Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has a long ways to go before it steps up to compete with Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash or AJAX or even Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Silverlight in building Web 2.0 applications. But it clearly has that goal in mind as it works on producing a version of JavaFX for the desktop, […]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since […]
Using book sales as surrogate tea leaves, Mike Hendrickson of the O’Reilly Radar finds life bleak for pretty much every major programming language except C#, Javascript, and Ruby. Java? It has plunged by 50 percent since 2003.
Sun Microsystems is hedging its bets on web scripting languages, recently adding Python experts to its fold. So perhaps […]
Is Java slipping into second-tier status in the application development space? All the attention being given to its rivals these days might give off that impression.
Nearly 13 years old, the Java language and platform created at Sun Microsystems now shares the software development limelight with scripting languages such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and Ruby, as […]
It’s been an interesting few months for Zend, the commercial company behind the open source programming language PHP.
In the past few weeks, Zend has teamed up with Rackspace, a leading web hosting provider. It’s also signed an agreement with Ibuildings, an Anglo-Dutch software consultancy company, to provide training and support services in the UK. And […]
24 February 2008 – 5:43 PM
University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming.
Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. Most […]
16 February 2008 – 5:30 PM
SugarCRM, one of the open source community’s darlings, is taking steps towards improve interoperability between its PHP architecture and Java.
The next version of SugarCRM’s customer relationship management (CRM) suite, version 6.0 due in the fourth quarter of 2008 or first quarter of 2009, will feature a “Java layer” to enable PHP to talk to Java […]
6 February 2008 – 9:06 PM
Lightbulb, an Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) subproject, aims to achieve federated identity for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, and Perl) and MARS (MySQL, Apache, Ruby, and the Solaris Operating System). Currently, Lightbulb offers a service provider (SP) written in PHP with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. This article elaborates on the SP […]
5 February 2008 – 9:57 PM
Despite what you might read and hear about Google’s web dominance, this is not Google-owned world. Yahoo! may be playing second fiddle to the internet’s favorite search and ads service, but it still plays one hell of a tune in terms of numbers of users and the services it offers.
If you use Yahoo! for your […]
30 January 2008 – 1:36 PM
A brainchild of Sun Microsystems’ research wing, the Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform code is now open to Java developers at large.
Sun SPOTs are palm-sized battery powered devices that can wirelessly relay data about movement, temperature and sound. They run on a virtual machine written almost entirely in Java called Squawk, and crank […]
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