Blogging Roller

A bunch of interesting Java related news items appeared on InfoWorld (and eWeek) over the past day or so.

• Sun readying J2EE 1.4 for a February 2003 release which will include SOAP, WSDL. Sun also "presented a laundry list of technology and promotional efforts" including:


• Sun intends to cooperate more with open source developers and will boost Linux support, but still has no plans to open source Java itself.


• Sun won't support IBM's Eclipse IDE project, but will back Oracle's recently submitted JSR-198 specification for pluggable Java IDE. I guess they think this will prevent a total eclipse.


• Sun will work to simplify the Swing APIs (what JSR is that?) and the Java language via JSR 175. JSR-175 is a new Java specification for adding meta-data to Java classes.


• Judge gives Microsoft 120 days to ship Java. This has been widely reported in the Java blogosphere. Microsoft's lawyer says "This is very, very messy, very, very complicated."


• Sun posts $2 billion loss, slight profit. "Price competition has also been brutal in high-end computers." The article concerns financial matters, so, of course, there is no mention of Java. eWeek reports on this as well and adds that Sun is planning 11% layoffs during 2003.


• SAP's new release of <a href= "http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/16/030116hnsapnetweaver.xml">mySAP will support both Java and Dot-Net. The article does not describe how this will be done, but it does seem to indicate that Java and J2EE are the heart of mySAP and that Dot-Net support will be done via Web Services. eWeek also reported this story.