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Google has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its argument against Oracle's now four-year-old claim that 37 Java APIs used in the Android OS violated copyright (details in this report). It's an important question, and in my opinion, one worthy of the high court.
Google's decision wasn't a surprise to Forrester analyst John R. Rymer, who told me he expected the search engine giant to take its case all the way to the Supreme Court if it received an unfavorable ruling at the appellate level. He added that he has noticed "zero impact" on the Java community over the past four years from this "vendor drama."
"If Google wins, the status quo prevails; if Oracle wins, then Google will either have to strip out Oracle-patented IP or pay Oracle for the right to use its IP," he said. "In the latter case, Google will 'own a piece of Android,' a nice position given that Java ME is a nonstarter among smartphone and tablet OSs."
Martijn Verburg, CEO of jClarity, a startup focused on automating optimization for Java and JVM-related technologies, and co-leader of the London Java Users' Group, is also sanguine about the effect of the rulings on the Java community so far.
"I don't think the current ruling was all that bad for the industry," he said in an e-mail. "Although there's a fair amount of FUD about the decision, you can still copy or use appropriately OSS-licensed APIs, which constitute the vast majority of the Java ecosystem, and there's still a strong argument that most folks will be okay under the Fair Use clause (for example, Mono) or the lesser-known 'It's such a small portion of the API, which is okay as well' clause, which would cover a lot of individual developers who are just copying a handful of APIs here and there."
Verburg also believes that there's a general consensus in the Java community that Oracle should come out on top in this dispute. "Java developers in general are (grudgingly in some cases) pretty happy with the way Oracle is treating Java," he said, "even if they've mistreated other OSS communities that they took over from Sun."
The last time I talked with Wayne Citrin, CTO of NetBridge, about this lawsuit, he argued that it would be best for Java -- and Oracle -- if Google wins. He hasn't changed his opinion. "The more people with the opportunity to use Java, in more contexts, can only be good for Java (and, by extension, good for Oracle)," he said. "I can see Oracle's interest in protecting Java from undesirable branching, but I really don't see that as a problem here. If Oracle wins, I see something of the opposite happening. Restricting the breadth of use of Java can't be good for the Java community (and, by extension, for Oracle)."
Citrin added that, although the stakes are highest for the Android community in this case, the wider Java community isn't likely to feel much of an impact, whatever the decision. He said he hasn't noticed any negative effects from the rulings so far. "Maybe that's because most of the Java runtimes that are being used either come from Oracle or come from companies who have gotten their ducks in a row and are okay with Oracle," he said.
A final ruling in Oracle's favor would trouble Miko Matsumura. Now vice president of Developer Relations at Hazelcast, Matsumura has been watching the Java space since he served as chief Java evangelist at Sun Microsystems in the late '90s. He agrees that there might be value in protecting some APIs with explicit licensing terms, but he sees merit in Google's argument about stifled innovation.
"The software industry today has been a thriving wellspring of innovation and competition based on [Bill Gates'] 'embrace and extend' and [Sun CEO Scott McNealy's] 'open interfaces, compete on implementation.' The inherent danger in siding with Oracle on this is that it creates a huge liability on existing software that would stifle creativity and innovation and shift billions of dollars away from software engineering towards software IP litigation."
IDC analyst Al Hilwa believes that copyright protection of 95 years (which was established by Congress for corporate authorship in 1998) is far too long. But he's not so sure about the argument that copyrights stifle technology innovation. "I think there is always a tension between unadorned innovation and breaking the rules," he said, "and we are always navigating this tension. If we could share everything without patents or copyrights, no doubt things would move faster, but there has to be a balance, and the sheer velocity of innovation is not always an absolute value held by everyone. It is up to the courts to navigate this balance."
Given the times we live in, the long "vendor drama" has seemed a strange affair to Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
"At a time when there's clamor for the removal, or at least reform, of patents on software, it's ironic and archaic that copyright is being invoked to keep open source software code under long-term commercial control," Gardner said. "Seeing as Java was touted as 'open source' under Sun's last gasps, and Oracle could not thwart Google's clean-room implementation of a Java runtime for Android -- it's apparent true goal -- copyright always seemed like a Hail Mary affair in the Java case."
Gardner believes the Supreme Court should hear this case, because of the opportunity it presents to settle some important questions. "The U.S. Supreme Court could now use this case to make some bold and needed determinations about real-world software use, and modernize and bring clarity to its common sense rights and extension," he said. "That would bring long-needed improvement to the software intellectual property morass, and could quickly jump-start software innovation and remove the cloud of uncertainty over software ownership and rights in general."
As I said, I believe that the question of whether foundational code can be copyrighted is worthy of consideration by the high court -- or rather, a high court. I'm not so sure about this one. Our judiciary, in general, isn't tech savvy enough. The striking exception of U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who felt that it was so important to understand the technologies involved in the Oracle v. Google case that he actually learned to write Java, makes his peers look like Luddites. And most of the members of our current high court are decades behind the times. According to the AP, a relatively tech-savvy Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has said her fellow justices don't even use e-mail.
Posted by John K. Waters on 10/17/2014 at 1:05 PM0 comments
Oracle and the Java community made relatively few new announcements at the annual JavaOne conference last week, but a number of Java vendors did. Three announcements from local companies stood out for me at this year's show:.
Hazelcast, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of an open-source, In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) solution by the same name, made big news at the show with the launch of its JCache implementation. Hazelcast 3.3.1 JCache, which is the JCache-compatible version of Hazelcast, is now drop-in "pin compatible" with Oracle's Coherence IMDG and Ehcache. Hazelcast CEO Greg Luck wrote the latter, which is one of the most widely used open-source Java caching solutions. Luck is also a co-author of the JCache spec, along with Brian Oliver, who architected Oracle Coherence. Coherence, Ehcache, and Hazelcast are the only JCache implementations currently available.
