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Are you using JavaFX yet?

Are you using JavaFX yet? You should be! Click here to check out our latest Refcard on Getting Started with JavaFX. 

0 replies - 3208 views - 06/02/09 by lyndsey in Announcements

Why the Java Store has Gotten a Luke Warm Reception

Jonathan Schwartz recently blogged about it and it didn't take, not too much any way. Why?I am very excited about the Java App Store, really really excited...

10 replies - 3895 views - 05/24/09 by Mikael Grev in Articles

Java No Cash Cow for Oracle

In a recent Forbes.com article, Oracle's Java Problems, Lee Gomes questions whether Oracle can make money off of the Java platform it inherits from the Sun...

14 replies - 4600 views - 05/01/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

The Future Of Open Source

Sun purchasing by Oracle has worried many people about the future of Sun’s open source products, one of the most important stack of open source software in...

38 replies - 7080 views - 04/22/09 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18924 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21482 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?

Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global...

35 replies - 7961 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla in Articles

All About the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) Exam

Free Event with Humphrey Sheil

2 replies - 4200 views - 10/09/08 by Skills Matter M... in Announcements

Sun is using the GPL as a weapon...but against whom and for what purpose?

As part of my work on the Java Swing Builder project (which is released under the business-friendly Apache 2.0 license) I've run into at least two cases...

32 replies - 4783 views - 08/19/08 by Jacek in News

Sun's Open Source Java Right Around the Corner... doh!

News trickled out this morning that Sun is a few months out from preparing the last pieces to it's own fully Open Sourced/free version of Java -- after getting...

35 replies - 3416 views - 06/23/08 by Riyad Kalla in News

JavaOne: Extreme Innovation (or James Goslings Showcase) Part 1 of 2

In a week that now seems to have raced by in a blur, the main hall at the Moscone Center was packed to capacity as you would expect when James Gosling is...

1 replies - 6057 views - 05/10/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: Intel Keynote

It is day three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He begins by highlighting the fact...

0 replies - 2718 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: AMD Keynote

AMD had a tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was...

0 replies - 2082 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: What's Next in Server Side Technology

My final session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry...

0 replies - 3544 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne 2008 Opening Keynote

The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it...

2 replies - 4081 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News