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Java Mobility Podcast 55: Back to School Special
Diane Wolff and Melanie Crouch of Virgina Western Community College are starting a new degree program of mobile programming at their community college that is geared to meet the needs of the Roanoke, VA business community.  Sep. 2, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 54: Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA
Jonathan Knudsen talks about his new book, Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA and his tutorial on the Light Weight UI Toolkit. Aug. 21, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 53: Campus Ambassadors and Sun Spots
Sun Campus Ambassadors Tom Martini Petreca and Lucas Torri talk about the Sun Campus Ambassador program and their work with SunSpots. Jul. 31, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 52: Wireless Industry Partnership and Top Ten Dating Tips For Developers
Caroline Lewko from WIP shares how WIP helps developers negotiate the mobile ecosystem and talks about the new Mobile Developer Wiki that's currently in Beta. We finish up with two selections from her popular talk Top Ten Dating Tips for Developers.  Jul. 3, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 51: SEA Technologia
Alexandre Gomes and associates talk about game development with Dino and HoHoHo and the state of mobile and embedded development in Brazil. Jun. 28, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 50: iMob
David Theron, Managing Director of iMob, shares is experience as a mobile developer in South Africa. Jun. 23, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 49: Bug Labs
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China. Hear Ken Gilmer from Bug Labs talk about this new product and the way it is extending phoneME advanced. Jun. 10, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 48: Sprint on LWUIT, Titan and Windows Mobile
Nathan Smith, Application Developer Program Group Manager, and John Jones, Product Development Engineer at Sprint talk about their past and future involvement in LWUIT, Windows Mobile development and Titan development and Sprint Professional Developer Program. Jun. 4, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 47: Johannesburg Town Hall
A live recording from the Town Hall meeting at the Johannesburg Mobility Days. May. 28, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 46: LWUIT - Lightweight UI Toolkit
The Lightweight UI Toolkit development team gather in a round table discussion about the library, it's goal and the impending open sourcing issues.  May. 15, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 45: Live from JavaOne 2008
Daniel Steinberg takes his microphone and tours the JavaOne 2008 Pavilion giving listeners an opportunity to experience the booths in the Mobility Village at JavaOne 2008.  May. 8, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 44: John Charles, Airscape Down Under CTO
John Charles, CTO of the Australian based Airscape Technology shares his views of the mobile world and why he believes that now is the time to be developing applications for mobile devices. May. 1, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 43: Mobile Distillery's porting tool Celsius
Razmig Sarkissian from Mobile Distillery talks to Terrence about Celsius, a software solution for porting and optimizing Java ME applications across over 800 phones.  Apr. 24, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 42: Dalibor Topic joins Sun
Dalibor Topic talks about his first couple of days at Sun as the Java Free Open Software Ambassador.  Apr. 18, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 41: Down Under - Sydney Mobility Days Town Hall
Roger leads a developer question and answer session of Australian developers at Mobility Days in Sydney. Apr. 2, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 40: Navigon - navigation on your phone
Terrence talks with Phillip Candal about their new Scabler product that has integrated mapping and GPS solution and how it was developed by J2ME Polish.  Apr. 1, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 39: CQME, Conformance and Quality and jtharness projects in the M&E Community
Kevin Looney, Brian Kurotsuchi, and Mikhail Gorshenev talk about CQME and jtharness projects and their uses as a TCK testing tool and the possibility of using it for testing applications. Mar. 14, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 38: Developing and deploying content in the real world
This week feature listens in the the MEDD Panel session Developing and Deploying Content in the Real World. It is a frank discussion amongst large and small application developers, oems, device manufacturers, carriers, and tool vendors. Mar. 7, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 37: Announcements for M&E Developer Days
In this episode we talk about the Center for Mobile Education research and feature the introductory presentation by Terrence Barr and Roger Brinkley at last month's Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. Feb. 11, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 36: James Goslings MEDD Keynote Address
This week Roger and Terrence recap some of the announcements from the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. You'll also hear an excerpt from James Gosling's MEDD keynote address. Feb. 7, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 35: Live from Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
This week's podcast features voices from the first ever Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. We talked to many of the people presenting poster sessions on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus as well as some of the contestants trying to win one of four SunSPOTs. Jan. 25, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 34: Manfred Kube on Siemens AySystem
The AySystem: connecting you to anyone or anything – from anywhere in the world and all of the time. Monfred Kobe discusses this new end to end Java solution from Seimens.  Jan. 18, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 33: Simon Phipps on Open Source
Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses some of the key points from his keynote address at FOSS-IN late last year in India. We look ahead to the upcoming Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. Jan. 10, 2008

