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 subject of...
5 replies - 819 views - 05/08/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News
It is day
three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug
Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He
begins by highlighting the fact...
0 replies - 674 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News
Every project manager or project sponser would love to have a model that churned out the probability of a project succeeding or failing. We may never achieve...
0 replies - 894 views - 05/08/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles
AMD had a
tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing
in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was...
0 replies - 528 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News
The CommunityOne conference this year was on Monday, May 5, 2008, the day before JavaOne "proper". It's easy to think of CommunityOne as a...
0 replies - 687 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News
Get ready for high quality video on the screens of your life. Sun has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies, to provide immersive media...
4 replies - 1340 views - 05/08/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
Oracle believes Java is integral part of the upcoming transformation of the Enterprise to more Web-2.0-like -- to adopt the look and feel of Web 2.0 and...
0 replies - 739 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News
One of the frequently asked questions at the No Fluff, Just Stuff expert panels boils down to, "When should I get off the Java train?" There may be...
7 replies - 1921 views - 05/08/08 by Michael Nygard in Articles
My final
session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and
Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry...
0 replies - 1745 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News
A new release of JFugue API was announced last week. Its author, Dave Koelle, is at JavaOne and here he talks about the API and some of its hidden treasures.
3 replies - 631 views - 05/07/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News
Today we're going to look at the Prototype design pattern. Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by...
4 replies - 1207 views - 05/07/08 by Andre Mare in Articles
Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few...
1 replies - 1109 views - 05/07/08 by Alex Miller in News
Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for $23...
7 replies - 1582 views - 05/07/08 by Rick Ross in News
This is the first in a series of articles about random numbers in Java programs. The series covers the following topics and also serves as an introduction to...
0 replies - 2082 views - 05/07/08 by Daniel Dyer in Articles
The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it...
2 replies - 1885 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News