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 Java Watch
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Java Security
(Issue 091, December 1, 2003)
By my count, four major security patches arrived from Microsoft in October for the Windows operating systems, as well as two revisions of security patches. Producing clean software really needs to become job No. 1. click for full story
New Mobile Java Opportunities
(Issue 090, November 15, 2003)
Sun has announced a new Java Mobility Advantage (JMA) Program, which sounds like it might do well, very well, for mobile Java developers, carriers and others in that ecosystem. click for full story
One Step Forward, One Step Back
(Issue 089, November 1, 2003)
Sun’s in trouble. It admitted to a billion-dollar boo-boo in the last quarter. HP is offering its enterprise customers twenty-five grand worth of free services to switch to Carly Fiorina’s Linux servers. McNealy & Co. still can’t get their Linux and open-source stories straight. And, then there’s all the Java fuss. click for full story
The Misery of Debugging
(Issue 088, October 15, 2003)
There are few jobs developers hate more than debugging. They tend to want to create something new, not track down annoying logic bugs, or worse still, a single misspelled word that causes the just-in-time compiler to hiccup when the tide is high and the moon is full. click for full story
Intellectual Property Insurance
(Issue 087, October 1, 2003)
Excuse me as I put away Java for today, to discuss intellectual property. Like many in the industry, I’ve been studying the SCO lawsuit; I’ve also done research on the legal issues behind IP. A pattern has emerged: One of the biggest factors in who wins and who loses in IP lawsuits is who runs out of cash first. It’s that simple. click for full story
Your Intellectual Property Rights
(Issue 085, September 1, 2003)
You can’t fault The SCO Group for lack of chutzpah. Immediately after registering their Unix copyright, the boys from Lindon, Utah, announced that they might sue business Linux users who didn’t purchase a UnixWare-style license for their Linux. click for full story
Sun: Embracing Linux, or trying to Kill it?
(Issue 084, August 15, 2003)
After years of poking fun at Linux, Sun’s Scott McNealy has had a change of heart. click for full story
Java on the Desktop
(Issue 083, August 1, 2003)
I like Java. I really do. But I wish Sun would stop pushing it as the next
great desktop development environment. Like it or lump it, Microsoft Visual Studio, with Visual Basic leading the way, is the Windows desktop development environment of choice for most programmers. Nothing Sun can do or say will change that. click for full story
What Is Sun Doing?
(Issue 082, July 15, 2003)
It sounds good, doesn’t it? Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s executive vice president of software, standing up at JavaOne to announce that Sun was going to work hard to brand Java so that the whole world would know just how much Web sites, software and devices from PCs to smart phones depended on Java. click for full story
What Exactly Is XML?
(Issue 081, July 1, 2003)
Over the years, I’ve written a couple of dozen stories about XML and Web services, and talked with hundreds of analysts, computer scientists and developers about XML. Recently, I’ve been finding that fewer and fewer of the people I talk with are on the same page. click for full story
A JavaOne Focus
(Issue 080, June 15, 2003)
Sun Microsystems Inc. and conference producer Key3Media Group Inc. tell me that mid-June’s JavaOne was to have three themes: innovation, Web services and mobility. OK, fair enough. click for full story
The Upturn Is Coming
(Issue 079, June 1, 2003)
For the longest time during this recession, top management didn’t care a bit about keeping programmers happy—or even on staff. Given a choice between making the bottom line look better by firing employees and actually improving productivity and cutting executive perks, the chief officers kept their Lexuses and threw developers on the street. click for full story
Dump Microsoft’s JVM
(Issue 078, May 15, 2003)
By my count, there have been 10 patches for serious security problems in Microsoft’s JVM since 1999. That’s getting close to about a patch a quarter. That’s more than Internet Explorer, which is no major model of security itself. Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally wrong here? click for full story
The JBoss Story
(Issue 077, May 1, 2003)
No analyst can tell you just how big an impact the JBoss Group’s JBoss application server has had on the J2EE server market. If you listen to JBoss founder, CEO and chief developer and former Sun developer Marc Fleury, it’s huge. click for full story
Choosing the Right Java Tools
(Issue 076, April 15, 2003)
Picking out the right tools for your programming team is not something you should do all by yourself. Just because I think vi is the be-all and end-all of programming editors doesn’t mean that all members of my team will agree. In fact, since most of the Java programmers I know love either Emacs or jEdit, I’d be more likely to have armed rebellion than team consensus. And that’s not even counting IDEs like JBuilder, Eclipse/WebSphere Studio, JDeveloper or NetBeans/Sun ONE Studio. click for full story
Eclipse, NetBeans and JSR-198
(Issue 075, April 1, 2003)
Here’s where I’m coming from: I believe in open standards. I may have my doubts some days about open source, but I’ve never doubted that open standards are the best of all possible development worlds for both software and business. click for full story
Eclipse, NetBeans and JSR-198
(Issue 074, March 15, 2003)
In this corner, weighing in at a net worth of over $22 billion, is the Java IDE challenger: IBM with Eclipse and its friends. And in the other corner, the founder of the cause, the Java Jock, weighing in at a net worth of just over $3 billion and the still-undefeated champion: Sun with NetBeans. Are you ready to rumble? click for full story
Retooling for WS-I
(Issue 073, March 1, 2003)
In the mainstream press, the big news with Java is the never-ending legal struggle between Sun and Microsoft to get a real Java Virtual Machine back into Microsoft’s desktop operating system. But I don’t think that’s the biggest news; rather, it’s that Sun is attempting to play ball with non-Sun-run Web services efforts, such as making J2EE 1.4 compliant with the Web Services Interoperability Organization’s Basic Profile specification, even as other WS-I players like IBM are saying that J2EE isn’t good enough. click for full story
Web Services Standards Get Messier
(Issue 072, February 15, 2003)
Let me get this straight. In one corner, we have BEA, IBM, Microsoft, RSA, SAP and VeriSign announcing a trio of new security standards riding on WS-Security: WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-SecureConversation. In the other corner, weighing in at over a trillion in net worth, we have Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sonic and Sun pushing WS-Reliability to bring some sense to message reliability. click for full story
Oracle’s Interface Diplomacy
(Issue 071, February 1, 2003)
Want to know my guilty secret? I like the combination of Microsoft Software Developer Network (MSDN) and Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Yes, Borland’s development tools are stronger and better, but Microsoft’s complete salad-to-dessert development package is a tasty one. click for full story
The Legal Thing Vs. The Right Thing
(Issue 070, January 15, 2003)
I got a call recently from, well, let’s not call him a friend but someone I’ve known for a very long time. He’s an unpleasant programming mercenary from Austin, and we’ll call him “Fred.” You know the sort, he doesn’t think he’s God’s gift to programming, he knows he is, and would argue with James Gosling about how to program “Hello, World” in Java. click for full story
Getting a Handle on J2EE 1.3
(Issue 069, January 1, 2003)
BEA isn’t going to let you forget that IBM was late to the J2EE 1.3 party; when Armonk announced WebSphere 5.0 in December, BEA was telling all and sundry that IBM’s software remains two years behind BEA WebLogic 7.0. click for full story
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