Java Archive

Sun Releases Guidelines for Java-based Phones

David Adams 2003-01-31 Java No Comments

Until now, Sun Microsystems had a hands-off approach to the implementation of Java on mobile phones, which resulted in a chaotic and fractured Java implementation industry-wide, as different companies went their own way. Sun has taken the reigns and had proposed a road map, called "Java Technology for the Wireless Industry" or JTWI.

Can Sun’s Mobile Posse Ease J2ME Developers’ Woes?

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-30 Java 5 Comments

A Sun-led Java standards group today will announce specifications designed to bring Java's write-once run-anywhere promise closer to reality for wireless handsets.

Sun Says Java Will Become Extinct if MS Won’t Include it in Windows

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-29 Java 75 Comments

"A federal judge's order that would force Microsoft Corp. to include Sun Microsystems Inc.'s programming language in the latest version of Windows is necessary to prevent the language from becoming extinct, Sun argued in a court filing. The company filed its response Tuesday to Microsoft's appeal of the order. Sun said its Java programming language is damaged each day the injunction is not imposed because the market tilts toward Microsoft's .NET framework." Read the reports here and here. Good to see Sun being realistic regarding the status of and race between Java and .NET's framework.

Is There Hope for Java?

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-23 Java 64 Comments

A judge has ordered Microsoft to make it easy for Sun's popular programming language to work with Windows. But the remedy may be too little, too late, Salon says. Update: Microsoft appeals Java must-carry ruling.

Sun Readying J2EE 1.4

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-15 Java 2 Comments

Sun Microsystems officials on Wednesday presented a laundry list of technology and promotional efforts planned for the Java language, including the February release of Version 1.4 of J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), featuring integrated Web services support.

Nokia Woos Linux Programmers

Submitted by Deniz Kaan Çopur 2003-01-15 Java 8 Comments

Nokia, the top seller of mobile phones, has released software to let Linux programmers develop Java software for its cell phones, the company said on Tuesday. Read the article at News.com.

Open Source J2EE 1.4 Gets Sun Green Light

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-09 Java 12 Comments

The first open source implementation of the latest specification for enterprise Java is expected in JBoss Group LLC's increasingly popular open source application server next year, Gavin Clarke writes. Read the article at TheRegister.

The Java War Rages On

David Adams 2002-12-03 Java 24 Comments

A ZDNet article details the upcoming arguments in the antitrust suit brought by Sun Microsystems against Microsoft over Microsoft's treatment of the Java platform. Sun claims that Microsoft has distributed a crippled and incompatible version of Java in its (monopoly) operating system, which serves to undermine the Java platform. The article covers mostly background and history. It's pretty clear what Sun's case is, but less obvious how Microsoft will choose to defend itself.

Java 2 Language Fundamentals and Enterprise JavaBeans

Eugenia Loli 2002-12-03 Java No Comments

Learn the fundamentals of session beans: their characteristics and types; how instance pooling, activation, and passivation are applicable to session beans; and examine session bean methods and their life cycle diagrams. Also, Jamie Jaworski covers the fundamentals of the Java language. Learn how to create packages, import classes and interfaces from other packages, and create a program's main() method; how to access command-line variables and form identifiers; and discuss each primitive type, its range of values, and how to create literal values of each type (free reg. req).

Father of Java Sounds Off

Eugenia Loli 2002-11-22 Java 9 Comments

James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc., graced the Software Development Conference and Expo East 2002 with his presence this week, addressing a wide range of issues from Sun's software strategy to Web services to embedded Java to open-source software.

Sun Boosts Enterprise Java

Eugenia Loli 2002-11-22 Java No Comments

In this article, B.J. Fesq provides a clear understanding of the enterprise Java platform's direction and introduces J2EE (Java 2, Enterprise Edition) 1.4's support for emerging Web services standards.

JBoss Responds to McNealy’s Hammering of Open Source Marketing

Submitted by Hans Speijer 2002-11-15 Java 29 Comments

"On the contrary, I would argue that Open Source and JBoss in particular are already Sun's best defense against Microsoft .NET. Only Open Source has proven uniquely resilient to a Microsoft onslaught. In the same way that Linux has prevented MS NT from dominating the server operating system, JBoss will prevent .NET from making serious inroads into the application server tier, the crucial gateway to enterprise software applications." Read the article at Jboss.org.

JCP Embraces Open-Source Licensing

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-31 Java 1 Comment

Sun Microsystems-led Java Community Process Tuesday launched the latest iteration of its program, JCP 2.5, making it easier for Java-loving developers to write to the language with its focus on open-source licensing.

Java: A Developer’s Perspective

Eugenia Loli 2002-10-15 Java 15 Comments

"This will come as no surprise to many of you, but I have been somewhat lost and wandering in the desert these past few months. Five years of involvement in many of the major issues related to Java had left me questioning whether the ideas I believe in, ideas that many of us share in common, could make a meaningful difference. This summer has been a sabbatical that I didn't know I needed, and the long pondering of the core issues has helped me refocus and reorder my priorities." Read the article at JavaLobby (free reg. required).

Sun Brews Fresh Java for Mobile Devices

Eugenia Loli 2002-09-26 Java 3 Comments

New tools will boost developers' ability to create cross-platform applications for sophisticated mobile devices. Enterprise tools are also on the way.

Java 1.4.1 Released

Guest post by Abraham Tehrani 2002-09-20 Java 32 Comments

Java 1.4.1 has recently been released. Over 2,000 bug fixes have been issued in this maintence release. Two new garbage collectors have been added, Concurrent and Parallel. Click here for more information while you can also find the the full list of changes.

Java In Embedded Systems Development

David Adams 2002-09-14 Java 11 Comments

A builder.com article discusses the increasing use of Java as a tool for developing embedded systems. Primarily because of the portability benefits that java brings, it has become a very popular option in the past year or so. The article covers the upsides and downsides of Java in embedded systems.

Sun Will Open Up Java — Sort Of

Eugenia Loli 2002-09-14 Java 20 Comments

" Is Sun going to open up Java? Certainly, Sun is moving in that direction. According to Gingell, Sun realized that it had to figure out a way to let open source organizations like the Apache Software Foundation license Java. Along those lines, Gingell says Sun intends to open-source Java, but that it's not a simple process because Sun doesn't own all the intellectual property in all the JSRs. For the same reasons it can't open source all of Solaris, Sun apparently can't legally open source all of Java either. The company is working on clearing the legal hurdles cleared." Read the article at TechUpdate.

Ten Reasons We Need Java 3.0

Eugenia Loli 2002-08-06 Java 30 Comments

"Over the last few years, refactoring -- the process of gradually improving a code base by renaming methods and classes, extracting common functionality into new methods and classes, and generally cleaning up the mess inherent in most 1.0 systems -- has gained a lot of adherents. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like Eclipse and IDEA can now automatically refactor code." Read the 10 reasons at OnJava.com.

Achieve Strong Performance with Threads

Eugenia Loli 2002-08-04 Java 17 Comments

Saw this over at BSDForums.org. In this final series article, JavaWorld's Jeff Friesen completes his exploration of threads by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Also, the accompanying sidebar, "Finalization and Threads," explores Java's finalization activity in the context of threads.