February 26, 2007
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This February the Storage business unit will deliver 3 days of no-nonsense Sales and Technical training to Americas storage sales and channel partners. Please mark your calendars and plan on arriving February 26th and staying through March 1st in San Francisco, California at the Hilton San Francisco. Top Sun Storage experts will arm you with the knowledge and tools you need to succeed with our...
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category: Developers
The debate on Closures in Java 7 has been limited to two proposals so far. Today Stefan Schulz and myself would like to offer a third option - First-Class Methods: Java-style closures (FCM) - to the Java community.
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For some reason, the blogsphere suddenly noticed my year-old NLink project, so I'm getting a lot of traffic lately. Maybe I've never sent out the announcement, when I originally released it, so here it goes...
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There's a simple web interface at http://openjdk.neojava.org/cgi-bin/hs_err that allows decoding of hs_err or hs_err_pid HotSpot crash logs. ...
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Understanding Tradeoffs in Software Transactional Memory by Nir Shavit and myself was accepted in CGO-2007. The paper describes the TL1 (Transactional Locking) mechanism. The slides presented at the conference are available as well. (We first described TL1 at Transact'06 in Ottawa). TL1's successor, TL2, authored by mself, Nir Shavit and Ori Shalev, was published in DISC'06.
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category: Java Technology
In 1973, Pete Townshend and The Who wrote and sang about Quadrophenia. And although it took another 34 years for...
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category: Developers
As I mentioned earlier, I spoke at Sun Tech Days 2007. About 10000 folks attended Sun Tech Days. Approximately about 2000 folks attended each talk (at least in the ones in the "main" room where key notes talks were given). Very nice to see so many developers at one place! I think over the years, Sun Tech Days is growing to become like JavaOne. ...
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category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems, which has viewed open source code
alternatively as a competitor and as a friend, announced today that it
is...
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) saw its year-to-year total server market share grow 1.5 points, the only vendor among the top five server vendors to achieve market share growth in Q406, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which was released today. It was the fourth consecutive quarter that Sun's market share grew.
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Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced the introduction of the Sun B2B-enabled Electronic Master Patient Index (EMPI), as well as two OEM offerings, iPACS and uPACS, Integrated and Utility Picture Archiving and Communication Systems, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in New Orleans. Today's launch is part of Sun's broad focus...
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category: System Admins
These release notes provide information about the 1.0.9 release of Sun Connection Update Manager.
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category: Java Technology
Will Java Plug-In applications running on IE7 in Vista be able to share data with Java Web Start? Get answers to this and other Java Plug-In Technology questions.
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category: Java Technology
New and updated desktop features in Java SE 6 include table sorting and filtering, the new modality model, the Desktop API, and more.
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category: Java Technology
Read more about desktop features in JDK 6: splash screens, the system tray, LCD text, single-threaded rendering, native look and feel, and more.
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category: Java Technology
Sometimes, it is not what people say that matters, but what they don't say. The analysts at Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/)...
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jsr-223 defines scripting API for the Java platform -- so that Java programs can execute scripts written in various scripting languages. As you'd probably know already, JDK 6 includes javax.script API and JavaScript engine in it. One of the facilities of javax.script API is script Bindings. Through the javax.script.Bindings interface, you can expose your application objects as global variables...
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category: Java Technology
Andreas, or simply, Andy, Bechtolsheim holds the
distinction of having employee badge #1 among the thousands of people
who have worked at...
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category: Java Technology
java.net is no longer posting a separate "news" section, which previously had been used to link to off-site news stories, largely version updates of open-source and commercial software. If you're looking for a similar service, Steve Mallett collects many Java-related news and blog feeds at the http://www.planetjava.org/ site. If you are receiving this message via an RSS feed, you should...
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