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Web Frameworks: Comfort vs. Expediency?

geertjan — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:36:11 -0400

Two nights ago I had a conversation with Craig McLanahan, among others, in a slightly dubious sports bar near the JavaOne conference site. When the subject of web frameworks came up, an interesting, and probably obvious, angle emerged.

JavaOne: Intel Keynote

cornsomething — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:15:49 -0400

It is day three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He begins by highlighting the fact that Intel is using what they call a “tick-tock” schedule for delivering new processors on a yearly basis. With each “tick” they shrink the current architecture and deliver better energy efficiency and performance by putting...

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Software Crisis

aslamkhn — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:56:28 -0400

Every project manager or project sponser would love to have a model that churned out the probability of a project succeeding or failing. We may never achieve such precise quantification of project success, but there are definitely some red flags that will alert you. I finally watched Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Apart from the remarkable case put forward about the state of...

JavaOne: AMD Keynote

cornsomething — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:22:38 -0400

AMD had a tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was no surprise that the General Session hall here was about one third full. The first part of this brief session was really just AMD enthusing about their love for Java technology and Java developers but started to get more interesting when Dr...

CommunityOne 2008 Impressions (Day 0 of JavaOne)

gmatus — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:51:35 -0400

The CommunityOne conference this year was on Monday, May 5, 2008, the day before JavaOne "proper". It's easy to think of CommunityOne as a "pre-JavaOne", or "JavaOne, Day 0" because, like JavaOne, it's sponsored by Sun Microsystems, it's at the same venue, and it is logistically managed as sort-of an extension of JavaOne (your JavaOne conference pass is used, but...

JavaFX Gets Video Capabilities

jsugrue — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:37:03 -0400

Get ready for high quality video on the screens of your life. Sun has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies, to provide immersive media and content on your JavaFX applications.

JavaOne Wednesday Morning Keynote: "Oracle Enterprise" - Oracle Corp.

gmatus — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:30:25 -0400

Oracle believes Java is integral part of the upcoming transformation of the Enterprise to more Web-2.0-like -- to adopt the look and feel of Web 2.0 and fulfill the funtional expectations of the typical Web 2.0 user (creating informational mashups, creating new levels of integration between normally non-integrated modules of a web applicion, or at least data elements managed by those modules)....

When Should You Jump? JSR 308. That's When.

mtnygard — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:30:07 -0400

One of the frequently asked questions at the No Fluff, Just Stuff expert panels boils down to, "When should I get off the Java train?" There may be good money out there for the last living COBOL programmer, but most of the Java developers we see still have a lot of years left in their careers, too many to plan on riding Java off into it's sunset.

JavaOne: What's Next in Server Side Technology

cornsomething — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:59:04 -0400

My final session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry deserves kudos for presenting a session that was a wide look at the concepts of Server Side java and the direction it is heading in, instead of using the hour as an opportunity to flog some WebLogic features and licenses. Maybe he knew better...

Interview: JFugue Goes Hip Hop

geertjan — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:38:38 -0400

A new release of JFugue API was announced last week. Its author, Dave Koelle, is at JavaOne and here he talks about the API and some of its hidden treasures.

Intro to Design Patterns: Prototype Pattern

andre mare — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:30:04 -0400

Today we're going to look at the Prototype design pattern. Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by copying this prototype. - Gof Type Object Creational

JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

puredanger — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:20:00 -0400

Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few other little goodies in the JSR update but this is the big one.

Maven support 3.1 for NetBeans

mk75195 — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:23:46 -0400

This new major release includes:

Embarcadero Buys CodeGear for $23M: New Life for JBuilder?

rick — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:16:40 -0400

Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for $23 million. The deal is expected to close within 30-60 days and will propel Embarcadero into the league of the world's largest independent ISVs for developer tools.

A Java Programmer's Guide to Random Numbers, Part 1: Beyond java.util.Random

dwdyer — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:36:39 -0400

This is the first in a series of articles about random numbers in Java programs. The series covers the following topics and also serves as an introduction to the random numbers package of the Uncommons Maths library.

JavaOne 2008 Opening Keynote

cornsomething — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:44:14 -0400

The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it mean? Well, it is basically a way to highlight the ubiquity of Java technology because it is now running in billions of devices, computers, sensors and more around the world.There was a big push of JavaFX, a technology that Sun wants to...

JFrets: Learning to Play Guitar with Java

geertjan — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:34 -0400

Matt Warman, who created and open sourced JFrets, the Java-based guitar-teaching tool, is at JavaOne! He'll be delivering a technical session and BOF. I bumped into him in one of the speaker rooms and we moved his application to the NetBeans Platform. Then we discussed his project.

Console applications with Java 6

danielstoner — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:18:57 -0400

In Java 6 a better way of interacting with the command prompt was introduced, the java.io.Console class. Together with the utility class java.util.Scanner introduced in Java 5 this new API can be used to develop more advanced Java console applications.

JavaOne Coverage Begins

cornsomething — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:12:08 -0400

The early news from the 2008 JavaOne conference in San Francisco is all about the crowd that showed up. I arrived at the venue to find a line of thousands that streamed along the South building, under the street to the North building and back up to street level, to give you an idea of the scale of this, the two main Moscone Center buildings cover

OSGi & Spring

kirkk — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:04:59 -0400

It’s time to move on and show the simple elegance Spring brings to OSGi development using the HelloWorldSpec sample from the OSGi & Modularity post. But first, a little primer on Spring Dynamic Modules. Spring DM is not an OSGi implementation. Instead, Spring DM aims to make working with OSGi easier just as Spring makes the world of Enterprise Java simpler.

Groovy / Grails Update from G2One at the No Fluff Just Stuff Meetup

cornsomething — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:14:11 -0400

This gathering was put on by the people who take the excellent NFJS series around the United States throughout the year. I was fortunate enough to attend my first one just a few weeks ago in Seattle and am happy to say that in the course of one weekend, the symposium reminded me of so many reasons why I got into developing software. With that kind of introduction you might think I would have high...

CommunityOne Open Source Developer Conference - sponsored by Sun

cornsomething — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:07:55 -0400

CommunityOne is a gathering of many open source communities which precedes the JavaOne conference that begins Tuesday here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This year’s event has 50% more attendees that last years, with double the number of sessions and triple the number of communities involved. That’s about 4000 attendees including several hundred students from 80 different...

Developers Prefer Britney to Paris

jsugrue — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:57:50 -0400

So Britney Spears beats Paris Hilton in open source popularity, but neither can compete with Satan! That's the results of the latest trend analysis from code search company, Krugle. While announcing the list of top Java queries that developers have submitted world wide, the company also listed the number of times celebrity names are included in the lines of open source code tracked by Krugle.

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 1

meera — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:41:09 -0400

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services are becoming more and more popular in many development projects. In Java or .NET, exposing your business logic component as a web service is as simple as adding a few metadata annotations. Likewise, once you have a web service, you can use any client to consume it, right?Before you make all your web services available to the public, however,...

RationalPlan Now Running on Mac OS X

ioanlucian — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:17:05 -0400

Stand By Soft has created Mac OS X distributions for all of their products. Minimum requirement: Mac OS X 10.4. All products integrate easily with Mac platform and provide the specific Mac look & feel.