Sun Open Sources Java (April Fool)

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 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.

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

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

September 5th, 2007 Joshua has come up with very "specific" and very interesting rumors from "reliable sources" about the Google Phone: 1. the phone will run on a Linux distro 2.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.

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.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

June 6th, 2006 Often we need to create a (client) socket connection in java but we do not want to wait indefinitely for the connection to open. We need a way to timeout socket connections.

January 24th, 2005 Did you know that you can use Robot to control even native windows. Apparently the code finds the top window generated by the application.

January 15th, 2005 Much as I try to understand, I think Sun's freeing up of Solaris is a bad bad move. Solaris was their cash cow! If I were in the hot seat I would have kept Solaris up and running as paid-for-software with new innovations (like dtrace) and simultaneously have gone for: 1.

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.

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.

September 13th, 2006 I have been inundated with emails after my article Java Database Framework (ORM Replacement) in 80 Lines of Code, asking for the source code of the framework or if I could release it as open source. I haven't been yet able to individually reply to all of them, sorry.

September 13th, 2005 "We are actively promoting Java in China as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific," said Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun, in an interview with China Daily. "We are working with the (Chinese) government and other key players to establish Java as the industry standard for delivering open and secure services." Java technology is being used globally in more than 2.5 billion devices, including 1 billion smart cards, more than 708 million mobile phones, more than 700 million PCs, and in data centres of the world's largest companies and organizations.