May 2007
May 27, 2007
category: Main
We are proud to announce APAC Extended Horizons Summit 2007, a two-day conference for Sun's Software Community. Running for 12 consecutive years in North America and for five consecutive years in Asia Pacific. This year's summit includes, in addition to Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite (formerly known as SeeBeyond ICAN Suite), the complete Software portfolio from...
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
Find out about new features and enhancements to the software that help maximize resource utilization and increase data center productivity.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This brief tech tip describes the configuration required for directory listing. It also tells you how to give both authenticated and unauthenticated users that access.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This article describes how to use the baseline pre-caching script and Sun Connection's satellite deployment architecture to patch your Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
Learn how to use the Service Management Facility (smf) -- a new, unified model for services and service management that is included in the Solaris Operating System.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This article discusses Short Message Service (SMS) support within Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3. You can utilize SMS as a means to quickly notify users with a more real-time, "push" style of communications, for example, to let users know of emergency conditions that require their prompt action.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
Here is an approach to simplifying data center infrastructure through the creation of standardized operating environments (SOEs).
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This article describes how to use Sun Connection and baselines to update your Solaris hosts with patches.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This document discusses the core technologies that are used to build and secure Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
This document provides a high-level technical overview of IP SANs and iSCSI, and positions IP SANs relative to Fibre Channel SANs and NAS.
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May 22, 2007
category: System Admins
Find out how to use ZFS, the Solaris 10 method for managing storage, to organize physical storage devices into logical pools called storage pools.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
This year's Conference celebrates the free and open software environment with a new Open Source track.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Here are 10 must-see destinations and some related recommendations for enterprise developers at the 2007 JavaOne conference.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Renowned bug fixer Brian Harry offers tips about how to fix bugs and explores the intricacies of Swing code.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
With over 40 technical, birds-of-a-feather (BOF), and hands-on lab sessions devoted to desktop technologies at this year's JavaOne conference, choosing which ones to attend can be difficult. John O'Conner lists his top 10 picks.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Developers new to Java technology will find plenty to do at the 2007 JavaOne conference. Come learn about robotics, desktop, deployment, Ajax, and much more.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Are you ready for the 2007 JavaOne conference, coming to San Francisco May 8 to 11? Kick off with Java University on May 7. Explore in-depth technical sessions and After Dark events.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Peter von der Ahé, tech lead for javac at Sun Microsystems, discusses the Kitchen Sink Language, the Java Compiler API, and new ways of thinking about generics, reification, and type inference for local variables
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Read the first installment of a six part series on the Personal Information Management API (JSR 75). Java ME expert and JCP member Enrique Ortiz provides the definitive text on the PIM API.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Learn how to use Dynamic Faces, included in the new Sun Web Developer Pack, to add first-class Ajax support to your JavaServer Faces technology-based application.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Can EJB 3.0 applications interact with legacy EJB applications? Can a Model Facade be implemented as an enterprise bean? The answers are yes and yes. Learn how.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Java SE 6 provides developers even more control over how they access and use locale-sensitive resources in their applications.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
With Sun Java System Portal Server, you can localize your portal to display UI wording (time, date, messages) in the language of your choice. Learn the steps here for a much-desired enhancement.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Learn how to plan for your application with Use cases, how to use the NetBeans IDE for UML, and see what's coming at the JavaOne Conference for new Java developers.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Learn how "exceptions" work, how to create JavaBeans and design with MVC, and getting started with the NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5.
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May 22, 2007
category: Developers
Mike Riley interviews our Director of Marketing on Sun's new Java developer tools. In this segment, Dan discusses Sun's Project Matisse and its group layout function, then lists some compelling features in Java Enterprise Systems and Java Studio Enterprise to entice Eclipse users to migrate to Sun tools
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May 22, 2007
category: Java Technology
Welcome to the Core Java Technologies Tech Tips for April 2007. Core Java Technologies Tech Tips provide tips and hints for using core Java technologies and APIs provided in the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). This issue provides tips for the following: Compiling with the Java Compiler API and Regular Expressions.
