July 13, 2007
Enterprise Systems: The New Bounce in Suns Step. Dont look now, but Sun Microsystems Inc. has a new bounce in its step.
From its recent...
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June 24, 2007
Jazoon'07. Jazoon'07 brings together experts and users of Java and open source technologies from all...
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September 2006
September 30, 2006
category: Developers
Welcome to the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips for September 30, 2006. Here you'll get tips on using enterprise Java technologies and APIs, such as those in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Configuring JAX-WS Handlers on the Client and Tech Tips Quiz
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September 29, 2006
category: Main
A hands-on guide to the Java programming language, The Java Tutorial, Fourth Edition, is perfect for any developer looking for a proven path to proficiency with Java SE. This popular tutorial "from the Source" has been completely revised and updated to cover Version 6 of the Java Platform, Standard Edition.
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September 29, 2006
category: Main
Purchase 4 or more Sun Fire X4500 or X4600 servers, factory-integrated into a Sun Grid Rack System and become eligible for terrific offers. Offer Ends February 1, 2007
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September 29, 2006
category: Developers
Using SHADE makes it possible to write an analysis tool which gathers
information from the application being emulated.
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September 29, 2006
category: Developers
Learn two ways of viewing the correspondence between the behaviour of the
training and reference workloads using profile feedback.
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September 27, 2006
category: Main
For the first time, UML (Unified Modeling Language) capability, is available in NetBeans. With the release of NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 Beta, the NetBeans community can leverage the feature rich, yet intuitive modeling capabilities of UML, in addition to the extensive code support already provided by the NetBeans IDE. In this Net Talk Take 10, Ashwin Rao outlines the NetBeans development...
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September 27, 2006
category: Developers
Here's a Q&A with Shannon Hickey, Technical Lead for the Swing team at Sun Microsystems. As a member of the team for the last five years, he has become intimately familiar with the toolkit, of which he now guides the technical direction.
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September 27, 2006
category: Developers
Check out the cool new Project jMaki home page and the new visual, Ajax-based widget gallery.
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September 26, 2006
category: Developers
(Parts
1,
2,
3, and
4.)
The Build Monitor plugin for NetBeans allows you to see the status of continuous builds, right from within the IDE. The Build Monitor works with several continuous build systems - CruiseControl,
Hudson,
and of course the NetBeans continous build.
You can monitor multiple build sources - all you do is name your build and point to an RSS feed where the...
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September 26, 2006
category: Main
I sat down with Robert Scoble recently to talk about explaining network infrastructure to children, the blog demon that sits on my shoulder, and the future of our marketplace serving network businesses. Please check out his new gig... (you can also click here to start watching our discussion immediately (requires quicktime, and good bandwidth)).
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September 26, 2006
category: Developers
In this Net Talk Take 10, Ashwin Rao outlines the NetBeans development environment from the standpoint of UML development and highlights features including: ease of use, markerless code, and language-independent abstract modeling.
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September 25, 2006
category: Developers
Find out how you can display a message in the title bar of the Table component in Winston Prakash's latest weblog entry and, if you missed it before, check out his instructions on adding multiple buttons
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September 23, 2006
category: Developers
Welcome to the Core Java Technologies Tech Tips for September 2006. Core Java Technology Tech Tips provide hints and tips to help you get the most out of core Java technologies and APIs, such as those in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). This issue covers Java 2D Soft Clipping and Java 2D Light and Shadows.
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September 22, 2006
category: Main
I was on a panel at a telecom tradeshow a few years ago. I was surrounded by top executives from the largest handset companies, a few global carriers, and a couple technologists. The host asked a basic question: "What's the killer app for the mobile marketplace going to be?"
My peers on the panel had a range of fanciful responses, from the future of mobile payments, to downloadable...
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September 22, 2006
category: Main
Purchase a qualifying Sun Server and get 10% off select Sun StorageTek arrays. Offer Ends January 31, 2007
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September 21, 2006
category: Developers
I was struggling with a problem today, and I found a pretty decent workaround. Since initial googling hadn't turned anything useful up, I figured this writeup might help others who search for it in the future.
In essence, the problem boils down to "How can you initialize your own object before the superclass constructor has run?"
Let's express this in code - I've...
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September 21, 2006
category: Main
See the healthcare environment of tomorrow. A single integrated community, a place where needed information flows seamlessly across departments, facilities, regions, and even nations, and where medical records are in the right hands at the precise moment they're needed. In this brief Net Talk Take 10, listen to Paul Markham from TeraMedica and Ambre Chevalier from Sun discuss a complete...
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September 21, 2006
category: Developers
A new 2-day workshop for developers interested in leveraging existing JSF and AJAX-based web-tier components to build web applications. SDN members - use your priority code to get 10% off.
