As I sit here listening to my final JavaOne presentation there’s one question that has lingered on everyone’s mind this week: Will there be a JavaOne next year? In case you’ve been living in a cave (or a basement coding), Oracle has purchased Sun, the creators and maintainers of the Java programming language, and Oracle [...]

Live from the JavaOne conference, I’m currently attending a session on JCA specification 1.6 enhancements. According to the specification team, the goal of the new version of the spec is to simplify writing resource adapters (RAs) for those who have not written them in the past or may be new to the specification. In this [...]

Live from the JavaOne conference again, this time attending a session about enhancements to the JDBC specification 4.1. Four members of the JDBC specification team have presented a number of useful enhancements due in the upcoming version of JDBC. Some of these features may not make it into 4.1, but will be in future versions [...]