Dr. James Gosling, vice president, Sun Fellow and JavaTM technology creator, will join Sun's Developer Platforms group as chief technology officer. His goals are to bring the advances achieved by the Sun Labs team into the commercial space.

Gosling was leading a Sun Labs research team working on advanced designs for software developer tools, including refactoring methodology and pursuing advanced technology research initiatives such as the Jackpot project.

"Sun's developer tools and programs are essential elements to the enduring success of Java technology, and an integral part of the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System," said James Gosling. "Working with the Labs team over the years, we've designed concepts for improving the development cycle from end-to-end. I'm looking forward to bringing those ideas into the product set and to sharing Sun's passion for innovation with our customers and partners."

Sun's Developer Platforms and Tools

• Project Rave focuses on corporate developers who need to be able to implement multi-tier, distributed applications with reduced complexity and enhanced productivity for speedy deployment.

• Sun JavaTM Studio Enterprise development environment (formerly SunTM ONE Studio) is used to create applications for the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System (which was called Project Orion). Bundled in the environment is the Java Studio Standard IDE, the Sun Portlet Builder, a version of the Sun Java Enterprise System for development and testing purposes, software maintenance and support, and "how-to" developer support.

• Sun Java Studio Standard provides an environment for creating Java Web Services and n-tier JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) applications. It is also tightly integrated with the Sun JavaTM System Application Server 7 (formerly SunTM ONE Application Server), providing one-button deployment from the IDE to expedite the debugging and testing of applications. Sun Java Studio Standard 5 update 1 (formerly SunTM ONE Studio 5 update 1, Standard Edition), is now integrated with a sophisticated application framework, based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design principle and J2EE platform patterns.

• Sun JavaTM Studio Compiler Collection provides powerful, comprehensive language systems and tools for building, compiling and debugging C, C++ and Fortran 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) for the SPARCR processor-based and x86-based platforms.

"Since Java technology's creation, James has been instrumental in delivering on a constant vision for Java technology as a powerful language and platform for revolutionizing the developer experience," said Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun software. "James' unique contribution and legendary expertise will allow Sun to continue to evolve the developer experience by engineering out complexity, increasing productivity and driving toward the goal of 10 million Java technology developers." [...read more...]

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