A group of leading Java software companies Tuesday banded together to create the Java Tools Community (JTC), with the notable absence of two major players: IBM and Borland Software Corp.

At my work, we get a LOT of calls. And part of the our job is to enter each of these calls in to an oracle database through a java-based front end. Needless to say, this takes up a lot of my day ...

Rahman and members of the community he served have joined forces to form the Java EE Guardians, a group of volunteers committed to supporting enterprise Java.