While not a major release, the update release of Java 6u 10 is nonetheless deserving of user attention according to Ethan Nicholas, who outlines several important improvements in the release that will make the solution even more attractive and functional. There are no changes in the public APIs, Nicholas writes, which has made it easier to get the changes that are incorporated in Java 6u 10 released more quickly than will be the case with the future release of Java 7, when that day arrives.
Java Champion Adam Bien has an extended history with both the Java SE and Java EE technologies, having worked with both since their inception with JDK 1.0 and Java Web Server, as Janice J. Heiss reports. At the outset of the interview, Bien identified three fallacies associated with the Java EE platform: the belief that J2EE is complex; the belief that Java EE 5 is easy; and the belief that distributed programming could be simpler.
With the focus on performance, this second release of JRuby has proven to be quite a contender. "There have been more and more reports of applications exceeding Ruby 1.8.6 performance; we are even beating Ruby 1.9 in some microbenchmarks," reports Thomas Enebo. JRuby is an 100 percent pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
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Sun Distinguished Engineer Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart covers the basic of GlassFish, why it is important and how organizations are using GlassFish in their IT environments in a Sun Net Talks Webcast entitled "An Overview of GlassFish."
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