Playing Movies in a Java 3D World, Part 1
-- The ability to play a movie clip inside of a Java 3D
scene opens up opportunities for richer, more interesting 3D content.
Andrew Davison describes how he implemented a Java 3D movie screen,
using the Java Media Framework (JMF) Performance Pack for Windows
v.2.1.1e, as well as J2SE 5.0 and Java 3D 1.3.2. Andrew is the author
of Killer Game
Programming in Java.
History
of Programming Languages -- For 50 years, computer
programmers have been writing code, and now, there are more than 2,500
documented programming languages. O'Reilly has produced a poster called
History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50
programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. The
poster is available online in PDF format, but while supplies last, U.S.
residents can also get a hard copy of the poster free when purchasing
two books through oreilly.com.
Generic Types, Part 2 -- In part
one of this two-part excerpt, David Flanagan described how to use
generic types. This week, David details how to write your own generic
types and generic methods, and concludes with a tour of important
generic types in the core Java API. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell,
5th Edition.
Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 1
-- Developing for the web is bread and butter for Ant
developers. In part one of this two-part excerpt, Steve Holzner covers
the tasks specifically designed for packaging web applications,
including war, cab, ear, and
jspc. Steve is the author of Ant: The Definitive
Guide, 2nd Edition.
Five Things I Love About Spring --
For hardcore enterprise development, Bruce Tate turns to Spring, the
topic of his fourth Java book. In this article, Bruce describes five
reasons why he is hooked on Spring. Bruce is the coauthor of Spring: A
Developer's Notebook.
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Generic Types, Part 1 -- In part
one of this two-part excerpt, David Flanagan explores the basic use of
generics in typesafe collections, and then delves into their more
complex uses. In addition, he covers type parameter wildcards and
bounded wildcards. In part two next week, David tackles how to write
your own generic types and generic methods. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell,
5th Edition.
Breaking the Last Dependency -- As Head First
Design Patterns was about to go to press, Erich Gamma sent
Elisabeth and Eric Freeman a note suggesting that, in the factory
pattern chapter, they should break the last dependency and show how to
write code that does away with concrete classes completely, a logical
next step. While this new approach didn't make the book's deadline, it
is the highlight of their java.net feature article. Elisabeth and Eric
are coauthors of Head
First Design Patterns.
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Five Favorite Features from 5.0 -- David Flanagan
reviews five of his favorite new Java 5.0 features: the
Callable and Future interfaces, new APIs for varargs
and autoboxing, new ability interfaces, the @Override
annotation, and MatchResult. Read to the end, where David
reveals a bonus sixth feature, a new language syntax supported by Java
5.0 but known to very few. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell,
5th Edition.
O'Reilly Wins Five Jolt Awards (PDF)
-- We are proud to announce that in the General Books
category, the top prize was awarded to Head First Design
Patterns. In Technical Books, the top prize went to Better,
Faster, Lighter Java, and Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook
took home a productivity award. And finally, in Websites and Developer Networks, the O'Reilly Network received the Product Excellence Award, and java.net (produced in collaboration with Sun and CollabNet) won a productivity award. The winners will all be featured in the June 2005 issue of Software Development
magazine.
Form Your Own Design Pattern Study
Group -- Like most complex subjects, design
patterns are best learned over a period of time, not in a few sittings.
Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman suggest one way to ease the learning
curve (and have some fun along the way): form a study group using their
book, Head
First Design Patterns. Get your engineering team together and
get started with this comprehensive article.
O'Reilly Launches CodeZoo
Site -- CodeZoo exists to help you find
high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past
the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest of your projects. The
CodeZoo community, through component ratings, tips, download tracking,
and more, makes it easy to sort out the good code from the rest. Check
out the site and then read Marc Hedlund's
blog for the inside scoop.
Streaming QuickTime with Java
-- Years ago, realtime multicast streaming came to
QuickTime in version 5, but people still don't realize that it can be
called from QuickTime for Java. Learn how it works from this
ONJava.com article by Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for
Java: A Developer's Notebook.
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