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  • TIBCO's ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Emerges Winner In SOA TCO Study by PushToTest

    PushToTest released the results of their 2011 analysis of SOA development and deployment solutions from IBM, Oracle and TIBCO which declared TIBCO the winner on multiple facets of productivity. PushToTest has published all the details including developer journals as an open source SOA Knowledge Kit. InfoQ spoke to Frank Cohen to unravel the details.

  • JDK Enhancement Process

    In the middle of this year, Oracle launched a new process called the JDK Enhancement Process, or JEP for short. What is it all about?

  • ORM Profiler Analyzes Data Access Performance

    Solutions Design has released ORM Profiler, a tool meant to help improve data access layer performance. It tracks and logs ADO.NET calls so that developers can analyze their data access and discover potential problems.

  • 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.

  • Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club

    Oracle has announced the Big Data Appliance running with Oracle NoSQL Database, a new key-value store based on Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. Some of features include: billions of rows of storage capacity in records and terabytes in B-tree, ACID transactions, CRUD, sharding, no single point of failure, disaster recovery via datacenter replication.

  • Java7 Hotspot Loop Bug Details

    Last week, Oracle released Java7 to great acclaim. However, an issue identified by the Apache Lucene project pointed to a specific hotspot optimisation bug which kicks in when a loop is executed more than 10,000 times. How serious is this issue, and does it warrant the kind of negative press that has been played out over the last few days?

  • JavaSE 7 JSR Approved Despite Division

    Oracle has announced that the JavaSE 7 governing JSR (336) has passed the public review ballot. Google voted against the vote, Werner Keil abstained, and no vote was received from Credit Suisse. Many others adding their concerns regarding the ongoing licensing dispute between Sun/Oracle and Apache.

  • Google and Oracle Case Reduced

    The legal case between Google and Oracle has been reduced in scope, just as Oracle subpoenas Apache to provide information about the Harmony project.

  • IcedRobot – An OpenJDK-based Fork of Android

    A team of developers has announced the intent to fork Android in order to create a new OS based on OpenJDK, escaping Oracle’s patent lawsuits, to make it run on other platforms and operating systems, and to bring it to the desktop.

  • Oracle Releases Hotfix for the Double.parseDouble Bug in Record Time

    Oracle has released a hotfix for a recently re-discovered decade-old bug in the Java platform which could be used for denial of service attacks on servers. The fix was issued in record time.

  • Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS

    Amazon will offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS which brings patching, backup, replication, and failover support to Oracle’s database.

  • Oracle Nominates SouJava to Replace Apache on the JCP EC

    Oracle has announced plans to nominate one of the world's largest Java user groups, SouJava, to the JCP Executive Committee

  • Android Java Copyright Infringements?

    A post on Friday claimed that the Android source tree contained more proprietary or decompiled code. What impact will this have to the Oracle vs Google case?

  • Apache Software Foundation Resigns from JCP

    The Apache Software Foundation announced their resignation from both the JCP Executive Committee as well as the JCP as a whole. They follow recent departures such as Doug Lea in October, who said “I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body”, as well as more recently Tim Peierls, who voted against the Java SE JSRs.

  • JSRs for Java 7 and Java 8 Approved

    The results of the recent Java JSRs are in, and all have passed with all but Apache voting consistently against them. Google and Tim Peierls voted against the Java SE 7 and Java SE 8 JSRs, supporting the ongoing licensing issues and field-of-use restrictions for the TCK.

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