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News and New Product Briefs (7/15/98)

Letters to the Editor

New Media Programming columnist Bill Day does his honorable best to answer all his mail — praise, suggestions and grumbles alike. Plus: Bill Venners fields a slew of tough Design Techniques-related questions, Mark J

Java to be — or not to be — on the BeOS

Be Inc. has produced a fast, clean, and robust modern operating system with features that should interest Java developers — the question is, where is the support for Java?

GNU offers a new kind of Java IDE

The Free Builder Project is 100 percent pure Java, nonproprietary, and free

JavaOS finds its way into 30,000 set-top boxes from Hitachi

Japanese consumers receive television set-top box through Hitachi/Sun deal — 200K consumers expected by end of ’99

Java making inroads, but Europe likes HTML

138 percent increase in U.S.-developed Web apps using Java in next 2 years; 70 percent increase in Europe

GigaWorld: Baratz Says JDK Licensing Restrictions on Industries to Change

Marimba launches new Castanet with a less Java-centric focus

Serving customers’ needs overrides religious adherence to Java

New Sun software lets older PCs run Java

Boxes running DOS and Windows 3.x now can run Java apps through the new JavaPC Engine 1.0

Gates should have finished school, McNealy says

Sun’s top gun compares Microsoft’s Java practices to adding poison to a bottle of Coke

Sun to merge Java tools in two-stage integration

Move will strengthen company’s tools offerings

Metamata, IBM keep tabs on Java performance

Companies ranging from small Java start-up to Big Blue work to speed up the platform

To jar or not to jar?

Get the lowdown on using Java Archive (jar) files — including pros and cons

Merging Java and Win32: A new way to develop Windows applications

Learn how to write Win32 applications in Java instead of C++ — and save yourself some time and effort!

Java API poll results: A divinely inspired Java API?

One reader has truly high hopes for the Java API

Readers ponder the virtues (and defects) of anonymous inner classes

Thinking about using anonymous inner classes in your code? Before you make your move, find out what the Java developer community has to say about them

Focus on Swing

Explore focus management with JFC’s Swing components

An inside look at Microsoft’s recent Visual J++ conference

Java enthusiast offers a decidedly non-technical first-person commentary and report on VJ++ in Los Angeles, CA

News and New Product Briefs (6/15/98)

Judge won’t move up hearing on Java injunction as Sun asked

Request to ban Microsoft from shipping Windows 98 with incompatible Java is refused — Sun says due to judge’s busy schedule

News and New Product Briefs (6/2/98)

Letters to the Editor

James Gosling makes a cameo appearance to set the record straight (as only he can) on an increasingly relevant question: Why were enumerated types left out of the Java spec, anyway? Plus: Reader praise (and plenty of technical Q&A) for Jon Steelman,

Baratz gives Microsoft strategy lesson

Sun’s Java software president says Microsoft could have done a better job of corrupting Java

Data structures and algorithms: A comparative slice and dice — er, review — of 5 Java DS&A books

Laurence places 5 books on the chopping block. Find out which books avoid the cut

Internet and society: Java will be everywhere, McNealy says

At Harvard conference, head of Sun Microsystems asserts there is only one compatible Java

McNealy weighs in on Microsoft at Harvard conference

Did MS knowingly enter into the Java contract in bad faith? Sun CEO wants to know!

Polese endorses Internet ‘anarchy’

Taking a ‘platform agnostic’ stance, Java veteran and Marimba CEO discusses Net past and future

Justice Department uses Microsoft’s own words against it

Internal memos from Redmond, WA, company reveal clear anti-Java strategies

Java draws wide market interest

Companies adopt platform for human resource, sales, and manufacturing software

Sun walls off Java

Newly created “Java Platform Group” to be separate from Java Software Division

Sun seeks injunction barring incompatible versions of Java in Windows 98

On the verge of releasing the new OS, Microsoft faces another legal challenge from Java’s creator

Code-centric search tool strives to reduce Java development time

IBM’s jCentral among the first of a new wave of targeted search engines

Java Plug-in reader poll highlights

Readers offer valuable insight on whether Java Plug-in is a viable solution for Web-based development in Java

Real-world Java: Packaging processware with Java

Find out how — and why — CrossWorlds Software leveraged Java to build a robust and highly sought-after package

Why ETrade banks on Java to keep bulls and bears in line

Java adds high-availability and reliability to online trading infrastructure

Improve your programs with practical audio

Learn 3 ways to produce sound in Java applications and applets — and how to grab sounds from JAR files

Add an undo/redo function to your Java apps with Swing

Find out how the Swing GUI component set utilizes the Command pattern for easy support of undo/redo

News and New Product Briefs (5/15/98)

Sun’s Java VM no good for embedded market, HP says

Hewlett-Packard opposes standards process used in Java development

News and New Product Briefs (5/4/98)

Letters to the Editor

This month: Bryan Morgan’s call for suggestions (in the debut installment of his new Distributed Objects column) hasn’t gone unnoticed. He sifts through the deluge to shape his column’s itinerary for the next six months. Plus: Corrections and amendme

Java jazzes point of sale systems with new APIs

Java gets set to hit the mall — with a new API specification in tow

Sun, IBM pitch JavaOS for NCs as PC complement

Sun’s JavaSoft division faces widespread reorganization

New director of product marketing hired to spearhead improvements to Sun division

JavaSoft faces competition from freeware

Companies come up with clean-room implementations of the Java virtual machine

Sun reorganizes company structure

So, what’s happened to the ol’ JavaSoft division?

Thin Java coverage in a fat Java book

Complete Reference sacrifices focus in pursuit of completeness

Java databases sprouting slowly

Can a pure Java product offer the performance that customers are used to from their databases?

Visual J++ reader poll draws choice reader comments, record number of votes

When questioned on their potential use of Visual J++ 6.0 as a development tool, readers had plenty to say

News and New Product Briefs (4/15/98)