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Adding to several new books related to NetBeans, here's another one, which I received in a box of 10 yesterday, as one of its co-authors, together with JB Brock and Arun Gupta.

RDA 8.03 was released on March 11th 2014. The download links can be found in the support document referenced above.

The Java SE 8 launch is nearly here , but how many developers are really ready to upgrade? Quite a few, if the results of a recent survey are any indication.

The delays are over, the final approvals are in, and the general availability release of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, 8 is right around the corner .

Zimbra Community 8.0 requires Solr 4.5. Whether you are doing a clean install or an upgrade, you must install this version.

Jfokus 2014 took place 3-5 February in Stockholm, Sweden at the Waterfront Congress Centre.

Composing music for more than one voice and finding the perfect harmony can prove to be quite challenging.

Azul Systems , Inc . , the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today announced ReadyNow!, revolutionary new technology that solves the "warm-up" problem prevalent in many Java applications.

JavaScript continues its relentless advance on other hapless languages. Now we have Node.js running under the JVM which more or less universal - well as universal as Java.

In lock step with the introduction of Compact Profiles , Java 8 includes a new distribution mechanism for Java SE Embedded called the EJDK .

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DEMUX Framework enables Java developers to build modular, cross-platform applications which can run on desktop, Web, and mobile and embedded devices.

Nashorn is the new JavaScript engine that will ship with Java SE 8 . Under the hood, it leverages the invokedynamic bytecode introduced in Java SE 7. By doing this, Nashorn offers improved performance.

In this post, I try to give a reasonable account of Java's error handling system being as it is that the handling of errors is a concern that any reasonable programming language must find some way to contend with.

Once upon a time, Microsoft was the favorite target of malware developers. As Microsoft improved the defenses in its software, though, cybercrooks moved on to easier pickings.

Potix Corporation, creator and chief commercial supporter of the open-source ZK framework, this week released a new version of its open-source spreadsheet component that is embeddable in existing Java Web applications.

As everyone saw in the press already, Facebook bought WhatsApp for a hefty $16 billion.

What Rich, Sensor-Based Applications are might be a mystery but as long as you have heard of the Processing language at least part of what this book is about will be clear.

Verizon Ventures leads an $11.2 million Series C round that will fund more product development and an expanded sales effort around the Java-based PaaS.