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The Java 7 - Lucene Bug Controversy: The Story Behind the Story

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Learn about the controversy that emerged in the early days of the Java 7 GA release because of the effect it had on Apache Lucene - from the perspective of Uwe...

1 replies - 5043 views - 02/03/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

Daily Dose: Twitter scores $800 million in record breaking deal

Today, Russian venture firm DST Global invested a record breaking $800 million into Twitter.  According to the release, half of that investment is meant to let Twitter employees and investors cash out their shares, with the other $400 million sold in new...

0 replies - 15032 views - 08/02/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: CouchDB 2.0 Released, introduces UnQL

On Friday, the second version of the Couchbase Server was revealed. The new server should "be easy to install and manage, and will bring new indexing and query support; the combination of technologies offers the lowest latency, highest throughput NoSQL...

0 replies - 11194 views - 07/31/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Reza Rahman on Resin 4, CDISource, and JEE 7 and 8

Caucho's Community Outreach Advocate and Senior Software Engineer stopped by our studio on his way to talks at the Research Triangle JUG and the...

0 replies - 10614 views - 07/25/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

JavaOne is looming on the horizon - 6,393,600 seconds to go! (Content Catalogue Released!)

And it is rapidly approaching. 106,560 minutes or 1776 hours or rounded 10 weeks until the industry meets again in San Francisco! If you were waiting for the content catalog, it is finally there, too. With over 400 Sessions in 8 tracks this will be a...

5 replies - 6643 views - 07/20/11 by Markus Eisele in News

Daily Dose: NetBeans 7.0 Has Java 7 Support

Oracle's newly released NetBeans 7.0 features support for Java 7 features.  The JDK 7 component of NetBeans 7.0 is technically an early access snapshot.  A NetBeans 7.0.1 release in October will feature the final version of JDK 7.  Even developers who...

2 replies - 25525 views - 04/20/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

How to watch the file system for changes in Java 7 (JDK 7)

Java 7 uses the underlying file system functionalities to watch the file system for changes. Now, we can watch for events like creation, deletion, modification, and get involved with our own actions. For accomplish this task, we need:• An object...

9 replies - 7985 views - 03/17/11 by Constantin Alin in News

Java 7: Do we really need <> in the diamond operator?

As you may know, one of new features of upcoming Java 7 will be the diamond operator. Purpose of the diamond operator is to simplify instantiation of generic classes. For example, instead ofList<Integer> p = new ArrayList<Integer>(); with the...

1 replies - 6345 views - 03/07/11 by Zdenek Tronicek in Articles

Decisions, Decisions… Figuring Out Which JavaOne Sessions to Attend

Ok, now I really want to go to JavaOne.  I just found Oracle's new Content Catalog, which indexes all of the JavaOne, Oracle Develop, and Open World sessions for you to search - essentially making our acceptance-day list on DZone obsolete (but not in vain! ...

0 replies - 5252 views - 07/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Daily Dose - Will Patent Trolls Buy Novell?

Novell revealed last week that it was putting itself up for auction after turning down a $2 billion acquisition offer.  The thing that has the software industry worried is Novell's mother-load of patents: at least 450 related to office applications, identity...

0 replies - 11426 views - 05/31/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some

SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some  

0 replies - 16424 views - 01/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

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.)

13 replies - 25084 views - 05/30/09 by Javier Paniza in Articles

Which Look and Feel Should be Default in Java 7?

The other day I was discussing with colleagues if Nimbus should be the default LAF(Look and Feel) for Swing applications. The current default LAF is Ocean which is a spiced up theme for Metal which has been the Swing default LAF since the beginning. It feels...

21 replies - 8522 views - 03/17/09 by Jasper Potts in News

Do You Really Need Java 7?

It's a long wait for Java 7 and there's a lot of speculation about what we can expect once the final JSR is out. I took a look through the what's coming up to find out if there's anything I actually needed. One thing that struck me about the whole thing is...

117 replies - 22765 views - 10/17/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Would Type Inference Help Java?

My former colleague Lars Westergren recently posted a blog (here) about type inferencing, posing the question whether type inference would actually be good for Java, and if it would provide any benefits outside of just "less typing".

0 replies - 3441 views - 05/16/08 by Ola Bini in News