Many of the software products produced by Sun Microsystems have been rebranded since the Oracle acquisition. This is a useful table mapping the old names to the new names along with links to the Oracle (or other) home pages for those products.
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Blogging on the Dr. Dobbs's site, Eric Bruno writes about JavaFX's built-in support for JDBC, including the various data formats available through a set of Data Source components, such as relational databases, files, the file system itself, and web-based data. Bruno explains the use of these features in a manner that does not require the writing of much data handling code, employing the JavaFX Composer tool.
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The Sun Developer Network paper "Securing REST Web Services with OAuth" by Malla Simachalam and Rick Palkovic explores an example REpresentational State Transfer (REST) application that uses the open-source protocol OAuth to address security issues.
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JavaDB 10.5.1.1 has been released following the earlier release of Apache Derby 10.5.1.1. JavaDB is functionally equivalent to Apache Derby 10.5.1.1 - both contain the exact same jar files - but with JavaDB there are a few additional perks. Learn more about these as well as the latest features, which include SQL roles, generated columns, OFFSET/FETCH FIRST, in-memory back end, and more.
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Masood Mortazavi shares his personal story and his views on technology, its influence on people, and reflects on the following: Sun founder Bill Joy "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"; Hubert Dreyfus, What Computers Still Can't Do, On the Internet; and Thomas Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture.
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