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September 20, 2006
category: Developers
The following topics are covered in this issue: Wondering What Happened to Patch Access via Anonymous FTP?, ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability), Solaris 10 6/06 OS Installation Resources, CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack), Setting Up Microsoft Windows LPD for Easy Printing on the Solaris OS, Single Sign-On...
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
13 Sept 2006 - Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz unveils innovations across Sun's product portfolio that solve the toughtest IT problems.
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
24 Aug 2006 - Sun Gains Market Share Over All Top Competitors
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
15 Aug 2006 - Sun introduces new, faster, eco-responsible UltraSPARC and x64 systems.
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
11 Jul 2006 - Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and EVP of Systems, John Fowler showcase new Sun x64 enterprise systems.
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
12 Jun 2006 - Michael Lehman, Sun's CFO and EVP of Corporate Resources spoke at the conference in fireside chat format.
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September 19, 2006
category: Developers
For part 2, see here.
We've got a new
forum set up for the Java Posse. There's quite a bit of activity there already. One entry in this thread argues once again that there is nothing wrong with tabs and that they are a good way to express indentation.
(We keep mentioning that Tabs Are Bad on the show). I've gotten similar feedback from my previous anti-tab blog...
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September 19, 2006
category: Main
Open source is not open and shut. Licensing models, governance, and collaboration are key issues that need to be addressed by IT organizations, open source communities, and Sun itself as the use of open source software grows. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, explains.
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September 19, 2006
category: Developers
Tony Beckham shows you how to consume the GoogleSearch web service to create a personalized search application. See virtual forms, data providers, page navigation, page fragments, and some cool components in action too
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September 19, 2006
category: Developers
The Java Studio Creator tutorials team has made all the tutorials available in pdf format. Just download the zip file and get all the docs in a topic bundled together.
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September 19, 2006
category: Developers
Developers and IT managers can learn about enterprise AJAX, mobile AJAX, AJAX with Java, AJAX and web services, security issues, and more.
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September 18, 2006
category: Main
I just got back from a week out talking to investors and customers, and hosting a few customer events in New York City. New York is a cultural center for a number of communities - notably for Sun, those who see technology as a source of value, as a competitive weapon, not just a cost center. Home turf for us. You can watch one of the videos here, and another interview at BusinessWeek, here -...
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September 18, 2006
category: Developers
Learn how to develop web applications with Java Studio Creator in just 2 hours. Topics include: components in the visual interface, creating a project, page navigation, binding components to back-end services, deploying a project, and securing your applications with JAAS.
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September 18, 2006
category: Developers
Learn how to develop web applications with Java Studio Creator in just 2 hours. Topics include: components in the visual interface (including AJAX components), creating a project, page navigation, binding components to back-end services, deploying a project, and securing your applications with JAAS.
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September 18, 2006
category: Developers
Chet Chat: On the future of humor and humanity
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September 16, 2006
category: Main
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has arrived, and with it have come a faster application development process and the ability to adapt more flexibly to changing business needs. The Gartner Group predicts that "By 2008, SOA will be a prevailing software engineering practice, ending the 40-year domination of monolithic software architecture." So what is SOA? Basically, it's an IT approach...
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September 16, 2006
category: Developers
The news that JSR-199, JSR-269, and the javac Tree API are almost finished seems to be flying under the radar, but tool nerds should take notice: there is a lot more you can do with these API than just compile source files and process annotations. In the spirit of O'Reilly Media's Hacks series, here are some alternative areas to explore.
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September 14, 2006
category: Main
Did you miss the live event? Read the transcript from this informative Sun Expert Exchange online Q&A on Sun's new x64 systems with AMD Opteron processors.
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September 13, 2006
category: Main
New Products Showcase Security in Sun's Storage Portfolio; New Sun StorageTek VTL Plus Leverages the Power of the Solaris 10 Operating System to Outperform Competitors
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September 13, 2006
category: Main
Today Sun is announcing affordable, open, world-class solutions that address our customers' needs for efficiency, security, and simplicity better than anyone else. Our latest products deliver exceptional value by cutting costs, improving performance, securing IT infrastructures, and making businesses more efficient.
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September 13, 2006
category: Main
NetBeans is a great tool for any developer, especially those shifting from other platforms. In this Net Talk, Tim Boudreau, one of the authors of NetBeans, gives an overview of this free, open-source integrated development environment (IDE) that provides solutions for multiple development needs – from mobile devices to enterprise applications. Learn how you can load projects from JBuilder and...
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September 13, 2006
category: Developers
In this installment of the Learning Curve journals, Walter develops a database application that gathers data from flight, trip, and employee tables to produce an employee travel information report. Follow along—all the code is included.
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September 12, 2006
category: Developers
Learn about an important new feature of the Java Management Extension API in Java Platform, Standard Edition 6: MXBeans, a convenient way to bundle related values without requiring special client configurations to handle the bundles.
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September 09, 2006
category: Main
Fast and Affordable: Get a Sun Fire T1000 server and Sun Studio 11 software for a low, web-only price!