Java Mobility Podcast 32: Holiday Wishes and Resolutions
As we enter into the Holiday season, the Mobile & Embedded Community wishes all a happy holiday wishes in a montage holiday greetings and new year resolutions. Dec. 24, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 31: SunSPOTs
Roger Meike talks about SunSPOTs, the device that InfoWorld has named one of the Must-have gadgets for the discerning geek. You'll hear about community, code, and plans for great presentations at January's Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. Dec. 20, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 30: Sun Tech Days & FOSS/IN
This week Terrence Barr reports from the Sun Tech Days in Frankfurt, Germany and Roger Brinkley talks about his time at FOSS/IN in Bangalore, India and the Sun India Tech Days. You are invited to take a new survey and Terrence interviews Michael Samarin from FUTURICE. Dec. 12, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 29: Mobile Content Lifecycle Management
There are seven steps to successfully bringing a mobile application to market. In this episode Steve Haney of Tira Wireless discusses this mobile content lifecycle management which includes market planning, design, development, adaptation, testing, channel readiness, and distribution. Dec. 5, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 28: Talks on upcoming Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
Podcast hosts Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr are joined by members of the selection committee for January's Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. They talk about the different types of sessions that have been scheduled for this conference with C. Enrique Ortiz, CTO at EZee, Sean Sheedy, Java ME Consultant and Eric Arseneau, Sun Microsystems.  Nov. 20, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 27: JTVOS (TV set top box) at Cineca Research
Lorenzo Pallara is a researcher with Cineca, an Italian consortium of 31 universities, 2 Scientific Research agencies, and the Ministry of University and Research. The JTVOS project is a open sourced Java based end to end interactive TV broadcasting platform based on phoneME advanced. Nov. 16, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 26: Tricastmedia Mail and TWUIK
Dr. Brian Lee and Dr. Salmon Ahmad introduce their Tricast Mail and push technology for delivering user information to cell phones. It uses TWUIK which greatly improves usability with dazzling graphics, vibrant animation in an engaging rich-media user experience. Nov. 2, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 25: Panel on Open Source
Dalibor Topic, Kaffe.org; Fabiane Nardone, Brazilian Health Care; Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University; Ashlee Vance, The Register form a panel of outsiders reviewing Sun's Open Source efforts. This session isn't specific to Java ME technologies but is worth listening to as it relates to open source as a whole.  Oct. 23, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 24: Mobile & Embedded Community Stars
Mobile & Embedded Community Stars Maurico Leal, Joe Bowbeer, Hartti Suomela, Bruno Ghisi and Terrence Barr in a round table discussion. Oct. 16, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 23: Johannes Eickhold
Johannes Eickhold is a Research Staff Member at the University of Karlsruhe. While most his of work is on Peer-to-Peer networking he is also working on a distributed Java VM on eight bit micro controllers to leverage that peer-to-peer network. Johannes talks about his experience porting phoneME advanced to the Nokia N800 and future directions that the community should take for this device. Oct. 10, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 22: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days
The Mobile & Embedded Community is hosting the first ever Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference January 22-24, 2008 at the Sun Santa Clara Campus Auditorium. The conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool vendors, OEMs and carriers. Planning is underway for a series of technical sessions, lightning talks, hands on labs, and poster sessions. Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr, Mobile and Embedded Community Leader and Technical Evangelist, provide insight into the conference. Oct. 2, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 21: Wireless Toolkit
The Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC and CDC is a state-of-the-art toolbox for developing wireless applications that are based on Java ME's Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Connected Device Configuration (CDC), and designed to run on cell phones, mainstream personal digital assistants, and other small mobile devices. The toolkit includes the emulation environments, performance optimization and tuning features, documentation, and examples that developers need to bring efficient and successful wireless applications to market quickly.  Sep. 24, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 20: Mobile AJAX
Web services and mash-ups of web services really bring a whole new dimension to the web and mobile computing. Terrence Barr, Vincent Hardy, and Akhil Arora have create Mobile AJAX as a subproject of the meapplicationdeveloper project to make it very easy for the Java ME developer to harness the power of Ajax-style web services. Interesting applications can be built by combining (mashing-up) information from these multiple sources and remote web services, limited only by application developers' imaginations. Mobile Ajax highlights what is possible through a number of demos as well that utilize libraries that interact with web services. Sep. 17, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 19: phoneME Advanced Update
phoneME Advanced has just released the MR2 Development Release that includes a both source and binary releases. Hinkmond Wong, the project lead, says this release features Window CE and Mobile support with an MIDP stack. Hinkmond also discusses the ports currently going on with Linux GTK and phones where this can be run and future development directions. Don't forget to take the Topic for phoneME Advanced Web Seminar poll in the phoneME Advanced Forum. Sep. 11, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 18: Learn new UI techniques with phoneME UI Labs and Java ME
phoneME UI Labs is the one stop resource for developers to learn about the advanced UI technologies in Java ME platform. Aastha Bhardwaj talks about scalable vector graphics (SVG) in JSR 226 and JSR 287 and the demos that developers can find in UI Labs. Sep. 6, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 17: JavaDB, a database implementation for all the Java plaftorms
Java DB is Sun's supported distribution of the open source Apache Derby 100% Java technology database. Rick Hillegas, Sun Senior Staff Engineer and Apache Derby developer, provides insights into uses of JavaDB, developing in a distributed environment and upcoming features in the next release of JavaDB. Aug. 27, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 16: Hecl, the scripting language for the JavaME platform
The Hecl Programming Language is a high-level, open source scripting language implemented in Java. It is intended to be small, extensible, extremely flexible, and easy to learn and use. In fact, it's small enough that it runs on J2ME-enabled cell phones! David Welton, Hecl project owner, gives us a full view of this scripting language. Aug. 20, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 15: MSpot brings the world of entertainment to the mobile phone
Derek Lyon shares their experience in using JavaME technologies on multiple phones, the custom frameworks the company developed, marketing, and how they identified the demographics of their target audience in delivering a whole host of entertainment products in both audio and video formats. For more information about MSPOT go to their website.  Aug. 15, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 14: Java Tools Community
Fabiane Nardon and Daniel Lopez, the Java Tools Community Leaders, talk about their community, mobile projects in the community, and how the Mobile and Embedded Community and Java Tools Community can work together. They also share their experiences in developing mobile applications. For more information on the Java Tools Community go to their community page or look at their past newletters. Aug. 6, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 13: Mauricio Leal on Mobility and the Mobile and Embedded Community
Mauricio Leal, Mobility Application Developer and Advocate, discusses the challenges and issues for Developers and Carriers, shares his insight on ever emerging role of mobile devices, and its impact to help bridge the digital divide in developing countries. Jul. 27, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 12: Loopt the Social Networking Application
Mark Jacobstein, EVP Corporate Development and Marketing, describes Loopt social networking application for mobile devices and the development issues of permissions, safety, and working with operators and other third party developers. He also discusses the various changes in social behavior that software like this are likely to bring.  Jul. 16, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 11: Dalibor Topic on Sun's Open Sourcing of Java
Dalibor Topic, open source Java advocate and Kaffe lead developer, shares his interest on Java ME, the possibility of using Java SE in embedded systems, and how open source projects like Cafe and Classpath will move forward after Sun's open sourcing of the Java platform. He also shares his thoughts on his role as a member of the OpenJDK Interim Board of Governance and gives Sun a scorecard on its open source efforts to date. Jul. 9, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 10: Nellymoser the Mobile Media Specialist
Dave Most, Mobile Application Manager at Nellymoser, talks about the challenges in providing mobile media on a variety of handsets and how to separate form (UI) from the function to deliver a rich, satisfying experience to the user. Jun. 29, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 9: A Swarm of Cheap Robots on Mars (Or Wherever You Need Them)
Bruce Boyes, CEO of Systronix, describes TrackBot, a small robotic device with built-in sensor modules that provide beaconing, obstacle avoidance, spatial awareness, communication, and navigation. Add a SunSPOT device to TrackBot, and the result is a powerful but affordable strategy for large-scale deployments in swarms and collaborative robotic behavior. (See also TrackBot on YouTube.) Jun. 19, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 8: Amobee Delivers Ad-Funded Mobile Java Apps and Services
In this interview at 2007 JavaOne conference, Amobee Media Systems' Ziv Eliraz describes the company's unique operator-centric system for ad-funding mobile services and applications. Developers can integrate Amobee's handset API ("HAPI") in their Java applications and generate revenue in a way that is contextually sensitive and user-friendly. Jun. 8, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 7: OpenLaszlo and Project Orbit
Max Carlson, Laszlo Systems co-founder, and Hinkmond Wong, Sun senior staff engineer, discuss OpenLaszlo and Project Orbit. Designed to free content developers from worrying about runtime issues, OpenLaszlo supports zero-install deployment of Ajax applications in multiple environments. Project Orbit is the Sun Java ME viewer for Laszlo Web 2.0 content on set-top boxes and smart cell phones.  Jun. 5, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 6: Vodafone Introduces Betavine Developer Portal
Roger and Terrence interview Steve Wolak and Peter Thompson from Vodafone about the new Betavine site, a research and development space that encourages collaboration in mobile and internet communications. As a Betavine user, you can download and test applications, create your own projects and blogs, and interact with other users. May. 31, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 5: A Talk With Java ME Expert C. Enrique Ortiz
C. Enrique Ortiz, a recognized mobility expert, renowned blogger, developer, and author, touches on a range of mobility topics in this interview, including: moving to CDC; the latest JSRs that are important to mobile developers; mobile AJAX; and the issue of device fragmentation. May. 23, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 4: Meet Vringo
Catch Roger Brinkley's and Terrence Barr's interview with Vringo, an independent software vendor (ISV) who launched a video-sharing community that enables you to share video ringtones (or "Vringos") with your buddies. You choose the clips -- from movies, TV, music, or your originals -- you'd like your friends to see on their mobile phones, and they choose the clips they'd like you to see. Says Vringo: "We want to make sharing viral videos as easy as calling your friends." May. 17, 2007

