Brazil's largest Java community is supporting the country's government in its efforts to adopt nationally and abroad an open source version of Java. Brazil says the move is needed to prevent vendor lock-in. Sun meanwhile stands committed to ensuring compatibility of products running on

With the release of Sun's latest version of J2SE not yet a week old, Sun has already outlined elements of Java's next revision, code-named 'Mustang.' Company officials offered some very early schematics, pegging spring 2006 as a potential release date. Sun reaffirmed its belief in fost

A 'mystery candidate,' Maureen O'Gara reports, described so far only as a 'senior executive at a high-technology company,' has emerged in the hunt for a permanent CEO of beleaguered Computer Associates. Seems the CA board is setting it up to push interim CEO Kenneth Cron, who'd like to

CA is going to fire about 5% of its 15,000 employees in the next month, affecting 800 employees worldwide. 70% of the terminations are to be in North America, with 200 people dropped at the company's Islandia, Long Island headquarters.

'For years, the EJB and JDO specifications have evolved independently as they addressed different sets of requirements,' write Linda DeMichiel and Craig Russell, specification leads of JSR-220 and JSR-243, in an open letter to the Java community. 'The core of both specifications, howev

Every now and again a newsgroup deals with an issue so generic that it seems helpful to air it in a wider forum. A recent question from a VB.NET programmer - who asked a Java newsgroup 'I have been forced to conclude I need to learn Java' - is a perfect example. The Java community has

In the first of a new series of sneak peeks into upcoming Eclipse plugins, Mike Henderson bravely shares with the wider developer community his first cut at a plugin, a Tapestry Palette to browse the components available in a project. 'It's very beta right now,' he says. 'There is only

Instantiations' CodePro family of applications, that includes CodePro Studio and CodePro Enterprise, has been released. The latest version, CodePro Studio 3.0, integrates seamlessly into major development environments, including IBM WebSphere, IBM Rational, and Eclipse.

A 2003 initiative between IBM and Art Technology Group (ATG) has been actively developed by ATG. Art Technology provides software used to measure potential reactions by consumers using e-commerce Web sites. ATG created the plug-ins for Java developers to save time with the coding of su

JBoss is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a member, and will help with code development for the J2EE Standard Tools Project. JBoss uses the Eclipse platform as a development environment in products such as JBoss-IDE, a J2EE development tool.

'I get confused by a lot of Sun's technology advertising and marketing,' writes Roger Strukhoff. But there are numerous reasons, he argues, not to give up on Sun - the company that famously grew 'from start-up mode to $1 billion in annual sales without spending one cent on advertising

Agitar, a leader in the testing of enterprise applications for developers, announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation. Agitar, which already supports Eclipse in its flagship Agitator enterprise testing solution, will be able to provide Java programmers a means to test and code

LynuxWorks is poised to release Luminosity, a new development tool based on Eclipse. For maximum interoperability across platforms and applications, Luminosity allows for Java creation, editing, compiling, and debugging among other things.

Software Configuration Management (SCM) solutions provider MKS is providing expanded integration for Eclipse and IBM WebSphere development environments, by adding MKS Integrity Manager onto developers' desktops. This is the first time Change Management functionality will be offered in

To use or not to use? That is the question. Or if they are to be used, then how? In this article, Chakra Yadavalli looks first at what static import is, explores how it might help us write code shorter, faster, and cleaner; then examines how the development tools could help us to 'cod

Tomcat 5.5, released by The Apache Software Foundation, has some major improvements over its predecessor. One of the most significant changes in the latest release includes the use of an Eclipse JDT to compile Java. However, both developers and Tomcat community members have said the re

IBM's director of WebSphere Foundation Software is aghast at rumors that Sun may be planning to merge its JavaOne and Sun Network conferences: 'JavaOne was supposed to be an industry event where any Java vendor or user who wishes to attend can do so and be part of the Java community...

Recently elected as a W3C Advisory Board Member, ILOG's chief product officer, Jean Francois Abramatic, is certain to enhance the course of Eclipse development and use. Abramatic is a strong proponent of Eclipse.

