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WeblogsJune 07 2005Open Source IDE shootout: The annual Netbeans and Eclipse cat and dog fight has started again. Is this good or bad for the community. Improved Drag Gesture in Swing: Shannon Hickey marks the occasion of his first step into the blogging world by announcing the exciting release of improved Swing drag gesture recognition, one of the most highly requested J2SE bug fixes. Apple to have intel inside: Delivering a message. . . also Why rethink the Java SOAP stack ?: Steve Loughran and Edmund Smith, from HP Labs, published a paper on "Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack". The paper examines JAX-RPC programming model for Web services. Here I post my comments on the article. New User Experience in Java Web Start: The promoted Mustang build 39 contains the initial putback of the new user experience in Java Web Start, and you can download and try it out today! Apple moves to x86 and the winner is Java: Apple latest bold move will sure make a lot of noise on the web. Let's see why we, the Java Community, should make some noise too. June 06 2005Phil's Font Fixes: The bits are in: we've just integrated LCD Text support into build 39 of J2SE Mustang. Unicode marches on: Ah, Unicode meets Java and life gets odder... Thinlet plugins for NetBeans: I have developed a few NetBeans modules that add support for Thinlet xml files in the IDE. Read this entry for more information. Have you heard of Google's Summer of Code?: Have you heard of Google's Summer of Code?
Are you a student? Happy Anniversary TSS: TheServerSide turns 5. . . also Sub-pixel Anti Aliasing in Mustang: RFE #4726365 has recently been closed... that means sub pixel anti-aliasing will be available in Mustang. This is a GREAT news for desktop Java applications. June 05 2005Java Deployment in J2SE 5.0: There are many new deployment features and enhancements in J2SE 5.0. Let's have a quick look! June 03 2005Getting the free disk space: One of Java's longest-standing, most absurd deficiencies finally... and I do mean finally... gets fixed. Project Matisse: Don't enjoy doing layout grunt work in order to build a Swing application? Help is on the way. Fit code, part 4 - Fixture: A deeper look at Fixture. New book "Java Generics and Collections" added to GELC for pre-publication help: Phil Wadler and Maurice Naftalin are writing a book titled "Java Generics and Collections". They are using the Global Education and Learning community to help with the review of their book. Come take a look at their project and help them out. It is certainly a great way to learn about the subject before the book is published. Posted by turbogeek at (12:04 PDT) | Permalink | Discuss (0) Code Cleaning: Whipping inherited code into shape. . . also Students to win prizes and fame today in Amsterdam for writing J2ME applications for Ricoh: The student winners of the Ricoh & the Sun Java[tm] Platform Powered by U contest will announced June 3rd. The contest has been hosted by the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) at Java.net. Students competed for Sun computers and a trip to JavaOne plus their university gets a high end Ricoh MFP. Read on for more about why we did the contest and info about the awards event. Posted by turbogeek at (07:35 PDT) | Permalink | Discuss (0) June 02 2005Indigo Beta1 RC: Getting Started: After a painful experience with Indigo CTP last month, I had a relatively smoother experience with Indigo Beta1 RC. It was made available around couple of weeks ago, as reported previously. I took a fresh Win XP + SP2 machine and installed Visual Studio 2005 Beta2, Indigo Runtime and then finally WinFX SDK. I had my first success when the Visual Studio started successfully, unlike last time, after all the installation was completed. The order of installation is important here otherwise it may not work. Blarg #16: OpenOffice Rocks! er, wait...no it doesn't. Oh yeah, now it does (Unless I broke it?)!: Making a big poster? OpenOffice Impress is the tool for you, even if it appears to have PowerPoint-like limitations. JPOX 1.1.0-beta-3 in Maven: I've been interested in JDO technology for a good year now, and I've begun reapproaching JPOX, which my friend Dion showed me last year. As far as Open Source JDO implementations go, it's supposed to be great. I did run into a few problems while trying to get it running in maven, though. Here are some notes. Fit code, part 3 - Parse and Fixture: Moving in to the Fixture class... If Charles is going to be there...: Meet the experts! On Monday evening at JavaOne there will be a gaggle of Sun folks available to answer your questions. Talking more openly: What's coming in Mustang. . . also June 01 2005Writing a plug-in for the JAXB RI is really easy: JAXB RI has a plug-in mechanism to allow 3rd parties to extend its code generation behavior. In 1.0, projects like HyperJAXB and JAXB-verification took advantage of this feature and they were very successful.
I recently finished improving this functionality further for 2.0, so today I'm going to explain how to write a plug-in. JWSDP wins developer.com award: JWSDP wins the "Web Service or Related Tool of the Year" award at developer.com. New AWT Features in Mustang.: In the most recent Mustang builds, the AWT Team has integrated several highly requested features and bug fixes. Please check out the latest Mustang build (anything after b38) and let us know what you think about the features. VB-like ease for Java: JSR 273 (Design-Time API for JavaBeans) aims to bring VB-like ease to Java IDEs. Different languages - different cultures: Revisiting C. . . also Fit code, part 2: A look into the Parse class of the fit framework. May 31 2005Want to have your brain explode? Meet Me at JavaOne: Meeting someone real-time enhances what you know about a person and it's usually a little disorienting (ok, you will not really explode) You never know if the next person is going to make your day, year, or life better and my mission at JavaOne is to meet as many people as I can. Read on for more about why you should look me up or go on your own mission to meet interesting people at JavaOne. Posted by turbogeek at (23:33 PDT) | Permalink | Discuss (0) New JSR's for J2ME: A list of new JSR's for J2ME Do you know which version of MMAPI you are using?: J2ME wireless toolkit 2.2 comes with the promise of a reference implementation of MMAPI 1.1. However, the actual version distributed with the toolkit is 1.0 and not 1.1. Synth needs you!: Synth is great but not perfect, so help us! We the media: On talking with or without the press. . . also May 30 2005Modularize Early: It pays to think about how you can break up a system into modular units at all levels of the hierarchy. | |
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