Kirk Pepperdine

Has it really been a year since the last JavaOne? It seems like yesterday that I was watching James Gosling launch T-shirts into the audience using a trebuchet! What a year it has been. Who would have thought that Microsoft and Sun would come to the agreement they did? Those of u... (more)

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 a... (more)

It was April 2, when I first heard the news that Sun and Microsoft had reached a settlement on their long-standing dispute over Java. When I first saw the headline, I honestly thought it was a leftover April Fool's joke, so I ignored it. It was only when I saw the words "Microsof... (more)

We've all heard the news: JBoss has received $10 million in funding and now it's time to sit back and mull it over. Without a doubt this infusion of capital is a signal of confidence for JBoss Group. But is this investment a good thing for open source? Not an unimportant question... (more)

In a very brief 8 months Aaron Williams, spec lead for the largest expert group currently functioning in the JCP, guided the group to a consensus on the next version of the JCP. Highlights of the next-generation JCP include processes to increase transparency, encourage broader pa... (more)

To view our full selection of recent Eclipse stories click here 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 w... (more)

Last year I was introduced to the No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS) Software symposium (www.nofluffjuststuff.com) in Atlanta. It was a high-quality experience in every aspect. The speakers delivered more than technical information, they delivered an insight into what was happening in o... (more)

Do you enjoy history? I do. In fact, I've always enjoyed history for I've always found that understanding the past has been useful in helping me to understand the here and now. Part of my here and now is the taking on of the role of enterprise editor. The question for me is, how ... (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. Thou... (more)

The JRockit engineers made two assumptions when they first designed JRockit. First, server VMs run for a long time and, second, memory is cheap and plentiful. This motto still rings true in BEA's offering of the 8.1 (J2SE 1.4.1_03) version of this product. And, unlike the more fa... (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 ... (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/... (more)

By necessity, the operating system loads each VM into its own separate process slot. Consequently, each VM is forced to duplicate the other's initialization efforts and resource allocations. Specifically, each VM is required to load the JDK core classes into their respective heap... (more)

(May 29, 2003) - Late last week, Sun Microsystems started briefing everyone on the changes that will be implemented in version 2.6 of the JCP. In this revised version of the JCP are plans to increase both the transparency and the level of involvement in the process. "We want to m... (more)