January 29, 2007
category: Developers
Apache Java XML Security 1.4 has just been released. This release
contains an implementation of JSR 105, the standard Java XML Digital
Signature API.
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category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), the creator of the Solaris Operating System (OS), today announced that the newly opened London Centre of Nanotechnology (LCN - www.lcn.ucl.ac.uk) and the Bio-Nano Centre (BNC), funded by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and London Development Agency (LDA), are using components of Sun Visualization System software to harness the world-class...
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category: Developers
BlueJ is a tool for teaching OO programming in Java that is very well
regarded in the CS education community. Microsoft added a similar feature to Visual
Studio, didn't give credit to the BlueJ inventors, and filed a patent
application. Not the way to win the hearts and minds of the education
community.
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category: Java Technology
Servers have gotten much more powerful in recent years. But they've also gotten hungrier.
In 2006, businesses world-wide spent about $55.4
billion...
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category: Developers
Last spring there was a great deal of excitement about Minnesota
considering Open Document Format
as part of proposed legislation to mandate that
state agencies use
open data formats.
Sun's Open Source scion, Simon Phipps, consistently advocates open data and makes the case eloquently in Application Development Trends:
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category: Java Technology
John Fowler, Suns executive vice president of systems, spoke with Computerworlds Patrick Thibodeau last week about the companys new alliance...
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category: Developers
There has been some confusion over our proposal to add closures to the Java Programming Language. After all, doesn't Java already have closures in the form of anonymous inner classes? What is the point of adding something to the language that it already has? To some there appears to be a lot in the proposal that has nothing to do with closures, including the ...
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category: Developers
I need to add this to the JDK build documentation, but it may be helpful to have it posted here for some people. Building the JDK on Windows can be difficult at times, so if it hasn't been mentioned...
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category: Developers
Sun Studio compilers (C/C++/Fortran 95) support OpenMP parallelization natively. OpenMP is an emerging standard model for parallel programming in a shared memory environment that provides pragmas (directives), runtime routines, and environment variables for programmers to easily parallelize their code. This article provides a brief introduction to OpenMP and is of particular interest to...
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category: Developers
The book was published by China Machines Press, with a price tag in bookstores of 99 RMB (12.7 USD). You can purchase the book with less than 75 RMB (10 USD) through china-pub.com or other online bookstores.
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category: Developers
The new Java on Solaris section of the Solaris Developer Center offers lots of articles and resources.
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category: Java Technology
Also Today: Recursion vs. iteration, OO reuse, and SwingWorker in Java SE 6
Weblogs: Microsoft plagiarizes and patents BlueJ, wiki annoyances, and why hasn't JavaSpaces taken off?
Forums: ME for radios, trouble-ticket JSR, and logging in Java Web Start]]>
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