The four JSRs behind Java 7 and Java 8 were recently approved by the Executive Committee. However, there was a good deal of discontent among members who...
0 replies - 25661 views - 12/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Apache committers have announced the first beta for the next iteration of Tomcat, version 7.0.5. As always, the memory leak reductions continue and...
0 replies - 20128 views - 12/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A few months ago DZone took a look at Sonatype's Maven Studio tooling. One of the unique aspects of this open core software was the ability to...
1 replies - 7562 views - 12/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
It's common to hear proponents of Agile discussing the benefits of collective code ownership. The benefits can be undeniable. Sharing knowledge ensures at...
2 replies - 3758 views - 12/01/10 by Jay Fields in Articles
With their Apache-licensed DeltaCloud project and now with today's acquisition of a Cloud tech startup called Makara, RedHat is building a broad foundation for...
0 replies - 21432 views - 12/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Jena project is a Java web framework that implements W3C recommendations from the RDF and SPARQL specifications. Recently this project was accepted into...
0 replies - 22862 views - 11/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of...
0 replies - 22118 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Last month, Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich stated his reservations about the Jigsaw brand of modularity in Java 8. It is now a surprise that...
2 replies - 26208 views - 11/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...
1 replies - 27709 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development. The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to...
0 replies - 24427 views - 11/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
"Oracle’s position appears to be the most onerous and draconian of any major hardware manufacturer," claims Claudia Betzner, the executive director...
0 replies - 29697 views - 11/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
This week, Bob Lee, who is best known for leading JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java) and creating Guice, declined an invitation to participate in the Java...
2 replies - 25623 views - 11/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle. Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...
0 replies - 22505 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case. In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that...
0 replies - 25449 views - 11/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
JBoss plans to keep the development train rolling for their open source application server. While JBoss AS 6.0 is approaching the candidate release stage,...
0 replies - 20804 views - 11/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
