JBuilder 2006 Buzz

July 12th, 2007 All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend.

April 10th, 2006 I found this hilarious blog entry (in present context) by Marc Fleury, CEO JBoss, against RedHat via Blogging Roller site. He adorns RedHat with some choice epithets which I am sure he wouldn't like to be reminded in present context.

January 11th, 2006 Java has won the "TIOBE Programming Language of 2005" award. The Java language has increased its popularity in 2005 with 4.77%.

June 26th, 2006 Sun Certified Security Administrator for Solaris 10 OS (311-303) If you are an expert security administrator, this is your golden opportunity to get certified for free by taking Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator exam. Sun beta exams count towards official Security Certification.

April 10th, 2006 I am very happy for JBoss. Redhat has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss.

February 17th, 2006 Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006.

March 18th, 2005 Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now.

February 24th, 2006 Gautam Shah has written an interesting article in Javaworld where he discusses ways to use SOAP over MOM (message oriented middleware) implementations, instead of default HTTP, to build reliable web services. The premise is simple.

June 6th, 2006 Java continues as the leading programming language according to TIOBE index updated on June 2006. Java is rated at 21.128%, an increase of 2.56% from June, 2005.

December 18th, 2005 JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine.

July 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

January 26th, 2006 I have seen way too many java frameworks, way beyond my limits of tolerance. And I have found a perfect solution.

January 5th, 2006 Novell(R) Identity Manager was chosen as "Best Identity Manager" in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Awards. Winners for this prestigious annual award are selected by InfoWorld test center analysts who judge products based on innovation and effectiveness.

March 22nd, 2006 Google is contemplating joining the Eclipse (Java IDE) Foundation in some capacity. Good news for Eclipse and Java all around.

April 12th, 2006 Java Studio Enterprise provides a complete solution for architecting and implementing large-scale enterprise applications in Java EE. Sun plans to open source major elements of the Sun Java Studio Enterprise as a project on NetBeans.org - NetBeans Enterprise Pack.