Oracle has changed the licensing for commercial use. Fortunately IBM open sourced OpenJ9 which is available together with the OpenJDK at no cost from AdoptOpenJDK, even for commercial use.

Some people have asked why I haven’t blogged since June. Here is why … Almost two years ago I started to work for IBM Emerging Technologies. I wanted to work in this group for multiple reasons. One reason was because some of the people in that group worked as developer evangelists for Bluemix which is what I wanted to do as well.

Before I started to work on Bluemix I had worked 15 years in the IBM Collaboration Solutions space, especially on application development. Below are my personal thoughts on how app dev in IBM Domino could evolve, both on-premises and in the cloud.

In my previous blog entry I described how the REST APIs of Bluemix.info have been implemented. Rather than documenting these APIs somewhere else, I've used Java annotations to do this directly in the source code. I think doing this directly in the source code is a good thing since it reminds developers that they have to update the documentation whenever they change the API (or even better don't change the API in the first place). Plus it's more efficient to do this in one place rather than having to use another tool.

My colleague Atsushi Sato notified me that a team of six Japanese IBM Collaboration Solutions business partners, the Kyushu Notes Partner Group, is implementing an XPages based questions and answers a ...