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Sun Releases NetBeans 6.7 IDE for Java, PHP Sun's Java IDE is not just for Java anymore.

Oracle today launched the much awaited Fusion Middleware 11g.A Below is a quick Java centric look at what to me are the highlights of the new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g - The Weblogic application server is now the standard platform for Oracle middleware deployments, OC4J is history.

Submitted by dmarx on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 00:58. I have enjoyed reading some of the 2009 JavaOne presentations since they have been made available online .

Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.

June: 2 JavaOne Hands On Labs , Sun Technology Exchange, Java Technology Day Israel, and Java Day Turkey I had a very busy June, I gave two Hands on Labs at JavaOne, two sessions at the Sun Technology Exchange, three sessions at Java Technology Day in Tel Aviv Israel, and one session at Java Day in Istanbul Turkey.

NetBeans 6.7 features integration with Project Kenai , Sun's collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects and support for Maven , a community software project management and comprehension tool.

What may be the largest software release of the first half of 2009 took 7,350 person-years of engineering.

When Java Tools Community Leaders Toni Epple and Fabiane Nardon invited the SQE Project team to participate in the Java Tools SQE Roundtable podcast at this year's JavaOne, they weren't planning on the Duke's Choice Awards being among the topics of conversation.

At JavaONE 2009, Super Pat showed a nice JavaFX demo that used OpenSSO identity services to authenticate and authorize a user.

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously.

The focus of NetBeans IDE 6.7 is connectivitya 'helping developers to connect to the latest technologies and to each other.

The Justice Department has extended its look at Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems but the software giant says it is confident the deal will close on time.

NetBeans , the open source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages.

The Department of Justice wants more information about Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., extending the agency's review of the $7.4 billion deal.

Submitted by dmarx on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 02:09. More than once, I have seen code such as the following , in which a well-intentioned Java developer has ensured that their favorite Enum explicitly declares that it is Serializable and has even provided a serialVersionUID for it.

From time to time, people asked questions like "how to call JavaFX from Java code?". After the release of JavaFX 1.0, I wrote a post Interoperability between JavaFX and Java .

The U.S. Department of Justice needs more time to examine Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems beyond an initial review period, Oracle said Friday.

Submitted by dmarx on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 01:37. When working with Java Remote Method Invocation , there are times when it is helpful to know which names are currently bound to a particular rmiregistry on a particular host/port combination.

Is the iPhone 3G S Worth the Extra Cash? Apple's got a wonderful, $99 smartphone on the market -- so how do we justify shelling out hundreds more for the 3G S? Should Apple Drop AT&T? Do Google's Tweaks Top Twitter? [ More ] IT Jobs Still in Decline, Stabilization May Be Near [June 23, 2009] Almost 35,000 IT jobs lost in May.

Submitted by dmarx on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 22:47. In previous blog posts , I have covered using VisualVM to acquire HotSpot JVM runtime information in a manner similar to jinfo and how to use VisualVM in conjunction with JMX and MBeans in a manner similar to JConsole .