Java Mobility Podcast 3: JavaOne 2007 Activities
In this, our first year of open-sourcing Java ME technology, we have an incredibly rich and varied program for mobile and embedded developers at the 2007 JavaOne conference. Leader Roger Brinkley and tech evangelist Terrence Barr walk through the week-long program in San Francisco, highlighting the most interesting activities and not-to-miss events. May. 4, 2007

Mobile and Embedded Podcast 2: Report From Brazil
In the second podcast in our Mobile and Embedded Community series, leader Roger Brinkley and tech evangelist Terrence Barr highlight the latest community technology news, and then report on the April events in Brazil at Sun Tech Days and the FISL conference. Don't miss Roger's interview with Bruno and Lucas, project owners of the Marge Project, a Java Bluetooth Framework that shows how to create Bluetooth-enabled applications in a simple way. Bruno and Lucas recently unveiled a video about their demos on YouTube. May. 1, 2007

Mobile and Embedded Podcast 1: Introduction to the Community
This week we launch the new Mobile and Embedded Community podcast series with an introduction to the community. Leader Roger Brinkley and Technical Evangelist Terrence Barr describe the resources available for Mobile and Embedded developers.  Apr. 23, 2007

Holiday Pictures 2006
Many people take a week near the end of the year as vacation and travel or spend a little extra time with family. Duke is no exception. We're looking for your pictures of Duke on vacation. Dec. 5, 2006

Jini Beyond the Choir
In a video recreation of his presentation from the 10th Jini Community Meeting, Daniel Steinberg looks at the current state of Jini adoption and asks the questions of what the technology does that is of interest to developers and end users, and how to get that message out more successfully. Sep. 28, 2006

Holiday Pictures 2005
We're taking it easy the last week of 2005. Many people take this week as vacation and travel or spend a little extra time with family. Duke is no exception. We're looking for your pictures of Duke on vacation. Dec. 1, 2005

Happy Anniversary, java.net
Your pictures of Duke and family celebrating java.net's second anniversary. Jun. 10, 2005

Anniversary Pictures
We're coming up to the second anniversary of java.net, and looking for your pictures of Duke and family celebrating this event. May. 12, 2005

April Fools 2005
What Java/technology April Fools stories would you have run this year? Apr. 1, 2005

Duke's Vacation 2004
Here are some of the pictures readers sent us of Duke on vacation. Dec. 23, 2004

Holiday Pictures
We're taking it easy the last week of 2004. Many people take this week as vacation and travel or spend a little extra time with family. Duke is no exception. We're looking for your pictures of Duke on vacation. Dec. 1, 2004

The Big Question Remains Open
In February, an open letter from IBM to Sun advocated open sourcing Java. At this year's JavaOne, the issue was taken up by a panel of tech leaders, discussing whether Java should be released under an open source license and, if so, why and how. Editor-in-chief Daniel Steinberg takes a look at what was said. Jul. 12, 2004

Happy Anniversary java.net
Your pictures of Duke and family celebrating java.net's first anniversary. Jun. 10, 2004

Anniversary Pictures
We're coming up to the first anniversary of java.net, and looking for your pictures of Duke and family celebrating this event. Jun. 4, 2004

Extreme Software Engineering: A Hands-On Approach
These excerpts from the book Extreme Software Engineering: A Hands-On Approach present tutorials on testing first, with unit tests using JUnit and customer-written tests with the Fit framework. Mar. 3, 2004

Duke's Vacation 2003
Here are some of the pictures readers sent us of Duke on vacation. Dec. 31, 2003

Holiday Pictures
We're taking it easy the last week of 2003. Many people take this week as vacation and travel or spend a little extra time with family. Duke is no exception. We're looking for your pictures of Duke on vacation. Dec. 12, 2003

Extreme Teaching: Introducing Objects
Teachers of object-oriented programming can use the Fit framework to create an executable spec for an assignment. The spec itself leads the students through the project. Aug. 28, 2003

Exploring the Java Research License
The Java Research License (JRL) was introduced at JavaOne as a new open source license for universities and research. A panel of java.net bloggers talk about the new license and invite you into the discussion. Jun. 24, 2003

