(May 15, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. and leading IT vendors today jointly announced growing demand for Java Compatible™ and Java Verified™ products. To date 19 licensees are shipping J2EE v 1.3 Compatible products - up 46 percent from January 2002. Currently surpassing 3.5...

(June 3, 2003) - Java developers targeting a broad market of global handset manufacturers can soon take advantage of the enriched capabilities of Motorola's i.JV30, the latest embedded Java virtual machine from Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. The i.JV30, integrated with its I...

(June 13, 2003) - SpiritSoft's new SpiritWave ESB Server version 6.0 has just been released, with Global Clustering technology, non-blocking input/output (NIO), and JMX (Java Management Extensions). Enterprises deployed with SpiritWave now experience 24/7 message delivery with no clien...

JavaBuzz Our weekly look at the questions being asked in and around the international i-technology developer community. Q. Will Sun now revise the JCP to include more individual developers? In terms of 'Internet Time' it's a fairly ancient question these days to speculate as to whethe...

(December 17, Boston, MA) - Slangsoft announced today that its intelligent Text Input and Display Platform (iTID), long compatible with Standard, Enterprise, and Personal Java, is now compatible with the set of Java APIs that constitute the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). Th...

(Bedford, MA) - The new book coauthored by David Chappell, vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, and Tyler Jewell, director, Technical Evangelism at BEA Systems, Inc., shows developers how the promise of Web services can become a reality. Published by O'Rei...

(Fremont, CA) – Insignia Solutions, the leading provider of accelerated Java software solutions for smart devices, is providing support and optimizations for the Intel® PXA250 and Intel® PXA210 applications processors, which are based on the Intel® XScale™ microarchite...

(March 26, 2002) - It's a funny world. In the very same week that all the talk is about how Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corporation are in a J2EE vs .NET war to the death, so we also receive news of an amazing new closeness between MS and the world of Java...in the mobile space.

(April 19, 2002) - The international Java community continues to express a colorful range of opinions on the controversially forward-looking JDJ April editorial by editor-in-chief Alan Williamson, titled somewhat ominously 'There May be Trouble Ahead.'

(June 14, 2002) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has changed the landscape of the portal market with Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6, the first portal server solution to include fully integrated, secure identity management capabilities. The company also unveiled its product roadmap to support all thr...

(July 2, 2002) - Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola, Inc. have teamed up to add color to the mobile phone user's life with the first color display, JavaTM technology-enabled phone in the U.S.- the Motorola i95cl, available now from Nextel. The handset's large color screen, maximiz...

(July 30, 2002) - Sparking a firestorm of online debate in the tech field, the IEEE-USA, an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has asked Congress to investigate the impact of increased hiring of non-U.S. guest workers, the greater use of tempo...

(August 20, 2002) - Motorola, Inc. has announced an application certification model that allows certain third-party application publishers to certify applications from independent developers. Using criteria agreed upon by Motorola, these selected publishers can now certify applications...

Macromedia, Inc. brings the ease and productivity of ColdFusion to the highly scalable, standards-based Java technology architecture with its new Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers. Versions of Macromedia ColdFusion MX, the rapid server scripting environment for crea...

(September 19, 2002) - In a strategic move to support its customers' desire to generate additional revenue and reduce costs for managing wireless J2ME services, Motorola has signed an agreement to acquire 4thpass, a Seattle-based company. Motorola will integrate 4thpass' Mobile Applica...

(September 27, 2002) - James Gosling concedes in a press interview this week that the sheer profitability of archrival Microsoft Corporation gives them a 10-to-1 spending advantage. 'They can outspend us on anything,' says Gosling.

Founded just this year, AccelTree Software has attracted industry attention with its rapid code assembler, FULCRUM. Vivek Mannige, chairman of AccelTree Software, talks with JDJ editorial director Jeremy Geelan about how FULCRUM has defined a new place for itself in Java application de...

(October 25, 2002) - I'm quoted by Gavin Clark of ComputerWire in his item (syndicated by The Register) about the standardization of Microsoft's C# programming language and their moves to make their C++ compiler catch up with the standards a little. My remarks there were a little trunc...

(November 8, 2002) - As controversy swirled around the validity of the .NET vs J2EE benchmarking results posted this week by The Middleware Company, JDJ editor-in-chief Alan Williamson went straight to TMC for their side of the story. JDJ: Did TMC approach Microsoft with respect to th...

(November 22, 2002) - Sharp Corporation's newly launched Zaurus SL-5600 PDA includes Insignia Solutions ' Java-enabling technology. Insignia's Jeode software enables Zaurus users to download and run Java-based content. The software makes it simple to migrate and run enterprise applicat...

(December 10, 2002) - TogetherSoft Corporation's newly released Together WebSphere Studio Edition extends IBM's development platform with modeling and productivity features. This latest technology will be offered as part of the TogetherSoft family of products including Together Contro...

The other day I was trying to terminate this unprecedented application server from my console window by using CTRL-C. The application did get the idea that I didn't want to see any more of it, but I guess it was trying to save the settings, flush streams, close database connection, upd...

(January 24, 2003) - Borland Enterprise Server 5.2, the latest release of the high-performance deployment solution, is available now, and offers even greater price/performance advantages than previous versions. Global 1000 companies spanning a wide variety of industries are already run...

(February 14, 2003) - Borland Software Corporation has released two new products, Borland Together Edition for JBuilder and Borland Enterprise Studio 5 for Java, to help customers accelerate and streamline the development lifecycle for enterprise software applications. This launch is t...

(March 17, 2003) - aJile Systems Inc. has created the world's first game development kit to bring Java MIDP technology to millions of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance players. aJile's JAMiD game development kit is also the first platform to use Sun's latest MIDP 2.0 technology, which offers...

(March 31, 2003) - Oracle9i Application Server Java Edition has just debuted. Oracle's new enterprise-class application server offering includes all of the technology needed for companies to quickly begin developing and deploying Java applications and Web services - at a highly competi...

(April 14, 2003) - Anticipating Teamstudio's launch of Analyzer for Java Edition 3, Mark Dixon, co-founder and CTO of Teamstudio, Inc, issued a wake-up call to the Java development community about the inherent, and often overlooked, risks of the Java programming language.

(April 28, 2003) - BEA Systems, Inc. and Siebel Systems, Inc. have expanded their strategic alliance agreement to deliver integration solutions through joint development, sales, and marketing initiatives.

(May 15, 2003) - Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas will preview the development of a Java Card OS with 1 MB of memory that allows full multiple applications on a single card at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference. The new OS is being used in Sharp's new large-capacity Smart Card.

(June 4, 2003) - As anyone knows who attended the 2003 E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles, if gaming is even bigger than usual this year in the software development world, then Java gaming is bigger still. Especially in the wireless gaming world.

(June 13, 2003) - PeopleSoft, Inc.'s Board of Directors voted unanimously this week to recommend that stockholders reject Oracle's unsolicited offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of PeopleSoft for $16 per share in cash. The Board concluded that the offer would face lengthy ...

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...