At the conclusion of his J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) Web services presentation at last year’s JavaOne, IBM architect Jim Knutson remarked that “every Web service needs a place to be a ...

J2EE 1.4 is now official, Sun announced this week. The Java Community Process executive committee approved Java Specification Request 151 — which features J2EE 1.4 — by a 16-0 vote earlier this month.

The move is the first show of product support for the WS-I's work and shows Sun's commitment to making the Java platform an even more viable foundation for building Web services, observers said.

At the Java and Web Services panel, Sun Vice President of Java and XML Rich Green said J2EE 1.4 will require companies to have full support for XML messaging and XML-based Web services standards ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. next week will ship Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, which is designed to enable the use of Web services in Java applications, along with an application server based on the new ...

In the "what sand was my head in" department, by way of Bob Sutor's blog comes a reminder that the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo J2EE server project has cleared the biggest hurdle towards ...

IBM on Thursday made available a technology preview of the upcoming version of its WebSphere Application Server 6.0 due later this year. The preview version, available as a free download at IBM’s ...