May 22, 2007
The Top 10 Open-Source Destinations at the 2007 JavaOne Conference. This year's Conference celebrates the free and open software environment with a new Open Source...
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May 22, 2007
Top 10 Destinations for Enterprise Developers at the 2007 JavaOne Conference. Here are 10 must-see destinations and some related recommendations for enterprise developers at...
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May 22, 2007
This year's Conference celebrates the free and open software environment with a new Open Source track.
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May 22, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 21, 2007
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
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 20, 2007
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
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 18, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 17, 2007
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
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
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
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
Join me for a swim with SONIA, a Java-powered AUV
that made waves at JavaOne 2007.
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May 17, 2007
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 16, 2007
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May 16, 2007
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
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
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
Get a technical overview of GlassFish V2 Beta and an architecture preview of GlassFish V3.
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May 16, 2007
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
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 15, 2007
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
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
Glen Smith apparently liked Hudson enough that he has done a Hudson talk to the Canberra JUG.
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May 15, 2007
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
JAXB RI just got one step closer to the world domination :-)
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May 15, 2007
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
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
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
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
I'm recovering from JavaOne
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May 14, 2007
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
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
Brief JavaOne recap now that I have had a weekend to recover:
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May 14, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 13, 2007
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
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 13, 2007
News about the property spec.
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May 12, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I attended only two sessions:
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May 11, 2007
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
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
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
"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
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 10, 2007
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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May 10, 2007
Ditching the Keynote session at JavaOne I am sitting in the Alumni room and trying to get my head around the OpenJDK. Having a MacBook Pro I cannot download the JDK and build it on my Mac natively and...
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May 10, 2007
The AB5k team is proud to announce that we are changing names to Glossitope. We have a new website up at www.glossitope.org where you can download new builds, see our promotional video, and play with the new graphical effects we...
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May 10, 2007
As I mentioned to about 15,000 of you on Tuesday morning, it
really has been a busy year. For myself in particular over the last few
months, trying to figure out and select the various pieces of our new
focus on consumer technology JavaFX (as you
can imagine, given we have
been devoted
to many masters, this takes and will take some hard work ...
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May 10, 2007
I attended the following sessions/BOFs (in no specific order):
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May 10, 2007
As you were already informed by many prominent bloggers from
the Java Community,
the OpenJDK Project is finally out!
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May 10, 2007
This year, I got a genuine press
pass from a kindly soul at Sun. While my quest for priority seating was
still futile, I made progress on my quest to locate the stash of free
booze, and I got the chance to ask more hard-hitting questions. Here is
your intrepid reporter's take on day 2.
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May 10, 2007
Last night I attended, at Java ONE, a talk by David Schlesinger of ACCESS, formerly of PalmSource. What drew me was the title, about building open source communities, and I hoped to gain a little insight about the process since...
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May 10, 2007
The slides to my talk "Advanced Java Refactoring: Pushing the Envelope" are available on the Jackpot project site.
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May 09, 2007
A signature moment
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May 09, 2007
Got a note from a friend from India asking why haven't you been in touch. She asks, is it because you have been busy shipping jdk6 beta? Dang! My first blog was during jdk6 beta, I blinked my eye and so much has happened.
Alright what all have we missed? Let me start with the disclaimer: I will end up jumping around topics while ...
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May 09, 2007
Here is what I did on the first day of JavaOne 2007.
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May 09, 2007
If you're at JavaOne and hate Date and Calendar then come along to our BOF tonight!
Its at 21:55 in MC105 - BOF-2794.
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May 09, 2007
This year, I got a genuine press
pass from a kindly soul at Sun. I was excited about priority seating and
unlimited free booze in the press lounge, neither of which I was able to
locate. But I did get to ask hard-hitting questions in the press
conference. Here is your intrepid reporter's impression of day 1.
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May 08, 2007
The JSR 277 EG observer mailing list is now available on OpenJDK, and there is also a new project on OpenJDK for the implementation development of JSR 277 and 294.
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May 08, 2007
I just had a nice discussion with John Clingan, product manager on Glassfish, about EJB3 and Glassfish in particular. One of the thing that strikes me with EJB3 is that Sun seems not to be able to let go...
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May 08, 2007
Today is the second Java Freedom Day. November 13, 2006, is the first Java Freedom Day, and I would hope that it becomes a celebrated holiday. Today, May 8, is the second one. I'm at Java ONE and am really...
