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    A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.

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    In a move that has exposed a growing schism in the Java community, an Oracle proposal to bridge Java development tools moved ahead this week with approval from competing Java companies.

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    Developers have a number of reasons for favouring one programming environment over another. For those attracted by good technology, .NET is worth a look.

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    Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.

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    Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.

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  • Sun to give StarOffice Java flavour

    Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office.

  • JBuilder 6: Brewing Java the Borland way

    When it comes to IDEs, Java developers are almost spoiled for choice. Borland’s latest version of JBuilder has a lot to offer for server-side and EJB development.

  • HP, Dell to ship Java with PCs

    The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lacklustre in its support for the software.

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