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Forum posts: Smalltalk's become feature and command-line compiler settings etc.
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Is the train leaving the station: Watching others riding the Rails . . . also
Spotlight: java.net partners
Weblogs: Opening Java, including code in a blog and Gosling in Brazil
Also in Java Today:Hibernate transactions in Spring and Broadcast Once, Watch Anywhere
Projects and Communities Tapestry web component examples and JavaDoc Dashboard for Tiger
Forum posts: switching on strings and deadlocking class loader
Posted by daniel on May 23, 2005 at 08:39 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Congratulations Sarah: Our MVP gets married . . . also
Poll: Are you going to JavaOne
Weblogs: signing jars, GUI and SWT, anootations in 1.4 and AJAXian progress bar
Also in Java Today:Peer to peer made easy and Business rules in enterprise
Projects and Communities JDK home page and Webspine
Forum posts: mixed jars in JAXB 2 and the become operation
Posted by daniel on May 20, 2005 at 07:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Getting Closures: Learning something new (that isn't) . . . also
Weblogs: state stored on clients, Harmony - friend or foe and features for NetBeans
Also in Java Today: Sweet smelling comments and Geronimo intro
Projects and Communities Nully and Copycat
Forum posts: Multi transport encoding and CD burning in Mustang
Posted by daniel on May 19, 2005 at 07:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Java in the Open: OSCon Europe -- also Gosling thinks there's enough harmony without Harmony . . . also
Weblogs: Hamilton on the future of Java, Storing secure session state on the client and what can we do with Java that we couldn't easily do with Perl, ASPs, . . .
Also in Java Today: Gosling on Harmony and configuring db access in Eclipse with SQLExplorer
Projects and Communities NetBeans tutorial and OurFaces
Forum posts: Changing 1.6 to 5.0 everywhere and BZip2
Posted by daniel on May 18, 2005 at 08:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Don't spend your money on my kids: Note to companies targeting developers . . . also
Featured articles: Avoiding gotchas
Weblogs: Indigo duplex bindings, JXME on CDC and Compiling MathML with JAXB 2.0
Also in Java Today: AJAX in Action and Interview with a Sociopath
Projects and Communities Mac Tiger endorsed directories and SwingX
Forum posts: Tree Navigation and moving from 1.5.0 to 5.0
Posted by daniel on May 17, 2005 at 07:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Join us at the Community Corner: The java.net gathering place at this year's JavaOne . . . also
Spotlight: Community Corner
Weblogs: java.net speaking opportunities at J1, Introducing WADL and Bytecode Instrumentation
Also in Java Today: Spring fling and timing is (still) everything
Projects and Communities JXME on CDC and the latest in GELC
Forum posts: Java2D on JOGL and Serializable
Posted by daniel on May 16, 2005 at 09:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Not too young: Deciding who gets to use code and how . . . also
Poll: Harmony and Java
Weblogs: Java in Open Office and J2EE Architecture for Speech Applications
Also in Java Today: hiring is obsolete and empiracle vs analytical analysis
Projects and Communities Jini event coming to NY and JGallary
Forum posts: Replacement prototype and Java2D and JOGL
Posted by daniel on May 13, 2005 at 06:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

License restrictions: Deciding who gets to use code and how . . . also
Feature article: Submit your Anniversary cards
Weblogs: A non-military license and Transactions and recoverability
Also in Java Today: XP Explained and More on enumerated types
Projects and Communities NetBeans 4.1 is final and Zemberek developer interview
Forum posts: Scheduled features in Mustang and Harmony compatibility
Posted by daniel on May 12, 2005 at 08:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

500 front pages and 20 communities: Celebrating two milestones . . . also
Weblogs: JDK community, parsing command line options and Grokker applet
Also in Java Today: Generics 2 and Fleury on Gluecode
Projects and Communities WS Session and context and new JDK community
Forum posts: JAXRPC releases coming and satisfying OS guys
Posted by daniel on May 11, 2005 at 07:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Introducing AXIOM: The Axis object model . . . also
Feature article: AXIOM
Weblogs: java.net launches partner network, more on why you don't ship Swing Apps and Ajax and Mobile Phone Fatigue
Also in Java Today: Quick and Easy Custom Templates with XDoclet and Maven and multiple source trees
Projects and Communities visiting JUGs and uing WSRP in SOA
Forum posts: Is Harmony a waste of time and talent and OS vendors could contribute to a standard.
Posted by daniel on May 10, 2005 at 08:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Harmony: Apache proposed project for Open Source, compatible J2SE . . . also
Spotlight: Project Looking Glass Demo Apps
Weblogs: Graham Hamilton with thoughts on Harmony from Sun's perspective and Bruno Souza on how Harmony will benefit Java
Also in Java Today: Harmony proposal and TheServerSide thread on Harmony
Projects and Communities Harmony forum and FAQ
Forum posts: Now it's your turn - what do you think?
Posted by daniel on May 09, 2005 at 08:38 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

End to end: You don't have to build an iPod . . . also
Poll: What would you improve in Java
Weblogs: Databinding in XUL, Jax-RPC on Tomcat, table sorting and hibernate
Also in Java Today: Profile your code and XML namespaces don't need URIs
Projects and Communities Micromatica and J2SE 5.0 for Mac OS X Tiger
Forum posts: classes representing resources and superclass option with xjc
Posted by daniel on May 06, 2005 at 05:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Packages and Playgrounds: Thoughts at 05:05:05 on 05/05/05 . . . also
Feature article: Packaging applications Weblogs: Jarbucks.org, the 'grazie signore' moments and where are the J2SE 5.0 updates
Also in Java Today: Java rockets closer to VB and JavaServer Faces integration
Projects and Communities new projects in Java XML and WS and Project Peabody chat transcript
Forum posts: Developing J2ME on Mac OS X, JavaSound and A workaround for SOAPAction HTTP header
Posted by daniel on May 05, 2005 at 07:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Client apps: Showcasing Java . . . also
Weblogs: Graphics acceleration, Mac OS X upgrade and launch of genericjmsra
Also in Java Today: Generic Types part 1 and Building MIDlets
Projects and Communities jxdbc and what's nio for
Forum posts: The state of Java on Mac OS X and look and feel
Posted by daniel on May 04, 2005 at 06:30 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

