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Roman Kennke has been investigating Subtleties in Java text rendering:
Lately Mario and I have been looking a little at a rendering bug in OpenJDK. The above is with OpenJDK on Linux, below is the same with closed JDK. As can be seen, in the above picture the undershoot of the ‘g’ is cut off. Mario did a lot of research and debugging in the low level Freetype font code. There are a lot of l
Adam Bien asks How Popular Is Actually Java EE 6?
I'm back from the JAX 2010 - one of the biggest european Java conferences. There was lot more interests in Java EE 6, than expected: * The "Simpler? - Is Impossible - Java EE 6" Workshop was fully booked - with 75 reservations. The actual number of attendees was approx. 100-150. Even the repetition at the very last day was well attended (12-20
The Hudson Mobi team announces Hudson CI Ver. 2.0 for Android is coming soon!
After the recent news on the US marketplace, I decided to start the support for Android OS 2.1 on the popular Hudson Mobi CI client for iPhone. HTC is becoming very popular with its new Nexus One (aka Google Phone), Legend and Desire models. How many of you are using Android vs iPhone ? The Android OS seems to be much
The Java Tools Community has published JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 213:
A new edition of the newsletter is available, with news, new projects and tips! If you want to receive the newsletter by email, please subscribe the announcements mailing list - or read the current issue here.
Ian Bogost's recent article Flash is Not a Right highlights some new aspects of the debate about Apple's iPhoneOS development restrictions. I have a different opinion.
The Bean Validation specification went final around the same time that the Java EE 6 specifications went final. The Java Persistence 2.0 specification allows for Managed classes (entities, mapped superclasses and embeddable classes) to be configured with Bean Validation constraints.
In this example we are going to use Eclipse Galileo which you can download and then install from here. You will...
Hi community, i have some problems porting an existing application i did from GF2 to GF3. I'm using JVM 6_20 i596(on windows) ,glassfish v3 and using as IDE netbeans 6.8. Couse this problems i made some experiments on deploing a new...
Hello Everyone, I have a problem with Turkish characters whenever displaying the text on the button,label, etc. I tried to add characters to resource with the help of resource editor. However, resource ditor changes the characters when it...
I've been working on a restarted version of the "OpenJDK Developers' Guide" and I have a draft far enough along for general discussion. The content of the existing guide is primarily logistical and procedural in nature; in time, I plan to migrate this information to a JDK 7 specific page because many of the details are release-specific. The new guide is more conceptual and once completed is intended to be able to last for several releases without major updating. The table of contents of draft version 0.775 is...
