VMware announced this week that it has signed an agreement to acquire SpringSource, the company behind the open source Spring and Grails frameworks. The $362 million acquisition raises some puzzling ...

The acquisition marks a moment in enterprise Java innovation and builds on nearly eight years of collaboration between Azul and Payara, according to Azul. This collaboration between with the two began ...

Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES), a set of subscription-based enterprise middleware, with emphasis on making the offering more modular. Java ES 5.0 ...

Use this step-by-step tutorial with an example rock-paper-scissors game to understand how to create and take advantage of RESTful web services with Eclipse and Tomcat. Continue Reading ...

Earlier this month, Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks announced that Red Hat’s middleware team would be merging with the IBM middleware team. Some may have wondered why a decision like this took so long, given ...

Researchers have built proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatched unserialize vulnerability in Apache Commons Collections, a library used in most Java rollouts. For close to 10 months, a critical ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Middleware sits between system and application software, helping developers create ...