I was at an awesome presentation at JavaOne of the long tail of Java tools that not many people have come across, which I had to share. So, in no particular...
8 replies - 6818 views - 05/12/08 by Jakub Korab in Articles
This just in from the Facebook-PR-flacks-writing-pure-dross department:"We appreciate all of the effort and time that you've (Java developers, that is)...
15 replies - 3048 views - 05/12/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
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 - 2366 views - 05/10/08 by cornsomething in News
Get ready for high quality video on the screens of your life. Sun has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies, to provide immersive media...
6 replies - 1993 views - 05/08/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
One of the frequently asked questions at the No Fluff, Just Stuff expert panels boils down to, "When should I get off the Java train?" There may be...
13 replies - 2893 views - 05/08/08 by Michael Nygard in Articles
Today we're going to look at the Prototype design pattern. Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by...
4 replies - 1729 views - 05/07/08 by Andre Mare in Articles
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 - 2194 views - 05/06/08 by danielstoner in News
It’s time to move on and show the simple elegance Spring brings to OSGi development using the HelloWorldSpec sample from the OSGi & Modularity post. But...
0 replies - 1805 views - 05/06/08 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
Many times it is useful to be able to get programmatically
information about the network interfaces present on a host. Java
standard library include a number...
0 replies - 1768 views - 05/05/08 by danielstoner in News
Due to a number of differences between various platforms it is very difficult to present system specific information in a consistent manner. When getting...
2 replies - 2471 views - 05/04/08 by danielstoner in Tips and Tricks
The .jar file has always been a great unit of modularity on the Java platform. Unfortunately, it also comes with the classpath baggage, and .jar files were...
1 replies - 2159 views - 05/03/08 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
In one of my earlier explorations I described a policy object created by "functional style programming" in Java. The basic idea is to make methods...
3 replies - 1636 views - 05/02/08 by Yardena in Tips and Tricks
You may know that I've been progressively building a Tetris game in JavaFX on this blog, the most recent post being Game Over: Improving upon the Compiled...
4 replies - 998 views - 05/01/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles
I want to share with you a little gadget that uses google-collections. Basically, a rule is a condition and an action.
9 replies - 1552 views - 05/01/08 by Yardena in Tips and Tricks
JavaRebel is a JVM plugin (-javaagent) that enables reloading changes made to Java class files on-the-fly, saving developers the time that it takes to redeploy...
0 replies - 565 views - 05/01/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Announcements
