Pimping Builds
Cool ways to tweak your Ant and Maven builds from the "Pimp My Build" session at JavaOne.
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invokedynamic: Is It What We Really Need?
invokedynamic from prospective of Groovy Core Developer
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JavaOne: Extreme Innovation (or James Goslings Showcase) Part 1 of 2
In a week that now seems to have raced by in a blur, the main hall at the Moscone Center was packed to capacity as you would expect when James Gosling... more »
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Sorting Algorithms Demo
We all know that Quicksort is one of the fastest algorithms for sorting. It's not often, however, that we get a chance to see exactly how fast... more »
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JavaOne Update - Day Three
It is simply amazing how many people and how much energy is at JavaOne. All of the movers and shakers of the industry are here to give out sage words... more »
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Reading Microsoft Word Document in JAVA
When it comes to reading Microsoft Office Word document Java does not have any in build classes to handle this but Apache POI Package developed by... more »
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JavaOne: Concurrent garbage collectors
This talk was by Gil Tene and Michael Wolf from Azul. Azul has their own concurrent garbage collector although this talk focused mostly on the ideas... more »
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Web Frameworks: Comfort vs. Expediency?
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... more »
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How to import Excel file into JTable
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Here are three way to do this. Use "JTableReadTableModelTask " to do this. ( recommended ) Use "ReadTableModelTask" to do this Use ModelIO to do... more »
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The coolest thing I saw at JavaOne 2008 was...
...the Livescribe Smartpen, which comes with a Java-based development kit. The pen is cool: it's a pen with ink, but it also has a tiny camera in... more »
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Friday Java Quiz: What's Your Favorite Java 7 Feature..
Like in past years, I'm following JavaOne from afar. All I have access to are the general sessions and attendee's blog reactions to specific sessions... more »
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Power of Interface in Java
What is the power of "Interface" in Java and support your answer with a practical example which could be understood by most Java programmers?
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More desktop integration: the system tray
One more nice touch in the Java 6 offensive to the desktop is giving Java applications the ability to add icons to the system tray in a pretty... more »
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Java to Scala- some links
Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to take out time to learn more about Scala – finding documentation and tutorials is hard ( specially if... more »
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javaone 2008 summary/reflection
JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing... more »
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Bending Java: More readable code with methods that do nothing?
From the category “Bending Java near it’s Breaking Point” or “What a stupid but interesting idea”. I like to explore ideas in Java that are inside the... more »
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JavaOne: Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
Cliff has been working for a while on developing highly concurrent data structures for use on the Azul hardware which supports 700+ hardware threads.... more »
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JavaFX is a good thing! Really it is!
This article explores the many reasons why JavaFX is good for the Java platform.
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What's Actually Interesting About JavaFX - From The Technical And Business Perspective
Java FX wasn't that great news. Netbeans 6.0 plugin was already available for ages (at least months) - so you could play with it. However there... more »
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Live From JavaOne
Brennan Spies gives a run down of the first day of JavaOne.
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What is Java good at
Java was the language designed for us to figure out what was going wrong at compile time not run time. We were supposed to be able to not have to... more »
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Thinking in Language
A couple of folks have taken me to task over some of the things I said... or didn't say... in my last blog piece. So, in no particular order, let's... more »
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Hans's swan song
Sun loses another senior developer and the Swing team lose another to Abobe Flex.
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Java SwingBuilder: latest updates on binding, SwingWorker and validations
Latest updates on bean binding, SwingWorker integration for long running methods and bean validations. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring... more »
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Desktop integration with Java 6
Java 6 tries hard to make Java applications easier to integrate in the desktop environment of various platforms. One of such welcome attempts is the... more »
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