Hibernate is an excellent Java ORM tool but it lacks the features required to implement a multi-tenant cloud architecture. Don't let that stop you.

A quick start guide to get WebCenter up and running in JDeveloper for portal developers more familiar with other environments like Eclipse.

Experts predict that many more enterprises will launch Hadoop-related Big Data projects in 2012 -- but they also predict that many of those projects will fail.

The smaller Java 7 enhancements, which are at the heart of Project Coin, make the Java language much simpler for developers.

Cloud Foundry's open approach to Platform as a Service differs from many PaaS offerings -- and provides a particularly convenient platform for Java and Ruby developers.

Design patterns not only provide proven solutions to common development issues, they also make communication between developers and designers more efficient.

The CumuLogic Java PaaS solution -- a new player in the Java PaaS space -- enables developers to build and manage Java applications in a variety of cloud environments using familiar components.

How does Hadoop handle big data? Really well, actually. Find out exactly how by implementing a Hadoop-based log parser.

The Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market gets more crowded every day. How do these Java cloud platforms differ? What are their relative pros and cons?

Find out how to bring a protocol buffer -- the simplest and most efficient way to manage structured data -- into your Java object management.

Learn everything you need to know about integrated source control with Eclipse and Subversion. You'll be able to seamlessly manage source code and other shared files in your software projects.

Java cloud vendor CloudBees debuts new Eclipse toolkit for streamlining build and deployment.

Coding productivity among Java developers is still pretty dismal -- that's the key finding of the Java EE Productivity Report 2011 recently released.

PrimeFaces -- a lightweight rich UI library that's easy to use -- is shaping up to be a heavyweight contender for the holy grail of JSF libraries.

Red Hat pushes a new data caching specification at the JCP, claiming data caching will have the greatest impact on Java EE 7's cloud enablement.

The JDK 7 Reference Card is a single reference guide for all the newly included, enhanced and changed JSRs that make up Java 7 -- everything from NIO.2 to Project Coin -- as well as like lowdown on features like closures.

Oracle unveils the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which the company is calling the world's first integrated middleware machine.

'Java won't die; it will limp along,' one source says, but it has 'hit the complexity wall.'

New features of Java 7 will include increased developer productivity, modularization, and support for more than 200 languages

New integration patterns have emerged to enable many applications to migrate to the cloud while leveraging existing infrastructure.