Apple's Java 6 on Mac OS X available: Now the scoop is not that we had to wait 1.5 years before it to be available, but the fact that it only supports 64bit Intel processors. No support for 32bit, no support for PPC. Yeah, PPC is dead, but… Posted by fabriziogiudici at (23:27 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (5)
Java 6 for OS X: It's been how long? Thank you Apple for getting this out! Anyway, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1: This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update… Posted by robogeek at (15:43 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (3)
Java Secrets Revealed #1: The first of hopefully many articles detailing little-known facts about the inner workings of the JRE. In this episode: Java Plug-In vs. Java Web Start; Class Data Sharing. Posted by enicholas at (12:19 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)
Hello World Currencies: So last year i started a "project" to create generally useful reusable cute-and-pasty code, listing the world's countries, currencies, capitals, timezones et al. This was inspired by another blogger who listed the world's countries in Java code, and i thought, darn that's potentially generally quite very frikkin useful! Posted by evanx at (07:25 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (6)
We Crawl: Power up your robots for JavaOne... also:
Java Today: Greenfoot/Trackbot uncontest @ JavaOne, new OpenJDK subprojects, and embeddable GlassFish v3
Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 43: Mobile Distillery's porting tool Celsius
Weblogs: OSGi bundles and Java Module System, refactoring for performance, and hacking on OpenJDK
Forum Posts: JVMs hanging around, new web tier list and forum, and Wonderland event at JavaOne Posted by invalidname at (06:46 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Profit now and save EUR 210!: Register for Jazoon'08 until 30.04.2008 and save EUR 210! And if you are a JUG member you can even save more because you can accumulate your discounts! Posted by cwfrei at (02:32 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Achievement and a look back.: I recently deployed a new application to a customer's facility. Now that everything is fine there, i took a look back and watched what i did last year. One thing is sure, i could not have done it completely alone.
To resume, i love you all. Yeah, i mean it. Posted by pepe at (01:59 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Java DB 10.4.1: The 10.4.1 version of Java DB, the world's most advanced Java database, has some really cool features -- asynchronous replication, table functions and JMX capabilities. Sun engineers worked within the Apache/Derby community to develop these features. Results: A great team.… Posted by mortazavi at (17:53 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
On hacking the OpenJDK: I'm giving a session at JavaOne this year titled "Hacking the OpenJDK" and it's been very interesting sitting with this topic these last few months. Much of the presentation is an overview of the developer guide, source repositories and… Posted by robogeek at (17:28 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (1)
EclipseLink sessions in 2008 JavaOne: I plan to attend JavaOne this year again. In this year one of interesting topics is EclipseLink (Open source version of TopLink) and I found there are 3 sessions about it. Posted by guruwons at (10:18 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Refactoring for Performance: Sometimes small modifications help applications to improve performance. Here an example on how a small modification helped a critical application to improve its performance without big refactorings.
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GlassFish events @ JavaOne 2008:
Start counting in days now before the JavaOne frenzy
begins! In the mean while, here is a quick summary of GlassFish related
events: Sunday (5/4) GlassFish
Unconference (free registration) Monday (5/5) GlassFish
Day (free registration - also gives you free access to JavaOne
Pavilion and… Posted by arungupta at (06:56 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
TOTD #32: Rails Deployment on GlassFish v3 from NetBeans IDE:
Rails
powered by the GlassFish Application Server explains all the
benefits of using GlassFish for developing and deploying your Rails
applications. If you are using NetBeans
6.1 builds then you can deploy your Rails application
directly on GlassFish
v3 from within NetBeans
IDE. No longer you need
to… Posted by arungupta at (06:42 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Light To Follow: NetBeans 6.1 makes an early debut... also:
Java Today: NetBeans 6.1 final release
Spotlight: java.net @ JavaOne and JavaOne Student Program still accepting participants
Weblogs: Marge plays Tetris, Mobile & Embedded at FSIL 9.0, and JMX gets a query langauge