More on MIDP: User Interfaces with MIDP 2.0 . . . also
Feature article: J2ME Tutorial part 2
Weblogs: Fun with Robot, Installing Indigo and J2SE 5.0 Certification
Also in Java Today: Apache Beehive and JDNC
Projects and Communities The bar scene and Java live chat: NetBeans 4.1
Forum posts: The JXTA education project and JDNC issue fixed
Posted by daniel on May 03, 2005 at 07:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Network is the computer: Why is it in Tiger but not in Tiger . . . also
Spotlight: JRPG Maker
Weblogs: Deployment: Goodbye Scary Security Dialog Box!, GPL vs Invention rights, The jmsgenericra project launches today! and Mac OS X 10.4 has arrived, with a Hi-Rez secret
Also in Java Today: The REST of the Web and Sincere and Authentic
Projects and Communities GELC projects and JavaPedia: Mock Objects
Forum posts: The future for Java on Mac OS X and making the system lnf the default
Posted by daniel on May 02, 2005 at 09:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Tiger on Tiger: Tiger on Tiger . . . also
Poll: Java's best days
Weblogs: Tiger Update 3, Memory Usage< em> and Netbeans workshop
Also in Java Today: Simplifying Java with Jakarta Commons Lang and The Idea about Ideas
Projects and Communities JBoxim and The JPGroup
Forum posts: Finer grained method access and benchmark aps
Posted by daniel on April 29, 2005 at 09:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Planning for SOA: Designing an Enterprise Application framework for Service Oriented Architecture . . . also
Weblogs: GPL issues< em> and WS-RM to OASIS
Also in Java Today: More on languages and objects and Jason Hunter on XML
Projects and Communities Cocoa-Java with Eclipse and Java WS and XML adds community leaders
Forum posts: Installer ignores default browser and VS sp3
Posted by daniel on April 28, 2005 at 11:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Owning a chain saw: Funding for developer number 388 . . . also
Weblogs: the way back machine, AJAX, installing JAX-RPC 2.0 and Netbeans replace dialog
Also in Java Today: SWT Happens and Enterprise Streaming
Projects and Communities Jini Newsletter and Joining a Peer Group with PSE Memmbership
Forum posts: JAXB bundle size and Cygwin, Windows
Posted by daniel on April 27, 2005 at 07:02 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Assembling an application: Where do the pieces go? . . . also
Feature Article: The Java Extension Mechanism
Weblogs: Baseline Layout, JDIC in Mustang, Ogg and Supporting script languages in your app
Also in Java Today: When to use annotations and Intro to Autoboxing
Projects and Communities Game lessons for the desktop and JavaLive chat on Tiger language features
Forum posts: Ant for all and new direct 3D
Posted by daniel on April 26, 2005 at 09:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JRL FAQ 18: Improvements to Java source licensing? . . . also
Spotlight: The Networked Bay Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Stations or NetBEAMS
Weblogs: On language and APIs, XML-RPC and Ajax, Test your Java code on-line and 99.999% reliability
Also in Java Today: How to contribute code to Mustang and Top Five features from 5.0
Projects and Communities GCC turns 4.0 and XMLAdapter in JAXB RI EA
Forum posts: Grey rect fix and the ignore keyword
Posted by daniel on April 25, 2005 at 09:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Open source projects and Java: An invitation to share your experiences . . . also
Poll: internationalization
Weblogs: Hi Rez future and JMF
Also in Java Today: top Ant Best Practices and MV/C antipattern
Projects and Communities Blackberry Java Apps and perfect storm for portals
Forum posts: JTabbedPane tab components and deploy sanity make error
Posted by daniel on April 22, 2005 at 09:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Building a Compute Farm: Contributing bugs and ideas . . . also
Feature article: ComputeFarm
Weblogs: Revamped JWSDP home page, Wink presentations and tutorials and remedial programming classes
Also in Java Today: I fixed the JDK and JSF for non believers
Projects and Communities JavaPedia: WebDAV and NetB eans software day
Forum posts: LCD optimized anti-aliased text and xsom for 1.4
Posted by daniel on April 21, 2005 at 10:50 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Dolphins respond to bugs: Contributing bugs and ideas . . . also
Weblogs: Revamped JWSDP home page, Wink presentations and tutorials and remedial programming classes
Also in Java Today: Duck Typing and Regular expressions
Projects and Communities JPackage for Linux and HTML tools
Forum posts: Better tool integration for XJC and Swing's Gray Rect fix
Posted by daniel on April 20, 2005 at 09:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Speeding the desktop: Making Swing apps rock . . . also
Feature article:Swing Threading
Weblogs: Swing paint improvements for Mustang, JAXB RI on java.net, Perl one liners in Groovy and new vocabularies
Also in Java Today: The cognitive view and JMX and JConsole
Projects and Communities Mac Java problem with 10.3.9 and PLoP
Forum posts: What do you want us to do and try - ignore
Posted by daniel on April 19, 2005 at 08:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

J2SE in your pocket: J2SE in the embedded space . . . also
Spotlight:The Genesis project
Weblogs: J2SE Embedded, NetBeans developer on Eclipse governance, Peabody chat and looking back at an early bug report
Also in Java Today: Managing component dependencies and J2EE Deployment
Projects and Communities Mac icons for Java developers and SOA and Java
Forum posts: Require a server and client VM and Read only interfaces
Posted by daniel on April 18, 2005 at 02:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Tax filing and Java: JCP News from Brazil . . . also
Poll: Breaking the last dependency
Weblogs: Brazil, Clustering's new alternative and JSF and JSP public review
Also in Java Today: Continuations for Curmudgeons and duplication in customer and programmer tests
Projects and Communities JavaPedia REST page and AJAX in the Java Blueprints
Forum posts: WebStart splash screen and Peabody chat
Posted by daniel on April 15, 2005 at 15:20 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Factories: Building classes out of air . . . also
Feature article: Breaking the last dependency
Weblogs: teaming up with your computer, Technology trends and anywhere or everywhere
Also in Java Today: Concurrent programming and workflow using Spring
Projects and Communities JDDAC .4 and CSSEditor
Forum posts: Article on BPEL and getLocation()
Posted by daniel on April 14, 2005 at 10:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Passionate Programmers: Does Java on the Desktop Matter? . . . also
Weblogs: optimize a Swing app by slowing it down, Strongly Typed Java Delegates, Daylight savings and koders.com
Also in Java Today: Tame your Names and Aspectwerkz 2.0
Projects and Communities Free MIDP 2.0 emulator and Tiger with or without Tiger
Forum posts: code changes for testing and more on the Warnings API
Posted by daniel on April 13, 2005 at 07:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Fighting Spam: Turning off Trackbacks . . . also
Feature Article: Java Tech the SANE alternative to TWAIN
Weblogs: JMF, Maven 2, the future of Java and some JDIC components
Also in Java Today: Generics tip and TestNG
Projects and Communities Java Live Chat on Java Plug-in and AtLeap CMS project
Forum posts:Static imports and a Warnings API
Posted by daniel on April 12, 2005 at 06:26 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Masking complexity:

