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.
In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project Looking Glass.
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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Sun Microsystems has released its first-ever guidelines for the use of Java in mobile phones, an effort to shape up the chaotic way in which the programming language has been developed thus far for application in the world of wireless.
Google announced overnight the release and open-sourcing of a trio of tools designed to help JavaScript developers.
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In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
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Firefox is still king when it comes to daily work on the tubes, despite the steady increase in the buzz surrounding the open-source Webkit project, on which Safari and Google Chrome are based.
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One of the first security bulletins to rate Microsoft's new, tougher Critical criteria is MS02-069, includes notice of a COM Object Access Vulnerability that may let attackers run untrusted Java applets.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
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.
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 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.
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.
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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