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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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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