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May 22, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java EE 5 achieves a high level of simplification over previous editions of the platform by using annotations for declarative programming. In this article, Sangeetha S. and Subrahmanya S. V. look into this approach and its many uses.
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May 21, 2007
category: Main
I read two daily newspapers.
I know the world is moving away from printed media, and this admission marks me as a bit of a dinosaur - but there are all kinds of interesting parallels between the newspaper industry and the software industry. Both are undergoing tremendous change, creating havoc for some and opportunity for others.
The industries have much in common - minimally,...
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May 21, 2007
category: Main
Hello Sun Inner Circle readers. It's Bob Worrall here, the CIO of Sun and the typical author of this letter. This month I'm traveling the world, talking to customers, partners, and the press about some of the exciting things going on in IT and across Sun. In my stead, I've asked John Dutra, CTO of Sun IT, to author this month’s letter. John is going to discuss a topic that I...
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May 21, 2007
category: Developers
The OpenJDK and NetBeans IDE WebSite has now a tutorial that shows how to build various part of the JDK, and the JDK itself: in particular, there's a chapter dedicated to building the JMX API sources, and another one dedicated to building the JConsole graphical tool sources.
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May 21, 2007
category: Main
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today introduced the Sun Distribution Channel Portal solution to help the insurance industry open up new markets and better serve new and existing customers by making it easier to develop new product distribution channels.
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May 21, 2007
category: Developers
JavaServer Faces provides a component-model architecture through which you can build an Ajax application by drag-and-dropping Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces components in an IDE such as Sun Java Studio Creator.
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May 21, 2007
category: Java Technology
Weblogs: Consumer-side Java improvements, JMX hands-on lab, and how not to improve the Bug Parade
Java Today: Jxta-Overlay project, Java Mobility Podcast 4, and JUG events wiki
Spotlight: Shoal project
Forum Posts: Graphics optimizations, fate of Metal L&F, and resolution-independent icons
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May 20, 2007
category: Developers
Watching Josh Bloch's presentation at JavaOne about new topics
in the second edition of Effective Java
makes me want to go out and get my own copy. Unfortunately, he's not
scheduled to have the new edition in print until later this year.
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May 20, 2007
category: Developers
I finally went through the contents of my JavaOne backpack this weekend. Along with the usual promotional materials there was a small case with a pen - as far as I recall this was the speaker gift. I was about to dismiss it as another uninteresting pen when I noticed that you can pull out the top, which is in fact a 1 GB USB ...
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May 19, 2007
category: Java Technology
Luis-Miguel Alventosa and myself together developed, and presented for, this year's JavaOne Hands-On Lab1420 on "Non-instrusive Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Java Applications using Java Management Extension (JMX), JConsole and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)".]]>
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
The Consumer JRE release will address several serious issues in deploying and running Java applications. Even better: you don't have to wait for the next major release of the JDK to get these features.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
Well, the phrase may not be entirely apt, but it does carry the right sentiment, especially to the monarchists amongst us.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
Yesterdays post on Closed versus open multimedia formats seems to have struck a nerve. A lot of good comments. I just came across Chris Adamson's blog, Java SE Media (Or Not) at JavaOne ... wow that makes for some interesting...
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
Today is my last day at Sun. This has been a tremendous experience, and you,
the readers of my blog, have helped make it so. I plan to follow the
OpenJDK compiler,
Kitchen Sink Language,
and OpenJFX projects, but I have
a full time job, so my contributions will be small.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
First the screenshot - click for full resolution:
The NetBeans Ruby support now lets you debug Rails applications. As the screenshot shows, you can even step right through RHTML files! All the usual debugging features are there - breakpoints, stack view, local variables view - and balloon evaluation, where you hover the mouse over a variable and it displays the current value as a...
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May 18, 2007
category: Main
Now you can get a turnkey high memory configuration for your memory-intensive applications, including EDA, Oracle, Data Warehousing for far less than you'd expect. You simply can't miss this offer!
