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Zembly is Shutting Down

According to a goodbye letter, Sun's Web 2.0 effort, Zembly, is shutting down on November 30th.  The project allowed easy creation of Web apps using a...

3 replies - 2992 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition.  Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. ...

10 replies - 8038 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools.  Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun...

10 replies - 10044 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8: A Few of Your Favorite Things

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens" didn't make the cut, but what are a few of your favorite things about the upcoming NetBeans 6.8?  DZone...

4 replies - 12945 views - 10/26/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Why I Think That IDEA Going Open Source is Not a Good Sign

It looks like I shocked quite a few people with my recent prediction of doom for IDEA, so I thought I'd take some time to elaborate.Here is what I said:

20 replies - 6433 views - 10/19/09 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 1991 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 7196 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Refcard Released -- Meet the Author

With the release of the NetBeans IDE 6.7 Refcard, DZone caught up with one of its authors, Geertjan Wielenga. Geertjan discusses some of the new features in...

1 replies - 3504 views - 07/13/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

James Gosling - A Brief History of Java

During the JavaOne 2009 general session, Scott McNealy commemorated Jonathan Schwartz on his stewardship of Java. After accusing James Gosling of being  'the...

2 replies - 5996 views - 06/03/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18769 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21315 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Conversation with MUFIX Java Community Leaders in Egypt

An interview with Hamada Zahera, Abbas Adel, and Ahmed Tanahy from Menufia University in Egypt, who set up their own Java community at their university some...

0 replies - 1583 views - 01/31/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Interview: Google Protocol Buffer Plugin for NetBeans IDE

One of the students in the recent NetBeans Platform Certified Training in Warsaw, Piotr Tabor, has been working on a very interesting certification project:...

0 replies - 9874 views - 01/30/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Interview: Becoming a NetBeans Platform Trainer

Thomas Würthinger is a researcher and PhD student at the Institute for System Software at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. His main research...

6 replies - 6492 views - 01/28/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in Articles