Web 2.0 is built on Open Source

Amazon uses Linux. eBay uses Windows. But what OSs and webservers run Web 2.0? We tested 17 of our favorites and found out. The script is included below to check for yourself. Read more

	Site	Webserver	Operating System
		Apache httpd	Linux
		Apache httpd	Linux
		Apache httpd 1.3.33	Linux
		lighttpd 1.4.13	Linux
		lighttpd 1.4.11	Linux
		Unknown	Linux
		Apache httpd 2.0.52 ((Red Hat))	Linux
		Apache httpd	Linux
		Unknown	Linux
		Apache httpd 2.0.52	Linux
		Microsoft IIS webserver 6.0	Windows (although OS responding is Linux, this is a caching service).
		lighttpd 1.4.15	Linux
		Apache httpd	Linux
		Apache httpd 2.0.55 ((Ubuntu) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.2)	Linux
		Mongrel 201.0.1	Linux
		Apache httpd	Linux
		Squid webproxy 2.6.STABLE12	Unknown (while OS responding is Linux, this is likely a caching service).

Introduction to JavaFX

The JavaFX Scripting Programming Language (JavaFX) is a new family of Sun products based on Java technology and targeted at the high impact, rich content market.

JavaFX is a highly productive scripting language that enables content developers to create rich media and content for deployment on Java environments. JavaFX is a declarative, statically typed programming language. It has first-class functions, declarative syntax, list-comprehensions, and incremental dependency-based evaluation. It can make direct calls to Java APIs that are on the platform. Since JavaFX is statically typed, it has the same code structuring, reuse, and encapsulation features such as packages, classes, inheritance, and separate compilation and deployment units, that make it possible to create and maintain very large programs using Java technology. Using the JavaFX language it is possible to create GUI using swing GUI components. This document gives a description of the JavaFX programming language.read full article

Introduction to Java 6.0 New Features, Part–I

This article covers the various new features of Java 6, also known as Mustang. This article assumes that readers have sufficient knowledge over the concepts and terminologies in Java 5.0. For more information on Java 5.0, readers can vist the resources available in javabeat here. Though there is no significant changes at the Language Level, though Mustang comes with a bunch of enhancements in the other areas like Core, XML and Desktop. Most of the features are applicable both to J2SE and J2EE Platforms.read full article

Introduction to Hibernate

Persistent data can be seen anywhere in an application. Managing persistent data is one of the few challenges that modern technologies/products are facing. A solution called Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) has gained major popularity over the past few years. ORM is a piece of software/product for the representation and conversion of data between the database and the object-oriented programming language. Hibernate is one such ORM solution and it is an open-source project.More>>

Sun CEO: Java open source in 30-60 days

Sun Microsystem will announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform in 30 to 60 days, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.

Java will be offered via an open source format under an OSI-approved (Open Source Initiative) license similar to the one used for open-sourcing of the Solaris OS, he said during a keynote presentation.

Sun officials have talked about Java being offered via open source in stages later this year and into 2007.