For a limited time, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server with 64GB memory and 8 cores is available for less than $48,000 USD. Offer good through May 28,2007
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
Now that OpenJDK is out and I would like to open up some of the discussions that have been happening within the OpenJDK Quality team of Sun to the community. My colleague David has initiated it already in his blog on Test Suites and tools and this is a continuation of the same.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
This brief on-demand webcast shows how developers can
create high-performance applications using this
distribution and deploy to the Solaris 10 OS.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
Don't miss our Q&A session with Sumit Gupta. Ask him everything you've always wanted to know about using Fibre Channel with the Solaris platform.
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May 18, 2007
category: Developers
The Consumer JRE release will address several serious issues in deploying and running Java applications. Even better: you don't have to wait for the next major release of the JDK to get these features.
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May 18, 2007
category: Java Technology
Poll: Have you downloaded and built OpenJDK yet?
Weblogs: Consumer JRE announcement, multimedia formats, and JRuby at RailsConf
Java Today: JIDE common layer, NetBeans Visual Library slidecast, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #121
Forum Posts: Natural Language Processing for Mobicents bots, client vs. server sockets, and commit problems in JPA]]>
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
At JavaONE last week Bruno Souza launched one of his stunts which was video'd and posted online. Last year he had this "foot" which he carried around with which to kick people in the head, and apparently the video got...
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
JavaFX is cool, right? Did you raise your hand when you said you wanted an JavaFX Mobile phone? I sure did. Looking over blog entries since JavaONE I'm seeing a lot of angst... JavaFX adds to the bloat so how...
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
With all the fuss about JavaFX, you may have missed an equally important announcement: the new Consumer JRE is on its way, with a host of exciting improvements.
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
What follows is a particular problem I had compiling NetBeans on my Mac and my solution to it. I'm putting this in my blog not so much for my readers but for the future generations of Google travelers who may...
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May 17, 2007
category: Java Technology
Rumors were flying around Silicon Valley in
November 2005 that something intriguing was happening in one of the
underground parking garages at...
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
Join me for a swim with SONIA, a Java-powered AUV
that made waves at JavaOne 2007.
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May 17, 2007
category: Developers
Another JavaOne under my belt. The event always seems to
go by so fast. Here's a run-down of what I remember most about it.
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May 17, 2007
category: Java Technology
GUI's are notoriously difficult to test, and the robot-based approach to automated testing makes agile development difficult, as you need finished GUIs before you can test. The UISpec4J project takes a different approach, and in this article Régis Medina and Pascal Pratmarty show how it works.
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May 17, 2007
category: Java Technology
Catch Roger Brinkley's and Terrence Barr's interview with Vringo, an independent software vendor (ISV) who launched a video-sharing community that enables you to share video ringtones (or "Vringos") with your buddies. You choose the clips -- from movies, TV, music, or your originals -- you'd like your friends to see on their mobile phones, and they choose the clips they'd like you to see. Says...
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May 17, 2007
category: Java Technology
Feature Article: UISpec4J: Java GUI Testing Made Simple
Java Today: Java bytecode guide, ME pain points, and Bob Brewin on JavaFX and new JRE
Forum Posts: ME memory leaks, SE memory leaks, and turning off EJB timer persistence
Weblogs: Java Module System, Bluetooth, and WSIT endorsements]]>
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
I'm back from JavaOne where I had a pretty good time. The weather started out real nice Mon. and Tues. but by Fri. it was really cold. I need to bring a heavier jacket next time as I managed to get myself a cold. I'm sure that some of those people on the plane with me have it now. :-(
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
This seemed to be a topic of confusion last week at JavaOne. In most of the press interviews I did - including a cameo appearance in Jonathan and Rich's post-keynote press conference - this question came up and also my dear JCP EC Members seemed curious about any relation between the two. So let's start at the top. ...
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May 16, 2007
category: Main
Tuesday, May 22nd at 10:00a.m. PST: Join this live Sun Expert Exchange Q&A to ask your own questions on how to virtualize your datacenter and realize stunning improvements in application performance, systems availability, and asset utilization – and, for large organizations, slash costs by millions of dollars a year. Drill down with Sun experts into which virtualization technologies are best...