The problems with making things too simple . . . also
Spotlight: CodeZoo
Weblogs: Swing and threads, GNU licenses, Frameworks and making money
Also in Java Today: Head First Design Pattern study group and Building a scalable JVM
Projects and Communities JAXB RI 2.0 and NetBeans answers from the NY Java SIG
Forum posts:Native libraries and applets and Mixins
Posted by daniel on April 11, 2005 at 08:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Plogging and Padcasting: "Dead trees, digitally delivered" . . . also
Poll: Do you use your work tools at home?
Weblogs: Everybody should profile, use XML Schema, a new MiniApp delivered as an Applet and with WebStart and lessons from co-authoring a book
Also in Java Today: Data Binding in Lazlo and XMLQuery
Projects and Communities Project Patriot and The state of embedded computing
Forum posts: Mustang and multi-inheritance and CodeZoo
Posted by daniel on April 08, 2005 at 07:05 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Avoiding "no brainers": When your coffee grinder talks to the brewer . . . also
Feature article: Using the Strategy Design Pattern for Sorting POJOs
Weblogs: Early draft 3 of JAX-RPC 2.0, codeforager.org and Save time deploying Java apps
Also in Java Today: Cook until done and FOSS survey
Projects and Communities Peeranha42 and JavaPedia: Scripting Languages
Forum posts: huge schema and importing dependents
Posted by daniel on April 07, 2005 at 08:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

How certain are you?: Weighting results with the Dempster-Schaffer algorithm . . . also
Weblogs: Wicket for POJO web apps, Rapid Struts development with Tomcat and Smaller is better? What about Faster?
Also in Java Today: WS Security: the framework and relaunching dev2dev
Projects and Communities JAXB specs and the Orangutan project
Forum posts: importing descendents and fixed vs final
Posted by daniel on April 06, 2005 at 06:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Exception Breakpoints: Flow control when developing . . . also
Feature: Repeating the Obfuscation article from 10/2004
Weblogs: Exceptional Debugging, Self-publishing and Keep the objective in mind
Also in Java Today: Creating too many classes and From StringTokenizer to Scanner
Projects and Communities NetBeans 4.1 branch and Voice over JXTA
Forum posts: 2-dimensional arrays and obfuscate rt.jar
Posted by daniel on April 05, 2005 at 07:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Annotate this: You say potato, and I say @potato . . . also
Spotlight: Online community resources
Weblogs: Annotations making code less readable, JAXP 1.3 source now on java.net and class/code sharing
Also in Java Today: Web Services with J2ME and Simple GUI Elements
Projects and Communities Jini's Neon project and J2SE startup and footprint performance survey
Forum posts: OS X backport and access method parameter name
Posted by daniel on April 04, 2005 at 08:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Improving search: Is the user the weak link?. . . also
Feature article: Add your April Fools stories
Weblogs: Why don't you ship Swing Apps? What is your title? and , BoF on JSF
Also in Java Today: Inside WSRP and multilingual PDF generation
Projects and Communities JCP requires Solaris and Duke released under JRL
Forum posts: Indigo Preview and Mustang on Darwin
Posted by daniel on April 01, 2005 at 06:38 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Building a Wizard: Improving usability . . . also
Feature article: The Wizard Component part 2
Weblogs: JAXB - fields or properties?, Java killer app and , new db benchmark
Also in Java Today: Autocompletion and securing web services
Projects and Communities Paint Helper and the Portlet front page
Forum posts: Media in Mustang and semifinal
Posted by daniel on March 31, 2005 at 08:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Fighting OS license proliferation: Jini chooses Apache 2 . . . also
Weblogs: Jini Starter Kit beta, Communicating Connundrum and , XQuery adoption rate
Also in Java Today: Java APIs for XML registries and Java Component Development
Projects and Communities Jini release and Survey Tool
Forum posts: JavaSound in Mustang and source for JAXB2
Posted by daniel on March 30, 2005 at 07:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Phones games not "Doomed": Carmack on J2ME . . . also
Weblogs: Doom on cell phones, Common Annotations draft and , OS Java privacy repair suite
Also in Java Today: Cell phone adventures and Printing JTables
Projects and Communities Teach your TiVo new tricks and Create a MIDP application
Forum posts: Swing vs AWT performance and FileReader and FileWriter
Posted by daniel on March 29, 2005 at 08:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

About Online Communities: self-evident truths . . . also
Spotlight: AppFuse
Weblogs: Building Swing and , voice added to MyJXTA
Also in Java Today: Helen Chen on Online Communities and Event Executors
Projects and Communities HyperJAXB Project and Web Database Manager
Forum posts: Don't deprecate FileReader and alternate implementations of JAXB2.0
Posted by daniel on March 28, 2005 at 09:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Improving applications: Beating on betas . . . also
Feature Story: Autoboxing
Poll: Have you switched to Tiger
Weblogs: Is MS reaching out to Java?, JAXB2.0 draft available and , Java and scripts and pipes
Also in Java Today: The vanishing middle and SwarmStream
Projects and Communities Swing Pointers and rename-packages
Forum posts: static imports and deprecating FileWriter
Posted by daniel on March 25, 2005 at 08:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Integrating Java: Java Desktop Integration Components . . . also
Weblogs: George Zhang on the future of JDIC, Rich Unger on Two RCPs, and , John Bobowicz on binary xml
Also in Java Today: PHP and J2EE and Intro to XQuery
Projects and Communities eBay Java SDK and Hotspot chat posted
Forum posts: the improved Java2D Pipeline and javax.spell?
Posted by daniel on March 24, 2005 at 08:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Whacking bugs: Pick up some buggy code and join in . . . also
Weblogs: Tom White counts characters, Brian Leonard on the eBay SDK for Netbeans, and , Tom Ball on husbanding
Also in Java Today: Sharing RMS in MIKP 2 and Reducing upgrade risk with AOP
Projects and Communities JXTA-C and JavaPedia: Multitaneous Apps
Forum posts: submitting bug fixes and the contributors agreement
Posted by daniel on March 23, 2005 at 07:59 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

