JavaOne goes green

Sun Microsystems has boosted its efforts to make next week's 2007 JavaOne conference more environmentally friendly, says Webwire.com.

The company has created a broad eco-campaign for the conference - from reducing paper promotional materials to encouraging attendees to bike to the conference.

Moreover, the company is collaborating with the conference location, Moscone Centre in San Francisco, to expand on the facility's recycling, conservation and energy efficiency practices during the conference.

Pervasive Software has released DataRush, for Java developers wanting to bridge the multicore hardware/software divide, says Hpcwire.com.

The company says as affordable 4-, 8- and even 16- or 32-core SMP servers proliferate, software developers need to rapidly build the next generation of applications to tackle massive data volumes with ease.

Pervasive DataRush, which will debut at the 2007 JavaOne Conference, is designed to meet that need.

Netbeans version 6.0 IDE will be offered in an early-access release at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, says Reseller.co.nz.

This code editor will accommodate the Jruby run time and adds fuller support for Javascript. Previously, the IDE has centred on Java and C++ development.

"We wanted to make sure it provided support for multiple languages," said Jeet Kaul, VP of Java products and programmes at Sun Microsystems.