Free Java Source For DNS Server

October 19th, 2005 With its latest release of the software, Apache announced that Geronimo 1.0-M5 Java application server has passed all the compatibility tests and has gained official J2EE1.4 certification of the Java server software standard. Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 is completely integrated with the Tomcat Web server and includes a developer preview of web management console submitted to Apache by IBM.

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

September 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.

April 4th, 2006 Complete and submit a form ( permission to enroll you in the Sun Developer Network (SDN) ) to receive free NetBeans worldTour CD that includes the NetBeans IDE 5.0 , NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0, NetBeans Profiler 5.0 and Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Platform Edition. The NetBeans worldTour CD will be published and updated as major enhancements and new releases become available.

October 22nd, 2005 Unisys is putting Open Source Java software technologies (J2EE stack) directly on the mainframe using a native Java virtual machine. Why? to improve the scalability, security and transactionlity integrity of J2EE apps; to make it easier for J2EE and mainframe assets to communicate with one another; and to provide n-tier Java/J2EE and mainframe developers a “back door” entry point through the mainframe-based J2EE app server to achieve complex (or tricky) updates/changes to mainframe programming.

May 12th, 2005 Dr. Stallman in his article Free but shackled - Java Trap expresses his concern that Java developers may be unknowingly falling into an expensive trap. In his own words: If you develop a Java program on Sun's Java platform, you are liable to use Sun-only features without even noticing.

June 29th, 2006 Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, said the Sun is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. He said Sun is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible and ensure no particular company uses market forces as muscle for its own implementation, a move that would threaten Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

November 26th, 2005 Sun is offering for free full-license versions of Sun's award winning integrated development environments (IDEs) - Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 (full license) and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (full license). I have used Sun Java Studio Creator and I liked it very much.

February 16th, 2006 Often we come across procedures which need to be performed by issuing commands in a telnet session. It is relatively easy to do it manually but is definitely not suitable for automation.

June 12th, 2008 The Java Composite Application Platform Suite is a collection of middleware software suites using service-oriented architecture for business integration (SOA/BI). Java CAPS is a standard based open source platform for developing software infrastructures using SOA.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?

June 22nd, 2007 Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called "free" (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this "free" JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too.

May 19th, 2007 HSQLD is a mature, high-performant database written in Java. It is used in several high profile popular commercial and open source products like Open Office 2.0 (Office productivity suite; competitor of MS Office), JBoss (Application Server), JFox (Application Server), Jonas (Application Server), Mathemetica, Hibernate (ORM), Jira (Defect Tracking), TrackStudio (Defect Tracking), C-JDBC (Database Clustering) etc.