May 08, 2007
category: Developers
The JSR 277 EG observer mailing list is now available on OpenJDK, and there is also a new project on OpenJDK for the implementation development of JSR 277 and 294.
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The 2007 JavaOne conference will feature a new, expanded program that
embraces technologies outside the core Java Platform, while keeping
Java technology as the focal point of the Conference. Register today to get $200 off.
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category: Developers
I just had a nice discussion with John Clingan, product manager on Glassfish, about EJB3 and Glassfish in particular. One of the thing that strikes me with EJB3 is that Sun seems not to be able to let go...
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category: Developers
Today is the second Java Freedom Day. November 13, 2006, is the first Java Freedom Day, and I would hope that it becomes a celebrated holiday. Today, May 8, is the second one. I'm at Java ONE and am really...
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category: Developers
The 72-way Sun Fire E25K with 1.80Ghz US-IV+ processors and powered by Java SE 6 Update 2 now holds the Single Instance SPECjbb2005 World Record with a result of 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
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Paul Hohensee and I are doing a session this week at Java One, TS-2885: High Performance Java Technology in a Multi-core World. We'll talk about current and upcoming multi-core computer architectures ,JVM technologies and optimizations , and application and JVM tuning . Finally I'll do a quick demo showing our recent performance optimizations coming soon in Java SE 6.0_02, identification of...
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category: Developers
OpenJDK Builds (Solaris & Linux) Anyone building the new OpenJDK bundles from openjdk.java.net should find that this is an easier build procedure than the JRL building from jdk7.dev.java.net. First off, it's just the basic JDK sources, no plugin or...
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category: Developers
I just happened to have a picture of the Village where NetBeans 6 and it's new
Mercurial plugin were created.
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category: Main
Create rich content applications for mobile, set-top, and desktop devices with JavaFX.
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Discover the open possibilities of Java technology at Sun's developer conference in San Francisco, May 8-11.
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category: Developers
It is six years since my last trip to San Francisco to attend JavaOne and boy has my agenda changed since them. Back then I was working on JBoss and there was a huge fight between Sun and the...
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category: Developers
Hey guys. Real quick. I just thought you'd like that we (the NetBeans GUI Builder team) showed Open Street Maps on stage at CommunityOne in front of about >400 people. We did a demo where we built a database application...
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The CTO of a big media company presented me with a challenge recently, which gave new meaning to the word "convergence." I thought I'd use his story to put into context what Sun announced today at JavaOne (what's become the world's largest open source developer conference).
First, his business model: his employer was paid every time an item in their content library (say, a new...
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category: Developers
Jon, Lubo, and I will be at Pavilion booth #1538 Thursday 3.30-4.30pm at JavaOne
in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. This is a good chance to come and chat with us about javac.
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category: Developers
There seems to be some confusion about what
superpackages are about. My one sentence explanation is:
a superpackage is a language construct for information hiding. Let's examine that statement.
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category: Developers
This year, I got a genuine press pass from a kindly soul at Sun, which entitles me to priority seating at the keynote, the opportunity to ask hard-hitting questions in the press conferences and unlimited free booze in the press lounge (I hope). Here is the intrepid reporter's take on Java One Day 0.
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Today at the 2007 JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) previewed JavaFX, a new family of Java technology-based products. The first of these, JavaFX Mobile, is a complete mobile phone software system available via OEM license to carriers, content owners and consumer electronics manufacturers. JavaFX leverages the security and ubiquity of the Java platform and will support...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today previewed JavaFX Script, a radically simple scripting language for creating rich content and applications to run on billions of Java-powered devices from mobile phones to Blu-ray Disc players to the browser. The first of a series of content authoring products from Sun, JavaFX Script enables content rich, highly interactive sites to be built by...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW), today announced the release of a fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) version for Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) to the OpenJDK Community as free software under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2). In addition, Sun announced the Interim Governing Board for the OpenJDK community. Sun also announced that OpenJDK-based...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), today announced the release of Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS), a standards-based extension of the Java platform designed to help developers gain precise control over their Java software. This new release combines the power and scalability of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) with the flexibility of the Java platform to address a growing demand...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced a multi-faceted collaboration agreement with Ericsson to jointly develop an open source, Java technology-based communications application server as part of the GlassFish community. This open source contribution means Java software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV), System Integrators and individuals will have access to...
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At JavaOne today, Rich Green, EVP of Software, Sun Microsystems, previewed a mobile phone prototype with a rich, graphical interface, made possible by new software from Sun. JavaFX Mobile, a mobile phone software system available to carriers, content owners and consumer electronics manufacturers, could help to reduce the costs of creating rich, mobile Internet devices. Dr. Djibril Diallo,...
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category: Java Technology
It goes without saying that programming is the key skill for software development professionals. It is also, traditionally, very hard to teach and learn. This talk by Ian Utting will introduce a set of free tools designed to introduce students to OO programming via Java in High Schools (Greenfoot), at the start of the University careers (BlueJ), and as they progress towards using full-scale...
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category: Java Technology
In this session, you'll learn about a project that brings music composition down to the absolute 'dummy' music programmer. Basically, the project, which is open sourced on dev.java.net, provides a visual designer on top of the JFugue API, which is a simplified MIDI API. Come see how simple it can be to compose music and, if you like, join the project and extend the designer.
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category: Java Technology
CommunityOne, NetBeans Day, and "paper architects" who need to either code or leave
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