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As many companies launch "Java clouds," or begin weaving Java into their hosted development platforms, the race is on to remake the Java infrastructure.
Overall, pay for IT skills decreased during the first quarter of 2009, but the monetary value of some specific skills did show increases.
While acquisition talks have broken down for now, historical analysis says there's no time like the present for IBM to gobble up Sun, or perhaps better yet, part of Sun.
Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, is championing an effort to thwart the "JavaScript trap," in which users could unknowingly be running non-free programs in their Web browser.
Red Hat is stealing a page from the Second Life playbook and will host an online conference for users and partners of its JBoss Java-based middleware products in which people will have their own avatars and can virtually attend a conference as if it was a live trade show.
An overview of features in (and out of) the next Java specification.
NetBeans is upgraded to include retooling for PHP, an early access version of NetBeans for Python, and support for Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Pages, and the Java Persistence API. Meanwhile, Visual Studio adds jQuery capabilities to its software development IDE via JavaScript IntelliSense support.
This excerpt from the upcoming book, Open Source SOA, addresses the Service Component Architecture (SCA), and its sister technology, Service Data Objects (SDO), emerging standards used in service-oriented architecture for creating multi-protocol, multi-language services based on reusable components. Using JBoss jBPM, as the author demonstrates, can apply process automation to a wide set of business process management problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business process orchestration.
Repository assistant, Eclipse linkage readied for the company's popular Java build manager.
Applet-focused upgrade had been delayed nearly two months.
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