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Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?
Update #1: To clear up any confusion, this article is focused on the business value of Java – it’s ability to control and generate revenue – not it’s value as a language or a technology. So the word “irrelevant” is applied to it’s business value, not if it’s a good technology or not. Sun Microsystems announced [...]
Continue reading...Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios
Friday, August 22, 2008
Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]
Continue reading...RedHat Pushes Up Sun Schedule, Java Fragmentation Begins
Monday, June 23, 2008
If you didn’t see it, RedHat announced earlier this week that their completely Open Source Java implementation (IcedTea) had finally passed the Java Test Compatability Kit (TCK). While most folks rejoiced, I think there were a fair number of us that sighed and thought: Goddamnit, here’s the beginning of the Java fragmentation. Or if that not, were [...]
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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Continue reading...LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java
Friday, June 6, 2008
This is actually pretty awesome for any of the Java devs out there that are concerned that Java is dying and Ruby/Rails/Flavor-of-the-Month is rising up to replace it… it seems that the huge professional social networking site (no, not MySpace) LinkedIn is actually written in 99% Java except for some in-memory C++ caches that they [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
Continue reading...kallasoft SmugMug Java API – Beta 3 Released
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Great news, Beta 3 of the SmugMug Java API has been released. This release includes support for all the API changes made in the last few months including the new security changes SmugMug has made in order to better secure the API calls. Because of this security change you should double-check the announcement and changelog with [...]
Continue reading...Apple Released Java 6 Preview 8 for Leopard
Friday, December 21, 2007
JavaLobby has the scoop on Apple finally releasing Preview 8 of Java 6 for Intel-Mac Leopard machines only. Turns out the new preview requires 64-bit machines and the hardware to support it for an “optimized experience”. An interesting point that Geertjan made in his post is: do people really care? Landon Fuller has already created both a [...]
Continue reading...Google Trumps Sun’s Mobile Java Play
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Greg Amerson sent along two very interesting reads (One, Two) about what the Google Android platform means to Sun and the OpenJDK. At first glance Android looks like a harmlessly cool, Java-based mobile platform… so what’s the big deal? At closer glance it appears that Google has invented their own Java VM, the Dalvik VM to [...]
Continue reading...Google Releases Android (gPhone) SDK
Monday, November 12, 2007
Looks like Google has released the Android SDK for mass consumption. What comes in the SDK is mostly expected, but still cool to see: Linux Kernel FreeType OpenGL SQL Lite WebKit (as a web browser, anyone else surprised this wasn’t Firefox 3 platform?) Custom Java Bytecode interpreter that is “highly specialized for the CPU” Common Java API Media File Support based on PacketVideo’s [...]
Continue reading...Sun Rewrites Java Plugin
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]
Continue reading...Supported Values for @SuppressWarnings
Friday, October 5, 2007
Update #1: All these annotations are still valid in Eclipse 3.4 and 3.5, there have been no new SuppressWarning arguments added in those versions of the JDT compiler. If you are a Java developer and use the new @SuppressWarnings annotation in your code from time-to-time to suppress compiler warnings you, like me, have wondered probably about [...]
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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