Recent Interviews

Lessons Learned From Spring’s @Autowired

Last November we got Spring 2.5 and with it the possibility to use annotations for dependency injection (DI). Annotations can be used instead or mixed with the...

0 replies - 1082 views - 05/13/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Top Personal Insights of JavaOne?

Flipping through the pages and pages of notes you may have taken at JavaOne, which ones would you not want to forget? In this case, focus on the personal and...

2 replies - 1652 views - 05/12/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JavaOne: Extreme Innovation (or James Goslings Showcase) Part 1 of 2

In a week that now seems to have raced by in a blur, the main hall at the Moscone Center was packed to capacity as you would expect when James Gosling is...

0 replies - 2384 views - 05/10/08 by cornsomething in News

Web Frameworks: Comfort vs. Expediency?

Two nights ago I had a conversation with Craig McLanahan, among others, in a slightly dubious sports bar near the JavaOne conference site. When the subject of...

20 replies - 3426 views - 05/08/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JavaOne: Intel Keynote

It is day three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He begins by highlighting the fact...

0 replies - 1588 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: AMD Keynote

AMD had a tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was...

0 replies - 1184 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

CommunityOne 2008 Impressions (Day 0 of JavaOne)

The CommunityOne conference this year was on Monday, May 5, 2008, the day before JavaOne "proper". It's easy to think of CommunityOne as a...

0 replies - 1048 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News

JavaOne Wednesday Morning Keynote: "Oracle Enterprise" - Oracle Corp.

Oracle believes Java is integral part of the upcoming transformation of the Enterprise to more Web-2.0-like -- to adopt the look and feel of Web 2.0 and...

0 replies - 1102 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News

JavaOne: What's Next in Server Side Technology

My final session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry...

0 replies - 2366 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News

Interview: JFugue Goes Hip Hop

A new release of JFugue API was announced last week. Its author, Dave Koelle, is at JavaOne and here he talks about the API and some of its hidden treasures.

3 replies - 1087 views - 05/07/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few...

2 replies - 1561 views - 05/07/08 by Alex Miller in News

Embarcadero Buys CodeGear for $23M: New Life for JBuilder?

Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for $23...

7 replies - 2057 views - 05/07/08 by Rick Ross in News

JavaOne 2008 Opening Keynote

The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it...

2 replies - 2263 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News

JFrets: Learning to Play Guitar with Java

Matt Warman, who created and open sourced JFrets, the Java-based guitar-teaching tool, is at JavaOne! He'll be delivering a technical session and BOF. I bumped...

6 replies - 2246 views - 05/06/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Console applications with Java 6

In Java 6 a better way of interacting with the command prompt was introduced, the java.io.Console class. Together with the utility class java.util.Scanner...

2 replies - 2196 views - 05/06/08 by danielstoner in News