularly on Java and LAMP development.

Python, C# & Flash are hot - Java, Ruby & Ajax are not

Book sales by and large provide a fair picture of what's buzzing in technology and what might be the technology to watch out for in the near future. There's certainly an assumption in this that all books are well written and well marketed and they are being bought based solely on reader interest in the technology.