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Sun, JBoss J2EE compliance tiff continues

Sun Microsystems has made an important Jave compliance test available to JBoss Group--the latest manoeuvre in an ongoing scuffle between the industry giant and the upstart open-source software company. Read more »

Sun updates J2EE for Web services

Sun Microsystems has released a preliminary version of an update to its Java 2 Enterprise Edition software, with support for a major new Web services standard. Read more »

JBoss reaches certification landmark

The new version of JBoss Application Server claims to be the first open-source application server to be J2EE certified. Read more »

Clash over Java standard heats up

Upstart JBoss Group will soon debut a new release of its popular open-source application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java standard compliance. Read more »

Is Adobe replaying Sun's Java tape?

Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate? Read more »

Sun mulls an open-source Java server

Add Sun's Java server software suite to the company's list of open-source candidates. Read more »

Apache misses Java server target

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IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan

IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool, the fruit of its acquisition of Rational Software, that promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications. Read more »

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Sun bets on free Java tool

Sun Microsystems will release a free version of its Java application server, a move designed to encourage more developers to build programs on the software foundation. Read more »

Does J2EE live up to expectations?

J2EE may be a dominant force in software architecture, but does it live up to the hype? If not, where does it fall short? Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

C# is just Java...only a little worse

Few developers would dispute the similarities between C# and Java. But one Builder reader believes that Java wins a technical comparison hands down. Check out his arguments and add your two cents. Read more »

Behind the story at JBoss

In 1999, Marc Fleury was just another Java software engineer working at Sun Microsystems. When he got tired of his day job, he started exploring the idea of an open-source application server based on the J2EE specification. Read more »

IBM to Sun: free Java

Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Consider these factors before using Enterprise JavaBeans

Still on the fence about whether to invest time and energy into learning and applying EJB technology? Read more »

Developer spotlight: Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill is an engineer at Sun Microsystems responsible for the invention of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 that can identify bottlenecks and increase system performance. Read more »

Transitioning into OOP: Encapsulate data with entity beans

Explore entity beans and how they are used to encapsulate data entities to be accessed by business objects. Read more »

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