July 13, 2007
Enterprise Systems: The New Bounce in Suns Step. Dont look now, but Sun Microsystems Inc. has a new bounce in its step.
From its recent...
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June 24, 2007
Jazoon'07. Jazoon'07 brings together experts and users of Java and open source technologies from all...
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March 08, 2007
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For those interested in Sun's and my continuing engagement with Chairman Cox at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, related to using the internet as a vehicle to ensure broad, fair and non-exclusionary access to information about corporate performance, please see my most recent letter to him, below.
For those interested in more good thoughts on the topic, see Tim Bray's...
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I'm attending the Java Posse Roundup right now and won't have a chance to post in detail about this until next week, but since the news is out I wanted to make sure I let you all know what's up....
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There are at least three separate proposals recently put forward in the space of "Closures for Java." Among the criteria for evaluating the proposals, I'd like to discuss two: conciseness (possibly phrased as convenience) of code using the construct, and expressiveness. Conciseness is pretty obvious, and you can compare the proposals on this measure by writing snippets of code that do...
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I've been reading/playing with Scala. Scala has the concept of "singleton types". If types are considered as sets, singleton types are sets with only one object. A singleton type is expressed in Scala using object.type. To refer to the singleton type the expression for object has to be "stable". Informally, this means the expression that denotes the object should evaluate to the "same ...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), creator of Solaris Operating System (OS), and TED Prize partners today unveiled the first open source online community to improve housing and living standards globally. An online gathering place—the Open Architecture Network—brings together architects, designers and community organizers to freely share blueprints, ideas and resources for improvement...
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I've spent this week at the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, Colorado. It's been just amazing. Obviously, the afternoon skiing has been fantastic, but more importantly, the conference itself exceeded all my expectations. It's an Unconference, which is quite different from normal conferences. I certainly had some scepticism that it would be productive, but boy was I...
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category: Java Technology
When you upgrade one feature that will only be used by a small set of users, why should you have to update the entire application for all your users? Stephen B. Morris proposes a model of updating just what's needed, and only for who needs it.
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category: Java Technology
Weblogs: Open invitation for evening event during Desktop Matters, JavaOne vs. TSS Java Symposium, and AB5k unveiled
Feature Article: Role-Based Code Upgrades
Forum postings: Better Linux FireFox Java plug-in wanted, proposed javac and VM changes, and phoneME license question
Java Today: JXTA for Eiffel, JavaTools Community Newsletter #113, and designing for MVC in Java SE
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