Earlier this week, Oracle finalized their
new standard with the Java Community Process and approved Public Review
Ballot #336, meaning Java 7 would be coming on July 28th. On Friday,
Oracle announced that
the new version of Java would be using OpenJDK for...
0 replies - 12228 views - 06/12/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
While everyone talks about the slip of the JDK7 schedule, I found another piece of information from Reinholds announcement much more noteworthy:
As always, our intent is that JDK 7 will ship concurrently with a Java SE 7 JSR, and likewise for JDK 8 and...
5 replies - 7581 views - 09/11/10 by Jörg Buchberger in News
Oracle's Alex Buckley (spec lead, Java Language & VM) explains why the JVM has been good not only for Java, but
also for other languages -- and why JSR 292 will have a major impact on
developers.
0 replies - 2755 views - 08/03/10 by Pieter Humphrey in News
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 exciting announcements in this domain. I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to Alex...
0 replies - 6618 views - 11/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
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 under the corporation friendly BSD license you can use and abuse it as much as you like, no matter if...
9 replies - 7787 views - 12/17/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements
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 1.4 was born in
February of 2002 and has lived a long and successful life, probably one
of the...
6 replies - 12896 views - 10/02/08 by Alex Miller in Articles
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 responses) and can report the results.
30 replies - 8084 views - 07/16/08 by Alex Miller in News
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 --
This one I've seen an example of online a few times. It automatically
release the lock when the...
2 replies - 4772 views - 03/10/08 by Collin Fagan in News
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 JTop plugin for JConsole, with a view to porting it to a NetBeans module. Let me tell you, it was not...
0 replies - 7173 views - 01/30/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News
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 "best" in a given situation. In other words, how should one decide which HTML parser to use?...
2 replies - 12364 views - 01/16/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News
