Did you know that you can use AWS Direct Connect to set up a dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps network connect from your existing data center or corporate office to AWS? New Locations Today we are adding two additional...

The Oracle JDK 6 End of Public Updates will be extended through February, 2013. This means that the last publicly available release of Oracle JDK 6 is to be released in February, 2013.

Learn from Java expert Adam Bien how to implement the LightView dashboard with JavaFX 2.

An article popped up today claiming that Facebook is investigating compiling PHP to run on the JVM. Until now, Facebook has been using a PHP-to-C++ cross compiler. But the addition of invoke dynamic to Java seems to have opened up a new possibility for Facebook. Preview Text: An article popped up today claiming that Facebook are investigating...

Last week, more than 300 high school students attended the Make The Future Java Workshop at Oracle headquarters in California. Students aged 13 to 18 got an introduction to programming using Alice and Greenfoot, educational software programs designed to make learning programming easy and fun using animation. Professors from the University of Kent and Carnegie Mellon taught workshops with interactive exercises and group projects. More than 50 Oracle employees volunteered and provided hands-on support at the event. At the end of the two day workshops, students shared their final projects and were given awards. You can view project videos on Youtube's Java Channel and pictures on Facebook/IloveJava. Students left with Make the Future Java stickers, posters, and a basic understanding of programming in an object-oriented language. Oracle Foundation recently awarded grants to Carnegie Mellon's Alice program and University of Kent's Greenfoot initiative to deepen student interest in computer science and Java. "As the steward of Java, Oracle is committed both to the investment in Java technology and in creative ways to educate a new generation about Java and the opportunities it brings," said Alison Debenwick-Miller, VP of Oracle Academy. The next generation of future technologists and innovators have been given a great start with the Make The Future Java Workshop. For more information on how you can Make the Future Java, visit the Oracle's Make the Future Java website.

software architects made a strategic decision to develop their SaaS application time cockpit on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. In this blog we share how the time cockpit team successfully implemented their offering on Windows Azure and how Compuware's dynaTrace deep application transaction management solution allows them to manage their application and business in the Cloud.

Recently I saw an article about simple groovlet. Groovlet allows you to execute any code in your server. It looks very useful for creating a backdoor - for debugging, troubleshooting, etc. My problem, however, is that we don't just have a server, but we also have a Swing-rich client who is unable to execute groovlets. So I tried to create something like this in a standalone application without...

Oracle Java SE 7 Programmer certifications gear up your knowledge in latest API /JSR changes and improves your career potential. The Java SE 7 Programmer (OCAJP & OCPJP) is a professional certification program offered by Oracle. These certifications tests candidates program knowledge Java SE at lighter (in OCA) and deeper (in OCP) levels. The OCA Java 7 is an entry level certification in Java. It helps the programmer who can have the basic knowledge of the essentials of the Java programming language. To handle the looping constructs and variables, and does not cover specific technologies such as GUI creation, Web or network programming. This certification exam tests how well a programmer has understood the language constructs and verify skillset in Java technologies.

CSA security registry continues to gain relevance through the incorporation of Amazon AWS into the registry. By Daniel Rubio

Recent acquisitions by Oracle and VMware accentuate the growing network virtualization market. By Daniel Rubio

With WebKit currently powering both Mobile Safari and the Android browser, which combined take up 81% of the total mobile and tablet market share, most mobile sites and apps are currently geared towards the open-source rendering engine. However, with the introduction of Firefox and Mobile IE10, will these figures start to change? Unlike Safari and Chrome, these new browsers are not based on WebKit and, if they become popular, web developers will have to consider not only the wide range of desktop browsers, but mobile ones too. Safari is a niche browser on desktop, so how has it become so dominant in the mobile and tablet market? One of the main reasons is that Safari is set as the default browser on all iOS devices - so users are always sent back to the browser if they click a web view within a third-party app - and with no option to set any competing browsers as default, those with iOS devices will likely end up using Safari. Another reason Safari fares so well against other browsers is because of its powerful Nitro JavaScript rendering engine. Third-party browser developers are banned from using this rendering engine for security reasons, giving Safari a huge advantage in browser speed. Some argue that this defence is an excuse to restrict competitors, ensuring Safari will always remain the quickest and dominant browser on iOS. For example, Chrome for iOS is developed around a UIWebView to adhere to the Apple terms and conditions, meaning that it lacks its unique V8 JavaScript engine and will never run as fast as Safari. Yet despite its speed issues, Chrome went straight to the number one position in the App Store, indicating a strong consumer demand for alternate browsers on iOS platforms. There are already a range of browsers in the App Store including Dolphin, Opera Mini, Skyfire and Mercury - but the majority of iOS users are unaware of these, and because of Apple’s security concerns, they will never compete with Safari’s speed. Mozilla have notably boycotted iOS devices, releasing sync app Firefox Home instead of a cut-down browser. Android users have considerably more choice, and the most interesting recent development is Chrome being set as the default browser for the first time in an Android device on the Nexus 7 tablet. Many leading tech and development blogs have reported that Chrome will be the default browser on Android’s next OS Jelly Bean - but this in fact isn’t the case. This is particularly unfortunate, since the stock Android browser is renowned in the developer community for its poor performance, particularly in Froyo and Gingerbread. The sooner Google Chrome becomes the default browser for all Android devices, the better, as far as Mubaloo’s developers are concerned. Apple and Google are major mobile players with their own browsers and operating systems, but the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 8 will bring a new mobile browser and OS to contend with. Mobile IE 10 for Windows Phone 8 uses the same rendering engine as its desktop equivalent, as well as improved JavaScript and HTML5 performance, making it a strong competitor against other browsers when it is released later this year. Don’t get too hopeful yet, though: many developers have become used to being seduced by the next generation of Internet Explorer, only to find its quirks and performance issues still present. Time will tell whether IE10 is an actual improvement. Finally, the upstart in the mobile browser wars is the only one without the backing of a giant corporation - Firefox. The recent release of a new version of Firefox for Android, as well as the upcoming FirefoxOS, could add a third rendering engine into the mix. As the mobile browser landscape rapidly changes, developers are having to face an increasing range of user configurations. Could this be the start of the mobile browser wars? Mubaloo is one of the UK's leading mobile app development companies specialising in bespoke mobile solutions for businesses and brands.

