Just recently Gartner reported that IBM has overtaken BEA in application
server market share. The interesting thing is that Gartner's expression of
market share is in a single number, dollars. While dollars are certainly an
important factor in declaring a market leader, is this an accurate measure of
market lead? If it is, where does that leave open source offerings such as
Jonas and JBoss?
My past experiences have taught me to question claims or proclamations that
one company has a lead in a particular market share. Take BEA for instance.
When the application market was immature, BEA's WebLogic revenue figures
included those revenues that were generated by sales of Tuxedo. Not exactly a
fair measure for those companies that were only offering an application
server at ... (more)
Up till now, changes to Java have been pretty much constrained to APIs and
the inner workings of the Java 2 platform. All of this will change once the
JDK 1.5 has been released. The extent of these changes was revealed in a
recent interview with Joshua Bloch (http://java.sun.com/features/
2003/05/bloch_qa.html). As illuminating as the interview was, it left me with
a number of questions,... (more)
You have a task that your Ant build process needs to perform and none of the
built-in or dozens of optional tasks fits the bill. If at this point you're
thinking that Ant won't work for you, then the authors of Ant have some
wonderful news. The framework they use to run built-in tasks is also
available for your own task.
If that piques your interest, you'll be happy to know that in the nex... (more)
It was with great anticipation that I made my way to Antwerp to attend
BeJUG's (Belgium Java Users Group) second offering of JavaPolis. The vendors
occupied a spacious hall while the presentations were conducted in spacious
movie theatres all located in the Metroplex center. Though the setup was
easily capable of handling the 750+ attendees, there was a large gap between
the speakers and... (more)
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Well, you may have seen the Java Industry Newsletter's hot story, "Eclipse
versus NetBeans." As an editor of this fine publication, it's my privilege to
see all of our feedback arriving at my inbox. My first reaction was, oh
please, not another IDE war. But I dutifully suppressed the urge to delete
the e-mails and started to r... (more)
Kirk Pepperdine has more than 10 years of experience in OO technologies. In edition to his work in the area of performance tuning, Kirk has focused on building middleware for distributed applications.
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