Hasso Plattner made a sweeping announcement regarding the future of Java at SAP's TechEd Conference this morning in Los Angeles. SAP has selected Java as the 'open' programming language of the future and elevated Java to an equal status with its own proprietary, ABAP programming langu...

American Express joined the Liberty Alliance last Wednesday, just a day after AOL Time Warner announced its support for the effort, strengthening Sun Microsystems’ alternative to Microsoft’s Passport authentication system. Initiated in September by Sun Microsystems and about 30 comp...

Exclusive to Java Developer's Journal Industry Newsletter, here’s the latest fiery rebuttal in the red-hot IBM vs Microsoft debate that’s been raging on the Internet over the superiority of their respective platforms for creating Web services. Stefan Van Overtveldt, program director, W...

(Ann Arbor, MI) - Object Insight has announced the release of JVISION 2.1 Build 15 which supports the following UML Model diagrams: Use Case, Class, Robustness, Sequence, Package, State, Activity, Collaboration, Component and Deployment diagrams. Continuing Object Insight's 'UML for th...

(March 25, 2002) -The furore surrounding the $20 billion merger with Compaq has distracted attention from one of the more interesting developments in Hewlett Packard’s recent software activities, namely its entry into the increasingly competitive and crowded Web services battleground....

(May 3, 2002) - IBM has announced a new technology, IBM Enterprise Media Beans. This technology reaffirms IBM's commitment to open standards, IBM being the first to propose an open framework for integrating rich media into business applications.

Ashnasoft Corporation's AshnaMQTM 2.1 Standard and Enterprise Editions are the newest releases of its real-time anywhere messaging platform. The new 2.1 product family is the first to support JMS 1.1 API.

(June 21, 2002) - The latest release of Sitraka PerformaSureTM 1.5, a transaction-centric performance diagnosis tool for analyzing distributed JavaTM applications, now has enhanced Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) support. PerformaSure 1.5 provides Java developers, architects, and dat...

(July 19, 2002) - Borland® Enterprise Studio 4 for Java™, the latest version of Borland Software Corporation's complete application development lifecycle solution, is now available. With JBuilder 7, the award-winning, market leading Java™ development environment as its foundation, and ...

(August 13, 2002) -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. has launched a new generation of low-cost, entry level x86 systems that will include - as part of the system - the SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software stack and other key software offerings. Sun's first product in the entry level x8...

(August 29, 2002) - Although many corporations have selected Java as a strategic platform for enterprise development, adoption has been hampered by J2EE's complexity, according to the META Group, Inc.'s newly available METAspectrum market evaluation for the J2EE application server mark...

(September 17, 2002) - Instantiations is now shipping CodePro Studio 1.2, a comprehensive suite of products that enhance IBM WebSphere Studio and Eclipse development environments. CodePro Studio helps Java developers deliver high quality software in record time at reduced cost. By seam...

(September 27, 2002) -- Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Personal Profile specification has been approved by the Java Community Process (JCP) and will be made available to the Java community this week. The profile (JSR 62) was approved by the JCP J2ME Exec...

(October 11, 2002) - Alan Williamson, JDJ editor-in-chief, interviewed Jeremy Allaire, CTO, Macromedia, Inc., to get the rundown on how Java developers can take advantage of JRun4, ColdFusion MX, and Flash Remoting. JDJ: With CFMX in the field for nearly 3 months now, how has the ado...

(November 1, 2002) - TogetherSoft Corporation, the company that recently gobbled up WebGain, found out this week what it is like to be the gobblee rather than the gobbler: TogetherSoft is in turn going to be acquired-by Borland Software Corporation. With this transaction, software gia...

(November 18, 2002) - Most of the Java developers I have come across create multi-threaded servers without knowing a jack about deadlocks, I/O Performance, Thread starvation, scalability and other OS dependent issues. While forking new thread for every socket connection and managing pr...

(December 3, 2002) - Metrowerks plans to support the JCP's recently published J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 across its family of products and services. Metrowerks CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, which supports virtually every J2ME handset, personal digital assistant, and S...

(December 20, 2002) - Sun Microsystems, Inc., has been awarded a 12-month contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program. The goal of the HPCS program is to provide the next generation of high productivity co...

(January 21, 2003) - Gap Inc., the world's largest international fashion retailer, has selected a variety of systems, software, and services from Sun Microsystems and its partners to build an open, standards-based, cost effective solution to run many business processes ranging from sto...

