Java evolution takes a step forward

A mechanism for managing resources such as memory in Java applications is advancing through the Java Community Process, reports Java World.

The report says Java Specification Request (JSR) 284, officially known as the Resource Management Consumption API, enables partitioning of resources among applications and querying resource availability.

The API is considered important to evolving Java to allow for better system management. It will also provide a means for exposing various resources. A public draft of JSR 284 is expected in early November.

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Nokia has confirmed the company is actively exploring the role that mobile asynchronous javascript and XML (Ajax) might possibly play in the future for the 1.3 million developers who make up the Forum Nokia community.

Java Force reports that according to Nokia`s VP for developer operations, Lee Epting, Nokia`s aim of making the mobile platform more predictable and easier to work needs to include newer browsing platforms such as Ajax.

Epting says the Ajax feature-rich interface is potentially very important for developers of mobile applications. This view is strongly endorsed by Java specialist Ajit Jaokar, who says Ajax will be the preferred platform of choice for mobile applications at the expense of Java mobile edition and XHTML.

Terracotta has announced an Eclipse plug-in for the company`s enterprise-class Java virtual machine (JVM) clustering technology.

The new plug-in will be bundled with Terracotta`s distributed shared objects runtime solution that allows data to be shared across multiple JVMs without the need for proprietary application programming interfaces, custom code, databases or message queues.

The plug-in will make Terracotta`s point-and-click clustering functionality available from within the Eclipse IDE. Terracotta says the plug-in is aimed at simplifying the clustering process by automatically generating the necessary configuration files.

Sun Microsystems has released an installation program for Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows that bundles the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) and the JBoss Application Server.

NetBeans open source project primary sponsor, Sun, worked with Red Had division, JBoss, to create an installer that includes the NetBeans IDE and the JBoss Application Server in one bundle. Sun says this will allow developers to do a single installation and then immediately begin developing Java enterprise edition (JEE) applications.

According to JBoss, the new bundle is another step forward in offering choice and simplicity when it comes to developing standards-based JEE applications.