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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

When to Choose Spring with Willie Wheeler

jsugrue — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:01:34 +0000

DZone recently caught up with Willie Wheeler, author of Spring in Practice (Manning) and long time Java consultant. In this interview, Willie provides an overview of the Spring portfolio of projects, including the Spring Framework and provides some guidance on when Spring is a good choice – and when it is not. While Spring has provided tremendous productivity gains for enterprise...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights. Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines. Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states that the Mac OS may only be installed on Apple computers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered: Novell. However, Novell was introduced to open source by a loan from IBM, and it seems Oracle is unlikely to spin off MySQL to a friend...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor? Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card? It drives eight monitors, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels. If eight monitors isn't enough, try combining two for a seamless, 16 monitor desktop.

And the Winners Should Be?

ian skerrett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:51:53 +0000

Each year at EclipseCon we announce the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The last 4 years we have recognized worthy individuals and products for their contribution to the Eclipse community. This year I’d like to take a fresh look at the Eclipse awards and see if we can/should revamp the categories. Are there other categories we should introduce to acknowledge participation in...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

lyndsey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It", recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York Times. Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told Auletta that they had discussed the prospect but decided against it because they thought it might undermine Google's neutrality. Auletta said Google was interested in the Times...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers. A judge extended the deadline after criticisms from competitors and regulators forced Google to revise the terms of the settlement. It seems that digitizing libraries full of books is a tough bill to pass in the face of antitrust and copyright law.

SAP CTO Calls For Java Freedom

jsugrue — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:55:06 +0000

Vishal Sikka, CTO at SAP has made a call for Java to be opened up for the community in his latest blog entry. Having incorporated Java into their NetWeaver platform back in 2001, SAP see Java as having a huge role in the global IT industry and that this will continue. References Reference: Freedom for Java ...

e4: First e4 RCP Application

grprakash — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:25:07 +0000

The next big thing in Eclipse is Eclipse 4.0 dubbed as e4. It will be released in 2010. That doesn't mean that the 3.x stream will be deprecated or discontinued. The 3.x releases will go on for "few" years till everyone boards the 4.0. But clearly the future of Eclipse is e4 and its already here. I'll be writing a series of blog posts on e4 and this will be the first. ...

Microsoft Will Begin Shipping Eclipse Plugins

ian skerrett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:17:10 +0000

Microsoft announced today they have purchased the Teamprise technology from SourceGear, products that allow Eclipse developers to connect to the MS Team Foundation Server (TFS). The Teamprise clients will be bundle into Visual Studio 2010, which appears to be set for launch in March 2010. James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/10

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it easy for developers to write extensions. Firefox's 3.5 version is now the second most popular web browser behind Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is due to for release very soon.