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JAG is Now Unemployed!

I recently noticed that James Gosling moved his blog from sun’s site to his own blog with a cool domain name. Also, I noticed in his bio that he is unemployed. Yes, you read it right, James Gosling is unemployed! Oracle bought Sun some time back. We are all eagerly watching the events aftermath. I [...]

Now the SUN is Red

sun.com now redirects to oracle.com – oracle completes acquisition of sun. Is it a happy news or sad news for sun customers? In particular java guys. Oracle is a strong supporter of Eclipse – what will happen to NetBeans now? Will oracle continue and endorse JCP (Java Community Process)? Will MySQL development continue? Will oracle continue OpenOffice? Will Glassfish live in [...]

javapapers.com Celebrates 400000 Pageviews

Its been 1.5 years I launched javapapers.com It was a great journey until now. I have utilized every bit of my free time to pursue this dream. I am very happy that this blog has surpassed 400000 page views. Thanks to Google for all the search results. It all started as just a personal log. [...]

Happy Birthday Apache

Apache is celebrating 10 years of successful service to software industry. First ‘version 0.6.2′ released to public in April of 1995 and still standing tall. It is not only the sound knowledge and technology that made Apache survive successfully for these many years. It stands on top of its ideology and principles. Every computer user (at [...]

What is EOSL?

Do you know what is coming on October 30th, 2009? A comet like Shoemaker-Levy is going to hit Earth and break it into pieces! Or sky is going to fall on our heads. Nothing of that sort is going to happen. It is end of life for J2SE version 1.5 (JDK 1.5). That is, it [...]