(February 14, 2003) - Borland Software Corporation has released two new products, Borland Together Edition for JBuilder and Borland Enterprise Studio 5 for Java, to help customers accelerate and streamline the development lifecycle for enterprise software applications. This launch is t...

(March 17, 2003) - aJile Systems Inc. has created the world's first game development kit to bring Java MIDP technology to millions of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance players. aJile's JAMiD game development kit is also the first platform to use Sun's latest MIDP 2.0 technology, which offers...

(March 31, 2003) - Oracle9i Application Server Java Edition has just debuted. Oracle's new enterprise-class application server offering includes all of the technology needed for companies to quickly begin developing and deploying Java applications and Web services - at a highly competi...

(April 14, 2003) - Anticipating Teamstudio's launch of Analyzer for Java Edition 3, Mark Dixon, co-founder and CTO of Teamstudio, Inc, issued a wake-up call to the Java development community about the inherent, and often overlooked, risks of the Java programming language.

(April 28, 2003) - BEA Systems, Inc. and Siebel Systems, Inc. have expanded their strategic alliance agreement to deliver integration solutions through joint development, sales, and marketing initiatives.

(May 15, 2003) - Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas will preview the development of a Java Card OS with 1 MB of memory that allows full multiple applications on a single card at the CardTech/SecurTech Conference. The new OS is being used in Sharp's new large-capacity Smart Card.

(June 4, 2003) - As anyone knows who attended the 2003 E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles, if gaming is even bigger than usual this year in the software development world, then Java gaming is bigger still. Especially in the wireless gaming world.

(June 13, 2003) - PeopleSoft, Inc.'s Board of Directors voted unanimously this week to recommend that stockholders reject Oracle's unsolicited offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of PeopleSoft for $16 per share in cash. The Board concluded that the offer would face lengthy ...

Founder, JavaLobby http://www.JavaLobby.org The .Net 'master brand' touches every one of Microsoft's business units, and the company appears to be more organized, aligned and excited than I have ever seen it.

(February 28, 2002) - He has said it before. He will doubtless say it again. JavaLobby founder Rick Ross is this week circulating his most urgent rallying-cry yet to those who would preserve Java technology in the enterprise and fight off the $200,000,000 marketing campaign that Mi...

(March 27, 2002) Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, and his colleagues at the Palo Alto headquarters of the Java powerhouse, are on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, the massive power of Microsoft is working day and night to promulgate the merits of its .NET Framework and o...

(April 19, 2002) In the weeks after the Java extravaganza in San Francisco known as JavaOne, the dust has been settling on the enterprise wireless world. JDJ News Desk has been seeking out viewpoints of some of the movers and shakers who attended, including the director of object tech...

(May 7, 2002) - At the annual IBM DeveloperWorks Live conference, Altaworks Corporation announced the release of PanoramaTM1.5. With this latest version, Altaworks advances its leadership in managing J2EE application server environments by pioneering the industry's first capability for...

As a Java professional, you're particularly aware of how quickly i-technology is racing into the future - and you've also seen how many of those around you are failing to keep up with the pace of new developments and information. Be fleet, or be obsolete. How do you keep yourself in th...

(July 9, 2002) - Nazomi Communications, Inc., a pioneer in universal and scalable solutions for boosting the performance of software running on the Java Platform, announced that it has licensed Sun Microsystems' Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Mobile Information Devic...

(August 2, 2002) - VisiComp, Inc., a provider of innovative software development tools for Java development and support, this week announced the availability of its new product, RetroVue 1.1, the world's first Total Recall debugger for Java. Unlike conventional debugging tools, RetroVu...

(August 23, 2002) - Rational Software has expanded on its 'Quality by Design' initiative for developers of software products and embedded systems and devices by releasing a new version of Rational® Test RealTime and two new products: Rational® PurifyPlus RealTime and Rational®...

(September 10, 2002) - The eXoDy development system for complex J2EE/Oracle business applications is now available from SDA Corporation. eXoDy solves the problems of high development costs, long development cycles and poor responsiveness to changing demands inherent in such development...

(September 19, 2002) - Sonic Software's SonicXQ 1.5 is now available. The SonicXQ enterprise service bus (ESB) is the only enterprise-class integration infrastructure for distributed business environments and computing models.

(September 27, 2002) - Take $3499 out of your savings account today and you too can be the proud owner of IBM's latest development tools. If you're an Enterprise Developer it will cost you more than twice that.

