Sun Microsystems engineers and executives provide a progress report of the JavaFX technology family, the next version of Java SE, and other projects.... more »

Java EE 5 provides all the features you need to build a robust enterprise application right in an EJB 3.0 container, but incorporating the relative strengths of Spring and Hibernate can further improve the productivity and quality of your application.... more »

Spring's POJO-based programming model has proven to be a much better way to write, test, and assemble robust Java EE applications, but it works only if you configure your objects with Spring. What happens when you combine Spring with an in-house legacy framework or Java EE technology such as EJBs or servlets?... more »

The co-creator of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) explains how his team plans to release a GWT version that compiles faster AJAX code than a JavaScript expert could write by hand.... more »

Leveraging the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and the M2Eclipse (M2) plugin in the same project has compelling benefits for the Java web developer.... more »

Find out how to leverage the Ruby and Rails support in NetBeans 6.0, and then learn some techniques for deploying Rails applications on a Linux server efficiently.... more »

The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.... more »

It really surprised me, that Netbeans's editor was higher rated than Eclipse's. I prefer the Netbeans editing experience, but my opinion isn't really objective :-). I just like Netbeans's editor more, without knowing the reason. The small built-in wizards like alt+insert make the coding experience more fluent - but this is really my subjective view. Most of the developers prefer Eclipse, because of the editing experience (they often miss in Netbeans e.g. the "Link With Editor" button). On the other hand, Eclipse was higher rated in the Enterprise support, what I really cannot see. Netbeans comes already with really good built-in Java EE 5 support.... more »

I would like to know if FileDialog is planned to be fixed in Java 7 to contain all the features of the native FileDialog. I couln't find anything in the release notes of Java 7. I've talked about this over and over but no one seems to answer. http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=233718 Can anyone from the AWT/Swing team give us a status please? Guys if you're interested in improving FileDialog vote for this bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6192906 ... more »

GWT Conference Just as Microsoft was brushing aside claims that Volta, its latest .NET programming toolkit, is a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) clone, Google has disclosed how it plans to open the gap on rivals with the next release of its popular AJAX toolkit.... more »