Offer ends September 30, 2006
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September 08, 2006
category: Developers
Get an introduction to AJAX techniques and the Swing-inspired JavaServer Faces framework in this practical design and programming approach to building web applications using NetBeans and Java Studio Creator. A Java University at Sun Tech Days course.
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September 08, 2006
category: Java Technology
Ed talks about his upcoming speaking engagements, including The Ajax Experience in Boston, U.S.A.
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September 07, 2006
category: Developers
Sun has hired the two primary JRuby developers,
Charles Nutter and
Thomas Enebo.
This is great news for JRuby, because it will now be their full time job to work on it.
(JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby language that runs on top of the Java platform.)
This obviously fits well with our strategy to support multiple languages on the JVM, and in particular,
dynamic and scripting...
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September 07, 2006
category: Main
Join us to learn the latest on SOA trends, architectural strategies, and the benefits SOA can deliver to IT architects, developers, and the business as a whole. Find out how Sun's Pragmatic SOA approach and the new Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite can: enable "loosely coupled" systems, leverage existing investments, improve IT and business agility, provide standards-based...
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September 07, 2006
category: Developers
Jennifer Ball posted two new tutorials on how to use jMaki widgets: Getting Started Using jMaki Widgets as JSP Tag Handlers and Using jMaki Widgets as JavaServer Faces Components. Also see the earlier tutorial Using jMaki Widgits.
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September 07, 2006
category: Developers
Chris Kutler shows you how to use jMaki to add a dojo combobox component to a JavaServer Faces application built using using Java Studio Creator.
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September 06, 2006
category: Main
It's Bill Vass back with another letter. Before my faithful readers get to thinking that there is no rhyme to my reason, I should explain that in my letters I am building a stack of technologies that can help enterprises reduce data center costs, improve hardware utilization, and increase application availability and performance. In recent letters, we discussed how Sun's CMT processor...
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Shape your future with in-depth technical training on Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, Tools, Solaris OS, and more. Featured keynote: Rich Green, Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems, plus attend bonus NetBeans Day and OpenSolaris Day. Sessions and hands on labs topics include Web 2.0, AJAX, web-tier frameworks, JavaServer Faces, and Java Studio Creator.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Chris Kutler shows you how to use jMaki to add a dojo combobox component to a JavaServer Faces application built using using Java Studio Creator.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
This conference features over fifty technically focused sessions across three full days spanning four parallel tracks with over twenty five speakers.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
This developer conference concentrates on software technology, methods and best practices with six days of reflection, discussions, news, fun and mingling. Ed Burns,on our JavaServer Faces team, is a presenter.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Ed Burns demonstrates how to implement AJAX-enabled applications using JavaServer Faces. You'll see code from both the page author and component developer points of view, and get a look to the future of mobile and disconnected applications. Hosted by the Orlando chapter of Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
After a few months of steady improvements, we're ready to announce an early access release of Project Dynamic Faces. Also visit the slides and screencasts page for an introductory presentation by Ed Burns.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Through a sample portlet, this article describes several tips on how to take maximum advantage of the benefits of using AJAX in portlets and suggests workarounds for pitfalls.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Read about how to use JavaServer Faces technology to build a library
of reusable components and make your web pages' AJAX functionality
available to a large community of users.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Shape your future with in-depth technical training on Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, Tools, Solaris OS, and more.
Featured keynote: Rich Green, Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems. Plus attend bonus NetBeans Day and OpenSolaris Day. Space is limited -- Register today.
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September 06, 2006
category: Developers
Subversion support is new in the early builds of NetBeans 6.0. I was expecting some serious issues using it to download the JDK sources, but (surprise!) it just worked.
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September 05, 2006
category: Main
If you watch television broadcast media in America, like nearly everywhere in the world, you'll find an amazing diversity of content.
In the early morning, you'll see children's programming. Then it's on to morning news, and maybe a talk show or two. Into the afternoon, you'll see soap operas and daytime drama. Toward dinner time, you'll get the evening news....
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September 05, 2006
category: Developers
The Swing team had run on 1.1 and 1.2 JDKs with conflicting APIs while seeming to change package names every week based on community and legal feedback. Munge is the tool we used to manage these changes easily, and here it finally is.
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September 05, 2006
category: Developers
Through a sample portlet, this article describes several tips on how to take maximum advantage of the benefits of using Ajax in portlets and suggests workarounds for pitfalls.
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September 02, 2006
category: Main
As part of its ongoing SOX compliance efforts, Sun has learned a number of valuable lessons about how to prioritize and define controls and what they should look like.
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September 01, 2006
category: Developers
The Greatest Software Ever Written, Java Game Development, and Way Fast Dynamic Coding
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September 01, 2006
category: Developers
Read about U.S. Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007, Building Mashup Portlets, Introducing JAX-WS 2.0 With the Java SE 6 Platform, Part 1 and Introducing Design Patterns in XML Schemas
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