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  • Spring Roo 1.2 M1: Apache Licensed with JPA Repositories, MongoDB and Services Layer

    SpringSource has released Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1. This release has improved performance, is released under ASL 2, is hosted in GitHub, supports JPA and MongoDB Repositories, supports a services layer, has improved GWT support, has multi-schema DBRE, and has shell improvements.

  • Opinion: JavaOne 2011 Was a Success

    After a difficult first year in charge of JavaOne in 2010, most people I spoke to at JavaOne this year felt Oracle was having more success with the conference this time round. The vendor really needed to show a broad spectrum of the Java community that it had successfully integrated Sun's Java teams, and was starting to drive the platform forward again, and it succeeded in those aims.

  • A New Cloud Has Appeared on the Horizon: Oracle Public Cloud

    Oracle Public Cloud offers two solutions: SaaS, including Fusion CRM, Fusion HCM, and Social Network, and PaaS, including Java and Database services.

  • JavaOne 2011 Strategy Keynote: Java ME, SE an EE Future Roadmaps

    Java EE next release will support cloud computing, multi-tenancy, elasticity and caching features. Oracle team presented the future product roadmaps for Java ME, SE and EE platforms at JavaOne 2011 Conference on Tuesday. Twitter also announced during the keynote that they are joining Java Community Process (JCP) and OpenJDK project.

  • Apache TomEE Certified Web Profile Compatible

    Yesterday at JavaOne, the Apache Foundation announced the availability of the Apache TomEE stack, a Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible Implementation.

  • ZeroTurnaround Release Results from Survey of Indian Developers at JavaOne

    ZeroTurnaround have compared and contrasted the state of the technologies used for software development, and analyzed the tool-usage aspect of Indian productivity. The survey covers application servers (containers), IDEs, frameworks and build tools used by Java teams across India and globally.

  • Java Data Grid Specification: JSR-347

    JSR-347 is the data grid specification. This specification came to life with a bit of controversy and confusion. InfoQ got a chance to catch up with Manik Surtani to get his take on JSR 347 and JSR 107 as well as his thoughts on caching, NoSQL, data grids and related topics.

  • JavaFX 2.0 Released, Java 9 Outlined During JavaOne Keynote

    Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect for Java at Oracle, gave details of developments in Java 8 and beyond, and announced the GA release of JavaFX 2.0 during his keynote session at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

  • CloudBees Launch First Java EE Web Profile PaaS at JavaOne

    CloudBees continue to deepen their support for Java with the first production-ready Platform as a Service to support the Java EE 6 Web Profile Specification

  • Mozilla Considers Blacklisting Java

    The Mozilla Foundation has publicly considered disabling Java from running in the browser environment, thanks to recent research that indicates Java is the top of the three vectors for security exploits in the browser.

  • IBM Releases JDK 7

    IBM have announced the availability of IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 7 for both their AIX platform and the Linux platform. The SDK is available for download from developerWorks and brings the compiler and runtime to the same level as found in OpenJDK.

  • InvokeDynamic and Javascript: New Compiler Dyn.js, Oracle Nashorn and Rhino

    Dyn.js is a new implementation of Javascript for Java. It makes use of Java 7's new features for dynamic languages (invokedynamic, Method Handles). InfoQ talked to dyn.js creator Douglas Campos about the reasons to create another Javascript for the JVM (next to Rhino and the announced Oracle Nashorn) and implementation details of dyn.js.

  • Modularity Maturity Model

    At the OSGi Community Event, Dr Graham Charters introduced the Modularity Maturity Model, a way of scoring where projects or organisations against how their modular developments score.

  • Apache Felix Framework 4.0.0 Adds OSGi 4.3 Support

    The Apache Felix project has just released the Apache Felix Framework, version 4.0.0, which adds OSGi 4.3 support to the Apache-licensed runtime. This brings it in line with Equinox, which has had OSGi 4.3 support for the last few months, and will permit applications to be written purely against the OSGi 4.3 APIs and have portability between the two systems. Read on to find out what's new.

  • Twitter Storm: Open Source Real-time Hadoop

    Twitter has open-sourced Storm, its distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time computation system, at GitHub under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. Storm is the real-time processing system developed by BackType, which is now under the Twitter umbrella.

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