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Great post and interesting discussion by all. Eric Schmidt used to say in reference to Java: "in software we often solve problems by creating a new layer of abstraction which then allows for innovation both above and below the line."

Looking for new challenges? Want to get back to the roots of Computer Science? How about starting to explore Internet of Things? No doubt it is one of the fastest growing area of IT and an excellent opportunity to explode the innovation and creativeness.

This tip is all about writing an XML file and extending its nodes further, so that it can be extended well, upto an extent.

Coverity, a company specializing in software quality and security testing solutions, finds that open source programs tend to have fewer errors than proprietary programs.

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix various security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk ... (more)

PanARMENIAN.Net - Oracle has released a swathe of security updates culminating in a massive 104 new security fixes for products including Java, Fusion Middleware and MySQL, according to ZDNet.

Nashorn, pronounced "nass-horn," is German for "rhinoceros," and it's one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II.

Spring is a widely used framework in enterprise applications development and includes different components such as Spring ORM, Spring JDBC and more, to support various features.

Sun Microsystems expects that technologies like its JavaFX Script scripting language, and JavaFX Mobile software for mobile devices, will help bridge the digital divide.

Geertjan Wielenga is a Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Developer Tools group living & working in Amsterdam.

The report details the analysis of 750 million lines of open source software code through the Coverity Scan service and commercial usage of the CoverityA Development Testing Platform, the largest sample size that the report has studied to date.

David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology and an ardent US based Java EE/GlassFish advocate.

WebLogic is Oracle's strategic application server for the Java EE Platform . Since Oracle decided to focus on it for commercial support, and decided to leave GlassFish free of any ties with commercial decisions , I decided to bring this type of content to help GlassFish customers as well users to experiment, try, and evaluate Oracle WebLogic 12c .

Automated Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings ASE 2000. The Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on In Automated Software Engineering, 2000.

Proceedings of Programming Language Design and Implementation 2013 , pp. 399-410, doi:10.1145/2499370.2491979 Recent developments in the systematic construction of abstract interpreters hinted at the possibility of a broad unification of concepts in static analysis.

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Azul Systems has announced the Zulu 8.0 commercialized build of OpenJDK that is compatible and compliant with the Java SE 8 standard.

April 11, 2014 - The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse Kepler packages with the Java 8 support.

With the advent of platforms and frameworks such as Node.js, Vert.x, ... and more generally the rise of the Event-driven programming paradigm, asynchronous non-blocking I/Os are becoming more and more important in today's web applications.

XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control, attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like templates, database and dynamic development using scripting languages , an extension system and skinability, J2EE scalability, an XML/RPC ... (more)