This week Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google alleging infringement of Java-related patents and copyrights in Android.
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Cliff Click claimed in his Azul blog recently that Just-in-time compiling Java bytecodes on a RISC chip almost always results in faster code that consumes less power.
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Artima has published a PDF document that contains the presentation materials from Scott Meyers' two-day training course Embedded C++. It provides an in-depth examination of how C++ can be applied...
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In a ZDNet interview, founding JCP executive committee member Tony de la Lama gives his opinions on the future of the JCP.
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In his first blog post as a Googler, Tim Bray compared the open Android platform (which he'll be focusing on in his new job) with Apple's iPhone.
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Amazon has released a Java API to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure , the AWS SKD for Java, which makes it easier for Java developers to connect to services such as Amazon Simple Stora...
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At the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium, Sun's Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to Java in JDK 7. In this interview, Stephen Colebourne, coauthor of the FCM closures prop...
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recls 100% .NET is a .NET 2/3 library that provides recursive file-system search. The library supports breadth-first or depth-first search of files and/or directories, hidden and/or system files,...
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JIDE Software has released as beta a new charting package for Swing: JIDE Charts. This package offers many ways to present data in different types of charts that can help users visualize and unde...
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FastFormat is an open-source C++ formatting library that provides localised text formatting, optionally using resource-based format strings. It's 100% type-safe, flexible, infinitely extensible, ...
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In a recent ACM Queue article, George Neville-Neil writes that the ubiquitous socket API, now almost 30 years old, has not kept up with recent progress in networks, and would need a major overhau...
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Clojure is a Lisp dialect for the JVM. Developed mainly by Rich Hickey, Clojure 1.0 was released this week. It supports functional programming, advanced concurrency constructs, such as software t...
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Xoreax Software announced today the release of IncrediBuild 3.20. IncrediBuild is an easy-to-use platform for accelerating Windows-based processes such as code/data builds, scripts and tools thro...
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ZeroTurnaround announced the availability of JavaRebel 1.1, a JVM plugin that enables reloading changes made to Java class files on-the-fly, saving developers the time it takes to redeploy an app...
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Sun's latest NetBeans release brings improved performance, faster startup, a preview of a PHP editor, JavaScript support, updates to the Ruby development environment, and extend integration of se...
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