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May 08, 2007
The 72-way Sun Fire E25K with 1.80Ghz US-IV+ processors and powered by Java SE 6 Update 2 now holds the Single Instance SPECjbb2005 World Record with a result of 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
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May 08, 2007
Paul Hohensee and I are doing a session this week at Java One, TS-2885: High Performance Java Technology in a Multi-core World. We'll talk about current and upcoming multi-core computer architectures ,JVM technologies and optimizations , and application and JVM tuning . Finally I'll do a quick demo showing our recent performance optimizations coming soon in Java SE 6.0_02, identification of...
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May 08, 2007
OpenJDK Builds (Solaris & Linux) Anyone building the new OpenJDK bundles from openjdk.java.net should find that this is an easier build procedure than the JRL building from jdk7.dev.java.net. First off, it's just the basic JDK sources, no plugin or...
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May 08, 2007
The JAX-WS 2.1 APIs are now released at jcp.org.
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May 08, 2007
I just happened to have a picture of the Village where NetBeans 6 and it's new
Mercurial plugin were created.
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May 08, 2007
On our way to escape velocity…
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May 08, 2007
It is six years since my last trip to San Francisco to attend JavaOne and boy has my agenda changed since them. Back then I was working on JBoss and there was a huge fight between Sun and the...
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May 08, 2007
Hey guys. Real quick. I just thought you'd like that we (the NetBeans GUI Builder team) showed Open Street Maps on stage at CommunityOne in front of about >400 people. We did a demo where we built a database application...
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May 08, 2007
Jon, Lubo, and I will be at Pavilion booth #1538 Thursday 3.30-4.30pm at JavaOne
in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. This is a good chance to come and chat with us about javac.
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May 08, 2007
There seems to be some confusion about what
superpackages are about. My one sentence explanation is:
a superpackage is a language construct for information hiding. Let's examine that statement.
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May 08, 2007
This year, I got a genuine press pass from a kindly soul at Sun, which entitles me to priority seating at the keynote, the opportunity to ask hard-hitting questions in the press conferences and unlimited free booze in the press lounge (I hope). Here is the intrepid reporter's take on Java One Day 0.
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May 07, 2007
"Filthy Rich Clients" is available in 'rough cut' online format on Safari. Yippee!
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May 07, 2007
So, its my first time at JavaOne. I'm about to head off to the warm up CommunityOne event.
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May 07, 2007
JavaOne is upon us once again. Here is a list of the sessions and BOFs related to the work that I am involved in:
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May 07, 2007
It's always when I'm super busy when I decided to work on random things that take too much time. This time, it is improving the theme of Glassfish component sites.
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May 07, 2007
With NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5, you were able to develop enterprise-grade applications right from service creation to service orchestration. Now, the follow on to that release, SOA pack for NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (M9), is available. The SOA functionality offers artifacts for service composition and assembly. This milestone also provides a graphical WSDL editor, business event processing to...
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May 07, 2007
Join us at CommunityOne, a free and open environment of participation, contribution, and innovation. In this one-day technical conference, you can explore groundbreaking open-source and community-based environments, technologies and platforms. Choose from sessions at NetBeans Day or Start-up Camp and in tracks on Web 2.0, the OpenSolaris operating system, OpenJDK / Mobile and Embedded, the...
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May 07, 2007
"Filthy Rich Clients" is available in 'rough cut' online format on Safari. Yippee!
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May 05, 2007
JMX Web Services Connector (JSR 262) RI is out! You can download it here.
The novelety in comparaison with the previous Early Access is that the Connector protocol is now based on WS-Management (WS-Man). Connector WS-Man implementation is based on the WiseMan project.
Native WS-Man clients can now interact with MBeans. MBeans are no more the exclusivity of JMX clients. Clients such as...
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May 05, 2007
Ever so often I'm utterly confused over a design choice. Two alternative designs
flipping back and forth in my mind with their respective pros and cons and I loathe
wasting time over them. Other people are much more pragmatic. Examples in no
particular order:
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May 05, 2007
I am already here in San Francisco and working with the
team to get ready for
CommunityOne and
JavaOne next week.
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May 05, 2007
I am delighted that Sun finally decided to make Java open-source and to harvest the ingenuity of developers around the world. In a few days or months the Java source code of the JDK should be available and with a good build system developers should be able to fix or enhance long standing bugs or other nuances.
The only question remaining: Is OpenJDK really ...
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May 04, 2007
So, JavaONE is next week. I'm sure you already know that, just wanted to raise the hoopla a little further. I just read an amusing posting at Javalobby Sun, Please Turn On the Light Again! wondering about the direction etc...
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May 04, 2007
Wow, JavaOne is here again, next week to be exact! I hope you are going.
