
Fellow Java Champion, Stephen Chin has created a
petition to open source JavaFX technology and the platform. Yours truly
has already signed it and...
4 replies - 4997 views - 07/16/10 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

Brian Goetz, from Oracle, has posted an updated
proposal for the lambda expressions : State
of the Lambda Here are some examples of closures taken from...
0 replies - 4077 views - 07/15/10 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

Stick a fork in it - Scala 2.8 is done. The GA release hit this morning with sweeping changes that include a revamped collection library, named and default...
0 replies - 13116 views - 07/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Ok, now I really want to go to JavaOne. I just found Oracle's new Content Catalog, which indexes all of the JavaOne, Oracle Develop, and Open World sessions...
0 replies - 6900 views - 07/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Aspose Newsletter for July 2010 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases of its JasperReports ...
0 replies - 1042 views - 07/14/10 by Sherazam Khan in Announcements

Today the Apache Jakarta subproject JMeter is releasing the next version of its pure Java desktop app, JMeter, which is designed to load test functional...
3 replies - 11549 views - 07/14/10 by Alex Crafts in News

Last week I wrote a few articles on how Eclipse can assist when working in team environments. Today, I have another Eclipse related tip - this time to do with...
4 replies - 9056 views - 07/14/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

In this post, we’ll see a new feature of JR : the rendezvous.Like
asynchronous message passing, this synchronization method involves two
processes : a...
0 replies - 3513 views - 07/14/10 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

Overall, there seems to be only a slight amount of confidence in Oracle's stewardship of its recently inherited open source technologies like Java and MySQL. ...
2 replies - 7557 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Last week I read an announcement about Chronon, a time travelling debugger. It sounds very appealling - if you're like me, you've often missed that spot where...
5 replies - 10919 views - 07/13/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Just two weeks after the first beta release of Apache Tomcat 7, MuleSoft has already designed today's latest release of the Tcat Server (6.0 R3) to run Tomcat...
1 replies - 5170 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Problem: If your application has a version number, it should be
accessible during runtime from Java (e.g., to display it in an “About
this application”...
4 replies - 5300 views - 07/12/10 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Oracle has just released the Java SE 6 Update 21. This
version is compatible with new system configurations :Oracle
Enterprise Linux 5.5, 5.4, 4.8Red Hat...
0 replies - 6120 views - 07/10/10 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills. In previous surveys, security specialists were...
0 replies - 16942 views - 07/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

This week's DZone Refcard by Willie Wheeler is about Expression-Based
Authorization with Spring Security 3. The Refcard covers the key
features of...
3 replies - 7784 views - 07/09/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles