In Java Code Stack #1, we developed a Cipher class and used Secret Key Engine for building an encryption algorithm. As a reader pointed out, encryption using Public/Private key pair is the most widely used standard Java Cryptography Implementation. (Note: Secret Key is part of JCE and ...

(November 8, 2002) - Insignia Solutions has just released Insignia Mobile Foundation v2, the latest version of its Java-enabling software for mobile devices. It fully supports the new MIDP2.0 specification to enhance functionality for mobile devices in the areas of application delivery...

(Las Vegas, November 18, 2002) - The day after COMDEX closes later this week, executives of the show's producer, Key3Media Group, Inc, will return to their Wilshire Boulevard offices, in Los Angeles. . .and start trying to figure out if there's any way for them to stay in business.

Speaking to industry analysts and the world's leading technology publications, including Java Developer's Journal, IBM elaborated on the details and intentions behind its biggest announcement since its purchase of Lotus Development Corporation in June 1995, namely its upcoming acquisit...

(December 20, 2002) -TIDAL Software, Inc., has begun shipping its new Java master for TIDAL Enterprise Scheduler. It features enhanced scalability, reliability, uptime, and security. The new master has been redesigned in Java and J2SE and can be ported to any Java supported operating p...

(January 24, 2003) - Both Sun and Microsoft claimed a victory in the wake of recent developments in the Sun vs Microsoft case. On Tuesday, Federal Judge J. Frederick Motz formally ordered Microsoft Corp. to distribute Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java programming language in its Windows ope...

(February 11, 2003) - The State of Texas has deployed Covigo, Inc.'s Enterprise Mobility Suite to over 250 government inspectors who are responsible for licensing and inspecting more than 23,000 child-care facilities serving over 860,000 children through the Texas Department of Protect...

(March 14, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc., has announced the establishment of a joint Java Technology Center located at the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. The Center's charter is to assess, promote and optimize Java technology for adoption in the SAP NetWeaver technology pla...

(March 27, 2003) - Parasoft has just unveiled the Parasoft Enterprise Solutions suite, integrating industry-leading tools and best practices to enable organizations to use information gained from software testing, monitoring, and measurement to significantly improve software quality, a...

(April 24, 2003) - Insignia Solutions and esmertec today announced closure of a definitive agreement whereby esmertec has acquired all Insignia JVM (Jeode) related assets with the exception of Jeode intellectual property. esmertec becomes the exclusive master distributor of Insignia's ...

(May 13, 2003) - Logidex 2.0, the industry's only model-based software development asset SDA mapping and discovery engine, is now available from LogicLibrary. For the first time, Logidex 2.0 features seamless integration with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD). Further ...

(June 2, 2003) - The Droplets platform now fully supports Java Servlets technology, allowing J2EE business logic in Servlets as well as EJBs to be upgraded with real-time, win32-style graphical user interface front-ends, while requiring little or no change to an application's existing ...

(June 12, 2003) - In an effort to increase Java technology's reach from three million developers today to nearly 10 million, Sun unveiled the following: programs and products at JavaOne 2003: Project Rave - The code name for a new tool for corporate Java technology development with ...

(June 26, 2003) - Sun Microsystems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pixo Inc., a privately-held company based in San Jose, California. Pixo provides network operators with Java technology-based server software to manage the secure distribution and monetization of digi...

(November 9, 2001) - IBM, Microsoft, and BEA face a new contender in the fast-emerging Web services market: German software powerhouse SAP.

(Boston, MA) – Just two days after the official release of SpiritCache 1.2, their standards-based caching framework for increasing the performance of distributed systems from wired to wireless, SpiritSoft, the leader in open framework Java messaging, is already in the final stages of n...

On January 15, 2002, responding to an open letter by Microsoft's Greg Leake (see below), IBM’s Stefan Van Overtveldt comments: IBM and Microsoft can fight about benchmarks forever, but what matters most is what customers and developers are doing. .NET only supports Windows and other ...

(Mountain View, CA) –PointBase, Inc., the leader in Java database and synchronization technology for managing enterprise data among servers, mobile and pervasive computing devices, has announced the general availability of PointBase 4.2, the latest upgrade to its family of pure Java, s...

(March. 14, 2002) - Oracle Corp., the largest provider of software for e-business, announced the launch of Oracle® Small Business Suite version 7.6, powered by NetLedger, which further enhances the ease-of-use and advanced feature set of the award-winning Oracle Small Business Suite. T...

(March 25, 2002) - Take the following ingredients: J2EE, XML, the former CEO of WebLogic, and two of his original seed investors...stir slowly. Call the resulting mix you get AltoWeb.