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
In the troubleshooting BOF, we demonstrated how to use the
jmap -dump option to dump heap dump of a running application and showed how to browse/analyze the resulting binary heap dump using the jhat tool.
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
Get a technical overview of GlassFish V2 Beta and an architecture preview of GlassFish V3.
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
Read about the latest proposed enhancements for Java Persistence 2.0, including more flexible modeling, expanded object-relational mapping functionality, and more query language capabilities.
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May 16, 2007
category: Developers
Read these blogs on Configuring Timestamp Verification in WSIT Through Policy Assertions, Develop WSTrust Application Using NetBeans, and Specifying Icon and Splash Images for Java Web Start Launches of App Clients.
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May 16, 2007
category: Java Technology
In a followup to his JavaOne 2007 technical session, Neal Gafter offers a 15-minute question-and answer session on a proposal to add closures to the Java programming language. He makes the case for Closures making Java programs easier to read, and handles questions about closure expression serializability, continuations, patterns and boilerplate that suggest the need for closures, and whether...
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May 16, 2007
category: Java Technology
Feature Podcast: Neal Gafter on closures
Java Today: Developing for JavaFX, NetBeans plug-ins for JavaFX, and Gosling on JavaFX, open-source, and more
Weblogs: JavaCard development kits, Microsoft beyond the PC, and new adventures in Comet
Forum Posts: Swing scroll-pane design smell, Bluetooth on Linux, and modifying named queries]]>
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
Due to a deluge of requests (both of them) here are the slides for our Awesome BoF 5000. You can see them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. I recommend the QuickTime if you can as it contains the...
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
Effective Java discusses two variants of the type-safe enum pattern, one that allows subclassing and one that does not. The enum language construct added in JDK 5 only provides the non-subclassing variant (because supporting subclassing would have confusing interactions with switch statements and other enum features). However, having the enum class implement a mixin interface can restore some...
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May 15, 2007
category: Main
Get a Sun 19-inch Flat Panel TFT LCD Digital Monitor, originally $800-now less than $300! Offer good while supplies last!
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May 15, 2007
category: Main
Find out how Sun can help you get more for less by virtualizing your server environments at this Sun Net Talk on Demand. Learn how Sun virtualization technologies and expanded partnerships can reduce costs and increase capacity. Plus, take a video tour of Sun's new Virtualization Center where you can test out the best combination of virtualization technologies for your environment.
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
Glen Smith apparently liked Hudson enough that he has done a Hudson talk to the Canberra JUG.
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
You may have seen an OpenDMK project
lingering on java.net for
a few weeks: Well, I am pleased to announce that we have pushed
a first snapshot of the sources just before JavaOne.
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May 15, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems is licensing its chip multithreading processor design to a UK company for use in the mobile processor markets...
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May 15, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems is increasing the number of patents it's licensing to other vendors.
A May 15 agreement between Sun and...
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May 15, 2007
category: Main
Years back, Sun was under pressure in the market. Although many users loved our core Solaris operating system, others thought it was built for high end computers, not grid systems. Our computer business had failed to keep pace with the rest of the industry - which meant our volume systems looked expensive. In combination, and with a poor track record of supporting Solaris off of Sun hardware,...
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May 15, 2007
category: Java Technology
Sun Microsystems' open-source chip plan is bearing some early
fruit, but the server and software company hopes to increase further
involvement by...
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
JAXB RI just got one step closer to the world domination :-)
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
After 19 hours of flight, I finally reached Chennai from SFO (on Sunday morning). I'm still going through the timezone change. I wish for a "Star Trek" like transport
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May 15, 2007
category: Developers
Read Ed Ort's review of the irreverent Java Rock Stars, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, co-founders of the Ajax community site Ajaxian.com. Wildly popular speakers on the techie conference circuit, Galbraith and Almaer demonstrated Ajax techniques and highlighted some of the lessons learned from the first highly successful "Ajax innovators" and examined what's new and cool in the Ajax arena.
