The 7.0.4 beta release of Apache Tomcat is available for download this week. The new beta fixes a plethora of bugs and contains enhancements and bugfixes from an unreleased 7.0.3 beta. One feature from 7.0.3 further reduces code duplication in the HTTP...
The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed "Austin." Developers were surprised by the amount of active participation that has moved the project...
Today we'll get a glimpse into Microsoft's future in mobile computing as the first Windows Phone 7 handsets are released in UK stores. The models include the HTC 7 Mozart, Trophy, and HD along with Samsung's Omnia 7. Carrier options include Orange,...
If you haven't heard already, you should know that in the middle of NetBeans 6.10 development, the name changed to NetBeans 7.0 to align with the upcoming JDK version. The newly released milestone 2 adds qualifier auto-creation and contextual menus for...
jQuery developers can finally get their hands on the long-awaited jQuery mobile framework, which is optimized for the touch interfaces of smartphones and tablets. The alpha releases of jQuery 1.4.3 and jQuery Mobile are available this week. jQuery 1.4.3...
With funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Intel, and Microsoft, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has undertaken a project to build a new parallel implementation of the Java language that is the first to guarantee deterministic...
Google released the next version of the Google AppEngineSDK this week. The new 1.3.8 SDK includes a new Admin Console called the Instances page, which lets you see information on all server instances that an application is using. There are also new task...
Spring Roo 1.1 RC 1 was just released with nearly 300 enhancements since the milestone stage. The latest release adds the "RooBot" client, which is used for automating add-on deployment. There is also incremental database reverse engineering in...
The final release of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is here bringing JSF 2.0 support and Portlet 2.0 support. This version of Spring Web Flow implements Dojo 1.5, dojox, and a Facelets tag library for Spring Security. 2.2 also adds two spring-js artifacts and a...
Developers are getting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) features that were originally planned for version 2.2 by downloading the 2.1 RC1 version, which was just released. GWT 2.1 features a Model-View-Presenter framework that introduces the concepts of Activities...
Today Oracle is releasing an update that will fix 29 critical holes in the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment. The patch effects not only Java SE and Java for business, but also some of Oracle's proprietary technologies. Oracle Database...
Sun/Oracle developers have been working on bringing cryptography functions to ZFS, and now Oracle is announcing that this feature will likely be included in Solaris Express 2010. The blog post that reveals the new feature will have support for encrypted ZFS...
While it
certainly didn't hurt Adobe's stock prices, which rose by 11.5% this
week, the rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Adobe are "nonsense"
according to many sources
at both companies. The rumor came from a New York Times article...
Six months after the 2.7 release of the Low-Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure, the 2.8 version is now available. The previous version of the LLVM's front end, the Clang C/C++ compiler, was the first that could compile itself. Now 2.8 features...
