Java SE 6 for Mac OS X 10.5.2
Available via Software Update, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This version of Java is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later, and only runs on 64-bit Intel machines. Developers may want to check out the release notes, which detail major new features including an API to work with the Dock icon (getting and setting the image, adding a badge, setting a dock menu, etc.), the ability to provide document-modal dialog sheets, support for Java DTrace probes, AppleScript as a supported language to the javax.script API, and more.
JCP Program Awards nominees announced
The JCP has announced the nominees for the 2008 JCP Program Awards. The program recognizes excellence in six categories: JCP Member of the Year, JCP Participant of the Year, Most Innovative JSR for Java SE/EE, Most Innovative JSR for Java ME, Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java SE/EE, and Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java ME. Winners will be announced next week at JavaOne.
Using Generics With Wildcards and Extends
The SDN's latest Core Java Technology Tip is John Zukowski's Using Generics With Wildcards and Extends. "Most people don't fully understand the use of the extends keyword when using generics. A typical example shown to explain the use of extends has to do with drawing shapes. Instead, this tech tip will use an example that uses Swing components so that you do not have to create extra new classes. "
Weblogs
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 how many existing installations exist with PPC and 32 bit Intel? —
Fabrizio Giudici
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. —
Ethan Nicholas
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. —
Frederic Barachant
Forums
Re: Java ME Launcher A launcher is part of the application management system (AMS) which is specific to each platform because of the way it integrates into the rest of the system and the way applications are installed and run. So unfortunately there is no common UI for that. However, MIDP 3.0 tightens the spec in a couple of places in that regard to make the behavior more predictable for developers. —
Cookies, load balancers, and Internet Explorer I have a HW loadbalancer sitting in front of my glassfish cluster. When I visit the loadbalancer https://lb.my.local.domain.com), it forwards the request to one of the instances (https://inst1.my.local.domain.com), which sends back the response including a JSESSIONID cookie. Then the next request goes to the loadbalancer, which presumably will use the cookie to send the request to the appropriate instance. Which all works flawlessly with Firefox and Opera. IE, however, decides not to send the cookie back. —
Java ME Tutorial I am aware of many of the articles and books about programming with ME, but I notice there does not seem to be a freely available version of a tutorial in the same calibar as the Java SE and Java EE tutorials available. Is there any chance of doing so? —
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JavaOne Student Program: The JavaOne 2008 Student Program, hosted by Sun's Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos, is a five-day program to attend the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences in San Francisco next week, for free. Participants will have full access to the conference, including general sessions, technical sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BoFs), specially developed Java University classes, a coupon for a free Java Certification Class, access to the JavaOne pavilion, t-shirts, lunches, the AfterDark party with Smashmouth, and more. Interested students should download and fax back the registration PDF as soon as possible, as space is limited.
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