The JCache project was the longest running Java specification request (JSR) in the history of Java and the Java Community Process (JCP) until it earned approval in March. JSR-107, the spec request for Java Temporary Caching API, specified the semantics for the temporary, in-memory caching of Java objects. The JSR languished for years until Terracotta and Oracle began funding it recently. Terracotta is probably best known for its commercial development of Ehcache.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Coverity launched the free beta of its new cloud-based service for Java developers at the show. The new Code Spotter service, which is built on Coverity's static code analysis platform, is designed to help developers find difficult-to-detect defects in Java code. The service allows Java devs to upload their source code to the cloud, where it is analyzed for known issues in Java code bases, such as resource leaks, race conditions, concurrency issues, and null pointer dereferences. With this new service, the company is "democratizing access" to its testing solution, the company said.
Coverity, which is a subsidiary of Synopsys, launched a "developer-first security" effort last year, during which it began promoting the idea of putting security into the hands of developers. In January, the company released a new version of its dev/test platform that provides Java developers with expanded coverage for the Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) Top 10 and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) security vulnerabilities in Java apps. The open-source OWASP identifies 10 of the most critical Web app security risks each year. The CWE is a community project sponsored by the Mitre Corporation to create a catalog of software security vulnerabilities.
Software build and distribution company JFrog launched a new commercial version of its Bintray open-source distro platform at this year's show: Bintray Premium. Bintray, which won a Duke's Choice Award last year, is a cloud platform for developers who want to store, publish, download, promote, and share software. (In other words, all of them.) The San Francicso-based company's commercial version supports "premium repositories," with unlimited storage and downloads, full download stats, access control, and download tracking, among other features.
BTW: The company won a Duke's Choice in 2011 for its Artifactory binary repository manager.
Posted by John K. Waters on 10/07/2014 at 11:45 AM0 comments
Is it possible that Larry Ellison's decision to step down as CEO of Oracle will mean we actually see more of him? He has made two appearances so far at the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week under his new titles of Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer. Last year he bailed on his conference keynote to focus on the America's Cup, during which Oracle Team USA was staging an admittedly thrilling comeback. Attendees who traveled from...well, everywhere....and paid to see the guy were not sympathetic.
Ellison started his afternoon appearance yesterday with what amounted to an apology for his absence last year, and then launched into his familiar get-through-this-and-kill-'em-with-numbers pace. But then he slowed down, joked with the crowd, and worked his way amiably through a couple of demos.
"Because of my new job as CTO, I gotta do my demos by myself," he said. "Almost nobody works for me anymore." He hastily added, "I love my new job, by the way."
Maybe it was the V-neck sweater and slacks, but Ellison seemed to relax into his promised drill down on Oracle's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. During his demo, he showed how users could migrate an on-premises Java application to Oracle's cloud database and WebLogic server. It took a bit more than the "push of a button" he'd talked about during his Sunday keynote opener, but not much.
Oracle continues to bet big (if a bit behind the competition) on the cloud. On Sunday, Ellison touted his company's upgraded cloud platform as an all-in-one environment for running apps and data, and for building out new apps as customers move to the cloud. The Oracle offering includes a "massively upgraded" PaaS featuring Oracle Database 12c; infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS); and rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS). The company claims to have picked up more than 2,100 new SaaS customers over the past year. "We have by far the largest portfolio of cloud applications of anybody," Ellison declared. "We built a lot more in 2014. We bought a lot more in 2014. We definitely had a build-and-buy strategy."
Ellison sounded like his old trash-talking self on Sunday as he took swipes at the competition, including SAP, Amazon, Workday, and Salesforce.com. He singled out SAP, which recently bought Concur Technologies, a travel and expense software provider, in a deal worth $8.3 billion. He focused on the company's Hana in-memory computing platform.
"I'm going to try to be nice," Ellison said. "But it's so hard. I have no idea what runs on Hana. It's rude but it's the truth. And it's kinda funny. What cloud? Let's just talk about Earth."
He also took a shot at Salesforce.com. Oracle is the only cloud vendor that "lets you use the same platform it builds on to extend cloud apps," he said, while Salesforce.com uses the Oracle platform to build its apps, and then relegates its customers to extending apps with its proprietary Force.com and Salesforce1 platforms. Still, he allowed that Salesforce "is the best of the rest, because at least they have a platform. The other guys… they don't even have a platform. It's missing in action."
Hard to believe Ellison is now 70 years old, and even harder to imagine the hyper-competitive exec slowing down. Forbes just published its annual list of the 400 Wealthiest Americans, and Ellison came in third, behind Warren Buffett (second) and Bill Gates (first), and just ahead of the Koch brothers. What do retirees do when they're worth $47.6 billion?
Of course, Ellison isn't retiring, is he? There's a reason we're not hearing much "end of an era" talk around his move. He's not actually leaving the company he co-founded. He's not even stepping away from day-to-day involvement in the company's operations. He'll be free of some responsibilities; Safra Catz will continue to look after manufacturing, finance, and legal operations, and Mark Hurd will continue managing the company's sales, service, and global business units. But Ellison is now head of engineering and product development, so he'll still be working with Hurd and Catz -- my guess is, closely.
I asked OpenWorld attendees what they thought about Ellison's decision to step down from the big chair. Several said they thought it was a smart move that freed Ellison from some responsibilities without reducing his influence. "Let's face it, how would a person who is both the CTO and Chairman of the Board of a tech company not tell the CEOs where the company is going or should go?" said attendee Keith Gapol, IT associate at Agilent Technologies. "He will still be driving the development direction of the company."
I also heard comments like this one from an attendee from the UK: "Oof! I've had enough of that man!"
Most of the people I talked to were unphazed by the Oracle executive shuffle. A developer who flew in for the event from Boston summed up what I found in my unscientific survey to be the prevailing opinion: "I don't think it'll make that much of a difference," he said. "I mean, he's not really going anywhere, is he?"
