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Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies, hosted a lively post-Script Bowl panel discussion on the future of dynamic scripting languages at this year's JavaOne Conference.

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“True success in application security requires an in-line process to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure that the application adheres to the organization's security policy”

This year's JavaOne Conference ended on a queasy note last Friday when the local Department of Public Health warned attendees that a virus -- the biological kind -- had gotten loose in San Francisco's Moscone ... via Application Development Trends

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When you're the inventor of one of the most successful and influential programming languages of the last decade, what do you do for an encore? Judging by demos at the recent JavaOne conference , if you're Sun ... via Computerworld

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“The JavaFX runtime environment is designed from the ground up to support high fidelity media, empowering content authors to deliver media-rich content and applications across multiple screens”

Sun Microsystems has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies' TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for ... via Mobile Marketing Magazine

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“Facebook and other social platforms are major drivers in application development”

They're small and easy to create. They multiply like rabbits. The best become immensely popular very quickly and are forgotten just as fast. via Application Development Trends

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“It looks like Sun's got a lot more vision these days”

Sun Microsystems is trying to rejuvenate Java, using the JavaOne conference last week to position the 13-year-old Java platform as a foundation for next-generation technologies in such spaces as rich Internet ... via Infoworld

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“That means they may not be able to fund it to the level it needs.”

With its scheduled 2009 launch of JavaFX, Sun Microsystems is taking on two entrenched and well-funded adversaries: Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's AIR. via LinuxInsider

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It remains one of the thorniest problems in app dev: How to get the folks in the blue shirts, khakis, and glasses to make nice with their black-shirted, skinny-jeaned, faux-hawked neighbors down the hall? Like ... via Infoworld

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XAware, Inc ., today announced that it will be exhibiting at JavaOne , taking place May 6-9, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. via Business Wire

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“Unicon has been active in the uPortal project since its early beginnings”

Technology integrator Unicon has announced that it's now providing commercial support for uPortal 3.0, an open source campus portal solution designed by members of the education community. via T.H.E. Journal

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