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Sun to merge Java tools in two-stage integration

Move will strengthen company's tools offerings

Metamata, IBM keep tabs on Java performance

Companies ranging from small Java start-up to Big Blue work to speed up the platform

To jar or not to jar?

Get the lowdown on using Java Archive (jar) files — including pros and cons

Merging Java and Win32: A new way to develop Windows applications

Learn how to write Win32 applications in Java instead of C++ — and save yourself some time and effort!

Java API poll results: A divinely inspired Java API?

One reader has truly high hopes for the Java API

Readers ponder the virtues (and defects) of anonymous inner classes

Thinking about using anonymous inner classes in your code? Before you make your move, find out what the Java developer community has to say about them

Focus on Swing

Explore focus management with JFC's Swing components

An inside look at Microsoft’s recent Visual J++ conference

Java enthusiast offers a decidedly non-technical first-person commentary and report on VJ++ in Los Angeles, CA

News and New Product Briefs (6/15/98)

Judge won’t move up hearing on Java injunction as Sun asked

Request to ban Microsoft from shipping Windows 98 with incompatible Java is refused — Sun says due to judge's busy schedule

News and New Product Briefs (6/2/98)

Letters to the Editor

James Gosling makes a cameo appearance to set the record straight (as only he can) on an increasingly relevant question: Why were enumerated types left out of the Java spec, anyway? Plus: Reader praise (and plenty of technical Q&A) for Jon Steelm

Baratz gives Microsoft strategy lesson

Sun's Java software president says Microsoft could have done a better job of corrupting Java

Data structures and algorithms: A comparative slice and dice — er, review — of 5 Java DS&A books

Laurence places 5 books on the chopping block. Find out which books avoid the cut

Internet and society: Java will be everywhere, McNealy says

At Harvard conference, head of Sun Microsystems asserts there is only one compatible Java

McNealy weighs in on Microsoft at Harvard conference

Did MS knowingly enter into the Java contract in bad faith? Sun CEO wants to know!

Polese endorses Internet ‘anarchy’

Taking a 'platform agnostic' stance, Java veteran and Marimba CEO discusses Net past and future

Justice Department uses Microsoft’s own words against it

Internal memos from Redmond, WA, company reveal clear anti-Java strategies

Java draws wide market interest

Companies adopt platform for human resource, sales, and manufacturing software

Sun walls off Java

Newly created "Java Platform Group" to be separate from Java Software Division

Sun seeks injunction barring incompatible versions of Java in Windows 98

On the verge of releasing the new OS, Microsoft faces another legal challenge from Java's creator

Code-centric search tool strives to reduce Java development time

IBM's jCentral among the first of a new wave of targeted search engines

Java Plug-in reader poll highlights

Readers offer valuable insight on whether Java Plug-in is a viable solution for Web-based development in Java

Real-world Java: Packaging processware with Java

Find out how — and why — CrossWorlds Software leveraged Java to build a robust and highly sought-after package

Why ETrade banks on Java to keep bulls and bears in line

Java adds high-availability and reliability to online trading infrastructure

Improve your programs with practical audio

Learn 3 ways to produce sound in Java applications and applets — and how to grab sounds from JAR files

Add an undo/redo function to your Java apps with Swing

Find out how the Swing GUI component set utilizes the Command pattern for easy support of undo/redo

News and New Product Briefs (5/15/98)

Sun’s Java VM no good for embedded market, HP says

Hewlett-Packard opposes standards process used in Java development

News and New Product Briefs (5/4/98)

Letters to the Editor

This month: Bryan Morgan's call for suggestions (in the debut installment of his new Distributed Objects column) hasn't gone unnoticed. He sifts through the deluge to shape his column's itinerary for the next six months. Plus: Correcti

Java jazzes point of sale systems with new APIs

Java gets set to hit the mall — with a new API specification in tow

Sun, IBM pitch JavaOS for NCs as PC complement

Sun’s JavaSoft division faces widespread reorganization

New director of product marketing hired to spearhead improvements to Sun division

JavaSoft faces competition from freeware

Companies come up with clean-room implementations of the Java virtual machine

Sun reorganizes company structure

So, what's happened to the ol' JavaSoft division?

Thin Java coverage in a fat Java book

<em>Complete Reference</em> sacrifices focus in pursuit of completeness

Java databases sprouting slowly

Can a pure Java product offer the performance that customers are used to from their databases?

Visual J++ reader poll draws choice reader comments, record number of votes

When questioned on their potential use of Visual J++ 6.0 as a development tool, readers had plenty to say

News and New Product Briefs (4/15/98)

Letters to the Editor

This month: Readers cut HotSpot (and Java) down to size. Plus, more MessageBox app questions for Jack Harich; new columnist Bryan Morgan fields his first Distributed Objects inquiry; and Mark Johnson may just have to switch from instant — "free

Designing a cross-platform look and feel with Java

Learn how to fulfill the promise of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" with one-time GUI design methods

Java Lobby says Microsoft official tried to “pull a fast one”

Microsoft Java evangelist claims foul after Java Lobby excludes him from a meeting designed to discuss "tactics for offsetting Microsoft's attempts to wrest control of Java"

Analysis of Hewlett-Packard’s JVM: Java grows up

HP's move is probably a good thing for Java — if not for Sun

iButtons: The first ready-to-buy 2.0 Java Card API devices

Develop, build, and test Java Card applications

IBM licenses Sun’s Java Chips for range of devices

IBM's broad-based manufacturing and design capabilities and ASICs experience expand potential for Java apps on electronics front

Zealous developers confident of Java’s future

Has Java passed the critical mass for becoming a standard?

Java in jeopardy?

Continuing fragmentation and political wrangling could put Sun's vision at risk

Microsoft takes wraps off Visual J++ 6.0

Software giant creates thicker ties between Java and Windows with WFCs (PLUS: A robust, well-rounded collection of hand-picked resources that will tell you everything you need to know about VJ++ and how it may impact Java!)

Sun’s Zander sees networks everywhere

Internet World keynote provides look into "network revolution"