It's dynamic: Don't call it scripting anymore . . . also
Feature: Rich client apps with Laszlo
Weblogs: Michael Nascimento Santos on a tricky issue with Font, Scott Schram on NASA and RCP, and , Sebastian Lohmeier on classpath issues with Jini
Also in Java Today: The State of the Scripting Universe and Getting to know Synchronizers
Projects and Communities GELC's JLogic and OS Java gaming toolkit
Forum posts: Iterators with for and the === operator
Posted by daniel on March 22, 2005 at 04:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Why fix invisible code?: Advantages of binaries . . . also
Spotlight: HAT: the Heap Analysis Tool
Weblogs: Inderjeet Singh on UI design
Also in Java Today: The Code Quality Myth and Building Modular Applications with Seppia
Projects and Communities Relaunched Java Linux page and A Design Pattern for Factories with Generics
Forum posts: Math performance with Hotspot and the Pattern Enforcing Compiler
Posted by daniel on March 21, 2005 at 06:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JOLT Productivity award: An honor to be nominated. . . also

Poll: Have you ever played a J2ME game? Weblogs: Ted Kosan on Embedded Java, James Todd on what's up with JXTA and Chet Haase looks for bad code
Also in Java Today:JCOM for Java to COM work and Commons Chain part 2
Projects and Communities Simplifying Jini GUI threading and JPortlet
Forum posts: Operator Overloading, Solaris patches and finding applet problems in Mustang
Posted by daniel on March 18, 2005 at 07:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Keeping customers happy: Joel off Topic . . . also
Weblogs: Eitan Suez on the Java family, Brian Repko on EJB3 dependency injection and Simon Phipps on Coyote
Also in Java Today: choosing a Java scripting language and Looking for memory leaks
Projects and Communities Testing GUI applications and Direct Web remoting
Forum posts: JAXB2 and XML Schema and Hotspot optimizations
Posted by daniel on March 17, 2005 at 06:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Watcha doin?: Thinking . . . also
Weblogs: Fernando Lozano on OS Java, Inderjeet Singh on properties vs environment entries and James Gosling on t-shirt contest extension
Also in Java Today:server side Groovy and Migrating an app from WebLogic to JBoss
Projects and Communities Fun for fingers and Mac Help Hook
Forum posts: Just building Swing and the difficulties in building Mustang
Posted by daniel on March 16, 2005 at 09:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Bits matter: Can software be hazardous to your health? . . . also
Weblogs: Jonathan Simon on Killing your users, Kirill Grouchnikov on Swing popup menus and John Mitchell on Guy Steele's new language
Also in Java Today: Hotspot GC configs and JGoodies instead of GridBagLayout
Projects and Communities JavaLive chat on Hotspot and new in the GELC
Forum posts: 64 bits - lots of room and reporting engines
Posted by daniel on March 15, 2005 at 05:17 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

