VisualVM 1.3.2 has been released at http://visualvm.java.net. This is a maintenance release which addresses several JDK 7-specific bugs and updates links to new project pages migrated from https://visualvm.dev.java.net.
0 replies - 1055 views - 03/07/11 by Jiri Sedlacek in Announcements
After a short three-year run, the scripting language behind JavaFX was declared dead today at JavaOne. Starting with JavaFX 2.0, which is due out in 2011 (in 7-10 months), the unique RIA framework will use the Java API in place of the doomed JavaFX...
31 replies - 29638 views - 09/20/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Mark Reinhold principal engineer at Sun/Oracle, breathes some common
sense into the JDK 7 release schedule with a suggestion of a 2011
release, but with a catch.
23 replies - 5917 views - 09/09/10 by Alex Collins in Articles
We've all known for some time that the JDK 7 development schedule was a bit too ambitious given the sudden addition of closures and the re-structuring after the Oracle acquisition. Having been written 'pre-acquisition', the initial JDK 7 roadmap looked...
10 replies - 12034 views - 09/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
There's much excitement about JDK 7 and in particular Lambdas! I've
waded through the bloat to help you get an understanding of it.
If you search for JDK 7 in your favourite search engine the chances
are you'll hit the controversies surrounding lambadas in...
18 replies - 13881 views - 07/31/10 by Alex Collins in Articles
It's no secret that some developers in the Java community are doubting whether or not closures in Java 7 will be ready by the deadline this year. Over the weekend, Brian Goetz, a Senior Engineer at Oracle working on Java 7, posted a document suggesting that...
5 replies - 4922 views - 05/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of progress on Project Lambda this week. Currently at version 0.15, Project Lambda's mailing list...
0 replies - 17345 views - 05/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The renewed Oracle TechCasts kicked off today with Mark Reinhold talking about JDK 7 and answering questions from viewers. Reinhold discussed the significant things he is working on in the OpenJDK Project and he revealed some of the preliminary explorations...
3 replies - 12070 views - 02/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Here we go again—another year, another set of predictions revisited
and offered up for the next 12 months. And maybe, if I'm feeling really
ambitious, I'll take that shot I thought about last year and try
predicting for the decade. Without further ado, I'll...
5 replies - 8653 views - 01/05/10 by Ted Neward in News
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently held
early talks with Microsoft to show Wall Street Journal content, and
possibly other News Corp. publications, exclusively on the Bing search
engine. Analysts say this plan would hurt Murdoch more than Google.
The...
0 replies - 11779 views - 11/24/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community. The community will give developers a chance to mold the future of CA's upcoming Agile Planner tool. Go there now and tell CA the best ways to...
0 replies - 11935 views - 11/24/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. ...
0 replies - 11496 views - 11/20/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
It was announced yesterday that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were...
40 replies - 21950 views - 11/19/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were...
0 replies - 12029 views - 11/18/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.
0 replies - 10941 views - 11/17/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
