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I've been waiting for a Press Release from IBM announcing the actual event - maybe it will be this next week, but I'm timing out...
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IBM's WebSphere 7.0 joins the parade of JavaEE 5 Compatible Products: 11 products from ASF, IBM, Kingdee, NEC, BEA/Oracle, SAP, Sun and TmaxSoft. Check IBM's Announcement Letter, an overview Screencast, the overview Article, and the Websphere Community blog. Several IBM engineers hosted an online chat last week (intro, transcript); there is also a trial version available. I believe "trial" refers to the evaluation license (i.e. not free right-to-use); since IBM's Letter gave a GA of last Friday it should be the final bits. |
Although I sympathize with Alexis, this announcement pretty much completes the industry switch to JavaEE 5 that we started with the GlassFish v1 announcement in May 2006. Now just waiting for JBoss 5, that would make a nice 3x4 tableau.
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The NY Times reported on an IBM effort to "(increase) standards transparency, fairness and quality". Check out the Standards Page@IBM and the Standards For Standards document. The news was also reported at CNet, SlashDot and Groklaw, and several mention the recent FastTrack vote on OOXML (and at least one also mentions the WS-I). My kudos to IBM, I think this is a good move. Incidentally, the JCP is also trying to improve transparency in general, and several of us are trying to contribute to that where we can. Baby Steps; eventually we will get there... |
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Breaking News: IBM Joins OpenOffice.ORG.
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Oleksiy is reporting on one more product that is implementing Fast Infoset. This time comes from IBM: their SDK for Java 6 Early Release. FI support is not suprising as the Java EE 5 WS implementation seems based on that from GlassFish. Note that IBM's release is an EA - you will need to ask them for their FCS plans. Other implementations that pass interoperability include: Liquid Technologies, OSS Nokalva, Noemax, WebLogic Server 10 TP, the GlassFish AS (and its Sun distribution SJS AS 9.0), and Sun's JDK6 release. |
Check out Oleksiy's blog and the Fast Infoset Interoperability Project at Java.Net. Also check Pauls' activation instructions and a list of Other TA Spotlights on FI.