From Rails to Trails: Borrowing from one of Ruby's gems . . . also
Spotlight: Trails
Weblogs: Peter Kessler on Tuesday's Hotspot live chat, Chris Campbell on Improving the Open GL Java 2D pipeline. and Calvin Austin on JDJ articles
Also in Java Today: Working with PDF from Java and look back at JBossWOrld
Projects and Communities java.net editor/writer meetup on Thursday at SDWest and MagPlot for appealing graphs and charts
Forum posts: Extending Hotspot and Redefine classes at runtime
Posted by daniel on March 14, 2005 at 09:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Patterns within patterns: Seeing Connections . . . also
Features: Robert C Martin's "The Factory Pattern
Poll: At what age did you first program in Java?
Weblogs: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart invites you to Help create JAX WSA, Shrikanth Shenoy on easing the pain of copying data from a struts form into a value object and John Reynolds on putting the P in COBOL
Also in Java Today: Using FilteredRowSet and Aspect-Oriented Annotations
Projects and Communities JavaLive Chat transcript with Chet Haase and Scott Violet and Refactoring: Introduce Adapter
Forum posts: File Rant and Java Reporting Engines
Posted by daniel on March 11, 2005 at 06:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Helping your users: A java.net conference within a conference . . . also
Feature Article: Streamline your Portlet development
Weblogs: John O'Connor asks what's the best language for internationalization, and Ed Burns on marketing driven vs. engineering driven decisions
Also in Java Today: Brent Simmons on ease of use and Cedric Beust on the "Call super" antipattern
Projects and Communities Jini chat transcript and Wireless gaming held hostage
Forum posts: GridBagLayout optimized in Mustang and NIO.2
Posted by daniel on March 10, 2005 at 07:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Rejection Slips: First round of JavaOne rejection notes . . . also
Weblogs: David Walend looks for better JavaDoc on java.net, Tom Ball writes on the most powerful refactoring and Davor Cengija adds a few tips to the commons chain
Also in Java Today: Bill Siggelkow on the Jakarta Commons Chain and Testing your tests with Jester
Projects and Communities MacJTray and reduce class sizes with Stripper
Forum posts: the need for up to date examples and more on Identity constraint accessor/mutator generation
Posted by daniel on March 09, 2005 at 05:05 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Java matures?: When rebels become part of the establishment . . . also
Weblogs: John Reynolds says we won, now what, Alex Toussaint on JSR 170 and Fernando Lozano says EJB 3.0 two steps forward one step backwards
Also in Java Today: JOGL tech tip and Ed Burns reports from TSSJS
Projects and Communities New Data Set and Authentication in JDNC and Work Effort project for time tracking
Forum posts: Instrumentation answer and Identity constraint accessor/mutator generation
Posted by daniel on March 08, 2005 at 08:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Community Side: Building a city . . . also
Spotlight: ACM award for Richard Gabriel
Weblogs: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on Javadocs for JAXB 2.0 and J2SE 6.0, Ed Burns on TSS keynote panel, and Joerg Plewe on federated databases
Also in Java Today: On abstractions and WS addressing
Projects and Communities Wireless messaging with JXTA and Better profiling through code hotswapping
Forum posts: The Nice programming language and rethinking Const
Posted by daniel on March 07, 2005 at 05:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Help Shape J2SE 6.0: Call for members for the Mustang Expert Group . . . also
Articles: Tutorials on Eclipse and on JBoss
Weblogs: Mark Reinhold's invitation to apply to Mustang EG, Ed Burns on Mark Hapner's TSS keynote, James Gosling on TechDays in Mexico City, and Tom Marrs on JBossWorld Conference - Day 3
Also in Java Today: Internationalization examples and is the Wiki the solution to everything
Projects and Communities Moore's Law and Binary XML and tools for teaching and learning and playing with algebra
Forum posts: Peter Kessler on JVM documentation and lightweight and heavyweight components
Posted by daniel on March 04, 2005 at 13:36 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Richard Gabriel honored by ACM: awarded ACM's Allen Newell prize . . . also
Weblogs: Chet Haase is interviewed, Tom Marrs with JBoss conference day 2, and Scott Schram on EclipseCon - BIRT release
Also in Java Today:Gabriel wins award and Customizing Windows adornments
Projects and Communities Hudson for monitoring processes and Genesis for simple client server development
Forum posts: JAXB 2.0 JavaDocs and Tomcat experiences
Posted by daniel on March 03, 2005 at 04:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JDO 2.0 approved: No votes against . . . also
Weblogs: Michael Nascimento Santos on JDO 2.0, Tom Marrs with JBoss conference day 1, and Scott Schram on EclipseCon - Tim O'Reilly's keynote
Also in Java Today:Eclipse on Mac OS X and On-Demand stateful EJBs
Projects and Communities JDO 2.0 and NetBeans wins OS product award
Forum posts: Nightly builds of JAXB 2.0 RI? and integrating vector graphics in Swing
Posted by daniel on March 02, 2005 at 07:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Questioning Authority: Show me the rule . . . also
Weblogs: Tom White links to JLS 3.0, John Reynolds on why so much software is bad, and Doug Twilleager on commercial Java games offerings
Also in Java Today: Examining the rules and Changing behavior based on enumerated types
Projects and Communities Java Live chat on Java Web Start and Fernando Lozano to co-lead Java Linux community
Forum posts: Bino George responds to a user's requests and MGrev on mixing lightweight and heavyweight
Posted by daniel on March 01, 2005 at 07:17 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Exploring Jini: Jini on the internet . . . also
Spotlight: Open Symphony
Weblogs: Sebastian Lohmeier on the Jini Message Board, Kirill Grouchnikov on How to create your own icons, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on the JDJ Reader's choice , and Scott Schram will be Blogging EclipseCon 2005
Also in Java Today: Bruce Tate: is Ruby a toy? and John Mazzitelli introduces JBoss Remoting
Projects and Communities JXTA Community election results and Java Games' OctLight game engine
Forum posts: Bino George on API docs for Mustang on java.net and Trembovetski on Swing performance on Linux
Posted by daniel on February 28, 2005 at 02:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Busy week coming up: JBoss, EclipseCon, TheServerSide . . . also
Poll: What debugger do you use?
Weblogs: Brian Leonard on eBays SDK for Java and NetBeans, and Joshua Marinacci joins the Swing team
Also in Java Today: Internationalization part 1 and Chet Haase on VolatileBufferedToolkitImage Strategies
Projects and Communities JCP on the Executive Committee members and NetBeans IDE 4.1 Beta is released
Forum posts: Sandoz on Binary XML vs Binary Data in XML and Jimothy on Extra Information in ClassCastException
Posted by daniel on February 25, 2005 at 03:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Attracting Programmers: Coding robots . . . also
Featured Article: Krishnan Viswanath "Robotics: Using Lego Mindstorms and Java
Weblogs: James Gosling on the JavaOne t-shirt contest, Kohsuke Kawaguchi writes on JAXB2.0 and Immutable Objects and Fields and Duane Gran says Lucene is a wonderful thing
Also in Java Today: On the road to simplicity from JavaWorld and Hans Bergsten on Designing and Implementing Web Application Interfaces
Projects and Communities Jeff Moore joins MyJXTA and Managing Membership Requests
Forum posts: Bino George on Swing performance on Linux and Talios on what's missing from the ClassCastException
Posted by daniel on February 24, 2005 at 07:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

JDO 2.0: Not Dead Yet . . . also
Weblogs: Bruce Tate on the future of persistence, and Daniel Bookshier on controlling code in your OS project
Also in Java Today: Bruce Eckel's Servant or Disciplinarian and Stephen Morris on the Java Dynamic Management Kit
Projects and Communities JSR 107 the JCache API draft and building Sumo Robots
Forum posts: Cowwoc on Generics parameters and Pelegri on Binary XML vs Binary Data in XML
Posted by daniel on February 23, 2005 at 03:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Shipping quality: Are we hideously unprofessional? . . . also
Weblogs: William Wake on loading constant data, John Reynolds on WebForms2 and Tim Boudreau on POV-Ray support for NetBeans
Also in Java Today: Robert C. Martin on the Next Big Thing and a tech tip on Z-order in components
Projects and Communities The difference between portlets and servlets and the difference between framework and design pattern
Forum posts: Sandoz on extending the DOM and Ulfzibis on using booleans when exceptions won't do
Posted by daniel on February 22, 2005 at 05:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Working with the J2SE codebase: Working with the J2SE codebase . . . also
Spotlight: JAI projects on java.net
Featured Article: Integrating Java Open Single Sign-On in Pluto
Weblogs: Peter Kesselman on the new J2SE Labs, and Doug Twilleager on the future of gaming platforms
Also in Java Today: Amir Shevat on Designing a Fully Scalable application and Andrew Glover on Groovy Templates
Projects and Communities Localizatoin for Serbia and Montenegro and Java-based iTunes coming to Linux
Forum posts: Kelly O'Hair: java_g and debug verions of java and Keeskuip: is it possible to generate a xmlschema
Posted by daniel on February 21, 2005 at 07:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Milk at the bottom of the bowl: The importance of feedback . . . also
Poll: Where does the output from most of your java work appear?
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