Microsoft's flagship database, and Java's versatility as a language, makes them a strong pair. With JDBC bringing the two together, it's easy to develop high-performing, enterprise-grade applications ...

Java EE 7 features a scalable infrastructure that facilitates building HTML5 applications with WebSockets, JSON and RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS 2.0; further increases developer productivity ...

“They may not wish to use a Java EE application server; even [if] they are on Java EE, they may not be running Java EE 6; they may be in a cloud environment where Java EE is not available; they ...

In addition to supporting Java EE 6 with wizard-based development capabilities, the open source NetBeans 6.8 IDE supports development of PHP 5.3 applications and backs the Symfony framework.

Also, there’s work underway on the Glassfish application server, providing an EE reference implementation, to update various Java Specification Requests.