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Daily Dose - Jena Semantic Web Framework Joins Apache Incubator

The Jena project is a Java web framework that implements W3C recommendations from the RDF and SPARQL specifications.  Recently this project was accepted into...

0 replies - 22900 views - 11/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Someone Finally Buys Novell

Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week.  While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of...

0 replies - 22159 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Eclipse Believes There is Hope for Java 8

Last month, Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich stated his reservations about the Jigsaw brand of modularity in Java 8.  It is now a surprise that...

2 replies - 26254 views - 11/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - NetBeans 7 Starts Living Up To Its Name

A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...

1 replies - 27742 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Mobile and Spring Android Go Live

SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development.  The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to...

0 replies - 24468 views - 11/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - U.S. Dept. of Justice Receives Complaint About Oracle Tactics

"Oracle’s position appears to be the most onerous and draconian of any major hardware manufacturer," claims Claudia Betzner, the executive director...

0 replies - 29735 views - 11/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Bob Lee Won't Support the Java SE "Charade"

This week, Bob Lee, who is best known for leading JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java) and creating Guice, declined an invitation to participate in the Java...

2 replies - 25658 views - 11/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Translating the PR-Speak in Oracle's Reply to the ASF

Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle.  Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...

0 replies - 22548 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Fires Back: 'Oracle Doctored the Code in Question'

Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case.  In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that...

0 replies - 25491 views - 11/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - JBoss AS 7.0 Goes Alpha, AS 6.0 Finishing Up Beta

JBoss plans to keep the development train rolling for their open source application server.  While JBoss AS 6.0 is approaching the candidate release stage,...

0 replies - 20834 views - 11/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...

0 replies - 18913 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag.  Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...

4 replies - 23871 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Out of the Blue - Microsoft Open Sources F# Under Apache v2

In a big surprise from Microsoft, Principal Researcher Don Syme announced that their relatively young functional programming language for the .NET platform,...

1 replies - 18688 views - 11/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lift 2.2 M1 Adds MVC Style Helpers

The Scala and Java-based web framework, Lift, is getting the first of many new features for the upcoming 2.2 version.  With the first milestone release this...

0 replies - 18207 views - 11/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta!

The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available.  It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J.  This release includes an...

1 replies - 20025 views - 11/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose