It is often said that it's only when you try to explain something to someone else that you come to realize that there are holes in your understanding of the topic in question. Such was the case when it came to presenting the concept of rounding.
With new standards efforts and millions of Java-savvy developers, Java is ready for real-time embedded systems development, says Gary Cato, manager of strategic alliances at Aonix.
Brian Chess, co-founder and chief scientist at Fortify Software, discusses the Java Open Review Project which aims to identify security and quality errors in Java-based open source software. The project also analyzes the security and quality of web services.
The open source Perst Lite embedded DBMS provides to developers of J2ME apps in mobile phones, PDAs and set-top boxes such benefits as transaction support, and optimized algorithms.
Eclipse is central in IBM's strategy to compete with Microsoft's Visual Studio.net. Both packages offer the ability for developers to plug multiple toolsets into shared environments.
By releasing Java as open-source code, Sun Microsystems might be removing one of the biggest obstacles to accelerated adoption of the development technology: Sun Microsystems itself.
