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Leading Competitors of Java Technologies

Filed in archive updates on July 21, 2010

Leading Competitors of Java Technologies
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The history of Java technology started from the innovations of the company Sun Microsystems which founded the Java technologies. With Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the future of Java may seem uncertain or perhaps even fruitful. Either way, it seems that Oracle is now in charge of Java's destiny.

Oracle, however, must remain cautious of a number of rival companies which continue to innovate Java technologies to greater heights. These Java leaders include SpringSource, JBoss, Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. Each of these rivals made significant contributions to the architecture of Java, despite Sun's original establishment of the Java code and system. Nevertheless, for now Oracle will surely remain as the leading competitor of Java. Though Spring Framework, which came about in 2004, has been receiving much attention with an estimate 3 million downloads.

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Compared to java apps for cellphones - calling cards work everywhere

Filed in archive Information About , mobile phones on June 25, 2010

Compared to java apps for cellphones - calling cards work everywhere
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Every month it seems there is a great deal of excitement about the latest Smartphone release. One company is always trying to outdo another: that's the way the competitive market place works of course. You would think though, that with all of the different Smartphone's in the market place, that java application developers would start making applications that worked across all phone's regardless of whom the manufacturer is. But it's not as simple as that! Neather an iphone app would work on a Nokia nore an Nokia app on the iphone for example.

It is similar with international calling plans. There are so many plans but each provider has their own set of rules and rates. Trying to choose the right calling plan is like trying to choose the right Smartphone, there are just too many variables that make it difficult to know what the right decision is. That's why I like calling cards so much.

If you want to call India, for example, you just pull out your India calling card and dial. It doesn't matter which phone you are using because calling cards work across the board on all phones. If they can make applications like that for cards to call India from any phone, why can't other applications work on any phone?

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Seen that? - Design Patterns versus Design Principles

Filed in archive Best of on May 29, 2010

Design Patterns versus Design Principles Java Entrepreneur

Seen that? - Design Patterns versus Design Principles
Tinou Bao and I met while working on a project a few years back. During that time I found him to be one of the best developers I had, and still have, ever met. Anyway, Tinou has an interesting post on his weblog titled Design Patterns versus Design Principles and I thought I'd cover it here. In the article he is frustrated at the lack of real understanding job candidates have [...] Read More


Design with the JSF architecture Java Entrepreneur

IBM developerworks has a new article on the subject of JavaServer faces by Anand Prakash Joshi. It is entitled Design with the JSF architecture: Exploring design patterns used in the JavaServer Faces framework.In this article, author Anand Joshi explains the JavaServer� Faces (JSF) architecture using design patterns in the JSF framework. He discusses Gang of Four design patterns employed in the JSF architecture, and how they work within the JSF [...] Read More


Stay Positive In Design Meetings Java Entrepreneur

Just the other day I had the opportunity to attend a design meeting. It was one of the first design meetings to take place for this specific project. The group of bright eyed excited people around the table were in that mindset where everything is possible. However, I was not in that positive happy-go-lucky mindset and it was a bad idea for me to take part in the meeting. However, [...] Read More


Consumer patterns in crunch Sox First

We are seeing some interesting patterns with mcdonalds announcing strong results despite the downturn. Forbes has gone so far as to suggest it's all because of McDonalds' "recession-proof menu" but the picture is more complicated than that.As a rule, discretionary spending tends to be the first thing to go in a downturn but the problem is that discretionary spending means different things to different people. Furthermore, some are still spending [...] Read More


Changing Cupboard The Gadgets Weblog

Take a look at this cupboard. Do you find the pattern ugly? Well, you can change that. Simply program what pattern you want and watch it change like a rotating billboard. Front Design call this a Changing Cupboard, but I tend to think of my cupboard as something over my counters. There is some footage of it in action on YouTube, but nothing shows it opening and putting food in [...] Read More

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Seen that? - Google's 80-20 Rule

