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September 10 2007Nice review of Rich Client Programming; more updates: David Sills posted a very thorough review of our book, Rich Client Programming on JavaLobby; more adventures in the NetBeansMobile... JSF SSN components: If you are working with Social Security Numbers then this is for you! Sun Tech Days - Boston, MA: Sun is kicking off the 2007-2008 Tech Days season in Boston, MA this week on Sept 11 & 12. NetBeans Jersey Tooling: A couple of video's demonstrating NetBeans 6 support for creating Jersey-based Web services: Part 1: Building and Deploying
Part 2: Testing and Invoking This is an up-to-date version of the demo we showed in our JavaOne session this year. PostgreSQL on Solaris: The new PostgreSQL on Solaris website has unrolled, including a handy description of the support and service plans. AMD announces LWP for Java: AMD has announced a proposal for a new 64 Bit technology named LWP which is short for Light-Weight-Profiling. With this technology AMD processors are able to generate statistics of running managed - or Java - applications i.g. on CPU or memory waste and use this data to improve application perfomance JavaFX != JavaFX Script: I recently gave a presentation at the Portland Java Users Group about Java FX. After talking to some of the fine members of PJUG I realize that there is a lot of confusion about JavaFX and JavaFX script. JavaFX Script… Kodachrome: Making Swing colorful, beautiful, and scalable... also:
TOTD #8: Generating JSON using JAXB annotations in Jersey: Jersey provides a
pluggable type system for the encoding/decoding of a Java type to/from an entity of an HTTP response/request.
JSON support was added in Jersey using the BadgerFish convention for encoding/decoding JAXB beans to/from JSON. A new sample was also added… The NetBeans Mobile is half way across the U.S.: In Avoca, Iowa. Travelling is always an adventure, and this is no exception. September 09 20072007 Rich Web Experience: Up Close and Personal: Although I was not officially attending this conference, I was given the opportunity to attend a portion of the conference. This was the first NoFluffJustStuff conference I have attended and what follows are my personal observations. September 08 2007The Rich Web Experience 2007 Trip Report: The first ever The Rich Web Experience 2007 just got over and I enjoyed participating in the conference. This conference is part of No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium series and truly lived up to it's name and these are… Nimbus Nears Completion: My friends back at the Swing ranch have been working very hard on the new Nimbus look and feel for Swing. When I first saw it my only complaint was that I couldn't get my grubby little hands on it… LinAlg API: SIMD and Update 3: Last week i was working on SIMD implementation for LinAlg API and wrote a tiny C project first to test SIMD on Intel and AMD processors. As a result i have a tiny C library for SIMD and a GUI application for Windows that displays CPU featurs in a Listbox. September 07 2007JSF ISBN components: A set of JSF components to deal with ISBNs. Dilbert mentions Java: So of course that means Java geeks across the blogosphere are posting todays Dilbert in their blog. Which led to the following. As the screenshot shows, I use blogbridge to track the blogosphere. TOTD #7: Switch between JRuby and CRuby interpreter in NetBeans 6: The
NetBeans 6 IDE comes pre-configured with
JRuby interpreter. This TOTD explains how the JRuby interpreter can be swapped with a C-based Ruby interpreter and vice versa. Verify the JRuby interpreter Create a Rails Hello World using NetBeans 6 IDE. Expand "Views",… What is new in JT harness 4: Here you can find my classification of new features
available in the new major revision of the JT harness,
that we recently completed How to Integrate Sun Java System Access Manager and Outlook Web Access for SSO: A new article on Sun Developer Network details the procedure. New Jersey Features: I recently merged the experimental "resourcefactory" branch back into the main Jersey trunk. The new code includes the following features and changes: A change to the default resource object lifecyle from singleton to per-request
Support for non-empty resource class constructors
A new… Dilbert codes in Java! :-): So, it's high time we ignored all those useless polls "which language do you use most?" or those brain-damaging inferences about programming book sells or job ads - the really important point is that Dilbert codes in Java. Nothing else… The Pretender: Imagining uses for multiple cores... also:
JRuby on Rails, NetBeans 6 and GlassFish V2 - Simplified Steps: The NetBeans IDE has simplified the steps to deploy JRuby on
Rails application on
