Closures for Java
Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kicks JavaServer Faces
Just for a bit of Friday fun I'd like to share the following variation on those Chuck Norris emails that I received - this time relating to Java.
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Java going bigger, bigger, bigger
During last week's The Server Side Java Symposium in Prague, it looks like scaling is the biggest issue. I've collected some pointers from... more »
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IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
This week it was announced that the RedHat-initiated IcedTea project, along with OpenJDK, has reached 100% compliance with the Java Test Compatibility... 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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Difference between Interfaces and Abstract Classes
Good article and best explanation of one of the common question
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The *new* Atmosphere Framework from Sun brings Comet to the masses
Sun's Grizzly framework enables developers to write scalable server applications, by leveraging the Java NIO API. Atmosphere, an evolution of Grizzly,... more »
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Top 10 Firefox Addons for Web Designers
Yesterday I was browsing the Firefox addons directory looking for an addon that would notify me when I had mail with the old “You’ve got mail” sound... more »
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Video Demo: New JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1
NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities, such as intelligent code completion,... more »
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Check Out the JavaFX Script Documentation
In the Playing with the JavaFX SDK as it's Being Built post I showed you how to get started developing with what will become the JavaFX SDK Preview... more »
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Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation
Sun Microsystems has become its own free software foundation, open-sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open-source MySQL... more »
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Creating JavaFX sequences in Java programs (Part I) : Mike's Weblog
The last article explained, how sequences are represented in the runtime and touched some of the possibilities to create new JavaFX sequences in Java... more »
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ISO puts standard for Microsoft's OOXML document formats on hold
After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International... more »
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Pivot: Swing++ as New Java-based RIA Platform?
And now for something a little bit different on a Friday. Greg Brown from VMWare pointed us to the fruition of nearly a year’s worth of R&D: Pivot, a... more »
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Google I/O recorded sessions now posted
If you missed a session you really wanted to see at Google I/O, you'll be happy to know that over 70 of the sessions, as well as the presentation... more »
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Holub on Patterns By Allen Holub
Tries to highlight few imp points from this book.
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ZFS finally debuts in Snow Leopard
ZFS - the last word in file systems is now in Apple's Mac OX Server Snow Leopard. For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds... more »
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David Nuescheler on JCR and REST
In a new InfoQ interview, Day CTO and JCR Spec Lead David Nuescheler talks to Stefan Tilkov about the benefits of JCR, the Java Content Repository... more »
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The Design and Architecture of InfoQ
InfoQ.com is a web app/portal implemented with the latest in portal technology and web development. This session shows the good, the bad, and the ugly... more »
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Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java at All?
I sat down to see if I could figure out what the hottest Java web framework is recently and was surprised at the results... once I started including... more »
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Lies We Tell New Programmers
Do We tell lies to the new programmers like our kids?
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Sun CEO: Java's Always Been a RIA Platform
'Java's always been a RIA platform - before the world really wanted one,' claimed Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently, as he reflected on the... more »
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Kill Java Vol. 2
Apologies to Mr. Tarantino. My ramblings on How many times are we going to "kill" Java? touched some nerves as you may appreciate on the comment... more »
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Nimbus - A New Look-and-Feel for Swing
Nimbus is the name of a look-and-feel designed by Sun for the Java Desktop System; it’s implemented as a GTK theme in the latest Solaris 11... more »
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Killer Java lib for flat files: JFileHelpers
It’s almost certain every Java programmer out there have had to deal with handling of delimited of fixed length flat files at one moment of his... more »
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