(April 16, 2002) - All week The Great Java Debate has been raging, as a direct result of the technical points raised this month by Java Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Alan Williamson, in his April editorial, about Microsoft's rival language to Java, C#.

(May 3, 2002) - Borland Software Corporation has joined the OSS (Operations Support Systems) through Java Initiative. Founded by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and other leading technology and telecommunications companies, including Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel Networks, and Telcordia Tec...

PointBase, Inc., has announced the availability of PointBase Server 4.3 and PointBase Embedded 4.3. The new versions of the PointBase RDBMSs (relational database management systems) are JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) 3.0 compliant and include robust performance enhancements for impr...

(June 18, 2002) - Will Microsoft ever carry a truly current and compatible Java Virtual Machine in Windows XP? That's the question that Java developers worldwide began asking themselves today the moment the heard of Ms's announcement that it is reinstating the ability to run Java progr...

(July 26, 2002) - Insignia has begun a search for the world's finest JPDA application developer in a global competition to promote the creation and public availability of Java™ applets and applications designed for use in high-performance Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).

(August 20, 2002) - Metrowerks, a leading provider of development tools and services for the wireless market, is adding support for the Intel® XScaleTM technology in its CodeWarriorTM Development Tools for ARM® Embedded Systems.

(September 9, 2002) - Fiorano Software Inc. and Pramati Technologies have formed a relationship that will enable enterprises to extend and enhance their IT infrastructure at a reduced TCO. The two companies will work together on technology and marketing initiatives focusing on the glob...

(September 17, 2002) - Linux market leader Red Hat Inc, which is on the verge of posting its summer quarter tomorrow, has nailed a major, multi-year, potentially serious revenue-boosting deal with the mighty IBM Global Services (IGS), according to a highly placed source.

(September 27, 2002) - The jCert Initiative, a consortium of Java-based enterprise development software vendors, and CIW, a vendor-neutral certification program, have agreed to create a single training and certification path. The unified road map covers four job roles -- Web Developer,...

(October 11, 2002) - Often it is necessary to encrypt confidential messages and send them across a stream for better Data veracity. With JCE, you can encrypt streams of data and decrypt them using public/private key pair or using a single signature key file. The technique involves asso...

(October 25, 2002) - To expand iSeries user options for the most popular evolving infrastructures, HiT Software's DB2Motion v3.0 now adds Oracle9i and MySQL databases to its set of supported platforms. These newest platforms are in addition to existing SQL Server, Oracle, and iSeries s...

(Las Vegas, November 19, 2002) – It was a tradition begun just last month in San Francisco, when Sun’s executive vice president for software, Jonathan Schwartz, bet his boss Scott McNealy $2 that McNealy wouldn’t manage to avoid mentioning Microsoft during his speech.

In my previous code stacks, I have used ObjectOutputStream extensively for serializing the state of my objects. This is a method I'm comfortable with, and I presume most of us are. But beware! ObjectOutputStream is not the right way to create a persistent copy of an object. When you se...

(January 23, 2003) - This week at LinuxWorld, IBM announced technology that could help extend the use of open, standards-based Linux and Java software to consumer electronic products such as PDAs and other handheld devices. IBM has combined many of the underlying hardware components u...

(February 13, 2003) - On February 12, Microsoft filed a brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., asking the court to vacate the Jan. 21 preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md., which would have required Mi...

TransUnion, one of the largest consumer credit reporting companies in the United States, selected Quest Software's JProbe to ensure that its mission-critical credit reporting system delivers superior end-user performance. TransUnion enables businesses to manage financial risk and capi...

(March 27, 200) - Compuware Corporation has announced the availability of Compuware OptimalJ 2.2, an enterprise application development environment for organizations that are adopting J2EE standards and Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to accelerate appli...

(April 14, 2003) - This month the Belgian government is introducing the country's first Electronic Identity Cards. The EID is the largest project of Sun Microsystems' Java technology enabled national ID cards in Europe, aiming to provide every Belgian resident over 12 years old with a ...

(May 13, 200) - Under terms of a co-marketing agreement between JBoss Group LLC and JetBrains, Inc., JetBrains has joined the JBoss Preferred Affiliates Program and will provide its set of intelligent development tools to the JBoss developer community. JBoss users will now be invited ...

(June 12, 2003) - This week at JavaOne, Parasoft introduced the Parasoft Java Solution, a complete package of automated tools, services, and the best practices needed to effectively prevent errors in Java applications. ' We wanted to provide a comprehensive solution for improving softw...