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Limelight: New releases from NetBeans and ROME » Read more
 

Projects & Communities

NetBeans
NetBeans 5.0 Now Available: The NetBeans Community is celebrating the release of NetBeans 5.0. Major 5.0 features include the Matisse GUI builder, improved support for CVS, Struts, and JSF, debugging enhancements, deployment to JBoss and WebLogic, simplified rich-client development, a profiler that works with unmodified JDK's, and more. »Read more
Java Tools
webstarted-installer: The webstarted-installer project provides installation and startup services for applications that aren't Web Start-enabled. "The idea is that the webstarted-installer is a Java Web Start application that can be used to download and deploy another application that can then be started once the whole process of downloading has finished."»Read more

Weblogs

Tim Boudreau Wicket + Swing == hmmm...interesting...
My grade-school friend Jonathan Locke, who is the creator of Wicket sent me a fascinating brainstorm the other day. Particularly in light of all of the hoo-hah around AJAX these days, I asked him for the OK to blog it. Here's what he had to say...    Tim Boudreau

When and why are interoperability fests useful?
Interoperability fests/workshops have become very popular recently, particularly in the area of Web Services. However, they are more widely useful and should be an active part of a developer's testing arsenal whilst building relevant systems, rather than an afterthought as is often the case.    Mark Little

Harold Carr Notes from SDForum's Interoperability event
The SDForum hosted an Interoperability Forum featuring Anne Thomas Manes, Graham Hamilton, Prateek Mishra, Kim Cameron and others. Here are my notes on the event. I particularly liked the discussion of the level at which one should program web service - the language level or the XML level.    Harold Carr

Forums

Whats CHA?
In the past there have been some very interesting publications about hotspot (however since 2000 its unfourtunatly totally quiet ) and I found some papers which talk about the inlineing capabilities of hotspot.It mentions that most methods can be inlined thanks to CHA. But whats that? I guess its CH-Analysis but what's CH? Another interesting question for me is wether hotspot also inlines static methods, since all benchmark show that static method invocation is slower than a "normal" one.  

Re: Eliminate specifying maximum memory limit
I don't think elimating Xmx is a good idea - it'll give Java applications the possibility to engulf enough memory would start to hinder other processes; this happens with non-Java applications, and is not a desirable behaviour as far as I'm concerned.   

Also in Java Today

Ask the Experts: What's New in Java Web Services Developer Pack 2.0
The next SDN Ask The Experts session, running Feburary 6 through 10, looks at "What's New in Java Web Services Developer Pack 2.0". "The recently released Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) 2.0 adds many new features including early access of the 'integrated stack' of technologies for easier, more efficient and more reliable deployment of web services. Got a question about Java WSDP 2.0? Submit your questions during the week of Feb. 6 and get answers from Java WSDP 2.0 lead engineer Ramesh Mandava, and Java WSDP developer Ana Lindstrom-Tamer."

Top 8 Must-Read Software Development Books
java.about.com guide Kevin Taylor has updated his list of Top 8 Must-Read Software Development Books. He says, "this list of software development books comprises the absolute must-read books for all professional software developers. Whatever the language or domain in which you practice your craft, these tomes hold an essential body of hard-earned, collective wisdom and knowledge."

What's wrong with applets?
Too hard to build a GUI
Too hard to deploy
Too much security restriction
Hype / politics
Don't need rich clients
Something else (please comment)
Nothing
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Where We Are with the JDK: Recapping the status of JDK development, Ray Gans' blog entry Where We Are with the JDK also spells out the JDK team's plans going forward. Mustang (Java SE 6) is expected to go beta in February, with another beta in Summer, with a final release this Autumn. Meanwhile, the Dolphin (Java SE 7) project is expected to open this Spring, releasing its snapshots in parallel with Mustang. While the window is closing to Mustang fixes, it's now time to start thinking about features and start discussing them on the Java SE Forum.

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