March 2007
March 31, 2007
category: Java Technology
Welcome to the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips for March 31, 2007. Here you'll get tips on using enterprise Java technologies and APIs, such as those in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). This issue covers: Securing Web Services Using WSIT, and Using Security Annotations in Enterprise Beans.
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March 28, 2007
category: Java Technology
Server maker Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/)
this week announced that it was splitting its Sparc processor
development group from its Systems group,...
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March 28, 2007
category: Developers
Since I cheated last week, I'll make up for it by posting several screenshots this week.
First: The continuous builds on deadlock.nbextras.org are back up and running. One of the things you'll find there is a Ruby-only slimmed down version of NetBeans. This might be attractive for those of you who are used to editing Ruby and think of IDEs as overkill. The download is not tiny,...
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March 28, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems (http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn symbol=sunw) Inc. said it will begin selling chips it designs to other companies and not just use...
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March 28, 2007
category: Main
For those interested in Sun's organization charts (which are, in effect, an expression of my priorities), what's below is the message I sent to all of Sun earlier today. Keeping everyone up to speed on where we're headed is a big part of my job (I'd argue, one of my biggest) - so if you're interested in such things, read on. (And yes, I thought about simply posting this...
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March 28, 2007
category: Developers
This java.net group is creating NetBeans sample code for existing Ajax-related books so that it's easier for developers to build and run the application described in the books.
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March 27, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems (SUNW (http://tools.thestreet.com/tsc/quotes.html?tkr=1 pg=qcn symb=SUNW) - Cramer's Take (http://find.thestreet.com/cgi-bin/texis/cramertake?tkr=SUNW site=tsc) - Stockpickr (http://www.stockpickr.com/thestreet-symbol/SUNW/) - Rating (http://ratings.thestreet.com/tools/basic/ratings.html?tkr=1 s=SUNW))
is breaking out...
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March 27, 2007
category: Java Technology
Looking to up interest in its processor business, Sun Microsystems has formed a separate microelectronics unit.
The aptly named Microelectronics group...
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March 27, 2007
category: Main
Sun expands its line of carrier grade servers and blades with an x64 offering.
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March 26, 2007
category: Main
Sun will particiate with partners, MathSpec, Q-Chem and SimBioSys, to showcase our SGCU, Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, and Sun Grid solutions. Our HPC offerings for local deployment will also be highlighted.
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March 26, 2007
category: Developers
Welcome to Part 4 of the PIM API series. Now it's time to explore design issues that will affect how your application is developed. Read this, then start your application design.
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March 26, 2007
category: Developers
The following topics are covered in this issue: New XPert Session: Configuring Java Applications to Use Solaris Security, Reminder -- Changes to Patch Policy for the Solaris 8 and 9 OS, Multilevel Security Policies of the Solaris Trusted Extensions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems, New Hubs for Admins of Sun Java Enterprise System Release 5 and Application Platform Suite, The Storage...
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March 24, 2007
category: Developers
Several people have pinged me about this so I thought I would post a blog entry on it:
The machine which was running nbextras.org is down because of hardware failure. It's at home with Trung now who's fixing it. Not sure when it will go back to the ISP and be back online.
The Ruby IDE Installation Instructions refer to kits from deadlock.nbextras.org. You'll have to use...
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March 24, 2007
category: Developers
Here's a few photos from the Java Posse Roundup 2007.
Here's some of the posters we had on the wall - one for each day, segmented by the different rooms and
timeslots. People could convene talks by writing a topic on a post-it; some of these would get shuffled around.
We had "Lightning Talks" in the evenings - a topic of your choice, limited to 5...
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March 23, 2007
category: System Admins
Here's how to resolve a 'core dump' issue related to the GAIM instant messenger client that is bundled in the Solaris 10 OS.
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March 23, 2007
category: System Admins
This article identifies and contrasts the comparable MLS features of Solaris Trusted Extensions with those of the RHEL5 MLS policy configuration.
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March 23, 2007
category: System Admins
This table provides a very high-level feature comparison of the multilevel security (MLS) features of the Solaris Trusted Extensions and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Learn new and exciting features of Java SE 6 through the use of simple source examples, helpful popup balloons, and Java Web Start samples. And once you've mastered the basics, don't be afraid to steal our code!
