![]() ![]() Featuring David Kennedy as a keynote speaker, the self-described 'river guide' shared his insights into an effective company culture and leadership skills. Leading figures came together under the Reseller News roof at Influencer Network held on 27 April at the Park Hyatt in Auckland. Slideshows Channel leaders unite at Reseller News Influencer Network From desktop to web and everything in between, Microsoft Office delivers the help you need to work anytime, anywhere.Your essential guide to New Zealand Vendors Your essential guide to New Zealand Distributors Sun, meanwhile, plans to seek feedback on needs to be included in a successor Java EE 7 release, according to the company. NetBeans 6.8 can be downloaded from this Web site. Full support is offered for the Atlassian Jira project-tracking and integration framework. Version 6.8 also features backing for JSF 2.0/Facelets, Java Persistence 2.0 and EJB 3.1. Also, profiling is improved for C/C++ development. Tighter integration is featured in NetBeans 6.8 with the Project Kenai collaborative environment. The working name of the tool is JavaFX Composer Plugin for NetBeans. Possibly as early as next week, Sun plans to introduce a preview of a product for building forms-based applications with JavaFX and NetBeans. Capabilities for JavaFX development include improved code completion and navigation for JavaFX in the NetBeans editor. ![]() In addition to supporting Java EE 6 with wizard-based development capabilities, the open source NetBeans 6.8 IDE supports development of PHP 5.3 applications and backs the Symfony framework. The company will have news in that vein early next year, he said. "We see tremendous opportunity for GlassFish in the cloud and we're doing some work right now in that area," Schmidt said. GlassFish has cloud computing potential, according to Sun. GlassFiash Enterprise Server v3 is accessible at this Web page. The commercial license for GlassFish includes patches and bug responses not offered for the open source version. A subscription to Enterprise Server v3 starts in price at $999 per server and features the GlassFish Portfolio. GUI and development tools supported by Enterprise Server v3 include NetBeans, Eclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ Idea, Maven and others. "When the application server comes up, only the necessary modules are loaded," said Tom Kincaid, executive director of Sun's application platform organization. The enterprise product is based on an OSGi runtime, enabling features to be added dynamically. With the enterprise version, users can deploy Web applications with the Java EE 6 Web Profile and also benefit from a simplified programming model and Java EE 6 programming improvements, Sun said. GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 was introduced as the commercial version of the application server, along with the open source counterpart, GlassFish v3. "Oracle would have more control over NetBeans and GlassFish, the second of which I'm seeing a lot of enthusiasm for from Java developers who want a simpler, but robust app server." "Java is such a core part of the IT world, an open enough ecosystem, and core to many software offering for all the big players, including Oracle, that messing with Java is difficult," Cote said. Oracle has come out endorsing Java and technologies such as GlassFish. Cote, however said the impact of the combined Oracle and Sun venture on Java itself would be minimal. That acquisition currently is stalled, awaiting approval by the European Union. ![]() Sun, however, declined to respond to questions pertaining to how Sun's being acquired by Oracle might impact Java and NetBeans. "Spring and the OSGi crew have made hay with providing these 'stackless stacks' for some time now, and seeing the goal of reducing complexity become part of EE is fantastic." "The shrinking down of the stacks with profiles has been a long time coming," analyst Michael Cote, of RedMonk, said. With Java EE 6, Sun is offering stack capabilities that have been popularized in other circles, an analyst said. The SDK is downloadable from this Web page. Profiles enable implementations of Java for specific purposes, such as a Web development profile feature in Java EE 6. But it also provides a more extensible and flexible platform through the introduction of profiles and pruning," Schmidt said. "Java EE 6 continues to add new features like RESTful Web services, dependency injection and annotation additions for servlets, further reducing the amount of code the developer must write. ![]()
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