Updated: 2011-10-18 15:00:00
Java Spotlight Episode 51 reprises the timelines and/or milestones for the Java Platform and covers as well the 2011 Duke Choice Award Winners. The timelines include the JDK Roadmap; JavaFX Roadmap; GlassFish Roadmap; and the Java ME/Embedded Roadmap. Seated on the Java All Star Developer Panel for this episode are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.
Updated: 2011-10-18 15:00:00
Readers can catch a glimpse of the varied program at JavaOne 2011 in the blog posted by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine who has assembled links to slide sets from some of the presentations at JavaOne dealing with Java EE and GlassFish. He also provides a link to the conference content calendar.
Updated: 2011-10-17 15:00:00
There is now a micro-update available to the Sun ZFS 7000 Storage Appliance 2010.Q3.4.2 software release that provides support for 73GB Logzilla SSDs for the Sun ZFS 7120 Storage Appliance, a firmware upgrade for high speed 15K RPM 300GB disk drives and over 20 bug fixes. Readers are advised to read the release notes for more details including a full list of changes and links to download the software.
Updated: 2011-10-17 15:00:00
The Solaris 10 8/11 (Update 10) patchset is now available from My Oracle Support (MOS). While these patchsets will bring all pre-existing packages up to the same software level as the corresponding Solaris Update, it is important to know that, as the blog points out, applying the patchset is not the same as upgrading to the Solaris Update release, as the patchset will not include any new packages introduced in the Solaris Update or any obsolete packages deleted in the Update.
Updated: 2011-10-17 15:00:00
The NetBeans IDE consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++. NetBeans IDE 7.1 Beta introduces support for JavaFX 2.0 by enabling the full compile/debug/profile development cycle for JavaFX 2.0 applications. The release also provides significant Swing GUI Builder enhancements, CSS3 support, and tools for visual debugging of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces.
Updated: 2011-10-17 15:00:00
Joining Host Roger Brinkley on Java Spotlight Episode 50 to discuss the release of JavaFX 2.0 is Jasper Potts, Developer Experience Architect for the Java Client Group at Oracle, where he is responsible for technical design for everything that is on the core platform including Controls, Tools, Samples and Blueprints. The Java All Star Developer Panel for this episode consists of Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate; Tomas Nilson, Java SE Principal Product Manager; and Ashwin Rao, NetBeans Principal Product Manager.
Updated: 2011-10-17 15:00:00
"Every now and then along comes a technology that is revolutionary and changes everything. But a very few of these new technologies cause fast change ..."
What if you could have all the power you ever needed and didn't have to pay one cent? Sounds incredible but maybe no so farfetched.
"Cheap Power: An Overnight Revolution" is about a test that will occur in Barcelona, Italy on October 28, 2011 where a cold fusion type process will be tested. If successful, a true power revolution will occur and very quickly all the economies based on oil production will tank.
Updated: 2011-10-15 15:00:00
The three announcements just released by Oracle concerning the Oracle Storage Group are ample testimonial to the superiority of Oracle's storage solutions. For example, results in the SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1) for best-in-class performance and price/performance; the ZFS Storage Appliance, now with Oracle Database Hybrid Columnar Compression now delivers 3-5 times the storage efficiency over all competitive products; and the availability of 15K RPM 300 Gigabyte (GB) and 600 GB SAS-2 high performance drives for the ZFS Storage 7120 appliance all lend distinction to Oracle Storage solutions for their superior performance.
Updated: 2011-10-15 15:00:00
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle's complete cloud lifecycle management solution, includes self-service provisioning balanced against centralized, policy-based resource management, integrated chargeback and capacity planning and complete visibility of the physical and virtual environment from applications to disk. The three-minute video overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gives viewers a comprehensive look at the capabilities of this solution.
Updated: 2011-10-11 15:00:00
With 10 active Java Specification Requests (JSRs) currently being worked on through the Java Community Process (JCP) by over 20 different participating companies and represented by hundreds of engineers, indications are that Java technology, Java EE 7 in particular, is alive and well. And Java EE 6 is not doing all that badly either, given that six major IT vendors have released certified, open source and commercial implementations of Java EE 6 since it became available in December 2009. Java EE 7 is being designed to further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments.
Updated: 2011-10-11 15:00:00
Explore Oracle Database 11g Express Edition with senior Oracle database administrator Przemyslaw Piotrowski, who provides a quick tour via the Oracle Technetwork. The tour introduces the many new features in Oracle Database 11g Express Edition (XE), the latest version of Oracle's free database, which extend from relatively simple improvements like the PIVOT operator, deferred segment creation, and virtual columns to the groundbreaking adaptive cursor sharing, database resident connection pooling, and edition-based redefinition features. This new release sets a new standard for "express" RDBMS, Piotrowski writes.
Updated: 2011-10-11 15:00:00
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison recently unveiled a new service, the Oracle Public Cloud, which is designed to deliver subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network, Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service. Customers will be able to deploy existing standard Java and Oracle Database applications to the Oracle Public Cloud without rewriting them, allowing users to take advantage of their existing IT assets, skills and ecosystems.
Updated: 2011-10-05 15:00:00
Fully a month ahead of its scheduled November 2011 release, Oracle presented detailed information on Solaris 11 at Oracle OpenWorld. The key features of Oracle Solaris 11 include:
Built-in virtualization
Built-in data services
New software provisioning and maintenance infrastructure
End-to-end security for data asset protection, hardened OS startup and secure system access
Maximum performance and scale
Increased Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Java-based application performance, availability, security and manageability
Read on.
Updated: 2011-10-05 15:00:00
Among the many announcements from Oracle at JavaOne 2011 was the news that JavaFFX 2.0 is now available. JavaFX 2.0 is an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle also announced their intention to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community. Oracle intends to initially contribute the JavaFX UI controls and related libraries; other JavaFX components are planned to follow in multiple phases.
Updated: 2011-10-04 15:00:00
Winners of the 2011 Duke's Choice Award, announced at JavaOne 2011, were chosen for their creative work in developing Java-based technologies. The winners are:
Arquillian Project
Inductive Automation - Ignition
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) jHome
JFrog
JRebel
LMA
Rockwell Automation
Sodbeans Project
The Netty Project
The 2011 Duke's Choice Awards winners were highlighted during JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco.
Updated: 2011-10-04 15:00:00
Oracle has outlined its plans for the further evolution of the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)through the submission of new Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to the Java Community Process (JCP). As a result Oracle and members of the Java community will submit new JSRs for Java ME 7 and begin development within the JCP, among them an update to the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) virtual machine and library specifications to enable better alignment with Java Development Kit (JDK) 7.
Updated: 2011-10-04 15:00:00
The Oracle white paper "Oracle Solaris and the Oracle SPARC T4 Servers: Engineered Together for Enterprise Cloud Deployments" discusses how the integrated design approach to Oracle Solaris and the SPARC T4 processor results in a solution that delivers improved throughput, security, and resiliency throughout the application solution stack. The paper discusses how this combination can maximize return on investment and help organizations manage costs for their existing infrastructures or for new enterprise cloud infrastructure design.
Updated: 2011-10-04 15:00:00
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters running on Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers running on Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers with Oracle Solaris set a new overall world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) standard application benchmark running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application.
The new world-record result of 180,000 SAP SD-Parallel benchmark users far exceeds the performance of any IBM result ever published with the SAP SD standard application benchmark.
