September 18, 2009
Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe.
Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...
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September 17, 2009
Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...
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March 08, 2007
category: Developers
Ive 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 th...
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category: Developers
There are at least three separate proposals recently put forward in the space of "Closures for Java." Among the criteria for evaluating the proposals, Id like to discuss two: conciseness (possibly phrased as convenience) of code using the construct, ...
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category: Developers
Im attending the Java Posse Roundup right now and wont 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 whats up....
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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, an...
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category: Main
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 A...
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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 whats needed, and only for who needs it.
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category: Main
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 ...
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