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May 15, 2007
category: Java Technology
Feature Articles: Mobile & Embedded Podcast # 3 and Substance mini-talk
Java Today: JavaFX in perspective, phoneME MR2, and ONJava interviews Robert Brewin
Weblogs: Budgeting JSF 2.0 features, call for OpenJDK feedback, and 21 people Kirill met at JavaOne
Forum Posts: phoneME personal profile port for Nokia N800, forcing mark sweep GC, and global bindings vs. value classes]]>
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
JavaOne contained many gems of wisdom, of varying sizes. This one indirectly came my way during the week, and is fun enough to pass along. It is self-described as "Good advice on developer and unit testing, packaged as twelve cryptic bits of ancient Eastern wisdom." You can find it here. It is also available in PDF. Enjoy -- and thanks to Alberto Savoia for making ...
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
JavaOne 2007 is over. I haven't been blogging lately, and I can truly blame that on JavaOne. It turned out really busy for me: Two keynote demos, one technical session, two Java Posse appearances (our BOF, and NetBeans Day), and a half hour demo at NetBeans day. In addition, the Java Posse got full press treatment this time around, so we had tons of interviews lined up. The picture below...
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
I'm interested in what y'all think about the OpenJDK project. I talked with a lot of people last week at JavaONE, so I heard some thoughts and feedback. I had intended to have a microphone handy during my booth duty,...
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May 14, 2007
category: Main
James Gosling, the father of Java, shows off some of the coolest Java innovations at JavaOne 2007.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
It
has been said that there are foxes and there are hedgehogs and
"the fox knows many tricks, but the hedgehog knows one great trick."
The one great trick of computer science is adding a level of
indirection in the right place. There is an interesting similarity
between the level of indirection added by the visitor pattern and by closures.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
Brief JavaOne recap now that I have had a weekend to recover:
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
I created an OpenJDK desktop background. My graphic talents are limited, so I hope this can serve as an inspiration for more talented people.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
From Ajax to Comet to Spring to Phobos, download the JavaOne Hands-On Labs and experience Web 2.0 web applications for yourself.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
Read Ed Ort's review of the irreverent Java Rock Stars, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, co-founders of the Ajax community site Ajaxian.com. Wildly popular speakers on the techie conference circuit, Galbraith and Almaer demonstrated Ajax techniques and highlighted some of the lessons learned from the first highly successful "Ajax innovators" and examined what's new and cool in the Ajax arena.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
Use dynamic faces Ajax zones to easily enable plain old JSF components to send Ajax requests, dynamically update other components with the Ajax response, and use an Ajax Transaction to continually poll the server. By the end of the exercise, you have created a simple chat room.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
From Ajax to Comet to Spring to Phobos, download the JavaOne Hands-On Labs and experience Web 2.0 web applications for yourself.
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
Use dynamic faces Ajax zones to easily enable plain old JSF components to send Ajax requests, dynamically update other components with the Ajax response, and use an Ajax Transaction to continually poll the server. By the end of the exercise, you have created a simple chat room!
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May 14, 2007
category: Developers
GWT is definitely an interesting technology to explore for building Ajax applications especially for those who want to leverage their Java knowledge. The current version of NetBeans GWT plug-in does not support "creating a WAR" feature yet. That will be provided in the next version.
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May 14, 2007
category: Java Technology
A description of the JSF 2.0 EG Kick-Off meeting where we played an Innovation Game to help discover our priorities.
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May 14, 2007
category: Java Technology
Java Today: Outside OpenJDK bug fix, NetBeans magazine, and Mobile & Embedded white-paper
Weblogs: Speculating past Java 7, mutual exclusion in Java Spaces, and thanks Mom for the tech
java.net Poll: What was the most important announcement from the JavaOne 2007 general sessions?
Spotlight: OpenJFX
Forum Posts: Memory management in real-world ME, finding ME configuration, and LG3D rendering...
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May 13, 2007
category: Developers
After I could build the bundle and the repository I am now able to do what I wanted to do a year ago. Bug 6313849 is an enhancement request to add a disconnect() method to the URLConnection class so...
