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Sun, ObjectSpace make Jini plans

Small company takes great strides in distributed computing with an implementation of Sun's Jini

News and New Product Briefs (9/15/98)

Accelerate your Java apps!

Where does the time go? Find out with these speed benchmarks

Letters to the Editor

Quite a few readers responded to last month's JDK 1.2 bug report with skepticism at best; author Kieron Murphy takes on the critics. Plus: VolanoMark's John Neffenger addresses a mailbag full of JVM scalability queries; Merlin Hughes tackle

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Swing: A comparative review of four JFC/Swing books

The first wave of JFC/Swing books has hit the shores. Find out which — if any — of these four books delivers the goods on this complex and integral part of the JDK

Master of disguises: Making JavaBeans look like ActiveX controls

Learn how to make your JavaBeans available to Windows programmers using tools from Sun and Microsoft

Is Java strolling down Unix lane?

Forté Software licenses Java, but voices concern over the language's future

Sun and Microsoft offer judge differing lessons on Java

Bud Tribble and Greg DeMichillie put slide projector, video footage, and white board to use in making their cases before Ronald Whyte

Microsoft rejects Sun’s plea for preliminary injunction in Java case

Licensing the programming language obviates the case for complaints — according to Redmond-based company

Ninth annual Inprise Conference reveals juicy bits of Java news

Sessions stress Delphi, databases, and CORBA, but JDK 1.2, HotSpot, Swing, beans, and JBuilder grab attention too

JavaOS for Business arrives from Sun, IBM

OMG to define CORBA 3.0 with EJB, visual development support

At upcoming Comdex/Enterprise '98, companies supporting new version will be announced

Vendors rush to be at Java’s (server) side

Compaq, Intentia, and Tibco are just a few of the companies embracing SSJ

Developer creates the first Java virus and names it ‘Strange Brew’

"The only users who should be remotely worried are those … doing Java development"

Restricted-channel multicast in Java

How a desktop stock-ticker app was converted into a secure system, using an applet running on a smart card device

News and New Product Briefs (9/1/98)

Developers say Sun should keep its Swing package promise for JDK 1.2

Find out where <em>JavaWorld</em> readers want Sun to house JDK's GUI component set

Poll Results: Developers support JavaReady PC project — to a point

It's a given that developers are hungry for the widespread adoption of standard Java, but is Java ready?

Swing’s house-hunting days may be over

Sun to change packaging strategy for Swing, seeks feedback on proposal

OMG to define CORBA 3.0 with EJB, visual development support

At upcoming Comdex/Enterprise '98, companies supporting new version will be announced

Ninth annual Inprise Conference reveals juicy bits of Java news

Sessions stress Delphi, databases, and CORBA, but JDK 1.2, HotSpot, Swing, beans, and JBuilder grab attention too

News and New Product Briefs (8/3/98)

First bug bites Java 1.2 — Mozilla stung

Flaw could allow a hostile party to do 'whatever it likes on the victim's machine'

Symantec aims for enterprise with Java development tool

VCJ to ease developers' enterprise woes

At Inprise keynote, Sun’s Baratz makes release-date announcements

Java Software Division president says when JDK 1.2 and HotSpot will ship, announces Sun-Inprise alliance.

Java on server is tasting good

But release of JDK 1.2 won't solve client incompatibilities

Sun the software company?

Latest acquisition shows Sun's intent to move aggressively into the middleware market

IBM bets on XML

After putting its money on Java, Big Blue is upping the ante with an ambitious XML initiative

Java Lobby pushes PC sellers to pre-install standard Java

Petition already has garnered nearly 3,000 e-signatures

The skinny on Jini

Jini and JavaSpaces bring true distributed computing to Java

Java news from this summer’s Macworld Expo in New York

Recent conference gave Apple and Mac developers a chance to present products and plans to other Mac developers and Mac faithful — and provided a good opportunity to examine the state of Java on the Mac

Digging for Java news in Macworld Expo keynote

The news from Macworld New York is about faster machines and a modern operating system — and, if you read between the lines, you'll find good news for Java on the Mac

Microsoft sheds its Java skin — again

Another series of changes to Microsoft's Java implementation has Sun officials hot on the trail of incompatibilities

Readers ruffled by JGL vs. Collections API bias

Readers take <em>JavaWorld</em> to task for biased phrasing of poll question

“Runnability” testing of Java programs

A unique aspect of Java technology is that programs can run anywhere without recompilation. Here's how to test your programs so that you can find any runnability problems before your customers do

Building a bigger sandbox

Security in JDK 1.2 gives developers more control. Find out how to take advantage of this flexible new model

Java news from Siggraph ’98

Sun and partners choose to make their Java mark at the world's premier graphics conference and exposition

Java goes to the extreme

Programming language lets remote users take control of lethal machinery

Subject-oriented programming through RMI

Create a shared experience with the 'subject' design pattern

Which Java VM scales best?

A JavaWorld Exclusive! Results of new VolanoMark 2.0 server benchmark show how 12 virtual machines stack up

News and New Product Briefs (7/15/98)

Letters to the Editor

New <STRONG>Media Programming</STRONG> columnist Bill Day does his honorable best to answer all his mail — praise, suggestions and grumbles alike. Plus: Bill Venners fields a slew of tough <strong>Design Techniques</strong>-r

Java to be — or not to be — on the BeOS

Be Inc. has produced a fast, clean, and robust modern operating system with features that should interest Java developers — the question is, where <em>is</em> the support for Java?

GNU offers a new kind of Java IDE

The Free Builder Project is 100 percent pure Java, nonproprietary, and free

JavaOS finds its way into 30,000 set-top boxes from Hitachi

Japanese consumers receive television set-top box through Hitachi/Sun deal — 200K consumers expected by end of '99

Java making inroads, but Europe likes HTML

138 percent increase in U.S.-developed Web apps using Java in next 2 years; 70 percent increase in Europe

GigaWorld: Baratz Says JDK Licensing Restrictions on Industries to Change

Marimba launches new Castanet with a less Java-centric focus

Serving customers' needs overrides religious adherence to Java

New Sun software lets older PCs run Java

Boxes running DOS and Windows 3.x now can run Java apps through the new JavaPC Engine 1.0

Gates should have finished school, McNealy says

Sun's top gun compares Microsoft's Java practices to adding poison to a bottle of Coke