Posted by John K. Waters on 10/01/2014 at 2:08 PM0 comments
It's time again for the annual JavaOne gathering of Java jocks in San Francisco for a week of drink…I mean, learning and networking. I kid, but that's because the anxiety over how well this touchstone event would weather its assimilation by Oracle OpenWorld has largely dissipated. For all intents and purposes, JavaOne continues to survive with its identity intact.
The primary venues for this year's event, which runs from Sept. 28 through Oct. 2, are the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55 Wyndam, but some related events are scheduled for the Nikko Hotel. (My feet ache already.) The annual Strategy Keynote is set for Sunday afternoon at the north hall of the Moscone Center, the event's former home. The usual suspects will be on hand: Georges Saab, Peter Utzschneider, Cameron Purdy, and John Duimovich. Mark Reinhold will again give the Technical Keynote. The Community Keynote is set for Thursday morning.
I'm especially excited about the NetBeans Community Day 2014 (Sunday, September 28), which throws a spotlight on one of the least talked about and yet most popular Java IDEs. Rather than individual presenters, the NetBeans Day sessions will take the form of moderated panels of experts, including some genuine Java rockstars. The father of Java himself, James Gosling, will be there, moderating a panel focused on how they use the editors, debuggers, and profilers from NetBeans (which Gosling has called his favorite IDE) to program and interact with devices. (Expect some insights into Gosling's recent passion: sea-going robots.)
NetBeans Community Day has a lineup of six panel sessions offering real-world stories and demos of NetBeans new features in action, presentations about developing Java EE apps with Maven, talks about working with free Java tools, and a discussion about teaching with free Java tools. Session presenters include speakers from Jelastic, ZeroTurnaround, Codename One, VMware, QAware, Boeing, Kodewerk and JClarity, among others.
Among the rumored announcements I'm the most curious about is some news expected from the Eclipse Foundation about an Open IoT Stack for Java. The Foundation has been working for a couple of years now on its Internet of Things initiative, first focusing on M2M, and then expanding to include the broader IoT. The Foundation will have a booth at this year's show, where reps will be demoing some of the projects from that initiative, Ian Skerrett promised in a recent blog post. He also listed a number of Eclipse-related talks scheduled for this year's show. Lots of IoT stuff in there, but also Java 8, JavaFX, Eclipse Luna, the cloud and Java EE.
If you needed proof that IoT has graduated from buzzword to serious software category, look no further than all the sessions in the JavaOne IoT track. It's a long list, covering topics ranging from OSGi-based architectures to Gosling's robots. Need more? IoT will figure prominently in James Weaver's community keynote on Thursday, he said in a short conference page Q&A. Weaver is a Java developer, author, and consulting member of Oracle's Technical Staff. He has, the post observed, "a passion for Java, rich-client applications, and the Internet of Things (IoT)."
I'm also interested in what I think is a new addition to the conference floor: a Meet the Experts area, which was mentioned in a recent post on the Glassfish blog: The Aquarium. It's described as "a designated space in the JavaHub where most of the Specification Leads will be present at a dedicated time." Could be a mob scene; could be a golden opportunity to get some face time. Oracle's Java EE Evangelists and Heather VanCura from the JCP will also be there.
One obvious advantage of the Oracle connection is the "attendee appreciation" events, which this year include geezer rockers Aerosmith, millennials fav Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and the Brit band Spacehog.
Remember: learning and networking.
Posted by John K. Waters on 09/24/2014 at 9:21 AM0 comments
Ian Skerrett is probably best known for his role at the Eclipse Foundation as vice president of marketing, but for the past two-plus years he's also been leading the Eclipse effort to foster an open-source community around the Internet of Things (IoT).
"If you look at the Internet today, it's run on open source," Skerrett told me. "Linux, Apache and open standards like HTTP are the building blocks. If we're really going to get an Internet of Things, we need a set of core building blocks that anyone can use to develop commercial or internal solutions."
Eclipse IoT now includes 15 projects collectively aiming to reduce the complexity of developing IoT/M2M solutions. Most of the Eclipse literature on this initiative uses that "IoT/M2M" label, because machine-to-machine communication is where it all started, and because it continues to be an essential part of IoT. But is IoT more all encompassing, which, Skerrett says, is what makes developing IoT solutions so challenging.
"To put together an IoT solution today, you need people who understand gateways and networks, but also enterprise systems, data analytics, integration with ERP or CRM systems," he said. "There's some daunting complexity here, but we know that when you create frameworks and abstraction levels in software, it becomes much easier to put together these types of solutions."
The mission of the Eclipse IoT initiative is to establish an open IoT/M2M platform that comprises a set of services and frameworks, open-source implementations of standard protocols, and an Eclipse-based IDE for simplifying IoT/M2M development. The current list of projects likely to become part of that platform includes the Paho Project, which provides scalable open-source client implementations of open and standard messaging protocols for IoT/M2M apps. That list also includes several frameworks: Kura, which is a set of Java and OSGi services commonly required for IoT gateways (I/O services, data services, cloud services, networking, etc.); Mihini, which is an open-source framework written in the Lua scripting language; OM2M, an open-source implementation of the ETSI M2M standard; and the Wakaama Project, which will provide a C portable framework for building LWM2M clients and/or servers.
There's also SmartHome (named by Captain Obvious), which is a framework for building smart home solutions; Eclipse SCADA, which the Foundation describes as "a way to connect different industrial devices to a common communication system and post-process, as well as visualize the data to operating personnel;" and the Sandbox LWM2M Server, which provides a Web UI and a REST API to enable interaction with the registered clients. Koneki is an M2M developer tools project that's using Lua as its primarily programming language.
