September 18, 2009
Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe.
Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...
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September 17, 2009
Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...
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September 10, 2009
My working on the strings in switch implementation has gotten swapped back in.
The implementation is following the translation strategy outlined in the
strings in switch proposal: find a perfect hash function for the input strings and semantical...
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September 09, 2009
The Sun Studio 12 Update 1 release is now available for download in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and English.
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September 09, 2009
I'm still working on HotSpot compiler support for JSR 292. The progress is actually very good and inlining is already working in C2. Although there are still some problems with scavenging oops in nmethods and you have to stick to UseSerialGC if ...
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September 09, 2009
Joe Darcy has opened up a
call for methods
to add to the core JDK 7 lang/util package.
The idea is to add methods that are "commonly-written utility methods".
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September 08, 2009
I've just sorted out the worst problems, and its possible to run Java2Demo using the Cairo based rasterizer now. The hardest part was a small bug in cairo, which was caused by the uncommon situation how cairo is used.Performance is excellent compare...
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September 04, 2009
I've written some glue code to use Cairo's tesselator to generate trapezoids for antialiased rendering, which can be directly fed to the X-Server. With a little more work, pixman could be used to generate AA tiles which could also be fed to the soft...
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September 04, 2009
I'll be leaving the bay area on Monday to give a talk about Hudson in JavaZone 2009. The talk will include both the general introduction of Hudson, as well as some of the advanced topics. Europe has a lot of Hudson adoptions (possibly better than i...
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September 04, 2009
Recently I read with interest Bjarne Stroustrup's HOPL III paper Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006.
Despite the numerous technical differences between Java and C++, I was struck by some of the similarities in community ...
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September 03, 2009
The entry below is a slightly edited copy of a message I used to start a new thread on the Java Posse's Google Group, largely in response to comments make by Dick Wall in the first twenty minutes of
episode #277 of the Java Posse podcast.
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September 03, 2009
I'm three weeks into a six month contract with an investment bank in Geneva, as part of a large team working on a viciously complex, closed source, Java application suite. I am enjoying it a lot more than I ought to be. Nevertheless it's a huge ch...
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