GlassFish. This blog explains the steps and is an update to screencast #web6. Download the install the latest NetBeans 6 Nightly. I downloaded the Ruby pack by clicking… September 06 2007Pavarotti and I - a true hero: I was very sad to see the news about Pavarotti's death. He was a true inspiration, an amazing tenor and larger than life. I met him briefly 25 years ago.. here is how Smooth Sailing in the NetBeans Mobile; Wicket AJAX basics: After an initial mechanical hiccup, the NetBeans Mobile is purring along nicely. Photos from today are available . It looks like I'll be visiting with members of the Salt Lake City, Utah Java Users' Group on Friday, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin JUG on Monday and the Madison, Wisconsin JUG on Tuesday. If you're along my route, drop me a line! Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata is now a W3C Recommendation.: Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata specification is now a W3C Recommendation. It defines how to express abstract properties defined in the Addressing 1.0 core specification and uses WS-Policy 1.5 to express conformance to Web Services Addressing 1.0 specification. Learning Curve: Declarative UI in JavaFX Script: Although programmers use procedural code to define the user interface (UI) in the Java language, in JavaFX Script, you can use declarative statements to define the UI. The Load Out: Beans Binding hops on this week's release bandwagon... also:
Learn to REST using Jersey: Jersey is the open source JAX-RS (JSR 311) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services. Paul announced the availability of 0.2.1. This blog entry describe the steps to get started with Jersey and provide useful pointers for further exploration. Download… September 05 2007Beans Binding 1.0 Released: After months of re-architecture, based on feedback from the expert group and community members, Shannon Hickey announces a 1.0 release of Beans Binding. JXSE 2.5 : What's Cool #1 : NIO TCP: JXSE (JXTA for Java SE/EE 5.0) 2.5 contains quite a number of exciting changes for JXTA application developers. This little series will look at a few of the important changes in the upcoming release. JXSE provides two primary low-level message… Need a database with your phone?: In one of our recent podcasts we interviewed Rick Hillegas from the Apache Derby project (also known as JavaDB). JavaDB is a compact, easy-to-use, feature-rich relational database that runs on platforms supporting Java 1.4 and later. We in the Mobile… what i read about today on the computer internet: OpenProj: Today i noticed OpenProj, an opensource Java/Swing app to replace MsProject. This is a fairly big deal, isn't it? Maybe it's been mentioned on java.net already but i missed it cos i've been doing the equivalent of living under a rock for the past few weeks, in particular globe-trotting in an oft disconnected and somewhat disoriented state. Nothing But Time: The timing framework hits 1.0... also:
jMaki + JavaFX @ The Rich Web Experience 2007: Sun Microsystems is a silver sponsor of The 2007 Rich Web Experience. This conference is targeted for web designers, software architects, programmers, developers, and technical managers interested in learning about the hot areas in Web. JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, RIA,… Generating Print Preview of Swing Text Components: How to create print preview of Swing Text components: what are the necessary parts involved and how do they cooperate. Compatiblity vs. Diversity: Will OpenJDK help Java survive?: In his last Blog David Herron was thinkin aloud about Javas failure and the Unix wars. He thinks that Unix "died" due to too many incompatible distributions and specs. Now whats the future of Java, OpenJDK and Java 7? September 04 2007JXTA 2.5 FCS is just around the corner: JXTA-JXSE 2.5 stable release is just around the corner Mobile terrariums: More adventures in the NetBeans Mobile... Free Online Course on Sun Java System Identity Manager: Offered by Sun evangelist Sang Shin on September 17.
ESBs: the value of indoor plumbing, public water and sewer: Some people question the value of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) approach to architecture. Those disbelievers might just need a larger restroom because the value of a plumbing system is (exponentially?) proportional to the scope of its deployment. Effective Java - 1 Companion ...: I have created an Effective Java - 1 Companion (ready reckoner, if you will) at: GlassFish Wiki. I will be enhancing it in the days to come and invite you to participate in related Wiki to improve the correctness of… Aversion 1.0: It's About Time: Version 1.0 of the Timing Framework is [finally] available. About time, eh? JRuby on Rails on Grizzly in 3 steps, Grizzly 1.0.17 released: Interested in JRuby On Rails? 3 simple steps to starts the Grizzly 1.6's JRuby on Rails extension...also Grizzly 1.0.x final release (hopefully). TOTD #6: Difference between Ruby Gem and Rails Plugin: As a newbie to Rails, "Gem" and "Plugin" terminology was slightly confusing to me. Specifically I saw the terms being used interchangeably sometimes. This
TOTD highlights the difference between Ruby Gem and Rails Plugin.
Ruby Gem and Plugin are both packaging systems… Running On Empty: Tim Boudreau's NetBeans tour faces an unforeseen delay... also:
JSR 82 is not only for mobiles!: How could you create Java SE Bluetooth applications, since JSR 82 (Java Apis for Bluetooth) was made thinking in Java ME? In this entry, I am going to explain some aspects around it and also give some tips in order to you start doing Bluetooth desktop applications. In addition, we are going to talk a little about the GCF (Generic Connection Framework). Almost mobile: Well, I got the NetBeans Mobile loaded, and picked up a slew of NetBeans t-shirts, books, usb drives and squishy balls. And got all of 3 miles :-) The trip site with pictures and gps info is live, though there are only a few photos there yet - but the trip has begun! September 03 2007Hudson plugins for .NET developers: Hudson is getting several plugins for .NET development, making it quite usable for your .NET projects. |
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