Justice Dept says OK to Oracle’s $7.4 billion deal for Sun; approval still...
SAN FRANCISCO — Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has received the Justice Department’s approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun...
View ArticleJava EE 6 Features Overview
Java EE 6 arrives as a big leap transforming into an ideally simple, streamlined and well-integrated platform. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) has grown over the years since its in 1999....
View ArticleSun absorbs $147M loss in sign of choppy finances that forced sale to Oracle
SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded a $147 million loss while sales eroded 31 percent in the April-June period, likely the server and software maker’s last full quarter as an independent...
View ArticleUS Geological Survey sounds Tsunami alert for Indian Ocean
NEW DELHI - The US Geological Survey on Wednesday issued a tsunami alert for the Indian Ocean in the wake of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake striking Indonesia’s Java island. According to the USSGS, the...
View ArticleSummary Box: EU applies brakes to Oracle-Sun deal on questions about database...
SLOW DOWN: European Union regulators are launching a formal antitrust investigation into Oracle Corp.’s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. Oracle expected to complete the...
View ArticleJava / JDK 7 Downloaded?
I have just started playing with JDK 7 (JDK stands for Java development kit and is suitable for Java developers, others should just download the JRE). Java 7 comes with some impressive features. My...
View ArticleJava Management Extension (JMX) FAQ
Java Management Extensions (JMX) is Sun Microsystem’s new Java-based tool for managing enterprise applications. JMX is a Java framework designed to manage enterprise applications in a distributed...
View ArticleBali bombing mastermind killed in police raid
JAKARTA - Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed. The 41-year-old...
View ArticleHow to Run PHP in JSP/JAVA
With Apache Tomcat developers can enable PHP only in one web application and run it globally for all applications under tomcat. Generally, PHP is said to have several orders of magnitude more open...
View ArticleHow to download & install JDK 6
I never thought I would have to write this article. Downloading Java was the simplest thing possible. Just go to java.sun.com and download the JDK. Unfortunately Sun has (intentionally?) complicated...
View ArticleHow to install / enable Java Plugin / Applets in Firefox on CentOS 5
CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn’t provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets). Here are the steps to install and enable applets / Java plugin...
View ArticleKomodo Dragon most likely evolved in Australia 3-4 mln yrs ago
WASHINGTON - A team of palaeontologists and archaeologists, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, has shown that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia...
View ArticleTop 10 features of JDK 7
We had already focused on JDK 7 features in our post - Java/JDK 7 downloaded. According to the roadmap in OpenJDK site, JDK 7 would be arriving at the first quarter of 2010. Going by the schedule 6...
View Article10 Best Java Web Development Framework
There are a majority of enterprises running Java applications and working on Java web development framework. What remains to be seen is that a number of companies are tied to the conventional web...
View ArticleHow to serialize Java Objects to XML and deserialize back from XML
XML has set ubiquitary standards for representing data. There are several XML technologies that can be used to serialize Java objects to XML. Some of the most commonly technologies used by Java...
View ArticleJava blacksmith and family shocked to know they were saved by Obama’s mum
NEW YORK - In a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an...
View ArticleTamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast
Merak (Java, Indonesia), - Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike. The move comes after the spokesman...
View ArticleJava Performance and Load Testing: Best Practices
The performance test for J2EE application is a difficult task unless you plan well earlier. During development, you need to gather user requirements, understand the business need and make a formal...
View ArticleHow to develop JMX MBean in 5 minutes
Java Management Extensions (JMX) allows remote clients to connect with JVM, and manage, monitor as well as run applications in that JVM. At the core of JMX specification lies the Mbeans that manages...
View ArticleJava Unit Testing: Best Practices
Junit is a java based tool that offers good, robust test facility. But, if you use it in a wrong way, it produces horrendous output. This article gives you some insight to test java code with the help...
View Article
