What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it's a rare book that I 'do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force' after all.) Geeks...

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...

SourceLabs announced the availability of SASH 2 complete with a major new milestone - integrated support for Apache Tomcat. Comprised of the most widely deployed open source Java technologies used by the Global 2000, new SASH 2 is a robust platform that simplifies the development of en...

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

Web 2.0 is one of the hottest things on the consumer Web, but where does it fit in the enterprise? What's the business value and how can developers use new Web 2.0 mashups to bring value to the line-of-business users? You'll hear all of this and more from Rod Smith, IBM Fellow and Vice...

CodeGear's Chief Evangelist, David Intersimone, ably assisted by Mike Rozlog, showed delegates to SYS-CON Events' inaugural Real-World Java Seminar why developers using Eclipse continue to turn to Borland for tools to make their lives easier.

Making the announcement at this morning's 'Real-World Java Seminar' presented by SYS-CON Events in New York City, CodeGear from Borland Corporation unveiled a set of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open-source development platform: JGear.

Java developers are coming from far and wide today to attend the first ever 'Real-World Java' Seminar, a one-day event being presented by SYS-CON Events in New York City.

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors included: Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponso...

I'll be speaking at SYS-CON's Real-World Java One-Day Seminar in New York City next Monday, August 13. Despite the fact that it's August, it looks like they have lined up an interesting panel of speakers for the day, including sessions by Yakov Fain on using Flex with Java (that'll be ...

David Boloker is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Officer for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. Previously, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. He is recognized in and outside IBM as a technical leader...

The Eclipse JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) is an open source component of the Eclipse WST (WebTools) Project. JSDT provides some of the most powerful JavaScript development capabilities available anywhere. It can be used by both developers using AJAX, and by AJAX library developer...

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced the Terracotta Partner Network, a group of existing and new highly skilled integration partners that will work closely with Terracotta to deliver the benefits of Terra...

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA...

A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Famil...

Writing custom serialization code may seem easy to start with, but maintaining it can quickly turn into a nightmare, especially as your application grows and you have more and more state to manage. Keeping track of what has to be serialized and moved around the Web cluster can be a rea...

IBM says it is foreswearing enforcement of a bunch of patents it holds that might be necessary to implement upwards of 150 standards designed to make software interoperate. It says it is granting 'universal and perpetual access' to the IP to both commercial and open source developers, ...

Companies who do not take steps to assure the quality of the code they are developing can face nasty surprises late in the process. Code quality involves more than testing, but requires an overall methodology from start to finish. This session addresses how software development teams c...

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr...

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere and WebSphere CE application servers, and Hibernate, a high-performance object/relational mapper. With these new capabilities, Terracotta c...

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition. With this addition, Terracotta 2.4 can now be used to deliver scalability and availability for ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as 'platinum sponsor.' IBM (www.IBM.com/SOA) is the world's leading technology provider of SOA and Web Services solutions. IBM's 'SOA' website answers the question 'Why Service Oriented Architecture an...

SOA has moved beyond a technology initiative. It is fundamentally about creating an alignment between business and IT -- about driving IT design and deployment decisions from a clear understanding of the business design being automated by IT. Doing so creates an economic context in whi...

Fortune magazine has been poking around those court-sealed charges that HP bought Dell's printer plans from a former senior Dell executive before Dell entered the printer market and got a previously mum Dell to say that 'The more we look into it, the more concerned we become.'

SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXW...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 'Call for Papers' for the Real-World Java Seminar is now open. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, the Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event with three concurrent tracks and more than 30 sessions, and is packed with technical...

'The Java backlash,' writes Bruce Eckel, 'has been building up steam, and we're starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.' Java has been around for 10 years yet applets are not the primary way that we interact with the web. Applets are not ubiquitous, and everyone got exci...

The 'Real-World Java Seminar' is an intense one-day educational event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attendees of this event will allow participants to take a fresh look at the architecture of your the projects they are working on now...

IBM has announced its next generation WebSphere Portal, which includes comprehensive Web 2.0 tools and targeted customizations, known as business accelerators, that speed the deployment of common portal solutions while maintaining the flexibility desired by customers. Also available la...

The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your furth...

Prolifics announced that it will begin distributing a brand new product designed byits SOA Practice Manager, Kadeer Beg. WebSphere Message Broker Extender for TIBCO RV provides TIBCO RV message handling capability, enhancing IBM WebSphere Message Broker beyond IBM WebSphere MQ messagin...

SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM became a 'Platinum Sponsor' of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West. The world's leading Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event is expected to attract more than 2,000 i-technology developers. AJAXWorld grew from a single track, one-day semin...

BEA may ultimately end up being acquired, however, we think that path will at the very least take some time and won't be as easy one might hope. While we believe BEA Systems ought to be part of another company, we aren't sure the recent disappointing Q1 is enough to push the management...

Remember last October when IBM sued Amazon claiming the great dot.com had knowingly built its business model on the back of IBM's patents? Well, the pair patched up their difference the other day outside the courtroom after Amazon paid IBM some unsung amount of money. There is now a lo...

'SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,' said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. 'Micro Focus' commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce dev...

At its PartnerWorld 2007 Conference, IBM previewed the latest in next generation client computing with the new BladeCenter 'Workstation Blade', developed in collaboration with Blade.org partner Devon IT. The new offering will include the new IBM Workstation Blade and its associated 'ec...

Sandy Carter, vice president in charge of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Her professional associations include Member and Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory C...

Chelsio Communications announced availability of its T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, which enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single platform. The Unified Wire interconnect solution has been qualified by industry organization Blade.org for use with IBM...

'SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables,' said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. 'Prolifics' commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce integ...