Eclipse IoT's protocol efforts are focused on providing open-source implementations of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), which is designed to connect "physical world devices" and networks with applications and middleware; CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), which is a protocol specialized for use with constrained nodes and networks; and OMA LightweightM2M (LWM2M), which is an industry standard for device management of M2M/IoT devices.
A complete list of Eclipse IoT projects is available on the Foundation Web site here.
Even better, Skerrett will give attendees of our upcoming App Dev Trends 2014 Conference in December an in-depth look at the Eclipse IoT initiative and discuss the and the role of open source in the evolution of the Internet of Things.
Posted by John K. Waters on 09/17/2014 at 10:11 AM0 comments
There's a difference between a bug and a flaw, and an impressive group of software security mavens thinks it's time to pay more attention to the latter. To shift some of the industry's focus away from finding implementation bugs and toward identifying common design flaws -- "the Achilles' heel" of security engineering -- the IEEE Computer Society has formed the Center for Secure Design (CSD).
The CSD grew out of a foundational workshop, held in April, which brought together software security experts from industry, academia and government to talk about the problem of secure software design. Among the 10 workshop participants were representatives from Twitter, Google, RSA, Intel and Harvard University.
Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, hosted a soirée at the Cantina art bar in San Francisco to launch the CSD and to generate interest in its mission. McGraw was among the original workshop members. "The price of admission was a bag of flaws -- a real bag of flaws -- from your practice," McGraw told attendees. "We dumped them all on the table and picked the tallest 10 piles."
That mission, by the way, is to "gather software security expertise from industry, academia and government" to provide guidance on "recognizing software system designs that are likely vulnerable to compromise" and "designing and building software systems with strong, identifiable security properties." And those 10 piles led to the publication of an inaugural CSD report, "Avoiding the Top 10 Software Security Design Flaws."
McGraw, who is author of numerous books about building secure software, called finding and fixing design flaws "the hardest problem that nobody has solved."
"Software security has grown into a $7 or $8 billion industry, and it's continuing to grow very fast," he told me. "But the field seems to be myopically focused on bugs and hackers. And yet, from a technical perspective, half of the problem is a design problem. We're hoping to shepherd the field in the right direction."
The CSD is part of a larger IEEE cybersecurity initiative launched this year "with the aim of expanding its ongoing involvement in cybersecurity." Jim DelGrosso, principal consultant at Cigital, will serve as the CSD's executive director. One of the problems the group will address, DelGrosso said, is the relative opaqueness of the work being done on design flaws.
"We've known about these things for a decade or three," he told attendees, "and yet the problems persist. We also know that this work is being done, but much of it is being done internally, so it's not available to the public. One of the goals of the CSD is to change that. We want people to stop making these mistakes."
Google information engineer Christoph Kern shared an example of such internal work from his own company, where he has been developing Web application frameworks that make it hard for developers to introduce cross-site scripting bugs. One team that adopted the frameworks saw a marked reduction in their bug-tracker stats. "There's a real connection between bugs and design-level considerations," he said.
Here's the list of initial participants in the Center for Secure Design:
Here are those top 10 security design flaws; each one is fleshed out considerably in the CSD report:
Posted by John K. Waters on 09/02/2014 at 6:43 AM0 comments
There's nothing like seeing the final agenda go up on a Web site to drive home the reality that you're chairing your first technology conference.
Fortunately for me, that agenda -- the one for our first ever App Dev Trends conference coming in December in Las Vegas -- is filled with workshops and sessions led by some of my favorite enterprise software experts, industry mavens, market watchers and serious codederos. I might be as nervous as a nerd at the prom about stepping onstage in my chairing duties (man, that simile brought up some bad memories), but I couldn't be more relaxed about our kick-ass presenter lineup.
I'm very excited, for example, to have David Intersimone (better known as "David I.") speaking at the show. Intersimone is vice president of developer relations and chief evangelist for toolmaker Embarcadero Technologies, and he's a programmer's programmer. He worked for more than two decades at Borland, the company that invented the IDE, then at CodeGear, the company that emerged from Borland's decision to shed its tools business. David will be presenting two sessions: "Integrating Devices and Gadgets into Your Enterprise" and "Clouds: The Final Frontier – Integrating BaaS into your Enterprise Apps."
We also have one of my all-time favorite conference keynoters, Miko Matsumura, leading a session. He's now vice president of developer relations at Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data grid company, but I first saw Miko when he served as chief Java evangelist at Sun Microsystems in the late '90s. (Back when he had shoulder-length hair!) He was one of the most visible spokespeople for Java back then, and a member of the team that popularized the Java platform among developers. In his session, "Elastic Application Performance Market View," Miko will examine the dizzying array of options available today for architecting scalability into applications from Day 1.
When Dr. James McCaffrey, a popular veteran of 1105 Media's Visual Studio Live! conferences and Visual Studio Magazine columnist, responded to my e-mail pestering by saying that he might have a totally new tool to present at our show, and that this tool was designed for developers interested in neural networks, I swallowed my gum! You've probably heard about Microsoft's new cloud-based machine-learning tool, Machine Learning Studio, the beta of which was unveiled in July. His presentation is titled: "Understanding Neural Networks Using Python." McCaffrey, who works at Microsoft Research, promises that attendees will come away from his session with an in-depth understanding of neural networks -- and to include one of the first public demos of the new Machine Learning Studio.
I am also very excited about Ian Skerrett's session, "Introducing Eclipse IoT: Accelerating IoT Development." Over the past two years, the Eclipse Foundation has been developing a community of open source projects for Internet of Things developers. That community now comprises 15 different projects, and includes implementations of popular IoT standards, such as CoAP, MQTT, and Lightweight M2M. Ian is the man who has been leading the effort to build that community. He will be talking about the project itself and how to use the technologies it encompasses to get started building IoT solutions.
