
Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL. The developers just announced that the new release...
0 replies - 16652 views - 01/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Two major components of Java EE 7 are up for a vote this month: JSR 338: Java Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339: JAX-RS (RESTful Web Services on Java) 2.0. JPA...
1 replies - 17012 views - 01/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

You may recall the controversy that surfaced in December over the naming rights and trademarks surrounding the open source continuous integration engine,...
1 replies - 20869 views - 01/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 18017 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle. The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...
0 replies - 21900 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace recorded more than 5k applications in the store, which is just above the number in Palm's WebOS app store. While the...
0 replies - 24956 views - 12/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The ICEfaces team has delivered the major version 2.0 this week and as
the number implies, it is built on top of the relatively new JSF 2.0
spec. The new...
0 replies - 26338 views - 12/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Early on there was some confusion about what Weld Extensions is and how it differs from Weld, and how it fits into Seam. Well JBoss is clearing up some...
0 replies - 24036 views - 12/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release. As it stands, a source reports that the next version...
0 replies - 26837 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google has just released an update to the Google Web Toolkit 2.1 released back in October. The GWT Designer has added new annotations while the Google Plugin...
0 replies - 27099 views - 12/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

It was two years ago when Sun released MySQL 5.1. Today the open source project's formidable user base will finally get the next major release, MySQL 5.5. ...
0 replies - 27654 views - 12/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A few weeks ago, CloudBees, a cloud infrastructure that lets developers write code, test it, and put it into production on a PaaS, acquired InfraDNA—the...
0 replies - 24085 views - 12/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The Mozilla Jetpack project, which is now changing its name, has reached version 1.0 Beta 1. Its current APIs are quite stable and more will be implemented...
1 replies - 20581 views - 12/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community Awards. The deadline is January 28, 2011. Categories for awards include...
0 replies - 21633 views - 12/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

It's been a little more than a year since IntelliJ IDEA 9 was released and a free and open source version of the IDE became available—this turned out to be a...
0 replies - 24143 views - 12/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose