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the browser wars back? Well, from our perspective they never ended.
One view is that the community had to wait for the IE monopoly and
the Microsoft anti-trust suit to work its way through the system.
Another is that although this may be topical in the consumer space,
enterprise developers have always been deploying the “right”
mission-critical client for the job, regardless of what Microsoft
says.
Either way, browsers are in the news again and designers
will increasingly have to take the needs of a “Rich”
heterogeneous client environment into consideration. And as all
native browsers continue to be plagued by security breaches, Java
browsers demonstrate inherent security crucial in enterprise applications.
Secure customizable browsers, JavaServer Faces, and standards-based
client solutions will be important considerations in the coming
years.
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In This Issue |
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| Web
Services |
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Survey:
SOA prominent on 2005 budgets
A recent survey of 473 enterprise buyers by the Yankee
Group of Boston revealed that in the next 12 months, 75% plan
on investing in the technology and staffing necessary to enable
a service-oriented architecture. Read more here. |
| The
Java Developer |
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JSF:
A look from inside
Oracle has been involved in the forming of JavaServer
Faces (JSF) from the beginning. In this interview Adam Winer,
Oracle representative on the JSF expert group, gives you a unique
insight into the JSF development process. Read more
here. |
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JRex
– Embedding Mozilla GECKO within a Java Application
Not enough links today for an update so you get JRex
instead. It has been updated recently so I figured I'd blog
a little on it. Basically as the title says JRex lets you
embed Mozilla's GECKO engine in your Java Application. Read
more at this
link. |
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Java
5.0 – The “Tiger” Is Out of Its Cage
These days Calvin Austin is one of the busiest people
in the Java world: J2SE 5.0, that was also known as the "Tiger"
project, is being officially released today! JDJ's Yakov Fain
was able to catch Austin, spec lead for Java 5.0, right before
the plane from San Francisco to New York where he'll today be
presenting the new features of the Java language to the New
York Java Users Group. Read more at this
link. |
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NetBeans
IDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released Today
NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta 2 is now available as both an
individual download and also bundled with the newly released
production version of J2SE 5.0 - a.k.a. "Tiger." Since
the Beta 1 release, over 900 bugs have been fixed including
65 in the performance area. Read more at this
link. |
| Browsers |
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AOL
Readies Standalone Browser
As the hubbub of alternative Web browsers keeps growing—from
speculation over a so-called "Gbrowser" from search-engine
leader Google Inc. to the many advances in the open-source Mozilla
project—in the background, America Online Inc. has been
quietly testing its own Web browser, dubbed "AOL Browser,"
for more than a month. Read more
here. |
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Google
builds a browser
Google is spending some of the cash it raised from its
IPO on headhunting staff to build a web browser. Joshua Bloch,
a senior Java developer at Sun, and four people from Microsoft's
IE team have all joined the firm in the last few weeks, according
to the New York Post. Read the full article
here. |
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Why
I dumped Internet Explorer
After months waiting for Microsoft to give me a reason
to remain loyal, I finally dumped Internet Explorer for the
Firefox Web browser last week. Read the article
here. |
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Major
browsers bitten by security bugs
For every browser, a security bug. That seemed to be
Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia
for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company
released information on two common security issues with the
tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla
Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser
for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature
to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Read the article
here. |
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Have
the browser wars been reignited?
People have long assumed that browser wars were over.
Microsoft took down upstart Netscape and weathered an ugly antitrust
trial after the smoke cleared. One tactic, however, might be
backfiring. Tying Internet Explorer to Windows has largely prevented
the company from adding new features separately from the operating
system. With the next version of Windows due in 2006, that's
a five-year gap. In addition, significant security upgrades
are being limited to XP versions of IE, leaving about half of
Windows users out of the loop--unless they pay to upgrade to
XP. Those factors opened the door to other browsers, such as
Safari and Firefox. Even Google appears to be readying its own
browser. Is this the dawn of Browser Wars II? Read the article
here. |
| ICEsoft
News |
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ICEsoft
Releases ICEpdf v1.1
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. is pleased
to announce that ICEpdf™ 1.1 is now available. ICEpdf is a 100 percent Java software
development kit for rendering PDF documents. ICEpdf can be used
as a standalone document viewer or as a lightweight component
tightly integrated into Java applications. ICEpdf can also be
combined with ICEbrowser®
SDK to view PDF content embedded in HTML. The 1.1 release
of this multi-platform PDF viewer technology supports Acrobat
standard security. The new security API also controls access
to document information and permissions. Customers with current
maintenance agreements may download the latest version by accessing
the customer login at www.icesoft.com.
A trial version is available as an online demo and for download. |
| About
ICEsoft |
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ICEsoft
Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of Java
browser and Java Web access software for enterprise applications,
embedded systems, and Web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader
and ICEbrowser brands are well known in the Java development
community with an installed base of more than 10,000,000 units
in operation, with customers in over 35 countries. Headquartered
in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft is on the Web at www.icesoft.com.
ICEsoft, ICEreader, ICEbrowser, and ICEpdf
are trademarks or registered trademarks of ICEsoft Technologies,
Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject
of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. |
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