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• TSS JS - Red Hat's McWhirther on cloud and app delivery

  Michael Pontacoloni | 19 MAR 2010 | 0 Comments

  Red Hat's chief architect of cloud computing, Bob McWhirter said the cloud is the next logical step for application delivery in his keynote on cloud computing at TheServerSide Java Symposium.

• Cameron Purdy at TSSJS 2010: If Java beats C++, what's next?

  Jack Vaughan | 19 MAR 2010 | 2 Comments

  Oracle's Cameron Purdy took a look back at Java and C++ in a presentation Thursday at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. ''Learning from the past, a language is either fit for purpose or it has to change to become fit for purpose,'' he said.

• Tough economic times call for open source measures

  Rob Barry | 18 MAR 2010 | 2 Comments

  When the economy tanks, enterprises often shed their biases against open source software, says consultant and Java Champion Jeff Genender.

• Gosling focuses on Jave EE 6 in TSS JS keynote

  Jack Vaughan | 17 MAR 2010 | 14 Comments

  Java inventor James Gosling focused on updates in Java Enterprise Edition 6 that enable lighter Web application building in TheServerSide Java Symposium kickoff keynote in Las Vegas. He also discussed the course of the Oracle-Sun merger.

• James Gosling what Oracle-Sun means for Java (Video)

  Michael Pontacoloni | 17 MAR 2010 | 0 Comments

  A short video of James Gosling talking about what impact he believes Oracle's acquistion of Sun will have on the Java language.

• Embarcadero's Tony de la Lama on JCP

  Jack Vaughan | 16 MAR 2010 | 4 Comments

  Now that the Sun purchase by Oracle is a done deal, look for some jockeying among vendors in the Java world. Different players have fairly high-ticket licenses related to Java.

• Ehcache 2.0 brings scaled data cachining to standard Hibernate components

  Jack Vaughan | 16 MAR 2010 | 1 Comments

  Terracotta announced the availability of Ehcache 2.0 as well as upgrades to its Web sessions clustering product.

• On TSS redesign

  Jack Vaughan | 14 MAR 2010 | 38 Comments

  As you can see, TheServerSide has changed its appearance. Most of the changes are on the web platform that holds the site. Over time, they will allow the editors to update the site with technical articles at a much faster clip..

• Ujorm 0.93 released

  Paul Ponec | 14 MAR 2010 | 0 Comments

  The framework Ujorm provides a type-safe API for database queries so the most of typing errors are detected before running the application. Developer can take an advantage of a code-completion in their favorite IDE at coding time.

• State of OSGi in the Enterprise Java World

  Martijn van Berkum | 12 MAR 2010 | 0 Comments

  Two weeks ago I visited the OSGi DevCon in London. The crucial but disruptive transition in the Enterprise Java World from the old, monolithic thinking to the new way of thinking modular is not a smooth one though, and takes time. I wrote a blog about the state of OSGi in the Java world.

• Whatever Happened to Programming?

  Eugene Ciurana | 12 MAR 2010 | 23 Comments

  Mike Taylor writes two insightful essays about programming today. Are we stuck in a tedious loop of gluing APIs together? What happened to the creative aspects of programming? Check out these thought-provoking essays!

• Developing Java on middleware and cloud: Virtual Appliances

  Andrew Phillips | 12 MAR 2010 | 1 Comments

  From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, developing against a middleware or "infrastructure" API is well established in the Java world.
  With the (re-)advent of virtualization, it is now becoming feasible to work with custom environments.
  We'll look at the state of cloud and middleware deployment tooling and examine possible future developments.