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
GUI programmers: Learn how to implement a common variation of the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern using Java SE and the Swing toolkit.
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Sun technology evangelist Brian Goetz explains why writing dumb code is a smart idea.
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Open-source Project Lightbulb brings federated identity to numerous platforms, thanks to a Lightbulb service provider, developed in PHP, and Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0. Here, you learn how to enable PHP applications on the Web, helped by the service provider, an identity provider, and SAML 2.0.
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Get started with the Java XML Digital Signature API, and learn the basic steps in generating and validating an XML signature.
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Yahoo Widgets 4 was just released today and I must say it looks pretty cool. They added a dock mode with mini-widgets and auto-widget updating. Part of me is frustrated because this is one of the things we have that...
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
So you're probably wondering... where's Tom been?
I really enjoy participating in dicussions on lists, IRC
and blogs... And recently there have been many
very important conversations going on!
Alas this past week has seen me spend a great deal of time
having internal discussions, partipating in conference calls,
attending meetings, discussing F/LOSS issues with more lawyers,
filling out...
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March 23, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: stage.dev.java.net, NetBeans wins three JOLT awards, and deadline for joining Summer-of-Code-sponsored SIP-Communicator
Weblogs: Java SE 6 resource loading tricks, EJB patterns presentation, and the Filthy Rich Clients book hits Amazon
java.net Poll: Has the move to multi-core CPU's revealed concurrency bugs in your code?
Forums: Multi-line JXLabel, EJB annotations, and caching...
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March 23, 2007
category: Developers
Jolt calls SDN the #1 "indispensable site for
developers." NetBeans was selected as the Best Developement Environment and the duo of NetBeans Mobility Pack and Sun Java Wireless Toolkit received a Productivity Award in the Mobile Development Tools category.
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
Having the book show up on Amazon makes it more real. Even to the authors.
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
Well it's been two weeks since AB5k was released and the response has been, well, interesting. Some people really love it. Others have complained it's slow and buggy (which it is), and still others ask "why make another widget...
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
SDN wins the Jolt award for best website/developer network in 2007. In a large category that included independent and vendor-sponsored developer-focused websites, search engines, portals, electronic newsletters, CD-ROM programs, and Web-based groups or mailing lists, SDN is #1 as as "the indispensable site for developers." Regarded as the .Oscars. of the software industry, the Jolt Awards...
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
Having the book show up on Amazon makes it more real. Even to the authors.
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March 22, 2007
category: Java Technology
Your Ajax-powered web client can pull content from a server and work with it, but how can a server update the client asynchronously when it has new data? Katherine Martin shows how the Direct Web Remoting (DWR) library supports a new approach: reverse Ajax.
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March 22, 2007
category: Java Technology
Feature Article: Developing Applications Using Reverse Ajax
Java Today: GWT for NetBeans, JAXP 1.4.1, and Portlet specifications
Weblogs: Soviet breadlines, AB5K explained, and conserving client bandwidth
Forum postings: @EJB annotation, mouse Z-coordinate confusion, and performance monitoring]]>
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
SDN wins the Jolt award for best website/developer network in 2007. In a large category that included independent and vendor-sponsored developer-focused websites, search engines, portals, electronic
newsletters, CD-ROM programs, and Web-based groups or mailing lists, SDN is #1 as as "the indispensable site for developers." Regarded as the "Oscars" of the software industry, the Jolt Awards...
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
Portlet containers execute portlets and manage their life cycle. This article describes the Enterprise-Class Portlet Container Open Source Project and Portlet Container 1.0, recently developed for that project. Also explained are the procedures for installing and deploying Portlet Container 1.0 so as to test portlets.
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March 22, 2007
category: Developers
The Sun Developer Network (SDN) won the 2007 Jolt award for best website/developer network. Jolt calls SDN the #1 "indispensable site for developers." Read about the 17th Annual Jolt Awards.
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
John O'Conner, who used to work with me, wrote a really nice article about the new internationalization features in JDK 6. The article is just released here, which includes lots of examples demonstrating the new features.
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
I read today that John Backus died. As a compiler writer he was of course one of my heroes. I'd met him twice, once at Carnegie Mellon as an EE undergrad and once at UNC Chapel Hill when I was in grad school. The occasion in Chapel Hill was quite memorable.
