The Eclipse 4 development environment, codenamed "e4", just reached its second milestone. The new milestone includes significant changes to the platform and the XML Windowing Toolkit (XWT) for the GUI. XWT, a new feature in the fourth version of Eclipse, received a lot of attention in this milestone.
59 US Senators signed a request this week asking the European Commission to expedite its investigation of the Oracle-Sun deal. The letter was addressed to the EU's head US delegate, Angelos Pangratis. The signatories, led by Senators John Kerry (D) and Orrin Hatch (R), came from both Democratic and Republican parties.
Google quietly announced last week that its cloud will run nothing but open source software. This is a big deal, but let’s first admit why Google did it. As I have written many times, Google has a big cost advantage when it comes to delivering Internet resources.
It was at that moment I decided to make a go of it with Linux as my sole operating system. After nearly 2 years of tweaking, making mistakes, fixing those mistakes, and then making even more mistakes, I finally feel qualified to give you advice.
JMS is used to exchange asynchronously messages between programs in Java. Learn here how to get it to work using open source ActiveMQ and see sample cut-and-paste-ready codes of JMS producer and JMS consumer.
The JFXtras team has announced a 0.6 Preview Release that includes support for a JavaFX Menu, Tree, Table, Shelf, and other controls that you need to build large JavaFX applications today. Check out my blog for a full list of features, and have a Happy Thanksgiving for us (because we will be way too busy)!
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There's no doubt about it: Free sounds like a pretty good price. A panel of experts as delves into this very relevant topic and discuss the benefits of using open source software, along with some of the potential risks, to help you determine whether an open source, a commercial application, or a combination of both are right for your company.
EGL Community Edition is a free Eclipse-based tool that simplifies the development of rich Web 2.0 style applications. Learn more from Will Smythe, Product manager, how EGL CE dramatically accelerates development of JavaScript and Java-based, rich Internet applications without needing to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML.
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