Filed in archive Best of on May 19, 2010

Google's 80-20 Rule Java Entrepreneur

Seen that? - Google's 80-20 Rule
I'm sitting down to write this article with a number of unrelated threads running through my brain. One of them is about a good friend of mine telling me that I should start my articles with the phase "In the Year of Our Lord..." to gain credibility with my audience from the start. I thought that was pretty funny. The reason I begin with that thought is because I've had [...] Read More


Developers rule the roost in today's highly competitive environment Java Entrepreneur

Gone are the days when developers used to be sidelined as competition used to be minuscule and generally a single company ruled the roost but all this has totally changed in the current scenario. This has been made possible due to new qualifications for developers and advent of rich internet applications. Jonathan Schwartz expressed his passion for developers at the JavaOne conference but it was certainly not as loud as [...] Read More


Release candidate for Google Web Toolkit 1.4 unveiled by Google Java Entrepreneur

Google has just released a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit 1.4 which is an upgrade to the framework for writing AJAX applications in Java. This is the first release which had a major involvement of open source community. It is expected to make the job simple for writing AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. This time the focus was on improving speed and stability. GWT applications pace [...] Read More


What's Wrong with the Google AdWords Quality Score? The Search Engine Weblog

A number of Google AdWords advertisers are shocked by their recent accounts. Many are entertaining cobwebs at the back of their mind due to the issues surrounding AdWords and their Quality score these days. Dozens of reports pour in and people are detecting that Google Adwords' CPC prices soar like rockets. Along with the launch of AdWords quality score, a bug has been released to increase the bid price of [...] Read More


Players Propose New Cut Rule Eagle Par Birdie

Courtesy: Reuters The PGA Tour Players Advisory council has expressed its deep concerns over the new cut rule implemented this season. Many players are angry with the rule which essentially says you can make the cut but not make the cut. It's confusing and counter-productive, according to the pros. [...] Read More

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Seen that? - Three Good Mashup Sites

Filed in archive Best of on May 9, 2010

Three Good Mashup Sites Java Entrepreneur

Seen that? - Three Good Mashup Sites
I'm very interested in the new trend happening with Web Services. I've been digging around to find more information about this stuff and I found the following three sites: Web API Tracker is a blog that tracks recent events The second is a Wiki called WSFinder.com. This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with. The [...] Read More


The Big Mashup from Sun Microsystems Java Entrepreneur

Here comes the big mashup from the stable of Sun Microsystems. Big mashup enables you to know how the world of entertainment and news are changing quickly as network has caused the line between the audience and entertainer to thin. It will be featuring a documentary of leaders from the world of entertainment and media, a blog which would be focusing on the changes caused by the network and an [...] Read More


Smash: Mashup development tool from IBM Java Entrepreneur

Mashups enables users with little or no technical background to create customized applications. Here is Smash, a development tool from IBM aimed at creation of mashup application in secure environment. With this tool users will be able to bring together pieces of code and data from several sources and use it in a single mashup application. With Smash IBM plans to take care of the security aspect which otherwise was [...] Read More


Three New Telephony Mashups The VoIP Weblog

It's not often I haer the word mashup and profitable in the same sentence, but the winners of the Telephony Mashup Challenge look to be just that. The challenge was hosted by Sylantro and The Thomas Howe Company and was designed to find innovative telephony applications-using Sylantro's applications programming interface (API) of course. It's also to prove innovation doesn't need a traditional carrier, and as Thomas Howe writes, "not involving [...] Read More


Mashup Mush The CIO Weblog

I've historically been pretty bullish on the whole concept of mashups, particularly end-user mashup technologies which promise to offer the next step in offering the average user programmer-like power to process and report generation. If this sounds outlandish, as many claims do which promise to offer programming without coding, consider that some of the most popular office applications have done exactly that at other levels of abstraction... spreadsheets are just [...] Read More

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