(October 15, 2002) - More than 600 developers polled in a new survey were virtually split on development plans for Java architecture, and Microsoft's .NET. According to interviews in the latest installment of Evans Data Corporation's North American Developer Survey series, 40 percent o...

(October 29, 2002) - This past week, in a move that some have characterized as a u-turn, Sun Microsystems joined the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) as a contributing member. Previously, Sun declined joining the WS-I unless it would be given equal status with WS-I's n...

(November 22, 2002) - A new mobile portal solution, developed jointly by Nextel Communications, Inc., EDS, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., securely extends the functionality of the Sun ONE platform to J2ME technology-enabled Nextel handsets and wireless-enabled devices. The mobile portal ...

(December 13, 2002) - As a Java developer, you can't afford to miss the JDJEdge 2003 East - International Java Developer Conference & Expo. The Java track has been specifically designed to allow you to squeeze as much information out of each session as possible. This is a Java track fo...

(January 14, 2003) - Nokia recently announced the world's first TDMA handsets with full-color displays. With features such as Java capability, custom color wallpapers, MIDI ring tunes and two-way text messaging with e-mail support, the color-screen Nokia 3560 and 3520 phones allow TDM...

(January 24, 2003) - A new free port from JBoss Group LLC enables rapid migration of applications running on BEA WebLogic to JBoss 3.0. The port allows organizations to obtain equal or better performance, security, and developer productivity on the open source JBoss server without the ...

(February 14, 2003) - ReportMill Software, Inc. calls its new release, ReportMill 6, 'the most powerful Java application reporting tool available'. The new version introduces new XML-based design features, new Crosstab style display options, significant performance improvements and man...

(February 28, 2003) - Microsoft has filed a 51-page brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, responding to the claims made in Sun’s August 2002 complaint against Microsoft. The brief includes several counterclaims against Sun, including charges of breach of contra...

(March 17, 2003) - QUALCOMM Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have entered an agreement to develop and distribute J2ME Platform virtual machine technologies. These J2ME technologies will be compatible with select QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT) Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets, the B...

(March 31, 2003) - IBM has announced it latest version of its IBM Branch Transformation Toolkit for WebSphere Studio. The IBM Branch Transformation Toolkit is a set of Java development tools and components that accelerate construction of high-speed, high-volume transactional applicatio...

(April 14, 2003) - Java and Windows have long been locked in a pitched battle for superiority as the leading Internet platform. Wedgetail has declared peace with the announcement of Java Crypto and Security Implementation (JCSI) Single Sign-On, the first in a suite of new products that...

(April 28, 2003) -To help businesses take advantage of the functionality provided by integrating the JBoss open source application server with the webMethods Integration Platform, webMethods, Inc. has launched the JBoss integration customer preview program. As part of the program, the ...

(May 15, 2003) - Quest Software, Inc.'s newly released PerformaSure™ 2.1 introduces integration with Quest's Foglight® application monitoring product. The latest release of PerformaSure features dual-mode agent technology that enables a Foglight alert to automatically trigger deeper J2...

(June 4, 2003) - Fiorano Software Inc. has released FioranoMQ 7.0. New features include support for High Availability (HA), Distributed Transactions (XA) and enhancements to the Administration and Management Tools. HA allows Enterprises near real-time responsiveness and helps them gai...

The discussion about software engineering in the special environment of startup companies continues with a focus on the software life cycle model and the tracking of requirements.

A question I have been asking myself lately is whether high-profile alliances of large corporations are actually the best way to advance the technology initiatives that shape our development environment and the products we build and use. It's fine and well that Sun, IBM, Netscape, Orac...

Explaining Java computing to a group of business people reminds me of explaining client/server to a similar group just five years ago. In fact, I realize that they are the same people. The same business people, the same business problems - trying to cut costs by implementing an archite...

Netscape and Sun Broaden Collaboration on Intranet Technologies Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. are extending their strategic relationship to incorporate support for Sun's WebNFSTM Internet file system in Netscape products, and to assure interoperability ...

Motivation One nice feature of the Java language is having many useful programming facilities (or APIs) built into its core language packages. To write a client/server application, one can use the socket classes in the java.net package by modifying from any existing client/server code...

As images come in different sizes and formats, image loading is often a complex and time consuming process. Image loading usually consists of fetching the image file, reading the header, decoding the compressed pixels' values, and then delivering the pixels. Java currently supports two...