First misunderstanding, then huge semipopularity, and now, respect. Despite its many obvious deficiencies, Java's stupid little brother has gotten something profoundly right. What does the future hold for this duckling?Your browser does not support frames.

I interviewed Kate Matsudaira, CTO of Decide.com, for The AWS Report. Kate told me how Decide.com uses AWS to implement a next-generation online (web and mobile) shopping experience using terabytes of data pulled from thousands of sources. Behind the scenes,...

After Rackspace's recent deployment of a large-scale OpenStack public cloud, the hugely popular infrastructure-as-a-service, other members of the foundation have made their moves. Just today, open source giant Red Hat laid down their marker by announcing that their framework based on OpenStack is available in preview form immediately. Keeping in tune with their recent cloud manoeuvres, their solution claims to support private, public and hybrid clouds, meaning that flexibility is at the heart. Red Hat's early gambit is hardly a surprise - they have been playing a key part in the recent OpenStack Essex release and in general making good noises about the project. In fact, at the recent OpenStack Summit back in April, Red Hat were revealed to be the third most active contributor to the project, and consequently earned Platinum Member status when plans surfaced of OpenStack's big move. Factor in other Red Hat products, especially its extensive middleware division and you've certainly got a compelling enterprise-grade offer. With this move, it is hoped that Red Hat's OpenStack distribution will slot in nicely with other cloud-centric products such as Enterprise Linux, CloudForms, and its Platform-as-a-Service, OpenShift.  Red Hat's CTO and Vice President of Worldwide Engineering Brian Stevens said he was proud of the early move, stating: “Through our expanding involvement with OpenStack, we’ve seen a thriving community develop and are excited in reaching this milestone along the way to delivering an enterprise-class product based on this open cloud technology. Our current productization efforts are focused around hardening an integrated solution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenStack to deliver an enterprise-ready solution that enables enterprises worldwide to realize infrastructure clouds. We invite OpenStack enthusiasts and enterprises interested in the technology to download our preview and provide feedback to help us accelerate the delivery of a stable OpenStack enterprise platform for the industry.” Although it is far from the finished article, Red Hat is once again looking for wider feedback on their distribution, after testing it with some of the more vocal members of the OpenStack community. Those who sign up for the distribution can provide feedback to Red Hat's OpenStack team and collaborate to iron out any potential issues. OpenStack and Red Hat make good bedfellows - both wanting to keep IaaS clouds open sourced, open to different control models and open to other tools. A fully supported release is expected in 2013, but for now the unsupported public preview will have to suffice for testing out Red Hat's flavour of OpenStack. You can be certain that Red Hat's continued support is bound to keep OpenStack relevant for some time. ------- In other OpenStack news, fellow contributor Intel revealed their partnership with some of China's brightest cloud-focused companies to form the China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL). The alliance aims to facilitate development of OpenStack within the growing domestic cloud market. Intel, alongside Chinese web platform vendor Sina, Linux company CS2C and Shanghai's Jiao Tong university will form the venture. China is an untapped market for cloud computing, that many multinational companies have targetted as a must-have region for deploying their products. Yet with the 150 OpenStack members, China's cloud computing opportunity has remained a bit of an enigma. With its lack of archaic infrastructure in favour of new cutting-edge technology, it also proves to be the ideal testing ground for innovation in the sector. By forming an faction reasonably early, Intel might have jumped before anyone else in the OpenStack community had chance to think through strategy.

This tutorial series walks you through the simple steps of building an HTML5 WebSocket app, demonstrating the power of the publish/subscribe development pattern directly in JavaScript. Our sample is almost as simple as a Chat app, the "Hello World" app of the WebSocket world, but is a tad more visual and dynamic. After trying out the completed application, you can either jump in the code and play with it right away, or move on to Part 2 (coming soon) of this tutorial for a step-by-step guide. About the Environment This tutorial requires a WebSocket server. We will use http://tutorial.kaazing.com, which hosts the JMS Edition of Kaazing WebSocket Gateway, Kaazing's high-performance enterprise-grade WebSocket Server. All you'll need to do is create a WebSocket connection to this server directly from your browser and start "talking" (read: send messages) to it from your browser. On the client side, you can use any modern browser, supported by JSFiddle (learn more about JSFiddle).

Code coverage is an important measurement used during our development that describes the degree to which source code is tested. In this post I am going to explain how to run code coverage using Maven and JaCoCo plugins in multi-module projects. Preview Text: In this post I am going to explain how to run code coverage using Maven and JaCoCo...

We use Storm for distributed processing. We've been using JMS as a means of driving work into Storm via the spout we developed: https://github.com/hmsonline/storm-jms But since Storm uses Zookeeper under the hood, we thought we could perhaps use Zookeeper instead of JMS for certain low-throughput distributed messaging needs, thereby decreasing the number of technologies we needed to...

In the previous article, we successfully integrated a custom-made tooltip over our hyperlinks. In this article, we'll integrate an already existing tooltip library. Since we already played with Twitter Bootstrap library, we'll try to reuse their code. Preview Text: In the previous article, we successfully integrated a custom-made tooltip over our...