<B>Sun Microsystems</B> this week is rolling out a certification program to help ISVs ensure an application will run on a J2EE application server before deploying it on a customer system.

Sun engineers patched an unknown number of the almost 6,000 test programs, and 771 went on an “exclusion list,” meaning vendors don’t have to run these tests to win the coveted “Java ...

Components built out of Visual J++ can interoperate with .NET, however, Goodhew notes. The settlement essentially wraps up the Java issue in time for the next big Microsoft v. Sun developer battle for ...