Jeff Friesen’s Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional is out now from Apress. In this article Jeff introduces you to his new book by presenting excerpts from its chapter on the Java ...

It has recently become popular to differentiate between the Java platform and the Java language, but many Java developers still are unsure of how to incorporate scripting into Java application ...

I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

Oracle last week released a new version of its Application Testing Suite with a new Java-based scripting engine that automates both functional and load testing. The latest component of Oracle's ...

No one who isn't lazy writes scripts. Scripts save valuable system administrator time. In this article, I introduce the Sleep scripting language, which is a Perl-inspired language built on the Java ...

3. For some reason I thought TCO was going to be in Java 8 but I now can't find any evidence for that. The main Java enginers at Oracle (including John Rose) are very aware of the demand for TCO, and ...

As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ways to let developers familiar with scripting languages build applications that run on BEA’s server software, said Bill Roth, vice president of ...

ActiveGrid has released an update to its tool set which aims to bring LAMP development closer to Java. With ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 and ActiveGrid Server 2.0, the company has made updates to the Jython ...

CIO.com – Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner’s article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article ...