Sun Certification Retake Promotion
To commemorate Sun’s awarding 500,000 certifications, purchase a voucher by June 20 for most Sun certifications – and should you need it, you can take the exam one additional time for free. Step 1: Select Your Exam Select the certification exam of interest from the list of qualifying exams below. You must use Priority Code [...]
NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest
NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta is now available to download and preview. We’re pretty excited about some of the great new features, but we want to know what you think. Download the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta 1 and check it out for yourself. After you have a chance to test the Beta, we want you to [...]
Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: The Real Story
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called ‘The LAMP Stack’. Furiously, he called his accountant. Scott: “I knew this Java thing was a bad idea in the first place! I see only one solution. We [...]
Sun to buy out MySql for $1 billion
Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database.Sun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL’s privately held stock and will assume about $200 million worth of options. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun’s senior executive team after the transaction [...]
Streaming API for XML – Java 6.0
Streaming API for XML, simply called StaX, is an API for reading and writing XML Documents. Why need another XML Parsing API when we already have SAX (Simple API for XML Parsing) and DOM (Document Object Model)? Both SAX and DOM parsers have their own advantages and disadvantages and StaX provides a solution for the [...]
Introduction to Java Server Faces
Java Server Faces (JSF) simplifies the development of User Interfaces in a typical Web application. It provides a Component-based Pluggable Architecture for developing and representing User Interface Components. Also bundled with JSF is a whole set of various new features like Event Handling Mechanism, Page Navigation, Input Validation and Conversion. This article provides an overview [...]
Sun CEO: Java open source in 30-60 days
Sun Microsystem will announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform in 30 to 60 days, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning. Java will be offered via an open source format under an OSI-approved (Open Source Initiative) license similar to the one used for open-sourcing of the Solaris [...]
Sun Dropped 2
Sun also made a more superficial change to Java. As expected, it dropped the “2″ in its Java 2 Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition and Mobile Edition versions. Future versions of those products will be called Java EE, Java SE and Java ME, respectively.