One of my favorite tech industry watchers, Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke inc., is also presenting at our show. Her official bio says that she's widely recognized as "a strategic thinker and influencer in the application life cycle, virtualization, cloud computing, and convergence markets." I usually hate to use PR-speak, but that line is right on the money. Cool tidbit from that bio: She worked on the original JBuilder IDE. I've interviewed Theresa many times, and I'm looking forward to both of her sessions: "Extreme Automation: Software Quality for the Next-Generation Enterprise," and "Software Quality in the Sound Bite Era."
And our own Agile Architect, Dr. Mark Balbes, will be among the speakers kicking off the show with his session, "The State of Agile." Mark will be talking about the evolution of Agile -- what works, what doesn't and where the Agile movement might be heading in the future. He'll also be there to wrap things up with our closing panel, "Agile Techniques and Best Practices," which will feature Mark, Matt Philip and Jason Tice, the Three Agilistos from our popular summer webcast. I'll be moderating this panel, so it'll be worth attending for my embarrassing gaffes alone.
It's no exaggeration to say that this is just the tip of the iceberg. This is our first-ever ADT-branded event, and we went all out to put together what I believe is a killer agenda with sessions focused on the enterprise developer. App Dev Trends 2014 runs Dec. 8-11 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Hope to see you there!
Posted by John K. Waters on 08/20/2014 at 3:25 PM0 comments
Java toolmaker ZeroTurnaround's software release automation tool, LiveRebel, is a little less live than it was a week ago. The company pulled the plug on the three-year-old sibling of its JRebel JVM plug-in (and newly birthed XRebel Java profiler). Company founder and CEO Jevgeni Kabanov, delivered the news in a blog post, though he says customers were contacted before he posted.
I caught up with Kabanov via Skype in Estonia, where his company is headquartered, to ask him about it. He said there just wasn't enough of a mid-range release management market to sustain the product.
"LiveRebel was aimed at the mid-market," he said. "That's a few dozen up to a couple hundred servers. But most of our competitors were going after customers with hundreds to thousands of servers. We just felt that there was a significant opportunity cost for going after that market."
Another problem, Kabanov said he believes, is that there is no agreement currently on exactly what a "release management" product should do -- especially within the context of a rapidly evolving of DevOps and continuous delivery movements. But perhaps more important, whatever release management is, it doesn't currently seem to be at the top of ZT's customers' to do lists. In his blog post, he put it this way: "Release management provides little value if you don't have automated builds, provisioning, and a well-defined release process, and unfortunately most potential customers would have none of those."
"It was a tough decision emotionally, but from a business perspective, it was quite straight forward," he said. "For now, we're continuing to focus on the developer tools market, which is our strength. But we're not closing any doors on what we might do in the future."
LiveRebel 1.0 was released in May 2011 after about three years of development "in the far northern country of Estonia as an attempt to re-invent product updates." The final version, 3.1, was released last month. Kabanov said active customers would be getting refunds and support and help migrate off LiveRebel until August 2015.
The Tartu, Estonia-based company is probably best known for its JRebel plug-in, which integrates with the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and app servers on the class loader level, and allows developers to make on-the-fly code changes in Java class files. In June, the company released an interactive Java profiler called XRebel. The company also operates a research and content organization, Rebel Labs, which publishes free, vendor-neutral technical resources.
Posted by John K. Waters on 08/13/2014 at 4:34 PM0 comments
Enterprise developers struggling with the challenges associated with mobile application development may not be settling on a single, one-size-fits-all tool or platform just yet, but they are approaching those challenges more strategically. That, according to IDC analyst Al Hilwa, writing in a recently published report: "Negotiating the Mobile Disruption: Approaches for Multiplatform Application Development."
Hilwa, who is a research director in IDC's Application Development Software group, told me that he's trying to be the voice of reason in this report, offering "concrete, realistic advice to enterprises."
He first states the obvious, that "the central problem in mobile application development is addressing the variety of platforms and devices that employees can bring into the enterprise in a productive and agile manner…"
What's not so obvious, he reminds us, is that until recently, enterprises have been side-stepping the so-called mobile revolution "engaging the consumers of their products with B2C apps, often developed by outside agencies or contractors." But the no-end-in-sight proliferation of mobile devices in the hands of employees -- and the promise of a more productive and mobile workforce -- has forced enterprises to address mobile more strategically and in-house.
"Since 2012," Hilwa writes, "enterprises have begun to tackle mobility more strategically by tagging their internal custom application development teams to skill up on mobile application development and take a more systematic approach to developing suites of applications that overhaul how certain internal business divisions, especially mobile sales and field forces, operate."
And there's another problem: The big three platforms—iOS, Android, and Windows—have focused on consumers, and haven't paid much attention to enterprise software licensing requirements. "For enterprises, tightly controlled application platforms with vendor-anointed tools and programming languages mean limitations in choice, an inability to leverage existing developer skills and, most importantly, an inability to easily develop code for multiple platforms," Hilwa writes.
In the midst of this "mobile disruption," four general approaches have emerged or enterprise mobile app developers: native, Web, hybrid, and third-party. Developing native apps for particular platforms requires platform owner–supplied/approved programming languages, runtimes, frameworks, and tool chains. Developing Web apps that use the browser as a runtime and app platform are typically sandboxed, so they can't access native platform features. Hybrid apps use Web apps with a thin wrapper that allows them to be distributed via app stores, which means they can access to some native platform features. And third-party-supplied runtimes or app platforms, which can come with their own programming languages, frameworks, and developer tool chains, produce full "native" apps that can be delivered through device platform owner–supplied app stores.
In the end, most enterprises will follow more than one mobile app development approach, Hilwa predicts, though he expects most to deliver as hybrids or as third-party cross-platform apps.
Now for some of that concrete advice: Because app dev tools, frameworks, and middleware aimed at enterprises are increasingly integrating HTML5 support, it will be in the best interest of enterprise developers to "embrace the Web ecosystem of skills and set up Web developer teams along with existing Java and Microsoft ecosystem developer teams."