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March 21, 2007
category: Main
In celebration of International Earth Day, Sun demonstrates why efficiency is good for companies and for the environment.
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
When we expose Java objects (or other language objects!) to a scripting language, we
may want flexibility. Most scripting languages on the Java platform support JavaBean conventions. For example, JavaScript allows property
style access for "getXXX" methods. Some language engines (for example, Groovy) treat java.util.Map's specially
to provide map.key_name style access. But, we may want more...
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
I just realized last night that the session slides for my
Java One talk
are due today! So I did a marathon session, starting at 6am this morning, putting it all together. I just submitted the slides, with a whole 4 minutes to spare before the midnight deadline. That's 18 hours straight with just a short dinner break. Phew.
So I'm going to cheat for this week's Ruby...
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
Register by April 4th to save $200 on the 2007 JavaOne conference, to be held May 8 - 11th at Moscone Center, San Francisco.
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
What better development environment than NetBeans IDE with the NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.1 Beta.
NetBeans Enterprise Pack is an add-on pack to the NetBeans IDE for developing SOA applications. That means you can have all the advantages of the NetBeans IDE support for the Java EE Platform in developing SOA. The NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Enterprise Pack help you build Web services based on...
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
The Solaris 10 OS provides a strong platform for developing Java applications -- Find out why.
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March 21, 2007
category: Developers
Check out training options for C++ developers who want to take advantage of the Solaris OS by porting applications and optimizing data throughput in a networked environment. This courseware also provides training options for device driver developers.
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March 21, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: jxta.org hosts code search tool, assessing the IDE's, and SDN stays "Steal Our Code"
Weblogs: @ConstructorProperties annotation, JRuby and NetBeans, and testing free software
Forums: Messing with Graphics, adding Images to containers, and adding images to video]]>
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March 21, 2007
category: Java Technology
down because you want to change a single localized resource bundle that's stuck in the JRE cache? ]]>
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March 20, 2007
category: Main
Join Educause and Sun Microsystems - an Educause Gold Partner - at the annual NERCOMP conference, March 19–21, 2007. This year's theme is "Connections, Collaborations, and Community."
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March 20, 2007
category: Developers
A dozen tips for testing free software is an interesting article about OSS quality. I want to compare this with some ideas we in the OpenJDK Quality Team have for quality of the OpenJDK and commercial JDK releases. I talked...
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March 20, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has shipped over one million CPU
threads, and passed the half-billion dollar...
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March 20, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced that it has shipped over one million CPU "threads," and passed the half-billion dollar revenue mark for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. When Sun introduced the chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor and systems in late 2005, it demonstrated that its breakthrough multi-core, multi-thread approach could deliver superior...
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March 20, 2007
category: Developers
Will your application protect the user's address book, calendar and to-do list? In part 3 learn how PIM is designed to work in conjunction with the MIDP 2.0 security framework.
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March 20, 2007
category: Java Technology
The all-Java database JavaDB (aka Derby) is known for its embeddability, but what about security? Can you put it out there for enterprise applications and keep data safe? Masoud Kalali shows the steps you can take to secure your JavaDB data.
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March 20, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: Springmodules project graduates, JeNet project graduates, and JCP site gets an overhaul
Feature Article: JavaDB End-to-End Security
Weblogs: RAW image project, instant Rails with NetBeans, and the future of Swing applications
Forum postings: Java or WSDL first, avoiding the heap, and incoming calls vs. ME apps]]>
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March 19, 2007
category: Main
Advance your development ability and shape your future with cutting-edge technical education; Sun Tech Days are loaded with practical information, examples of real-world solutions, and hands-on training. Whatever your focus, you'll find sessions to take your skills to the next level and advance your career in a Web 2.0 world.
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March 19, 2007
category: Developers
Given version 1.0 of an interface, adding a method to produce version 1.1 is:
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March 19, 2007
category: Developers
Recently, I gave a series 4 talks (consecutive saturdays about 2 to 2.5 hours) at CS department of Anna University
on Java Virtual Machine. The aim was to give understanding JVM at specification level
and not much on any specific implementation of it.