Forum Posts: User expectations and applet startup, anti-aliasing in JRE 6u10, and when ME does (and doesn't) scroll for you
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April 27 2008
If it's Tuesday, this must be BrasÃlia: I had the good fortune to visit Brazil recently and meet many nice people scattered out across a great country. Along the way I managed to demonstrate some of the new features coming in NetBeans IDE 6.1. Posted by gsporar at (19:02 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)
Marging a FX Tetris at JavaOne!: Project Marge got a mini talk in Community Corner! If you want to get introduced in Bluetooth, JSR 82 and Project Marge, that is the place! Also, if you just want to see some cool demos, including a mobile controller for a compiled JavaFX Script game, come there too! Posted by brunogh at (18:10 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (10)
April 26 2008
My talks at JavaOne 2008:
Well, we're into to the final preparations for next week. Besides being present at the Java Mobile & Embedded Community booths at CommunityOne and JavaOne I'm also involved in three talks this year: Tuesday, 4:40 pm - 5:40 pm: TS-5606… Posted by terrencebarr at (23:22 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Benchmarks and (less) surprises (?): As a follow-up of my previous
post, I've cleaned up my benchmark code (the log files have
been reduced in size from 40MB to 800kB, some bugs have been fixed and
the UUID strategy has been chosen for generating primary keys in the
database,… Posted by fabriziogiudici at (17:46 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)
April 25 2008
Welcome JWBlogs to Blogosphere!: Over the past 10 years JavaWorld.com
is a great source for Java developers focusing on four areas - Java
SE, Java
EE, Java
ME and Developer
Tools. The 10 most recently published articles and tutorials
can be easily
subscribed. As of yesterday they started a new… Posted by arungupta at (11:30 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Interplanetary migrations: I've been subscribed to Planet Classpath and Planet JDK for a couple years. This blog has been aggregated into Planet JDK for a long time, and Planet Classpath was always a "them" aggregation. But, yeah, as Mark Reinhold says, we've… Posted by robogeek at (10:13 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
A query language for the JMX API: The JMX API is being updated by JSR 255. That JSR is currently
planned to be part of Java SE 7, and some of the API changes it
defines have started to appear in JDK 7. So far, the main one is a
Query Language. Here's what that is and what it's for. ... Posted by emcmanus at (08:21 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
History Never Repeats: Wave goodbye to languages without garbage collection... also:
java.net Poll: Could you work with a non-garbage-collected language
Java Today: Compatible JDK evolutions, new features in EJB 3.1, and Wizard project in-depth
Spotlight: Recording of yesterday's project-owner tutorial
Weblogs: ME on Windows Mobile, Grizzly unofficial benchmarks, and OpenJDK encumbrance-clearing progress
Forum Posts: Moving GlassFish, JTHarness dependencies, Nimbus and SwingX, and extending GlassFish's Comet support Posted by invalidname at (08:20 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
A new title - an updated focus: You may have noticed the change of my job title up in the bio of this blog. Evangelist just didn't fit my job anymore - so it was time for a change. When we started the Java Mobile & Embedded… Posted by terrencebarr at (19:27 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
OpenJDK 6, tastes great, less filling!: It seems the java world is in a bit of an uproar right now with a bit of news which I've seen blogged and newsed about in several places. First, Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04; not 'Hardy Herron' as some have… Posted by robogeek at (17:51 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)
Alive and kickin': Java on Windows Mobile: Recently on the Java Champions alias some people were surprised to learn that Java has been available on WIndows Mobile for some time now. Obviously we aren't publicizing that fact enough ;-) so here we go:
The phoneME Advanced project… Posted by terrencebarr at (07:58 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (7)
What's The Matter With You: Looking at and modifying classes as they're loaded... also:
Feature Article: Add Logging at Class Load Time with Java Instrumentation
Announcement: CEE Tutorial and Q&A;: Tutorial For New Project Owners
Java Today: MySQL and memcached on GlassFish, Trackbotcode project, and free GlassFish book chapter
Weblogs: Top JavaOne desktop sessions, Hudson plugin for WAR/EAR deployment, and CRUD with Grails
Forum Posts: Card-specific graphics regression reported, jMaki version numbering, and defending the system tray icon and menu Posted by invalidname at (07:12 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)