Here's another one: Enterprises moving from a tactical to a strategic approach to mobile app development will want to "embrace an API architecture for back-end systems." In fact, "such enterprises should begin re-architecting their back-end systems and data assets into API services before embarking on extensive mobile application building."
There's a lot more in this report, and it's well worth reading in its entirety. Also, in case you missed it, my colleague David Ramel's most recent Dev Watch column ("Doubts About Cross-Platform Mobile Development") cites a number of studies on or related to this topic.
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According to Moore, these earners pay almost half (45 percent) of the country's total taxes.
"The United States is actually more dependent on rich people to pay taxes than even many of the more socialized economies of Europe. According to the Tax Foundation, the United States gets 45 percent of its total taxes from the top 10 percent of tax filers, whereas the international average in industrialized nations is 32 percent. America's rich carry a larger share of the tax burden than do the rich in Belgium (25 percent), Germany (31 percent), France (28 percent), and even Sweden (27 percent)."
Moore also delves into what the "47 percent" of America actually pays and receives from the federal government and that the perception that the middle class is shrinking is a myth. In fact, the actual trend has been an upward mobility and a better standard of living for the middle class and lower income earners in the last 25 years.
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The problem with the Demoncrats is that they don't care how much tax money is contributed too by the rich, it just isn't enough. They want the rich to support the US. If the rich were taxed 75% of their income, it still wouldn't be enough for them.
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Yep exactly, it's never enough. They throw around the word fair like there is some universally consistent definition and we just haven't hit the "fair" tax limit yet.
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The existence of a metastable miscibility gap has been indicated from the metastable phase diagram of the Zn-Sn system calculated using regular solution and Krupkowski's models. To validate this phenomenon experimentally, the entrained droplet technique was used to achieve high undercooling and to access the metastable regions. The microstructural analysis confirms the miscibility gap and the associated monotectic reaction. Evidence is also presented for a possible massive solidification of the undercooled melt.
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Finally, the NFL's 10 new coaches get on the practice field for a chance to show why they've been hired.
Finally, the paper tigers of the offseason -- those whose transactions are graded in thought but not in deed -- get a chance to see how accurate prognosticators rated them.
And finally, the talk of miracle comebacks from injuries can be illustrated in live contact drills and preseason games; the Cincinnati Bengals can assemble for an indefinite period, subsequently limiting the chance of another arrest; and Terrell Owens gets to let his actions speak on the Cowboys' practice field instead of talking through his autobiography.
Training camps have finally, mercifully arrived. The unofficial start of camps came when Ty Law reached a five-year agreement with the Chiefs. Most people believed he would wait a week or two into camp and either sign with the Chiefs or rejoin his former teammates in New England. Law was one of last year's big offseason signings when he waited until after the start of camp to sign with the Jets. The great closer that he is, Law finished with 10 interceptions and made the Pro Bowl.
Law was the best free agent available. With virtually every other top player accounted for except quarterback Kerry Collins and defensive tackle Grady Jackson, we can put this offseason's hot stove league to rest and concentrate on what happens on the field.
The summer weather has been hotter than normal, which could cause for interesting decisions on how coaches juggle their practices. More night practices are scheduled. Fewer two-a-days are on the agenda. As always, the idea for most coaches is to preserve talent instead of wearing it out on the hot practice field.
Teams finding the right balance of hard work without carrying over injuries into the regular season tend to have the best starts in September. Here are the top 10 things to watch for in camps.
1. Consult the local physicians: The offseason has been filled with stories of quarterbacks making miraculous comebacks from major injuries. Dolphins quarterback Daunte Culpepper ran virtually all of the team's offseason workouts despite having triple knee ligament surgery last year. Cincinnati's Carson Palmer has been wowing those working out with him in Carson, Calif. He's moving well on a reconstructed knee injured during the playoffs in January. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger bounced back from a motorcycle accident and might be ready for the start of training camp. New Orleans' Drew Brees and Chad Pennington of the Jets have recovered from shoulder surgery. The tough decisions for their coaches is how to use them during training camp. The temptation will be there to let them do everything. Each quarterback feels good enough to ask to do more than he should. Trainers will have to be on alert to make sure those franchises' valued assets don't subject themselves to further injury.
2. Who's the man? It's rare to have quarterback competitions in camp. Most decisions are made once an organization decides to sign or draft a quarterback. Though there aren't many starting quarterback jobs in question, there are some wild battles scheduled. Jets coach Eric Mangini says his team has a four-way battle for the quarterback job. Believe it or not, Pennington is probably the favorite even though he could be the first known quarterback to come back from two shoulder operations. Patrick Ramsey, Brooks Bollinger and rookie Kellen Clemens fill out the competition. The Bills quarterback scramble is also wide open. Veteran Kelly Holcomb enters camp with the edge. General manager Marv Levy liked Craig Nall enough to give him a shot. But the interesting player to watch is J.P. Losman. Unlike last season, Losman will have to earn the starting job and he has a good shot. First, his arm strength fits the system change by offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild. Second, he's worked harder and more efficiently this offseason. Don't dismiss him.
Only upsets could change a few other competitions. If healthy, Culpepper will beat out Joey Harrington in Miami. Jon Kitna will hold off Josh McCown in Detroit. Kurt Warner is clearly the starter over Matt Leinart in Arizona. Jake Plummer might be on the hot seat, but he will stall rookie Jay Cutler's chances of starting.
3. Ground Game: The most wide-open battle at running back is in the Mile High City. Mike Shanahan is making Tatum Bell earn the starting job. Remember, the Broncos traded away Clinton Portis and drafted Bell as the back of the future. The future is now for Bell, who has impressive breakaway speed but needs to improve on his short-yardage and goal-line efforts. Bell competes directly against Ron Dayne but indirectly against air. Shanahan would like to use wide receiver Ashley Lelie in a trade to get another running back into the mix.
