Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use

August 16th, 2005 Summary Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2 DP4 for Tiger Java Software is Carving a Niche in Critical Real-Time Applications Market Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use JSR 244, the umbrella specification that defines what other specifications and capabilities will be included as part of Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5), public review specification was unanimously approved by the JCP EC. The theme of this release is ease of development.

August 17th, 2005 C# was a much hyped language not so long back. These days we don't hear about it anymore anywhere.

April 10th, 2006 Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly referred to as J2EE) Version 5 has arrived. Its streamlined features offer added convenience, improved performance, and reduced development time, all of which enable developers to bring products to market faster.

April 15th, 2006 Java / J2EE (Java EE) API development should now focus on adding ease of use methods to the API. Often such methods will be redundant.

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.

January 29th, 2007 Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE. You can use your Visual Studio .NET IDE to build server applications that can run natively on J2EE and hence on Linux and other Java enabled platforms, with the help of Visual MainWin for J2EE from Mainsoft.

July 14th, 2006 Free Java EE 5 Tutorial and a nice introduction to Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5 from Sun (what more to say?). Free Java EE 5 Tutorial - Online & Download Your First Cup: An Introduction to the Java EE Platform - Online & Download Thanks Pelegri.

April 29th, 2005 I heard in grapevine that Sun marketing has decided to change the names like J2EE, J2SE, J2ME etc. The name change involves removing the "2" from the platform names.

August 10th, 2004 I recently read a post by someone waxing eloquently about NanoContainer, about its ease of use and what a great thing it is etc. Interested I went to the site to find that it is still part of the cvs of another product (there goes the ease of use).

July 22nd, 2005 Merger Execution Is The Main Risk Factor

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

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.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

March 6th, 2006 Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

April 15th, 2006 In my experience much of the complexities a newcomer faces in the Java world is understanding extraneous stuff like handling exceptions or formatting data etc. Today I was requested for the nth time (n -> infinity) how to write a simple socket client and server (actually debug one).