With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world's largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle's support didn't start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
A replay of the Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference, which took place on Dec. 15, is available. There are 16 individual sessions, all of which can be accessed separately so viewers can pick and choose the topic(s) of interest to watch. Also, anyone interested in learning even more about Java EE 6 may want to sign-up for a one-week online codecamp, which begins Jan. 12.
Sun Developer Network (SDN) staff writer Ed Ort has written a three-part article series introducing the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 platform. Released this December, Java EE 6 adds significant new technologies and extends the usability improvements made in previous Java EE releases. Ort's review of the platform highlights some of these enhancements.
The much anticipated Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) has been released. New additions include Java Context and Dependency Injections (CDI), Java EE Profiles, the new Web Services and Interoperability (WSIT) features that came from the Microsoft collaboration, and many new APIs for REST-based services, and REST-based administration of enterprise applications. Additional updates to the platform include Servlets 3.0, JSF 2.0, EJB 3.1, Java Persistence 2.0, Java EE Connector API updates, among others.
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