t’s been a while since the last major Java release and expectations were naturally high for the upcoming release. The Java 7 release initially included many JSRs with exciting features, like support for closures, which were later deferred to Java 8 in order to release JSRs that...

In a GlassFish and Java EE roadmap update yesterday, it was revealed that going forward there would be no more commercial major releases of the popular Oracle GlassFish Server.  Oracle is ushering those looking for an alternative towards the WebLogic Server - however,...

Following the fallout from Oracle’s decision to kill off the commercial version of GlassFish, Oracle evangelist Bruno Borges has hit back, insisting that GlassFish is very much still in good health. On Monday, Oracle quietly announced the decision to end support for the commercial...

In "From database to RESTful web service to HTML5 in 10 minutes", published near the beginning of this year, I described a set of tools that lets you expose data from a database via RESTful Web Services to an HTML5/Backbone.js/CSS front-end. And all this was done in 10 minutes. You...