Craig Wickesser is a software engineer who started his career working primarily with Java and Swing developing user interfaces. More recently Craig has worked with Python, Jython, .NET, Groovy and Grails. Craig enjoys keeping up with the latest trends and exploring up and coming technologies, as well as acting like a kid with his own family (wife, son, daughter (coming soon), dog and cat).
Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) in the real world is covered in this case study which looks at how CAS Software AG used RAP on a recent new product offering. Eclipse Equinox is also used by CAS and covered in the case study.
It was only recently that Amazon took cloud computing mainstream with the release of EC2. They are not the only game in town however. This new article takes a look at cloud server providers EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid.
JetBrains recently released their award winning IDE, Intellij IDEA 9. It includes support for a whole suite of new technologies, improved support for existing features, improved performance and a more streamlined user interface.
Atlassian has recently released JIRA 4, their issue tracking, agile project management and workflow product that has been widely adopted across the planet. InfoQ had the opportunity to get some Q&A time with Atlassian about the release and things to come.
In the past year or so Python has really been gaining a lot of traction on the JVM, thanks to the recent advancements of Jython. In this news item we'll talk to the Jython project lead about Jython and the state of Python on the JVM.
InfoQ has reported on SproutCore a couple times in the past and recently learned about the upcoming 1.0 release. SproutCore promises stunning desktop-class applications without plugins inside of the browser.
Google App Engine was initially using Apache Tomcat as their webserver/servlet container but eventually switched to Jetty.
Netty 3.1.0 was recently released by the JBoss Community and is another option when writing client/server network applications.
Excelsior LLC recently released the latest version of Excelsior JET which now prevents the decompilation and unauthorized alteration of Eclipse RCP applications.
