Red Hat’s OpenShift platform as a service offering has been in public beta for a while now. It offers a fairly simple way for people to jumpstart “cloud” development efforts by abstracting out all the messy business of setting up application and database servers. Instead, you simply publish your source code to OpenShift, and their platform does the rest. Supported languages are those used heavily by nimble, agile startup types: PHP, Python, Ruby. Interestingly, OpenShift also supports Java. That’s not a language that many people associate with cloud solutions. Today, Red Hat is announcing that they’re improving their support of Java on OpenShift with support for “full Java lifecycle for developers”.

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“Oracle may use an internal Google email that the search giant fought to keep under wraps in a high stakes patent case over the Java programming language, a US judge has ruled.

Oracle sued Google last year, alleging the Web search leader’s Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle’s Java patents.

In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also leveled copyright infringement claims against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programming language through its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.”

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“A judge postponed an Oct. 31 trial over Oracle Corp.’s claims that Google Inc.’s Android software infringed patents on the Java programming language.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco vacated the scheduled trial date, saying it conflicts with a criminal gang case in his courtroom that will continue through January. He asked lawyers for Oracle and Google to consent to a trial before a magistrate judge. If they don’t agree, Alsup said he’s considering “swapping the case to another federal judge,” and the companies will have no right to object.”

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“Judging by the announcements that Oracle rolled out at last week’s JavaOne show, the future of Java will continue to be bright. Oracle shared plans for new releases of the three Java editions–Java Standard Edition (SE) 8, Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 7, and Java Micro Edition (ME) 7. It also announced the general availability of the JavaFX 2.0 client and made several other Java-related announcements.

But the biggest piece of news may be “Project Avatar,” which was revealed for the first time in the Java strategy keynote. Project Avatar, in short, marks a change in Java development strategy at Oracle toward more user-friendly compatibility between the various Java editions and HTML5.”

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