This past week's java.net poll and the poll that preceded it asked people about the number of desktop computers and Internet-capable portable devices they own, respectively...
There's a new @Java Twitter account. Tori Wieldt of Oracle, who's managing the @java account, tells me:
@Java is the channel for cool news about and around the Java ecosystem. It's not developer-specific, but for anyone interested in Java. We'll tweet news, events, links to tech articles, and special offers. We'll tweet daily, but a lot more often during events like JavaOne. We want our tweets
Java SE 6u20 has been released, providing important security updates. Changes:
A Java Network Launch Protocol (JNLP) file without a codebase
parameter, such as the following,
will no longer work with the Java SE 6 update 20 release: <jnlp spec="0.2 1.0" href="draw.jnlp"> This means that developers must specify the codebase parameter in a JNLP file. See the following example: &l;
Robert Eckstein has a new article on java.sun.com, JavaFX 1.2 UI Control Components: Part Two: Nodes and Buttons:
JavaFX SDK 1.2 introduces a new set of user-interface (UI) control components for JavaFX programmers. Previously, JavaFX UI Components simply "borrowed" their functionality from the underlying Swing components, which prevented their use in anything other than the desktop profile. T
One of the recent improvements in Hudson is the infrastructure and extension points for Hudson (and its plugins) to mark up the console output to improve interactivity and do some cool stuff.
In this post I will share my recent findings about Container Dependency Injection in Java EE 6, in particular how to decouple the processing threads of event producers and event consumers.
Java EE 6 introduces a very nice dependency injection framework (CDI) that has superb support for the Observer pattern in the form of event broadcasting.
An Event in CDI is just a regular POJO:
public...
Hello, My problem at hand is that I need to make a combobox in .jsp file and I would very much like to know when someone chooses another option in the box. So, my question is, can I listen events from the combobox with...
Hello, I have 2 PointArray shapes without color values. One of them geometrically occludes the other. I set colors using ColoringAttributes and transparency using TransparencyAttributes. If I use TransparencyMode NONE then I see only the...
Just one thing I noticed: If the last component (in my case a TextArea) is not focusable there is a problem with scrolling. I can scroll down from the last focusable component but the last line of the TextArea is only shown half. Using...
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart announces: "The replays from our presentation on the
GlassFish Roadmap
are now available in different formats, including
SlideCast (Slides with synchronized audio)..."
