Big data is becoming mainstream, and streaming is a hot data management tactic. Open source is becoming more inclusive as it attracts both entrepreneurs and a more diverse world of developers. Java is ...

At last year’s Oracle Code One conference, Java’s rapid-release cadence—a new version every six months—was still making news. And it wasn’t even new anymore. The change in release frequency from years ...

Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of the Java software development platform, AdoptOpenJDK. A ...

Web services are not just a hype by suppliers looking for new sales; they will take off in 2002, and the majority will be based on Java rather than Microsoft's .Net alternative, according to a poll of ...

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The first part of this article introduced Neo4j and its Cypher Query Language. If you’ve read Part 1, you’ve seen for yourself why Neo4j and other graph databases are especially popular for social ...

This past week featured some significant news for the general Java development community. Many of us looked to this week’s OpenWorld 2009 as an opportunity to learn more about the potential future of ...

What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress? You could follow the same path that Steve Goldsmith, ...

Coders and developers are the architects of the tools, platforms, and services that we all use on a daily basis. Among the many, many programming languages out there, few are as recognizable, ...