JavaFX's Killer Feature
Many believe that JavaFX is too little too late for Sun to become a player in the rich client space, but I think that if Java 6 U10 is successful that... more »
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OSGi Repository for Java Module System
The draft specification for supporting OSGi bundles in the Java Module System is currently under discussion in the JSR 277 Expert Group.
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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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You Might be Overengineering your Project If ...
Thierry.Lefort 
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Really nice and funny description of the symptoms of the overengineering ... I recognized most of my old projects ...
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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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Understanding the GWT compiler
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The GWT compiler is the fulcrum of GWT. The entire approach GWT takes, encapsulating browser differences and compiling JavaScript from Java, is made... more »
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Where did all the PHP programmers go?
During the last six month or so, I’ve been looking to hire a PHP programmer for at least three companies. I have spoken to quite a few people on the... more »
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Why Java? Because it's everywhere
As a Java developer, this discussion sounds familiar to you. Every now and then, you have to answer this question from customers, your marketing... more »
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Firebug 1.2b2 for Firefox 3.0
In this release we are trying to address the problems of enabling Firebug that users raised with 1.2b0. We now include the console as a... more »
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Facebook Joins the Open Source Party
Social networking site Facebook.com released a portion of their application platform to the open source community today. The move to open source... more »
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JavaFX Script vs. Swing: Are You Still Concerned?
The concerns about the future of Swing and it's relation to Java FX seem to be all over the place right now. However—if you look under the hood of... more »
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OSGwhat...?
There have been a couple of times where the poll results on java.net were, let's say, rather surprising. Those numbers, however are scary!
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Why is OSGi on everyone's tongue - or why you should take the red pill
bloid via blogs.sun.com
In a JBoss blog on "OSGi - The placebo that will rejuvenate this industry (just ask your vendor)" Sacha paints a picture of everyone just... more »
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Quake Live Won't be Written in Java - And That's a Good Thing?
A feasibility check of using Java for Quake Live and other 3D web games.
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GlassFish v3.0 and OSGi
GlassFish v3 can hardly be compared with the previous generation of Application Servers. That is, it provides backward compatibility from a functional... more »
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Why JavaFX?
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We've been working on a new graphics stack for JavaFX, consisting of an integrated 2D+3D JavaFX script scene graph based on a hardware accelerated... more »
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JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008
There were several JavaFX-related announcements and demos at JavaOne, not the least of which is the preview release of the JavaFX SDK due in June... more »
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Facebook Drops Java Support - Loses Another $1B of Fantasy Valuation
This just in from the Facebook-PR-flacks-writing-pure-dross department: "We appreciate all of the effort and time that you've (Java developers, that... more »
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Performance in Remote EJB's in GlassFish
In a number of projects, we have to use @Remote EJB's. There are pros and cons for using @Remote EJB's, but in some cases the pros outweigh the cons.... more »
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DaliCMS M6 released
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Last week, LodgON announced the availability of DaliCMS Milestone 6. DaliCMS is a so-called Web 2.0 Ready Open Source Java based Content Management... more »
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