http://sun.systemnews.com Java Technology http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/ja/20467 Sun Java System Message Queue is a full featured Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) product which implements the Java Message Service API. It is included in Sun Java System Application Server and in the GlassFish application server. It is the JMS Provider implementation in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Reference Implementation as the provider for MDB asynchronous messaging. The Sun Java System Message Queue 4.2 spans the range of light-weight message buffering to world-wide deployments which require high performance, and high reliability. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/ja/20363 The Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is Sun's commercial implementation of the Real-Time Specification for Java (JSR-001). Implementations of the Java RTS make standard Java technology more deterministic and enable it to meet rigorous timing requirements for mission-critical real-time applications. After several months of testing, the Sun Java Real-Time System version 2.1 (Java RTS 2.1) is now available. The Java RTS gives users unprecedented control over their Java code execution including thread priorities and whether or not an activity should be interrupted by garbage collection. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/ja/20375 JavaFX Script is a new scripting language that developers can use to create dynamic graphical content. While the language provides libraries on the desktop to help you use the Swing user interface (UI) toolkit and Java 2D APIs conveniently, it doesn't replace either Swing or Java 2D; the goal is to make those APIs more accessible to rich content developers. In other environments, such as mobile systems, JavaFX Script makes use of user interface technologies other than Swing. This tutorial series on JavaFX Script enables you to write visually rich applications that run across platforms and operating environments. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/ja/20399 Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) is a comprehensive mobility solution that enables offline data access, data synchronization and secure access to applications. MEP has out-of-the-box support for a variety of backend systems including Siebel, Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP and is device agnostic with support for Blackberry, PalmOS, and Windows Mobile devices. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/ja/20290 When large companies, such as Google and Yahoo, need to manage large databases that are used to process 10,000 or more nodes and/or have a need for several hundred gigabytes of email log data, the software they use is Hadoop. Hadoop is a component to the JAVA software, and its current release, 0.17.1, is a computing platform that can manage vast amounts of data. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/ja/20189 This article by Irina Fedortsova entitled "Using the Scene Graph to Present Visual Objects in JavaFX Script" describes a demo that uses the scene graph features in JavaFX. The demo provides nodes with three different types of contents and enables the user to apply animation and translucency effects. The user can select any combination of nodes to make them visible. The data binding mechanism is extensively used in this demo, providing an automatic synchronization of GUI elements and application data. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/ja/20260 GlassFish vs. Tomcat: Alexis MP mulls over the virtues of both, noting that, with the advent of Grizzly -- the http frontend of the application server -- one no longer requires the use of Apache web server in front since Grizzly is Java-based and integrated into the application server. (Already easier to use.) http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/2/ja/20271 The Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) Release 6, aligns with Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 UR2 and NetBeans 6.1, providing a pluggable architecture based on Java Business Integration. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/4/ja/20093 NetBeans Technical Writer Geertjian has revised his tutorial blog entries on VisualVM to incorporate the latest VisualVM APIs. He also has referenced a new set of samples and templates he finds helpful in getting started, along with information on troubleshooting each blog entry's particular scenario. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/4/ja/20147 Michael Heinrichs has written a Sun Developer Network article on "Using JavaFX Script Objects in Java Programs." This process is a fairly easy one, he maintains, because JavaFX Script was designed to enable the use of Java objects and because the necessary instruments are built right into the language. He demonstrates possible ways to create JavaFX objects and to use them in Java code.