February 07, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), the largest code contributor to free and open source communities, today announced the upcoming availability of the StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview plug-in application for Microsoft Office 2003. The early access version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) plug-in, available as a free download, will allow seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft...
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category: Developers
Ted Neward interview Romain Guy and I when we were at JavaPolis.
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category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/)
hosted its day-long analyst summit meeting in San Francisco yesterday,
and the event was a lot less glum than...
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category: Java Technology
Just weeks after posting a profit, Sun Microsystems has dealt out
another shocker a future version of its UltraSPARC T1...
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category: Java Technology
Sun has shown off prototypes of Victoria Falls , a multiprocessor
variant of the Niagara 2 chip, promising...
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category: Developers
Here's a couple of pointers to the GC section of the release notes
for JDK6.
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category: Developers
Ted Neward interview Romain Guy and I when we were at JavaPolis.
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category: Java Technology
Java Today: Romain Guy interview, The Life of a Spec Lead, and Java as Lingua Franca
Weblogs: Grizzly's new home, Kirill's new Swing skins, and running JAXB/WS 2.1 tools on JDK 6
Forum postings: SwingX status, Bluetooth development, and Grizzly meeting]]>
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category: Java Technology
A while back I wrote a wizard that would take any library JAR file and generate a NetBeans module that added the library to the list of libraries you can use from your projects (a handy way to bundle source and Javadoc all together so people can debug). It also would add any JavaBeans in the JAR to the Matisse (Swing GUI Designer) component palette. Well, it is now also an Ant task. So you can...
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category: Java Technology
I am trying to understand why kill -9 is preferred over plain killby most developers. Is it just the case of impatience? I understand that there might be cases where "kill -9" has to be done for process might misbehave by ignoring the other flavors of kill signal. But I believe all modern server programs add a shutdown hook. In these cases, is it better that developers favor "kill" over "kill...
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category: Java Technology
Today, I'm starting a series of screen casts that will show how NetBeans
IDE provide first class interoperable Web services development experience using WSIT
in GlassFish v2. The first episode
in this series shows how a simple Web service can be developed, deployed...
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category: Java Technology
I just posted a podcast exploring when Firefox will see dramatically increased JavaScript speeds thanks to the Tamarin project.
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category: Developers
Read about the Solaris Express, Developer Edition, plus the New Java on Solaris
Section, HPC ClusterTools 7 Early Access, Solaris 10 11/06 Release, Solaris
Ready Applications and Solutions, Programming for Performance, Introducing
OpenMP, DTrace by Example, and Developing Applications on the Solaris OS and
Linux.
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