(February 6, 2003) - PointBase, Inc. has released version 4.5 of product line. with features providing additional stability and scalability benefits for Java developers. The PointBase 4.5 release lengthens PointBase’s technology lead in the embedded database market that, according to a...

(February 21, 2003) - BEA Systems, Inc. has just announced the general availability of BEA WebLogic JRockit 8.0, as well as recent benchmark results utilizing systems with Intel Xeon processors that confirm BEA's position as the owner of the world's fastest JVM. As the foundation of th...

(March 10, 2003) - Progress Software has released ObjectStorereg; Version 6.1, the object-oriented database acquired through the purchase of eXcelon Corporation in December 2002. This latest release of ObjectStore improves the operational effectiveness of the database with the addition...

Due to the restrictions imposed by the Java Community Process, there were difficulties for certain large scale open-source projects to get access to the necessary tools and testing kits to validate themselves as truly Java-compliant. One such project was the popular JBoss application ...

(April 14, 2003) - This week, the Eclipse consortium will officially announce availability of R2.1 of the popular open-tools integration platform, incorporating many changes that improve usability and performance, including workbench navigation enhancements, user-configurable key bindi...

(April 21, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. and NeuStar, Inc. have formed an alliance to provide the infrastructure necessary to deliver federated identity services. With NeuStar's NeuLiberty identity management services and the Sun ONE Identity Server, companies can interoperate and exc...

(May 7, 2003) - 'Java is forging the future,' says Java Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Alan Williamson, 'and JDJ is reporting every minute of it.' He was responding to media questions today as news spread of JDJ's greatly increased level of participation at this year's JavaOne, Su...

(May 29, 2003) - Reusable objects for storing collections of data - Vector and HashTable - have been available to Java developers since the language's first release. In Java 1.2, Sun created the collections framework to more completely represent the types of data structures that applic...

(June 23, 2003) - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) have awarded the Entrust Authority™ Security Toolkit for Java, Version 6.1, with the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) vali...

No Subterfuge on Lutris's Part, Says Inventor of InstantDB: 'I believe they were genuine.' JDJ Exclusive Interview with Peter Hearty, principal creator of the popular embedded Java database application, InstantDB.

(Tokyo and San Francisco) – Aligo, Inc., the leading provider of Java-based mobile application server software, has entered an agreement with TechMatrix for TechMatrix to be the first Japanese distributor of the award-winning Aligo M-1 Mobile Application Server. The announcement was m...

I am writing about your article titled 'IBM Responds to Latest Microsoft Jabs at WebSphere 4.0.' In this article, you interview IBM's Stefan Van Overtveldt, program director, WebSphere Technical Marketing. In the interest of facts and truth, I would like to correct Mr. Van Overtvel...

The discussion about software engineering in the special environment of startup companies continues with a focus on the software life cycle model and the tracking of requirements.

A question I have been asking myself lately is whether high-profile alliances of large corporations are actually the best way to advance the technology initiatives that shape our development environment and the products we build and use. It's fine and well that Sun, IBM, Netscape, Orac...

Explaining Java computing to a group of business people reminds me of explaining client/server to a similar group just five years ago. In fact, I realize that they are the same people. The same business people, the same business problems - trying to cut costs by implementing an archite...

Netscape and Sun Broaden Collaboration on Intranet Technologies Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. are extending their strategic relationship to incorporate support for Sun's WebNFSTM Internet file system in Netscape products, and to assure interoperability ...

Motivation One nice feature of the Java language is having many useful programming facilities (or APIs) built into its core language packages. To write a client/server application, one can use the socket classes in the java.net package by modifying from any existing client/server code...

As images come in different sizes and formats, image loading is often a complex and time consuming process. Image loading usually consists of fetching the image file, reading the header, decoding the compressed pixels' values, and then delivering the pixels. Java currently supports two...

When I read about the opportunity to submit articles to Java Developer's Journal one of the first topics that came to mind concerns the desire to be able to record or log data from a web page on the server. Every day I hear questions about outputting data to the server, be it to simply...

'If the USA and China can have healthy economic trade despite significant ideological differences, then there's a possibility that those of us in the freedom-loving Java world can engage in healthy economic trade with the many millions who will be locked into Windows and .Net.' Rick R...