The best pure battle of camp will be in Chicago where Cedric Benson will fight it out against Thomas Jones. Benson's training camp holdout last summer and Jones' ability to look great in Ron Turner's one-cut-and-go running scheme allowed Jones to run away with the job last year. Hoping for a new contract, Jones didn't attend most of the offseason practices while Benson did. Benson is the favorite. The Titans' battle should be interesting. In fact, the three-way fight among Chris Brown, Travis Henry and LenDale White already has Brown asking to be traded. The 49ers will have a good competition between Kevan Barlow and Frank Gore. The question in Indianapolis is going to be how long it will take for Joseph Addai to beat out Dominic Rhodes.
4. Rookies who don't have to sing school fight songs: It's still hard to believe there are seven first-time head coaches. Will they be a breath of fresh air or fresh meat for a competitive league that can chew up and spit out the best of the experienced coaches? Brad Childress of Minnesota faces the most pressure because he has one of the better teams among the first-time head coaches. The defense has been loading up on talent the past couple of years, and there are some interesting parts on offense. Mike McCarthy has a tough challenge in Green Bay. Even though his schedule isn't that hard, he has to bring back the winning feel in Green Bay. That feeling was lost last season. Brett Favre lost his way and some confidence throwing interception after interception in comeback situations last year. Rod Marinelli of the Lions was brought in to bring back some discipline to the Lions. Early reviews are good, but the Lions have been soft for the past couple of years. Houston's Gary Kubiak needs some time to install much needed protection schemes for the dented David Carr. Sean Payton doesn't have it easy in New Orleans. He needs Brees to be healthy and he's got to find a way for his defense to stop the run. Scott Linehan has to see if the Rams' talent is going forward or backward since the Mike Martz days. Mangini of the Jets has the toughest job of all. The Jets talent has been rebuilt down to the bone, and Mangini has a build it back.
5. Don't forget, hire the vet: What do Art Shell, Herman Edwards and Dick Jauron have in common? A lot. They were all good players. Each became a valued assistant coach. Each had initial success as a head coach. Now, each gets a second chance. Each finds himself in an interesting situation. Shell was rehired by Al Davis to re-educate a new generation of Raiders players on what it means to be a Raider. After going outside the organization for the past several coaches, Davis went old-school on this hire and brought back Shell, whom he shouldn't have let go years ago. Jauron had playoff success in Chicago but lost his job. He caught everyone's eye with how well he did as an interim head coach in Detroit last season after Steve Mariucci was fired. Marv Levy, the Bills' GM, and Jauron are former Ivy Leaguers. They can talk and teach football with the best of them. I'm still trying to figure out why the Jets let Edwards go to Kansas City for just a fourth-round pick. Edwards led the Jets to three playoff trips in five years. Now, he takes over a veteran Chiefs team looking to get back to the playoffs. All three veterans should provide their teams with a boost.
6. Welcome to the Big Top: This is the Cowboys final summer in Oxnard, Calif. Training camp is moving back to San Antonio next year, but there will be a circus environment in this camp. Tents and fun things for fans fill the areas outside of the Cowboys' practice field in Oxnard. What makes this camp extra special is the arrival of Owens. Owens is a show. Though he might grab more headlines with his statements and opinions, the guy can play. Cowboys fans who hated him with the 49ers and Eagles will love his smooth, hard-working style of running routes. But will there be any training camp blowouts? The Cowboys are loaded with veteran players. They have Bill Parcells and Jerry Jones. T.O. is the show, but there is plenty to see at this camp.
7. Who's the Boss? Good things are happening in Miami. Nick Saban took over the Dolphins last season and surprised everyone with a strong finish and nine victories. Are the Dolphins the next major playoff contender? Probably. Saban has brought in his type of players. Saban loves size. He has beefed up the offensive line and added size on the defense. There is more speed in the secondary. And there is no bigger quarterback than Culpepper, who has trimmed down from 267 to 261 pounds. Saban appears to be building something special in Miami. This is one of the key camps to watch.
8. Yipes, Stripes: Face it, the Bengals will be considered annual playoff contenders as long as Palmer and Marvin Lewis are sharing the spotlight in Cincinnati. Palmer looks like the next Peyton Manning. Lewis brought the Bengals organization into the new millennium with the acquisition of good, fundamentally sound players. But the Bengals head to training camp with distractions everywhere. A number of young players on the Bengals have had off-the-field issues in recent months, including a number of arrests and a league suspension for violations of the substance abuse policy. Suddenly, the Bengals have gone from being a Cinderella story to being considered the NFL's version of the Portland Jail Blazers. Lewis must get the players' focus back on football.
9. An Oasis in Flagstaff: Is there finally hope in the desert for the Arizona Cardinals? There appears to be a lot of hope. Considered the sleeper team of 2005, the Cardinals never opened their eyes, finishing 5-11. But the Cardinals had one of the league's best offseasons. They signed Edgerrin James and drafted Leinart. Warner is back to throw to one of the most dangerous three-receiver sets in the league. Leonard Pope was drafted as a tall tight end to help out in the red zone. The Cardinals have a new stadium, and, believe it or not, they will be playing in front of a full house. Home-field advantage in Arizona? It's hard to believe.
10. A super Charger? The Chargers will miss the leadership and tenacity of Brees, who left for the New Orleans Saints. What they have in his place is Philip Rivers, who had a great reputation for leadership and game tenacity in college. But can Rivers win over his Chargers teammates and put up Brees-like numbers in his first season? The first challenge for Rivers is not to panic in training camp and to let his team gain confidence in him. Rivers has had a quiet, but good offseason working with the Chargers. Though the Chargers missed the playoffs by a game last season, they were burdened by one of the league's toughest schedules. The schedule is easier this season, but the quarterback is more uncertain. The pressure is on Rivers after a two-year apprenticeship. He appears to be up to the task so far, but all eyes will be on him in training camp.
