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James Sugrue06/02/09
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JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications

Getting Started does exactly what you'd expect - it shows you where to get JavaFX, how to use the NetBeans IDE for development, while also showing you the alternatives (Eclipse and command line). The...

Dan Dyer06/02/09
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Escape Analysis in Java 6 Update 14 - Some Informal Benchmarks

Sun recently released update 14 of the Java 6 JDK and JRE. As well as the usual collection of bug fixes, this release includes some experimental new features designed to improve the performance of the JVM (see the release notes). One of these is Escape...

Geertjan Wielenga06/01/09
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Open Sourced Gateway to Zembly Web Services

Zembly, Sun's Wiki-like application development environment, now exposes a web gateway, in the form of an API. Through the API, applications in JavaFX, Java SE, and Java EE can access Zembly's web services.The Zembly client library (ZCL) is open sourced and...

Nitin Bharti06/01/09
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Red Hat Unveils New JBoss Middleware 'Profiles', Web Framework Kit

At a live, CommunityOne press conference here in San Francisco, DZone sat down with Red Hat's Craig Muzilla and Mark Little to get first hand details of the new JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy.

Nitin Bharti06/01/09
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Tech Chat: CTO Mark Little on EAP 5, RESTful SOA, and Future Directions for JBoss

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Mark Little, newly appointed CTO of the JBoss division of Red Hat. In this interview, Mark provides an update on...

Jon Rose06/01/09
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What's New in Adobe Flex 4

This summer brings the first full public preview of Adobe Flex 4 (codenamed Gumbo). The Flex 4 beta comes with a number of significant updates and enhancements to the platform. Adobe's primary goal with Flex 4 is to provide support and integration with Adobe...

Tinu Awopetu06/01/09
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NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 1 Available for Download!

The NetBeans team is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 1!

Ricky Ho06/01/09
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RESTFul Design Patterns

Here I will summarize a set of RESTful design practices that I have used quite successfully.Object PatternsIf there are many objects of the same type, the object URL should contains the id of the object.

James Sugrue06/01/09
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JavaFX Refcard Released: Meet The Author

Today we've released the JavaFX Refcard, one of the cards on our schedule that I've been eagerly anticipating. I met the author, Stephen Chin, to discuss JavaFX, why it doesn't get the backing that it probably deserves, and finding out a little about the...

Mohamed El-beltagy06/01/09
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Java is a platform, not a product.

Today I was reading about JDK 7 and the new language changes and I stumbled upon this InfoQ post. But what really grapped my attention is in the first reply to the post, here: 'Funny thing about Java, it's "what you can ADD to it" culture.', Vic C...

Fabrizio Giudici05/31/09
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Language Aside, What I Miss Most for JavaFX Development

After some demos and small things, I've started the development of a small, possibly real world application for JavaFX mobile ("possibly" because, at present time, there's no way to run it but on the JavaFX Mobile Emulator - hoping for announcements...

Javier Paniza05/30/09
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Java Properties Without Getters and Setters

During the last Devoxx conference, Mark Reinhold, Sun's chief engineer for Java SE, gave a presentation on the latest directions for Java 7. (Hamlet D'Arcy's summary of Mark's presentation is available here.)

James Sugrue05/29/09
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Google Wave - Most Innovative Product of 2009?

Yesterday at Google I/O attendees got to see a preview of the new Google Wave communication system. Developed out of the Google Sydney offices, Lars Rasumussen...

Murat Yener05/29/09
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Flex Remoting on Google App Engine

I'm not personally related to Adobe, Google nor Sun but I like to code in Java. I am happy to see that Adobe filling the gap which Sun left years ago with applets. Java is the perfect choice to use on Google App Engine. So can Flex also be a good choice to...

Roger Kitain05/28/09
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ICEFaces 2.0 And JSF 2.0 Together

JSF Ajax frameworks have been around for some time. JSF is all about server side components that render their state as markup to the client. JSF has a well defined lifecycle that defines how component state is handled on the server and when component state is...