JavaOne was not just Sun's show

By P. J. Connolly

June 2, 2008 —

Sun and the health department weren’t the only ones making news at last month’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Here’s a roundup of what SD Times found on the floor and in the neighborhood:

Atlassian released JIRA Studio, a hosted development environment that provides collaboration and issue tracking tools as well as a code repository and code review features. Existing JIRA and Subversion databases can be imported into JIRA Studio. The service is priced at US$50 per user per month, with volume discounts available.

Cacheonix Systems announced its namesake cache clustering and data grid platform, which is claimed by company officials to offer latency for put and get operations in the millisecond range. The design of Cacheonix keeps data closer to applications by storing it in memory across a set of commodity cache servers, according to the executives. The company is offering a unique find-a-bug-and-get-a-license scheme to developers who kick the tires on the early access builds.

Canoo demonstrated UltraLightClient ’08, a rich Internet application library that the company claims “bridges the gap” between classic Java, in the form of Swing UI components, and Web architectures, as an alternative to AJAX. The company expects to release the client library around mid-year.

Conversay announced a final release candidate of JSR 113, the Java Speech API 2, or JSAPI, that is targeted for Java ME devices. It also runs on Java SE. The company also showed off 3DK, the JSAPI2 Development/Demonstration Device Kit, an integrated package of hardware and software meant to give developers a leg up on building speech-enabled mobile applications.

InetSoft Technology released Style Intelligence 9.5, an update to the business intelligence tool that allows scheduled pre-aggregation of data mashups, while adding memory-resident bitmap indexing for analyzing very large datasets, and a new interface for the design of dashboards to the feature set. The company claims the new release is more responsive for designers, and it offers improved deployment, localization and reporting tools.

Liferay announced the release of version 5.0 of its namesake portal software. Liferay Portal now offers a built-in collaboration suite that ties into portal-based Web applications, and it allows the use of both PHP and Ruby. The suite includes a dynamic tagging system, an AJAX-based e-mail client and direct publishing to the Facebook and MySpace networks. Liferay also announced that Sun Microsystems had joined its open-source community, with the intent of using core elements of Liferay Portal in Sun’s next-generation Web development and collaboration platform.

Morph Labs, with help from Jetty creators Webtide, launched the Morph Application Platform for Java, an application virtualization environment designed with cloud computing in mind. Webtide is providing conversion packages and support offerings to help customers make better use of the open-source Jetty server. David Abramowski, CEO of Morph Labs, claims the Java support puts his company ahead of Google’s App Engine, which at this time only supports Python.

Motorola announced an expanded line of features for its Motodev Studio platform, including an updated set of Java ME tools that work with the company’s latest Linux and Symbian/UIQ handsets, as well as support for the JSR 248 mobile service architecture specification. The company also announced plans to release native C/C++ tooling for UIQ-based devices by midyear as a beta. Motodev Studio for WebUI and Studio for Linux are likewise expected to be available by late June as “technology preview” releases in both cases.

Nokia announced the creation of a tool chain intended to simplify collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers who are creating mobile applications. As part of an effort with rich media specialists Ikivo, the Nokia SDKs for Java are integrated with Adobe Illustrator, Ikivo Animator and NetBeans, using scalable vector graphics to capture visual designs for later deployment. This will allow UI designers to add GUI elements directly to a project without requiring additional translation into Java code, Nokia claimed.

ObjectWave presented the Swan rich Internet application development platform, combining an AJAX framework with what it calls easy-to-use development tools. Swan allows behavior to be defined on the server side of the application, and ObjectWave claims that developers can get right to work without having to deal with custom tag libraries or even JavaScript. It added that AJAX-based pages could be created with Swan, using nothing but HTML.

The OW2 Consortium announced plans to release a beta of SpagoBI 2.0, an open-source business intelligence platform, this month. SpagoBI is a modular platform that includes development tools as well as server tools and an integration layer that allows external applications to access SpagoBI. The Italian system integration firm Engineering Group, also known as Ingegneria Informatica, is leading the SpagoBI project.

Parasoft demonstrated the next generation of its application security tools, covering conventional application development, outsourced and distributed development, and SOA development. Auditing is not enough, stated Wayne Ariola, the company’s vice president of strategy, who added, “True success in application security requires an in-line process … to ensure that the application adheres to the organization’s security policy.”

Protecode demonstrated a beta version of its forthcoming intellectual property and software bill-of-materials management tools, and made the beta available as a free download. The beta adds support for the Eclipse C Development Tool and an updated GUI that the company claims streamlines administration by allowing access policies to be defined by project, user and group. It also works with nested intellectual property and includes what the company called a “significantly” larger database of intellectual property and interactive reporting tools.

Related Search Term(s): AJAX, cloud computing, clustering, Java, mobile development, SOA & SaaS, Motorola, Parasoft, Sun

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