Duke's Corner

One of the key engineers in the Java EE 6 effort explains the latest developments about profiles, annotations, APIs, extensibility, and pruning - as well as how the JEE 6 focus on flexibility, extensibility, and ease of use manifests in GlassFish v3.

Nandini Ramani, Director of Java Development at Oracle, brings news about innovation, evangelism, and adoption in the JavaFX area.

Java SE/OpenJDK's principal engineer provides an update on completed and planned JDK 7 milestones, the controversial addition of "closures" to the spec, the ongoing work to combine the HotSpot and JRockit JVMs, and more.

Kuassi Mensah and Chris Jones, Oracle's own "dynamic languages duo", offers updates on Oracle's support for PHP, Ruby, Python, and other dynamic languages.

Product Manager Bill Dettelback explains some of the ways Oracle WebLogic Server can and should be deployed to private clouds in "platform as a service" (IaaS) mode.

Kris Rice, Director of Database Tools Development, explains the unique goodness of Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler for database application developers.

Senior Director Product Management Mike Lehmann details the recent history of WebLogic Server development and also looks toward the future, to OSGi and virtualization.

VIDEO PODCAST: Sun Fellow and Father-of-Java James Gosling stretches our minds about the boundaries of Java enterprise applications.

Sun Fellow and Father-of-Java James Gosling stretches our minds about the boundaries of Java enterprise applications.

VIDEO PODCAST: A chat with Duncan Mills, Senior Director of Dev Tools Product Management, about how his team uses the new Oracle Sample Code public repository. Plus, a summary of community-related goodness at Oracle OpenWorld 2009.

A chat with Duncan Mills, Senior Director of Dev Tools Product Management, about how his team uses the new Oracle Sample Code public repository. Plus, a summary of community-related goodness at Oracle OpenWorld 2009.

VIDEO PODCAST: Alex Keh, principal product manager for .NET on Oracle Database, discusses next steps for .NET-on-Oracle Database developers following Microsoft's recent announcement of desupport for their OracleClient provider.

Alex Keh, principal product manager for .NET on Oracle Database, discusses next steps for .NET-on-Oracle Database developers following Microsoft's recent announcement of desupport for their OracleClient provider.

VIDEO PODCAST: Product manager Sue Harper describes Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, the newest addition to the SQL Developer family of tools.

Product manager Sue Harper describes Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, the newest addition to the SQL Developer family of tools.