http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:14:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25495/Oracle_s_Latest_Java_Moves_Draw_Industry_Ire/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25495/Oracle_s_Latest_Java_Moves_Draw_Industry_Ire/ Two years hence, Oracle's stewardship of Java continues to raise user and vendor ire, this time due to modularization, licensing, and security concerns. 'Plans for version 8 of Java Platform Standard Edition, which is due next year, call for inclusion of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might conflict with the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena, Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own commercial Java, causing difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, security vendor F-Secure views Java as security hindrance.' Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:12:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/25441/Java_To_Be_Removed_from_Ubuntu_Uninstalled_from_User_Machines/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25441/Java_To_Be_Removed_from_Ubuntu_Uninstalled_from_User_Machines/ Oracle's Sun Java JDK packages are to be removed from the Ubuntu partner repositories and disabled on users systems. Oracle, in retiring the "Operating System Distributor License for Java," means Canonical no longer have permission to distribute the package. The change will affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTs, Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 users only. Users who have the "sun-java-6" package installed on their system will see it removed via a future software update -- the exact date of which is "TBD." Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:05:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Java 46 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News lucas_maximus http://www.osnews.com/story/25395/Java_Tops_for_Hackers_Warns_Microsoft/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25395/Java_Tops_for_Hackers_Warns_Microsoft/ Patch up warmly this winter if you're running Java. That's the advice from .NET shop Microsoft, which reckons Oracle's platform is the single biggest target for hackers. Java proved the single most popular target in the 12-month period to the end of June, according to Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report has found here Running Java as a Web-browser Plugin is much more dangerous than Flash, and should disable the Java Applet Plugin. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:23:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 41 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News lucas_maximus http://www.osnews.com/story/25223/Oracle_Previews_Java_SE_7_for_Mac_JDK_8_To_Include_JavaFX/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25223/Oracle_Previews_Java_SE_7_for_Mac_JDK_8_To_Include_JavaFX/ In the midst of the dual events Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne (overshadowed, of course, by the iPhone event) Oracle took a number of steps that show that they still care about making a go of Java on the desktop. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:50:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Moochman http://www.osnews.com/story/25214/Java_Cloud_Platforms_Compared/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25214/Java_Cloud_Platforms_Compared/ InfoWorld's Peter Wayner provides an in-depth comparison of four Java cloud platforms, putting CloudBees, Google App Engine, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Cloud Foundry through their paces to 'reveal the pleasures and perils of coding on a public cloud platform.' 'The danger of lock-in seems to lurk around every corner, and that's not necessarily the worst part. What if we're happy with everything about our cloud except we need one missing feature that the cloud's masters either can't or don't want to deliver?' Wayner writes. 'Some of the clouds rely upon standard tools that take standard WAR files and deliver their information to the world. Others have so many proprietary twists that you might as well tattoo the code on your arm -- it's going to be with you for the rest of your life.' Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:05:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/24998/Java_SE_7_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24998/Java_SE_7_Released/ "Java SE 7 is officially released today! After nearly five years of collaboration within the worldwide Java community, Java Platform, Standard Edition is ready for download! It's an important step in Java’s evolution. Thanks to everyone who suggested features, reviewed specs, argued on mailing lists, talked about Java 7 at your JUG meeting, submitted bugs, wrote blogs and tweeted about #java7." Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:08:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 17 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24929/JDK_7_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24929/JDK_7_RC1_Released/ "After an initial round of testing we've declared build 147 to be the first Release Candidate of JDK 7. There are only thirteen changes in this build. Over half of them are administrivial updates that don't affect the actual code; the remainder are true showstoppers, including several hard VM crashes and a JIT correctness bug identified by an Eclipse unit test. If no new showstopper issues are reported, and if JSR 336 and the component JSRs pass their Final Approval Ballots in the JCP, then this will be the GA build for release later this month per the schedule posted back in January." Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:48:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News theuserbl http://www.osnews.com/story/24484/Oracle_Making_Java_Solaris_Certifications_Pricier/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24484/Oracle_Making_Java_Solaris_Certifications_Pricier/ Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars. The new rule goes into effect Aug. 1 and regards Java Architect, Java Developer, Solaris System Administrator and Solaris Security Administrator certification paths, according to a notice on Oracle's website. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:40:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Java 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Amy Bennett http://www.osnews.com/story/24117/The_ASF_Resigns_From_the_JCP_Executive_Committee/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24117/The_ASF_Resigns_From_the_JCP_Executive_Committee/ "The Apache Software Foundation concludes that that JCP is not an open specification process - that Java specifications are proprietary technology that must be licensed directly from the spec lead under whatever terms the spec lead chooses; that the commercial concerns of a single entity, Oracle, will continue to seriously interfere with and bias the transparent governance of the ecosystem; that it is impossible to distribute independent implementations of JSRs under open source licenses such that users are protected from IP litigation by expert group members or the spec lead; and finally, the EC is unwilling or unable to assert the basic power of their role in the JCP governance process." Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Java 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24031/Google_WebP_Format_Gets_Java_Decoder/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24031/Google_WebP_Format_Gets_Java_Decoder/ The WebP image format based on VP8 and released by Google recently now has a native Java decoder. The new decoder can be run in any browser with Java enabled and could help provide a solution for user otherwise unable to view WebP content. A demo applet of the decoder in action is also available. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:04:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Brooss http://www.osnews.com/story/24018/The_Coming_War_Over_the_Future_of_Java/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24018/The_Coming_War_Over_the_Future_of_Java/ Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister writes about what could be the end of the Java Community Process as we know it. With the Apache Software Foundation declaring war on Oracle over Java, the next likely step would be a vote of no confidence in the JCP, which, if the ASF can convince enough members to follow suit, "could effectively unravel the Java community as a whole", McAllister writes, with educators, academics, and researchers having little incentive to remain loyal to an Oracle-controlled platform. "Independent developers could face the toughest decisions of all. Even if the JCP dissolves, many developers will be left with few alternatives", with .Net offering little advantage, and Perl, Python, and Ruby unable to match Java's performance. The dark horse? Google Go - a language Google might just fast-track in light of its patent suit with Oracle over Android. Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:00:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/24015/Gosu_Brings_Fresh_Language_Skills_to_Java_Virtual_Platform/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24015/Gosu_Brings_Fresh_Language_Skills_to_Java_Virtual_Platform/ "Programmers in the Java environment have another tool in their box, following the launch of a new programming language called Gosu. Publicly released by Guidewire Software, Gosu is a general purpose programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. According to the developers, Gosu is an object-oriented language that is 100% compatible with Java and has a promising set of attributes compared to other JVM languages. For example, Gosu boasts solid IDE tooling and static typing (meaning variables don't have to be defined before they're used), which remain rare in the world of JVMs." Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:56:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24012/Apache_Declares_War_on_Oracle_over_Java/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24012/Apache_Declares_War_on_Oracle_over_Java/ "Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use. The nonprofit organization has also indicated that it could end its involvement in the JCP if the licensing restrictions stay in place." Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:28:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/23896/IBM_Joins_OpenJDK_Community/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23896/IBM_Joins_OpenJDK_Community/ "Oracle and IBM today announced that the companies will collaborate to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment." Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:52:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 63 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23835/Oracle_Postpones_Some_Features_in_JDK_7/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23835/Oracle_Postpones_Some_Features_in_JDK_7/ Oracle has made some decisions about Java: in order to release JDK 7 in the middle of next year, they have decided to change priorities and specifically, postpone three features: Jigsaw, Lambda and Coin. Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:56:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News vodoomoth