The Seductions of Scala, Part II - Functional Programming
In this post, which I’m posting from Agile 2008, I discuss Scala’s support for functional programming (FP) and why it should be of interest to OO... more »
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Introduction to High-level Programming with Scala
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In this presentation, Tony introduces some of the essential tenets of functional programming and why they are important. He draws on the existing Java... more »
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JavaFX bleg
The initial JavaFX Preview SDK release has gone pretty well. There were a few snafus and broken links, but overall it has gone pretty smoothly for a... more »
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Some thoughts about JavaFX, Swing and questions to everyone
Last weekend i checked “JavaFX Preview release” it was AWESOME ! Yes I am really exited about it you can make a lot of things FASTER than Java, great... more »
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Java.next: Common Ground
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I have chosen four languages which together represent "Java.next": Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. At first glance, these languages are wildly... more »
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First Night With JavaFX and Netbeans - First Impression, Some Smoke
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JavaFX preview is just few days young. I just installed it and developed some simple applications to get a feeling, how it works.
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JavaFX Video - Will It Be Able To Compete With Flash?
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Yesterday, in a “break” from a lovely weekend filled with work (oh joy!), I decided to see if I could find an answer to a question about JavaFX that... more »
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JavaFX Preview Released: When Will the Madness Stop?
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I with many have been a believer in Java on the client. I was excited to learn at JavaOne 07 about JavaFX, and even more excited by the great demos at... more »
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NetBeans helps you get started with JavaFX
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I've been waiting since Java One for the release of the JavaFX SDK. This morning, I was finally able to download the bits and to my pleasant surprise... more »
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JavaFx preview released, here’s my HelloWorld app and some initial thoughts
Sun Microsystems today announced a preview release of the JavaFX SDK. I’ve been observing this new entrant into the RIA space from the outside but... more »
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Profiling With VisualVM, Part 2
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This article describes advanced profiling features of the VisualVM tool which give the user more control over the profiling session and collected... more »
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JavaFX Preview SDK download
JavaFX Preview SDK just got released!
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JavaFX Preview
Richard Monson-Haefel, vice president developer relations for Curl discusses Sun's JavaFX preview.
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JavaFX Preview SDK Demo and Interview
We talk with Sun's Nandini Ramani who first gives us a quick overview of the JavaFX SDK preview release, and then demo's it for us.
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JavaFX, are we there yet?
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Today, Sun has finally decided to make good on their promise of JavaONE 2007 by making a pre-release of JavaFX available today. With this release,... more »
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JavaFX Preview SDK Interview and Demo
This morning Sun released the JavaFX Preview SDK. This bundled up release includes NetBeans support, “Project Nile” which adds Photoshop and... more »
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JavaFX Preview SDK released
I'm happy to announce that we have released the first preview version of the JavaFX SDK. Head over to JavaFX.com to check it out. We've all been... more »
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Approximation of pow() in Java, C and C++
For many application of the pow() method, an approximate value suffice. This text shows how to gain a *41* times speed increase by using an... more »
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A Short Road to TCPoly(morphism) in Scala
This blog post talks about the usefulness of TCPoly (Type Constructor Polymorphism) in the context of a statically typed language that supports... more »
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Profiling With VisualVM, Part 1
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This article describes the out-of-the-box profiling features of the VisualVM tool available without any additional configuration, just using the... more »
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Rolling Your Own JavaFX "Custom Nodes": A Graphical Menu Example
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With the imminent release of the JavaFX SDK Technology Preview, I'd like to get you up to speed on how to create your own "custom nodes". This is... more »
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An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology: Part 2, Garbage Collection and the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS)
There are several different approaches to scheduling GC within a real-time environment, each with benefits and weaknesses. These include work-based... more »
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Playing around with parallel maps in Scala
Over the last couple of days I have been hacking around with a few implementations of a parallel map in Scala.
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IBM Pattern Modeling and Analysis Tool for Java Garbage Collector : Overview
Pattern Modeling and Analysis Tool for IBM Java Garbage Collector (PMAT) parses verbose GC trace, analyzes Java heap usage, and recommends key... more »
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JVM-Based Languages Grow In Popularity
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When Sun Microsystems first unveiled Java in 1995, it was hard to define. That's because Java has several parts: It is, of course, an object-oriented... more »
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