Darryl K. Taft

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday officially released the beta of the next version of its standard Java platform, Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5, making the technology available for download from its Web site. The new release gains several ease-of-use features for developers, the company said. Among the new language changes in the release that assist developers […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday formally addressed the lingering question of whether company would join the newly independent Eclipse Foundation and the answer remains: Maybe. Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Inc.s chief technology evangelist, addressed a somewhat wary crowd at the EclipseCon 2004 conference here Thursday and told them that although Sun has no intentions […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Attendees of this years EclipseCon conference got a glimpse Tuesday of the latest Eclipse. In a keynote speech at the conference here, two lead Eclipse platform developers praised the newly independent organization and offered glimpses of things to come in the next version of the platform, Version 3.0. Erich Gamma, Java Development Tools (JDT) […]

ANAHEIM, CALIF.— The Eclipse open source development platform has reached a critical point in terms of developer attraction and industry impact, and now having an independent organization to run it will only increase its impact, said Michael Tiemann, chief technology officer at Red Hat Inc. Tiemann, speaking in a keynote address at the EclipseCon 2004 […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—The Eclipse Board of Stewards Monday announced Eclipses reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation known as the Eclipse Foundation. The organization initially formed after IBM released the Java-based Eclipse Platform into the open-source community, Eclipse is now an independent body that will drive the platforms evolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and […]

Oblix Inc., maker of enterprise identity management and Web access control solutions, has all but acquired Confluent Software Inc., a maker of Web services management solutions, eWEEK has learned. Cupertino, Calif.-based Oblix has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Confluent for an undisclosed sum, said sources close to the deal. And Ken Sims, vice president at […]

In a nod to the open-source development model, IBM has patented a method that maps out a means of payment for broad numbers of developers working together on projects. U.S. Patent 6,658,642, which IBM applied for in June 2000, was granted last month. In it, IBM identifies a “system, method and program product” for development […]

This weeks EclipseCon confab on the Eclipse open-source development platform is expected to foster hearty discussion on the state of Java tooling, particularly as Sun Microsystems Inc. continues to consider how it can work with Eclipse. Grady Booch, an IBM Fellow with the companys Rational division, said he will deliver a keynote Wednesday that will […]

Three companies supporting the Eclipse open-source development platform community have united to create a new portal for developers using the platform. The portal, called EPIC (Eclipse Plug-In Central), will be supported by Genuitec LLC, of Dallas; Instantiations Inc., of Portland, Ore.; and Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH, of Karlsruhe, Germany—the three companies that make up the Eclipse […]

Borland Software Corp. is said to be losing two of its top engineers to Microsoft Corp. in a brain drain reminiscent of a period several years ago when Microsoft cherry-picked some of the top talent from Borland. According to sources and documents Borland filed with the federal government, the Scotts Valley, Calif., company will say […]