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by gautam on July 31, 2008
Sun Web Stack which was earlier named as Cool Stack has been unveiled. It can be regarded as the twist to open source LAMP stack. What you get at the end of the day is software required for deploying ...
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by gautam on July 31, 2008
Sun Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) 1.0 is out. So what does this mean? Companies running applications on Sun Microsystems servers will be able to give mobile workers access to applications using it....
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by gautam on July 24, 2008
Check out OpenSSO Express from Sun which offers enterprise support and identification for technologies in the OpenSSO project. Let me inform you that its world's largest open source identity manag...
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by gautam on July 9, 2008
From now on troubleshooting would be easier for Java applications as Sun has released Java VisualVM which is an open source GUI tool aimed at profiling and troubleshooting Java applications. It is bei...
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by gautam on June 27, 2008
What you see above in the picture is Bluetooth RFID pen combining RFID reader capability with Bluetooth communication. Java ME RFID application for mobile devices communicates with Cathesis IDBlue RFI...
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by gautam on June 26, 2008
Yes you read it absolutely correctly; this is what Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer said recently in an interview. Check out what he had to say:
Open source developers have been much...
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by gautam on June 24, 2008
This can be labeled as a significant achievement as the IcedTea project backed by RedHat coupled with OpenJDK has cleared the Java Test Compatibility Kit or TCK hence earning the tag of first open sou...
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by gautam on June 12, 2008
Java Composite Application Platform Suite or Java Caps 6 is out which is the latest version of its service oriented architecture and business integration software. This is a standard open source platf...
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by gautam on May 28, 2008
Google certainly wants to make the web a richer software environment and is therefore coming up with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.5. It offers support for java 5. Programmers would be happy to use it fo...
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by gautam on May 23, 2008
In case your Windows requirements are not much then you can go for Sun xVM VirtualBox which was taken over by Sun and offers better support. The good thing about VirtualBox is it runs on a number of h...
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by gautam on May 15, 2008
How would it be if one could manage Java applications without having to spend time and money on setting and managing web delivery environment? Here is Morph Application Platform for Java which will ce...
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by gautam on May 12, 2008
Sun plans to create some ripples if not flutters with JavaFX. It is working towards creating a desktop version of JavaFX which would see the light of the day by fall. So what all you can expect from J...
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by gautam on May 6, 2008
How about some mobile phone applications with a sense of 'wow'? This is what Sony Ericsson plans to do as it is working towards combining the best of Java and Flash in one application.
Using...
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by gautam on April 25, 2008
The remaining work is being completed. Java will soon be 100% freed from the clutches of Sun and will become open source. Now only the icing on the cake is left and soon it will be packaged with Linux...
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by gautam on April 16, 2008
A few years back economics and ecology together was unthought-of but the scenario has changed over a period of time. Continuing with such initiative Sun Microsystems has come up with the Sun Eco Advan...
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by gautam on April 11, 2008
Most of us believe that Java EE can be a tough nut to crack in terms of creating new and customizing existing web components but this may not be the case. With the latest JavaServer Pages features one...
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by gautam on April 2, 2008
Even though Apple has given its nod to third party development for iPhone and iTouch it seems Sun Microsystems dream of porting Java ME JVM to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices would not be as...
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by gautam on March 31, 2008
iPhone has caught the fancy of developers since the time it has been launched and here comes alcheMo beta for iPhone. Aimed at Java ME and iPhone development, it is fully automated and can port Java M...
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by gautam on March 28, 2008
Come May and at the JavaOne Conference to be held in San Francisco Sun would be previewing JavaFX Script followed by 1.0 official version which would be making a mark pretty soon. With JavaFX Sun plan...
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by gautam on March 20, 2008
Is this a threat to Java and .NET? Eclipse is looking forward to get on the run time arena with an open source component model which would run across multiple operating systems and computing tiers. Wi...
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by gautam on March 13, 2008
Just a month back Steve Jobs had raised fingers on Java which surely might have left Sun seething with anger but it seems that the company remained unperturbed by its comments.
These were the comment...
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by gautam on March 7, 2008
When James Gosling speaks then you definitely need to lend your ears to what he says after all he is known as the father of Java. Recently he was seen addressing people at the Sun Tech Day where he ta...
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by gautam on March 6, 2008
How many of you really took notice of what Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun Microsystems stated at the SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference? Still scratching your heads? Now let me take you back and ...
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by gautam on February 25, 2008
Here is Adobe integrated runtime or AIR which is all set to give competition in the platform independent application market which as of now is dominated by Sun Java. This cross platform application en...
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by gautam on February 21, 2008
Not long ago Sun Microsystems was a company which used to shy away from open source code but with the passage of time all this has changed for good and the company is trying to position itself as one ...
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by gautam on January 31, 2008
Now Sun is offering early access to Java Real-Time System (RTS) for Linux, Java RTS 2.1_EA. which was earlier only available on SPARC or Solaris 10 x86. All thanks to Sun as now there will be real tim...
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by gautam on January 30, 2008
You must be aware about Sun SPOTs? I am not talking about the spots on sun star but palm sized battery powered devices which wirelessly transmit data regarding temperature, movement and sound. Now Su...
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by gautam on January 29, 2008
A major updation has been done to Java software package which includes numerous bug fixes and security updates. The java 6 Update 4 features a whopping 370 bug fixes. Though most of them are minor twe...
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by gautam on January 9, 2008
Does Java OpenGL or JOGL excite you? If yes then you need to read this. As of now the Game Technology at Sun is busy developing JOGL which is a wrapper library enabling standard graphics cross platf...
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by gautam on January 8, 2008
You all must be aware of widgets? For those of you who have heard this term for the first time widgets are small applications written in JavaScript which are used for a single function. Now yahoo has ...