John Clayton is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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The Vancouver Art Gallery is ideally situated in the heart of downtown Vancouver . Because of its central location, it is often chosen as a site for public rallies, celebratory events, street busking and casual public assembly. By way of acknowledging the significance of art in public life, the Vancouver Art Gallery is engaged in an ongoing program of commissioning public art for the Gallery building and grounds.
In 1989 the Vancouver Art Gallery commissioned its first public artwork from the American artist Lawrence Weiner, who is highly regarded for his language-based artworks that range from textual instructions to poetic statements of fact. Weiner's Placed Upon the Horizon (Casting Shadows) was installed in 1990 on the frieze of the Robson Street portico and has remained there ever since. In the context of civic
In the spring of 1999, as part of the millennium celebrations, the Gallery commissioned two new public artworks for the exterior and grounds. Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, Black and White (2001) by the Vancouver artist Ken Lum, is installed on the rooftop of the Gallery. The four boats are scaled-down versions of a First Nations longboat, Captain George Vancouver's three-masted sailing ship, the Komagata Maru (the ship carrying Indian immigrants that caused an international incident in 1914), and a cargo ship that recently carried migrants from China's Fujian Province to Vancouver. Lum has created a public artwork that serves as a cultural, geographical and historical marker. The work recognizes Vancouver as a port city, a place of arrival by sea, and a city of layered histories. Each elegantly simplified boat is painted a single colour that speaks to a colonialist stereotyping of cultural, racial and historical identification.
In the fall of 2003, the Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its fourth public art commission, an Internet-based project by the Berlin-based, Canadian-born artist Janet Cardiff. This experimental work will present a complex, real-time narrative that will unfold over the period of a year on the grounds of the Gallery.


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Federal Judge Who Authored Torture Memo Rejects Prisoner's Lawsuit Alleging Torture
The author of the 2002 Bush torture memo that condoned waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other extreme treatment has now authored a federal appeals court opinion rejecting a torture lawsuit by a California prisoner.
Jay Bybee, who was appointed by Bush to become a federal appeals court judge before the memo became known, voted to overturn a trial court's ruling that a prisoner alleging cruel and unusual punishment could take his case to trial. Plaintiff Rex Chappell filed suit to challenge his treatment while held in isolation on"contraband watch" for almost seven days with continuous bright lighting, shackled to a concrete bed with no mattress and forced to eat like a dog. Bybee described the conditions this way:
Contraband watch, also known as a "body cavity search," is a temporary confinement during which a prisoner is closely monitored and his bowel movements searched to determine whether he has ingested or secreted contraband in his digestive tract. Under prison procedures, the prisoner is first searched and then dressed so as to prevent him from excreting any contraband and removing it from his clothing. … The prisoner is then placed in waist chain restraints, which are handcuffs that are separated and chained to the side of the prisoner's waist. […]
When the prisoner needs to defecate he must notify the prison staff who will bring him a plastic, moveable toilet chair. Once he uses the chair, the staff will search the waste to determine if it contains contraband.
In addition to these procedures, Chappell claims that he was also placed in ankle shackles, and chained to the bed. He complains that the waist restraints were not loosened for meals, forcing him to "eat [his] food like a dog; the temperature in the cell was very high; the cell was unventilated; and the lights were "very bright." Chappell alleged that the conditions "did in fact torture [him] mentally" and he felt like he "deteriorat[ed] mentally" during contraband watch.
After having three bowel movements that did not reveal contraband, Chappell was released from contraband watch on May 6, 2002.
Bybee held that federal officials were immune from lawsuit because the type of treatment Chappell alleged had never before been deemed unconstitutional. He rejected the district court judge's conclusion that the conditions were ones that "any reasonable officer would know comprised unconstitutional conditions of confinement."
In dissent, Clinton appointee Marsha S. Berzon lamented:
If new facts alone triggered qualified immunity, then officials would rarely if ever be held accountable in cases involving 'fact-driven' claims, such as the Eighth Amendment claim at issue here … A reasonable officer would have known that, in combination, the twenty-four-hour bright light, the absence of a mattress, and the extensive bodily restraints risked depriving Chappell of sleep, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
It is, of course, unsurprising that the man who has continued to defend his memo authorizing waterboarding as "legally correct" would not find these conditions legally objectionable. By finding the officers immune from lawsuit entirely, however, he took the case one step further to prevent Chappell from ever having the opportunity to make his case at trial, unless the decision is reconsidered by a full Ninth Circuit panel or the Supreme Court.
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Slow Cooker Pork Chops with Spiced Fruit2013-02-02
- Sprinkle pork chops with salt and black pepper.
- In large nonstick skillet preheat vegetable oil.
- Add seasoned pork chops and cook until brown on both sides.
- Place cooked pork in slow cooker.
- In small mixing bowl,combine apples,onion and raisins.Sprinkle apple mixture over chops.
- In another mixing bowl,stir together orange juice,chicken broth,jalapeño pepper,garlic,ginger and apple pie spice.
- Pour over all.Cover slow cooker and cook on low-heat setting for 6-8 hours.
- Transfer slow cooker pork chops and fruit to a platter and keep warm.
- To prepare sauce,measure juices,skim fat from juices and put in a saucepan.
- 10.Combine 1/4 cup fresh water and cornstarch.Stir into juices in saucepan.
- .Cook and stir until thickened.Cook and stir for further 2 minutes.
- Serve slow cooker pork chops with Orange-Almond Couscous.Pass sauce.
Orange-Almond Couscous
- In a saucepan,combine 1 cup fresh water and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- Bring to a boil.
- Remove from heat and stir in 2/3 cup quick-cooking couscous and 1 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel.
- over with a lid and put aside for 5 minutes.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons slivered almonds,toasted.
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