Metaform Systems announced general availability for Fabric3 1.3. Fabric3 is a platform for developing, assembling, and managing distributed applications based on Service Component Architecture (SCA).

An article summarizes the rapid application development on SOA platforms using JSF and OJB.

Terracotta Inc. announced late last week that it had acquired the Quartz Scheduler open source project.

Steve Anglin said that RIMs decision to go with Adobe might just spell the end of JavaFX as a viable mobile platform. For many, the framework showed promise for developing GUIs on mobile devices, but it has gained little ground

LogDigger Server 1.0 collects your servers logs, tracks application usage and offers fast bug reporting to an external issue tracker.

JavATE 0.4 has been released.It is a set of Java libraries that enables application development using the domain driven methodology.

Register now for the TheServerSide Java Symposium Las Vegas taking place in March, 2010. Visit the event website to register and for more information.

One of the biggest challenges in implementing SOA is figuring out how to handle the data. Data can exist in relational databases and in various file formats. To address the issue, MuleSoft has released Mule Data Integrator. It includes an

The Jailer crew announced the release of 3.2.Jailer which exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases.

The OpenCL standard blurs the lines between writing code for processors, GPUs, and other types of hardware. It is poised for take-off with more products and supporters.

Wait... Drupal is PHP based, why grails? Because it's easy and super fast to get things done. Grails takes just a couple of minutes to install, installation is a 3 step process: 1) extract 2) update path 3) set env

Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public download. Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license.

JProfiler 6.0 has been released by ej-technologies. Among the highlights in JProfiler 6.0 are reworked thread profiling, a new method statistics view, exceptional method run analysis, tree maps, auto-tuning for instrumentation and support for FreeBSD x86 and Linux PPC.

With Project Jigsa in mind, a poster offers some insights on the challenges that any implementation of modularity for the Java SE core may face, all derived from practical experience.

Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) is introduced for use as a build canary to monitor CruiseControl. The goal: To monitor the health of your continuous build process with Small Programmable Object Technology.

In a recent blog post raising concerns about the prospect of Oracle managing Java to the detriment of developers worldwide, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka noted JCP domination by Sun Microsystems. Sikka sees more of the same with Oracle in charge

A recent survey from Evans Data claims Python use has risen 45% since the spring of 2009! Mmmm. Kind of non-linear. The company correlates these results with the release of the Google App Engine cloud development platform. The App engine

Selectors are core in jQuery which make it easy to locate one or multiple elements within the DOM. There are huge performance differences with different types of selectors (id, tag, class) - especially in IE.

Matt Raible recently wrote about his experience using Java REST frameworks, including Jersey and CXF, as well as Enunciate -- the last of which is an engine for creating, maintaining, and deploying web services on the Java platform. [per Daniel

An ANT tool assists you in development of ANT scripts. It keeps your script definitions handy. It's an Eclipse based tool that meets build script developers' needs.