September 08, 2010
More new cool featurehttp://weblogs.java.net/node/477607/edits in Maven 3 - parallel builds.
One of the big focuses of Maven 3 is to provide a more reliable, more stable and better performing build tool. And one big area of improvement is Performance.
Maven 3 has the (new and somewhat experimental) ability to analyze your project structure,...
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September 08, 2010
JDK 7 delayed again... how bad is that?. Mark Reinhold announced today that the JDK 7 / JavaSE 7 project has slipped once again: mid-2011 without Jigsaws and Lambdas, late 2012 for JavaSE 8 with those. The delay (or some other bad news like dropping features) was already expected by anyone ...
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November 2008
November 30, 2008
IcedTea Integration:Thanks to Mark Wielaard, the XRender pipeline has been merged with IcedTea6 [link].The pipeline will be built by default, but disabled at runtime, to enable it simply pass -Dsun.java2d.xrender=True.This way the pre-rewrite versio...
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November 29, 2008
My main interest in this release is seeing the LiveConnect work that I started in IcedTea finished and released. Deepak Bhole did an amazing job taking over where I left off -- IcedTeaPlugin was prototype quality when I handed it over. He complete...
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November 28, 2008
As part of the JavaScript 1.7 work,
I also beefed up the E4X support. E4X allows you to embed XML objects
directly in your JavaScript source. Here's some simple E4X JavaScript:
We've had E4X support in NetBeans in both NetBeans 6.1 and 6.5. But ...
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November 27, 2008
Held at Seneca College last night. We had a great turn out, and no pizza left over.
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November 27, 2008
Without much fanfare systemtap 0.8 was released a little while ago. There is one little tidbit in the release notes that does warrent some excitement though:
User space probing is supported at a prototype level, for kernels built with the utrace pat...
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November 27, 2008
Yesterday evening I started implementing a Java2D pipeline on top of DirectFB. Today I can already run the full Java2Demo. Yay. I save myself the obligatory screenshots, becomes quite boring as they always look more or less the same. But I must say ...
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November 25, 2008
I just checked in support for JavaScript 1.7. This means that NetBeans will no longer give you syntax errors if you try to use the new language. Here are some screenshots. First, let's open a file using JavaScript 1.7 constructs:
Obviously the f...
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November 25, 2008
One of the really cool things about the CLR, when it was introduced, was the notion
of custom attributes. Custom attributes provide an extensible way to add custom metadata.
However, since .NET compilers virtually have to support custom at...
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November 25, 2008
JConsole and VisualVM have made it very simple to access MBeans in a remote target VM. There's also a lot of blogs and documents that explain how to access remote MBeans programmatically.
But how do you access local MBeans registered in your own...
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