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May 13, 2007
category: Developers
A special tribute to the person who is most responsible for my survival in this zany field of computers and software.
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May 12, 2007
category: Developers
In Farewell To GCJ, Sun Hires GCJ Architect For JavaFX, while discussing Per Bothner's being hired by Sun, Wei Qi Gao asks: (For example, what are they going to do after Java 7? Add a macro system?) ... er... I...
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May 12, 2007
category: Developers
This is my last day as the intrepid reporter at Java One. The press
room, which had become my home away from home, was closed. Instead of
snarfing up the baked goods and looking for the secret stash of booze, I
chatted with lots of interesting folks in the halls of Moscone, attended a
couple of sessions, and pondered what it all meant.
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
It's the last day of JavaONE, I spent most of my time in the OpenJDK booth talking with people. And their questions are on my mind. Here's a few answers to common questions. What happens with people selling commercial apps...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
At JavaOne, closures were still a hot topic of debate.
But comparing the different proposals can be tricky, especially as JavaOne only had BGGA based sessions.
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
JavaOne is nearly over and it was a good as well as a bad convention. One of the things that stroke me was the fact of registering for a session and then standing in line for it. Considering the...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
Another quick update. Hans and I did our session on JSR 296 today and it was a huge success. We were completely packed, over 500 people I think! More coming soon. update Here is John's coverage of our session. Thanks...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
It's Friday morning and I'm watching the James Gosling keynote from the bean bags in front of the big screen. I'd say this was the most exciting JavaOne I've ever been too. We really saw desktop Java in full force....
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
Last night I went to the Java 3D / OpenGL Bindings BOF and in all the locomotion I forgot to pick up my fairly new MacBook Pro after asking a question. After the next session I suddenly realized it...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
Wow.
This has been the most intense JavaOne I have ever intended.
I have met so many interesting people and have had a great
time talking about OpenJDK and the possibilities now.
I know many of my friends have already done amazing things
with OpenJDK... I can't wait to learn about all the cool hacking!
I fully intended to blog on events this week, ...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
We have written a white paper about JMX Interoperation With Non Java Technologies.
This whitepaper explains how the
Web Services Connector for JMX Agents (defined by
JSR 262) was
successfully used to provide interoperation with non
Java technologies and products such as Hewlett Packard's
OpenView Operations Agent (HP-OVO), and Microsoft's ...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
This is my third day of reporting from the floor of Java One. I ran
into a number of very interesting folks, got the chance to ask more
hard-hitting questions, and had a mixed bag of sessions.
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May 11, 2007
category: Main
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid user interface development in Java-based server-side applications. Now, Core JavaServer Faces--the #1 guide to JSF--has been thoroughly updated in this second edition, covering the latest feature enhancements, the powerful Ajax development techniques, and open source innovations that make JSF even more valuable.
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
"Are we sufficiently awed by our own technology?" Mark Morford, one of my favorite local (San Francisco) columnists, wrote an essay titled Talkin' To The Steering Wheel which seems like a pertinent closer to JavaOne. Sometimes we nerds need to...
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May 11, 2007
category: Developers
Sorry for the hassle as we have some growing pains: Please point your reader to http://blogs.sun.com/javaoneintro/feed/entries/atom instead of the old link. Your reward?
Newer, fresher, more complete content. It's worth it, and we thank you. --The SDN Editorial Staff
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May 11, 2007
category: Java Technology
Substance look and feel aims to provide a configurable and customizable production-quality Java look and feel library for Swing applications. This mini-talk will show the following Substance features: Using Substance in your Swing application, Using core themes, watermarks and skins, Writing your own theme, watermark and skin, Using animation API, Additional UI elements available under...
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May 10, 2007
category: Developers
Hello from JavaOne,
Sun's annual Java conference. This is a major event and consumes a great deal
of our time in preparation. Since we've been working frantically to prepare for the release of the Java SE platform as open source, this year was particularly hectic. We promised at last year's JavaOne that we would do this, and
now we're ready to go.
Rich G ...
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