I did not create slides on my own. Also, I didn't stick only to slides - I did
mostly marker-pen-and-board as well. ...
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March 19, 2007
category: Developers
Premier Blog en Français pour annoncer notre présentation aux Tech Days à Paris ce Mercredi 21 Mars.
Eamonn et moi même allons présenter la session TD1103: In-depth Session: Java SE Beyond Basics: JMX, Performance and Concurrency.
Bien sur NetBeans 5.5 et JConsole sont encore de la partie...L'agenda des Tech Days est en ligne.
Dépêchez vous, ça à déjà commencé... et vous pouvez...
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March 19, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and the GlassFish community, today announced the beta release of the GlassFish V2, the next major version of the open source Java EE 5 application server and the release of the Sun Web Developer Pack, a toolkit designed for simplifying and enabling advanced rich Internet applications for the Java platform. These releases help enterprises build and deploy...
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March 19, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today made several announcements showcasing its momentum in the x64 (x86, 64-bit) industry, including new customers, world-record benchmarks, and offerings for the Sun Fire X4500 data server running on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Today's announcements build on the recent server market share numbers released by IDC, in which Sun demonstrated...
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March 19, 2007
category: Developers
Now that I've had a week to recuperate, and heal from my poor attempts at snowboarding, I can tell you about where I was the week before last. From the 5th of March to the 9th I was in Crested...
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March 19, 2007
category: Developers
Find community-authored articles, tutorials, tech tips, code clips and more on the Java Studio Creator community wiki hosted on java.net. The community includes the Java Studio Creator engineering and tutorials teams and developer-users like you. Visit today, browse the info, and contribute!
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March 19, 2007
category: Java Technology
Weblogs: Substance goes high-DPI, desktop sessions at JavaOne, and @nnotations on types
Java Today: NetBeans PortalPack, JMacAddressBook project, and the demise of J#
Spotlight: ROME
Forum postings: Non-blocking JMS clients, GlassFish classloader's done() mehtod, and where are the Swing Labs' samples?]]>
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March 18, 2007
category: Main
Given the diversity (and temperament) of the customers we serve, I don't normally do product plugs. But having just used (not just installed - I said used) Google Maps on my new Blackberry Pearl mobile handset, I have only one thing to say.
The grace with which it works comes close to a religious experience.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
Stefan and I are pleased to announce the release of v0.4 of the First-class Methods: Java-style closures proposal.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
What is the best syntax to allow anootation on types ?
I will not answer to that question but you can try
to convince me.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
Recently, Stephen Colebourne and Stefan Schulz post another closure
like proposal.
I am not a big fan of it but one syntax element of their proposal
is quite interesting.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
This blog entry explains why bound properties must not be generated
by the compiler.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
This short blog entry is an answer to the question:
why don't provide property change support natively in the Java compiler.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
This blog entry proposes a way to define properties in Java
and provides an updated version of the prototype java compiler
with property support.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
This blog is about shorthand syntaxes for declaring local variables
without specifying the type and the avability of a prototype compiler
to test them by yourself
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
For an average duke, the big difference between a language like PHP, Python and Java is that you have to declare the type of the variables. In general, it's not a big beal for a statement like this one...
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
The closure proposal specifies a new type java.lang.Undeclarable that can be used as a return type of a method to indicates that this method never returns. All instructions after a call to a method that returns Undeclarable is unreachable,...
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
This blog is an infrared echo to Matthias Ernst's last post
titled "How far is fidji".
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
I don't understand why the creation of array of parametrized type is unsafe ? Array of parametrized type don't seems to be inherently unsafe but some subtyping relations between array of parametrized type and some indentified classes are unsafe.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
Neal Gafter publishes a blog entry showing a possible path to reified generics in Java. I think that reified generics are importants
but i not totally agree with the proposal.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
Will we see in a near future, more VMs providing
a module repository implementing ahead of time compilation ?
And thus VMs that never interpret bytecodes !
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
"Everyone" is having their say on what should be done for "closures" in JDK7. Here's my take.
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March 18, 2007
category: Developers
Yesterday Bangladesh defeated India and Ireland defeated Pakistan. Who are "minnows" here? At least Pakistan had some reasons - they don't have two of their strike bowlers and also miss their star all rounder batsman (although 132 all out would still be questionable). But about Indian team? - rubbish!