Come to one of our sessions to learn or discuss more about Java Security.
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May 04, 2007
The Web Services Connector for JMX Agents being defined by JSR 262 is available in Early Access.
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May 04, 2007
A few weeks ago I blogged about how to programmatically access
the JVM Monitoring information. Here is a small Java application
that prints all the
attributes of all the JVM Management & Monitoring MBeans.
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May 04, 2007
There is a workshop on IDE and restructuring tools at ECOOP this year.
I figured this would be of interest to some of you reading my blog.
For more information, visit the
EPRIDE 2007 wiki.
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May 04, 2007
I was working on one of our NetBeans demos for Monday's Matisse session and it occurred to me. I was actually having fun putting together a little program! I grabbed some of our cool little beans from SwingLabs then wired...
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May 04, 2007
People talk about the "conceptual weight" of language features. Here's a way to make that a more precise concept, and more accurate too.
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May 04, 2007
Often when writing recursive algorithms, the recursive method doesn't have a suitable interface to be published. The interesting method should be hidden, with a second, public method introduced to check arguments, set things up, do a bit of munging and tidy the furniture. However, conceptually there should be just one method. I generally start off writing a single method and then split (perhaps...
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May 04, 2007
Get ready to Paint the World Web 2.0 at Sun Developer Days! Join us for a free half-day session loaded with hot topics such as Open Source and Web 2.0: Hanoi, May 23 and Ho Chi Minh, May 25, 2007.
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May 04, 2007
Sun Software Summit will feature three streams (Business,
Technology, and Deep Dive Technical Workshops) to provide insights from real-world customer case studies. Join us May 28-29, 2007.
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May 04, 2007
Various thoughts as this writer prepares for and gets jazzed about her 8th JavaOne conference and her first and THE first CommunityOne conference.
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May 03, 2007
In my last post I drew a diagram showing how I viewed the main proposals in terms of complexity. It has since been pointed out to me that I didn't clearly identify whether the JCA part of FCM was included or not. So I'll redraw the diagram and express my opinon.
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May 03, 2007
JavaOne is next week. Looking forward to meeting you at our BOFs and at our booths at the Pavilion!!
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May 03, 2007
As usual, there is troubleshooting BOF this year as well (2816 - Tuesday 8.00 PM). Alan Bateman, Mandy Chung and yours truely will present. Meet you all there!
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May 02, 2007
Sunset Bay, Oregon.
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May 01, 2007
Last week that Feisty Fawn escaped the group at Ubuntu and caused quite a splash in Javaland by having The JDK easily installable. As an Ubuntu user I'm happy about this, and as a DLJ project member I'm even happier...
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May 01, 2007
Neal Gafter announced a draft closures JSR a few days ago.
I'd like to give the JSR a cautious welcome, but also wish to emphasise that the 'consensus' term could be misleading.
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May 01, 2007
Silver Falls, Oregon. No, it doesn't use Mercurial, yet.
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May 01, 2007
Microsoft announces DLR,
the Dynamic Language Runtime. More details to come so stay tuned on Jim's blog. If I'm not mistaken it's a pure user-space
implementation right now that tries to standardize functionality required for implementations of dynamic language interpreters.
Once those interfaces stabilize Microsoft could go ahead and implement optimizations below...
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May 01, 2007
Blog about GlassFish for a chance to win a 52-inch LCD HD TV. Contest runs May 1-June 15, 2007.
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May 01, 2007
This series examines some of the most common approaches, or styles, for doing mashups. Part 1 focuses on server-side mashups and discusses the major design considerations related to this mashup style.
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May 01, 2007
Read the Tech Tip about Using Generics With Java Persistence and take the Tech Tips Quiz.
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May 01, 2007
2007 JavaOne Conference Wrapup Visit the conference site to review highlights of the 2007 JavaOne Conference.
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May 01, 2007
This early access release provides these updates: Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Beta 2, Open ESB 2.0 Beta 2, Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 Patch 1 EA, and updates to Java BluePrints. Read the overview for details. And download it now.
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May 01, 2007
Standardized exchanges of authentication and authorization data by means of the Security Assertion Markup Language between an identity provider and a service provider form the basis of single sign-on. This article explains the concepts and the process using Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 and SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal 2004s.
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May 01, 2007
Blog about GlassFish for a chance to win a 52-inch LCD HD TV. Contest runs May 1-June 15, 2007.
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May 01, 2007
Kuldip Oberoi, Product Line Manager in Developer Tools and
Emerging Internet Technologies, discusses the upcoming release, Sun Studio 12, and why it is the most important release to date.
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