JavaOne sees plethora of announcements Java developers aren't without their tools. That is clear with the outpouring of announcements to come from software development tool vendors at this year's JavaOne Developers Conference, which continues here through Friday with more spotlights on the popular coding community. On this topic Newsletters ASP Tutor. In its sixth year, the Sun Microsystems Inc.-sponsored event is a gathering for developers that eat and sleep this language for building flashy Web sites and applications for the range of computing devices. The Web Service pack includes a new version of Tomcat, a reference implementation for Java designed through the Jakarta project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Tomcat is an open source project and free to developers.
It is available for download and will be retooled on a quarterly basis, Green said. As the major software vendors from Microsoft Corp. to IBM Corp. talk up Web services, Sun's efforts to bill Java as a simple and reliable method of building Internet-based applications that can be used in a Web services context couldn't come too soon, analysts note. Sun also delivered a set of tools that will make it easier to build Java applications for its Cobalt server appliance, a box that hosts and delivers Web pages. It includes Apache's Tomcat and Java Servlet technology. Rounding out its toolkit releases, the Palo Alto-based server and software maker unveiled the latest version of Forte for Java Enterprise Edition.