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
Every now and then a problem arises where the right solution would be to impose an arbitrary total ordering on a collection of objects. The simplest example of this is when you need to sychronize on more than one object, all at the same time, to maintain some consistency condition across those objects. Using Closures, you might invoke a utility method like this:
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
jaxws-maven-plugin, which was originally developed at the Codehaus Mojo project, is now available on java.net as version 1.0.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
Came to know from Erik's Linkblog about the new release of Velocity. Updated jsr-223 script engine for Velocity @ scripting.dev.java.net to use Velocity 1.5.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
The video of Romain's and my presentation on "Filthy Rich Clients" at December's JavaPolis conference is now live.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
In this installment Enrique explores how to test for PIM API presence on your device and test for presence of the various databases and fields. Learn how to navigate the API and build robust applications.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
This overview of DTrace offers sample scripts. Dynamic tracing was introduced in the Solaris 10 OS to help debug systemic problems that are difficult to diagnose using traditional debugging tools.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
This Tech Tip explains how to add device support to the Solaris OS by attaching an existing Solaris driver to a new device.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
Find out how to install the latest Kernel Update (KU) patch, or any patch, to a post-GRUB x86 based miniroot image for Solaris JumpStart software.
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
Provides news and information of value to SDN members including product announcements, early access release info, upcoming events, and the latest product and technology releases.
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March 16, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: SIP-Communicator in Google Summer of Code, Japex 1.1, and OpenJDK and GlassFish on SDN TV
java.net Poll: What would be more useful for Desktop Java applications that render HTML?
Weblogs: Spring effects for buttons, JavaPolis "Filthy Rich Clients" video, and what's up with JavaSound?
Forums: Painters vs. UI delegates, caching of JPA entities, and GlassFish project adoption?
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March 16, 2007
category: Developers
This article highlights Java Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR 168) and the associated software, Portlet Container 1.0 and the NetBeans Portlet Plug-in; also Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) in its draft state. In addition, this article introduces the Enterprise-Class Portal Open Source Project along with its subprojects that deliver key portal-related components, including sample portlets.
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March 15, 2007
category: Developers
A nifty shell extension which allows you to treat JAR files as ordinary executable programs under Windows, complete with custom icons.
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March 15, 2007
category: Developers
Here is a small example that demonstrates how to retrieve all
MBeans which are wombats, including domestic wombats and feral wombats,
which are very ferocious.
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March 15, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), announced today that Thought Equity Motion, Inc. has added Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drives to its existing Sun storage infrastructure to dramatically improve the storage density, performance and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system. As a result, Thought Equity Motion, a leader in motion imagery licensing and...
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March 15, 2007
category: Developers
Making Hudson easy to install has always been a very important goal for me. I think it has been the easiest CI engine to install, but it just got even easier to install, thanks to Java Web Start.
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March 15, 2007
category: Developers
The video of Romain's and my presentation on "Filthy Rich Clients" at December's JavaPolis conference is now live.
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March 15, 2007
category: Java Technology
Forums: SwingX "painters" branch ends, purpose and status of JDIC, and ME Bluetooth with multiple PC's
Java Today: Java Modularity JSR statuses, PetStore 2.0, and Lisp-style lists with Java generics
Weblogs: Swash milestone and demos, the end of Cloudscape, and JavaDocs from the year 2020]]>
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March 15, 2007
category: Developers
Read about Open EA Program for Sun Studio 12 Software, Solaris Enterprise System Virtual Appliance for VMware, Configuring Java Applications to Use Solaris Security.
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March 14, 2007
category: Developers
At the Java Posse Roundup last week we had some wonderful evening sessions called Lighting Talks. During these sessions each participant had 5 minutes to give their entire presentation. This necessitates, of course, brevity and clarity above all. And of...
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March 14, 2007
category: Main
Simplified, out-of-box experience for C/C++/Fortran application development on laptop and desktop systems.
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March 14, 2007
category: Developers
I have added a number of Ruby Documents to the NetBeans wiki.
You can now find a feature list, as well as instructions for both how to download and install the Ruby support as well as how to build it from scratch. And of course, the todo list!
