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The Importance of Distributed Caching

Over the past year we've seen more and more articles here on JavaLobby about distributed caching. Terracotta, in particular, have been at the forefront of many...

0 replies - 2283 views - 11/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

MiG Layout 3.6.2 - SWT/Swing LayoutManager

MiG Layout is the most versatile Java Layout Manager for Swing and SWT. It is very simple to use and has lots of documentation. Since MiG Layout is 100% free...

9 replies - 4099 views - 12/17/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements

RIP…JDK 1.4

Ok, I’m a little early. In one month on Halloween eve, JDK 1.4 will officially enter End of Service Life (EOSL) as part of the Sun end of life policy. JDK...

6 replies - 6925 views - 10/02/08 by Alex Miller in Articles

JDK Version Poll Results

Recently, I created a poll asking what versions of the JDK people were using in production. I think at this point I have a representative sample (over 300...

30 replies - 4931 views - 07/16/08 by Alex Miller in News

More First Class Methods Code

I'm still experimenting with the prototype implementation of the FCM closures proposal. Here are a few utility methods that immediately came to mind.withLock...

2 replies - 3028 views - 03/10/08 by cfagan in News

Another Look at JConsole Plugins

Charlie Hunt, one of Sun's performance gurus, is in town (where "town" equals "Prague, Czech Republic") and we've been studying the JDK's...

0 replies - 3778 views - 01/30/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

How do you parse HTML in Java?

The Open Source HTML Parsers in Java page is useful in listing the HTML parsers that are out there. But it doesn't give much of a clue about which are the...

1 replies - 4429 views - 01/16/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News