'When we hear about short-term job losses that result from outsourcing to India and China, we also need to consider the long-term benefits of these nations developing into prime markets for U.S. exports,' says Dr. Adam Kolawa, the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft. Outsourcing actually of

There are some people who are passionate about the differences between 'free software' and 'open source.' I'm beginning to wonder if the difference matters. The term 'free software' came into use at about the same time that Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT, launched the GNU Project

The current target release date for J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) is September 30th, says Sun's Graham Hamilton, chief technologist of Java Software. 'That is the target,' Hamilton adds. 'As I am sure people understand, we are watching quality and customer feedback closely and will adjust if neede

The question 'How will Sun ever make money off giving so much source-code to open source' - as it did in 2000 with OpenOffice.org, has most recently with Project Looking Glass and is about to again with Solaris - is the wrong one, argues Sun's Simon Phipps. 'It's a good question,'

In a new version of its flagship product called FlowBuilder, Trilog has announced that it includes a new Eclipse plug-in that makes the entire framework available as an Eclipse perspective for Java developers. The release also 'tears down the wall between the Domino community and the J

Built on the Eclipse platform and developed as a plug-in to IBM's WebSphere Studio, a technology called 'b+' enables the modeling, generation, migration and deployment of end-to-end, J2EE1.3 applications from UML models, legacy applications and JDBC-compatible databases, with no vendor

'We are thrilled to welcome Actuate as an Eclipse Strategic Developer,' said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation Inc as he announced today that San Francisco-based Enterprise Reporting Applications specialist Actuate Corporation has become a Board Member for

Describing Eclipse as 'awesome,' the IT project manager of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop app. The application, codenamed 'Gumtree,' will be used to control Ansto's laboratory instrumentation, allo

As Eclipse environments grow, companies come closer to creating Eclipse plug-ins. Acucorp, a business partner of IBM, is at work on ACUCOBOL-GT Eclipse plug-in.

IBM is rewarding academics who develop innovative applications with Eclipse. The company announced today four recipients from the Australia & New Zealand region. Each is due to receive between $50,000 and $65,000 in IBM grants to further academic open source software creation.

It was bound to raise the hackles of Java developers around the world when writer-programmer Paul Graham last month wrote, in a widely circulated essay called Great Hackers: 'Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of a

'J++, being the dinosaur that it is, compiles and conforms to the 1.1 version of the JDK,' recounts dot-com CTO and Java advocate Thomas E. Davis. 'Eclipse, on the other hand, supports the 1.4 version of the JDK. So my right hand man sends me an instant message telling me that he's goi

'I've downloaded it, and it works fantastically. I've got the settings at 200Mb minimum and 350Mb maximum and Eclipse is very, very snappy.' With these words, Jon Eaves enthuses about a new plugin for Eclipse.

In order to make deploying Java applications on Linux easier, IBM has announced the release of a free tools bundle for Eclipse.

The Web Tools Project (WTP) consists of two major contributions, one from IBM and the other from ObjectWeb. The IBM contribution consists of pieces of their development tools for WebSphere while the ObjectWeb contribution is what was known as Lomboz. In this initial article, since Lomb

What is open source? It is a way of developing, distributing, and licensing software. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the roots of open source as we know it today were established.

IBM and the Apache Foundation announced that IBM is contributing the Cloudscape product it acquired from Informix to the Apache open source program. The project name for the effort will be 'Derby.' The contribution amounts to more than 500,000 lines of Java code. In related news IBM

SYS-CON interviews Michael Norman, CEO of Scapa Technologies, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco, about Eclipse and - especially - the Hyades Project.

The so-called 'Beehive' and 'Pollinate' projects will be riding the next wave of Open Source innovation, if things go according to plan for BEA's scheme to release the source code for a large portion of its application development framework for WebLogic Workshop.

The Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of an open-development platform that will be used to test frameworks and services.

Whether you're a tool developer building new commercial products, or a user customizing your environment, every experienced developer interested in extending Eclipse or WebSphere Studio Workbench will possibly find a new book interesting - it's the first definitive, start-to-finish gui

IBM Rational will standardize its suite of automated software quality (ASQ) tools on the Hyades open source platform. By making its software-ality tools Hyades compliant, Rational will provide third-party testing tool vendors and IT organizations with a standardized platform on which t