Perhaps most important to those of you using the Ruby builds is the Recent Changes document, where I try to summarize important changes that are...
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March 14, 2007
category: Developers
I tried to find a better fix for Bug ID: 6436458
that would eliminate synchronization altogether. Basically it boils down to the problem of serializing
transient final fields. In this case some fields of the Pattern class hold the compilation information of the regex that we don't want
serialized but rather reconstructed on deserialization. But we can't...
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March 14, 2007
category: Developers
Find out how to connect to and work with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MySQL in this article, which also shows you how to work with the Java DB by creating new databases and tables and populating them with data. For Sun Java Studio Creator users.
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March 14, 2007
category: Developers
Work with the Java Pet Store 2.0 demo and the Java EE 5 platform to develop an Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 application that is user-driven, user-organized, and user-policed.
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March 14, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: cqME framework 1.2 development release, NetBeans community docs, and blaming EE for failed projects
Forum postings: JAXB's role, Timing Framework feature requests, and open-source JSR 209 implementation?
Weblogs: Hudson/JIRA integration, JOSUG talk, and Java Application Platform SDK and Java EE SDK Update 3 Preview.]]>
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March 13, 2007
category: Main
Advance your development ability and shape your future with cutting-edge technical education; Sun Tech Days are loaded with practical information, examples of real-world solutions, and hands-on training. Whatever your focus, you'll find sessions to take your skills to the next level and advance your career in a Web 2.0 world.
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March 13, 2007
category: Developers
I got back from the Java Posse Roundup yesterday. Due to complications with my flights I was forced to spend an annoying Saturday night in a hotel in Denver. Still, the conference overall was worth it. I've got a bunch...
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March 13, 2007
category: Developers
I've owned the domain fatcatair.com for several years but have never actually had a web site there. The intention was to have this site document the building of my Velocity among other things. Well I recently got a new laptop and that gave me the incentive to finally work on putting the website together. It is pretty crude at this point but it now ...
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March 13, 2007
category: Main
Sun announces new online application service at Network.com.
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March 13, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun is delivering on its promise, made last October, to roll out a new
form of virtualisation, which it is calling...
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March 13, 2007
category: Developers
In 100% Java Quercus PHP engine running in GlassFish Java EE 5 Application Server... is a big of excellent news. Caucho, the maker of the Resin app server, has developed a pure-Java PHP execution engine. The engine is under the...
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March 13, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced it has added additional features to its Network.com pay-per-use offering, giving developers and open source communities the ability to just "click and run" applications online and a unique new way to create personalized application playlists. The first of its kind, the new Network.com Application Catalog enables developers and independent...
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March 13, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: Scala for Java programmers, Nimbus L&F, and NetBeans in Traditional Chinese
Weblogs: Multi-mini-conference feedback, Swing momentum, and base64 encryption
Forums: Nimbus and SE 6, JavaOne java.net Community Corner, and mixing fonts in JXTables
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March 12, 2007
category: Developers
Open sourcing of javac (and the JDK) is an opportunity to revisit
our current practices and think about what is missing, what needs
to be updated, and what should stay the same. One issue is how to
attribute source code with @author tags and there are different
policies in use in the open source community.
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March 12, 2007
category: Main
Please Join Educause and Sun Microsystems - an Educause Gold Partner - Fifth Annual EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, March 12-14, 2007, with theme, "Facing a River of Challenges."
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March 12, 2007
category: Developers
I just released Hudson 1.86 and it supports a new JIRA plugin for Hudson. This allows two systems to work nicely with each other.
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March 12, 2007
category: Main
(With apologies for the headfake of posting this entry then taking it down - my fingers were working faster than my brain, and I accidentally posted the entry without completing it. Or proofreading it.)
I made a speech last week at which I asserted it was faster to send a petabyte of data from San Francisco to Hong Kong by sailboat, than by the internet.
I got quite a few "how can...
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March 12, 2007
category: Java Technology
Consider it two for flinching. Today, chip maker Intel (http://www.intel.com/)
will round out its quad-core Clovertown Xeon 5300 processor...
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March 12, 2007
category: Java Technology
In seven years, server maker IBM (http://www.ibm.com/) has come a long way. As the millennium turned, Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/) was...
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