On Tuesday, Menlo Park-based Sun announced they would bundle the Apache Derby embedded database into their Java Enterprise System. They're also including an additional plug-in for support called NetBeans IDE 5.0.

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It's yet another plug in that users hate, and there are lots of those, and Java has an even worse reputation than most.

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Like Seattle's latest exotic dancer law, Sun Microsystems has gone "contactless" with its new Java Card platform, which eliminates the need for making contact with a Java Card reader. The contactless smart card can be read up to four inches (10 cm) away, enabling applications in rigorous environments such as public transportation or gaining access to government facilities.

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A new version of the company's middleware system has come available, featuring better interoperability with products from other vendors.

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Who could have predicted that the 80's game of Pong would spawn a multi-billion dollar gaming industry complete with PCs, PDAs, and wireless phones that are specifically designed to handle the speed and graphics that today's games demand?

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Monday JBoss released a beta version of Seam, an application framework for Java EE 5, a marriage of component models JSF and EJB 3.0, to address problematic non-linear or multi-window navigation.

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Borland Software announced the release of its JBuilder 2006, an upgrade of its Java integrated development environment (IDE) for enterprise Java applications. The upgrade is supposed improve on real time collaboration between software teams, especially among outsourced, offshore, remote or distributed team members.

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Infomosaic announced the release of the Mac OS X version of its SecureXML Digital Signature Java applet, which is compliant with W3C standards.

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Few would dispute that Java was a great idea, but it takes years for even the biggest brainstorm to evolve into a technology ecosystem. A decade is none too long. Sun Microsystems Inc.'s 10th annual JavaOne conference, held in San Francisco at the end of last month, combined that level of maturity with a surprising vigor of continuing growth.

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JPEG images are smaller then BMP images thanks to a data ordering algorithm. We are not going to deal with this algorithm in this article. We are going to look at images from a programmer's point of view. Our end user needs to look at a scaled model of a large image, a thumbnail, if you will. How can we process our image in order to scale it down?

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IONA Technologies is planning to make available an open source Java Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the company announced Monday.

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Sun Microsystems has made a new Service Oriented Architecture practice available to bolster SOA solutions. With service-oriented architecture (SOA), software defines how web services will support software users. A service can be created in any programming language, and architecture would require all the services to be written in the same language.

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When you use Java for simple business arithmetic, you may be surprised to discover that Java doesn't always produce the right answers. If, for example, you use the double data type for an invoice's subtotal, sales tax, and total, your arithmetic expressions may deliver inaccurate results. I'll illustrate this in a moment.

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A minor update to Mac OS X is causing headaches for some computer owners, who find their systems no longer work properly when using Java-based applications or visiting certain Web sites.

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Java, whose original name was Oak, was developed as a part of the Green project at Sun. Work on the project was started in December 1990 by Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling. The objective was to figure out what the “next wave” of computing would be and how to catch it. The outcome of the project was Java, which was released in 1995. Ten years later, FE takes a look at Java’s birth, the hurdles and its rise.

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In what may be the first known example of a cross-browser attack, users who made the switch to Mozilla Firefox to escape the specter of Internet Explorer's security failures may suddenly find themselves repossessed.

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Forum XWall Web Services Firewall has been used by the largest Forum 1000 corporations to limit their exposure using deep content inspection technology to scan XML traffic for corrupt data, embedded viruses and data-level threats. Forum XWall is easy to deploy in either software, Appliance or PCI-Card and comes pre-integrated for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 as well as other third-party network security vendors.

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Sun Microsystems has posted two new projects, Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) and JAI Image I/O Tools to java.net.

Java Advanced Imaging greatly improves developers' ability to implement portable image processing applications and its flexible, scalable design meets the demands of the geospatial, medical, commercial, network and government imaging markets.

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