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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.

CloudBees , a Java-centric Enterprise platform as a service we've covered a few times in the past, today announced that it has raised an $11.2 million Series C funding round led by Verizon Ventures.

I have spent the past few weeks watching this video series. I started watching it on the treadmill in the morning before work.

Thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Polymita, Red Hat has added major functionality to its software suite for managing business processes, making the package an appealing choice in the enterprise market for BPM software.

Web browser or Office suite? Microsoft's and Google's office productivity and collaboration clouds pit rich and complex against simple and lean more In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model.

Should CIOs heed biometric security measures and identification? Our #CIOChat-ters weighed in on the implications of biometric-scanning authentication.

A diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows that Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest The cloud computing sales pitch is seductive because the cloud offers many advantages.

This entry lists Ed's picks for the brand new JavaLand conference. Many of the talks are in German, but there is enough English to make it worth your time.