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    JavaFX Technology Headlines
  • Creating an Image Slideshow
    Learn how to create an Image Slideshow with animated fade transitions. This step-by-step tutorial is accompanied by a screencast on how to program the application with the NetBeans IDE.
  • Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group
    Silicon Valley joins Japan as the site of a JavaFX User Group. JavaFX team lead Richard Bair is the speaker at Its first meeting on December 9, 6 p.m., Mountain View, California.
  • Using Layout Containers
    This tutorial suggests tips f or improving the dynamic layout behavior of your application using the new layout containers.
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    JavaME Technology Headlines
  • Powerful Logging in Java ME
    Java ME developers can add powerful logging to their MIDlets by simply adding the Microlog jar and a configuration file to their projects.
  • MIDP 3.0 Features: Inter-MIDlet Communication and Events
    Learn about two major enhancements in the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 3.0 specification that will be the foundation of next-generation mobile applications.
  • Device Selector Poll
    The Java ME SDK Team is running a device selector poll on its blog. Here's your opportunity to express your opinion in the click of a mouse.
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    Sun Mobile Device Technology Headlines
  • Java TV Releases
    The Java TV team has released the Java TV API TCK 1.1.1, and its Reference Implementation and TCK Configuration Kit for Blu-ray Disc (BDCK) 1.1. The releases are available at the Java Partner website.
  • Eric Arseneau on Project Squawk
    Sun Labs Investigator Eric Arseneau rhapsodizes about his love for resource-constrained machines and making Java work on really, really small devices.
  • RIA Made Easy for Java Developers
    JavaFX lets developers create expressive rich Internet applications quickly across multiple screens, including mobile phones, desktops, televisions, and other consumer devices.
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    Java Technology Fundamentals
  • The Numbers Classes
    Working with numbers can be a large part of application programming. Follow this tutorial to get familiar with the Numbers classes, and how to work with numbers in your applications.
  • Application Basics With Ants (Young Developer Series, Part 3)
    Learn about Java packages, variables, and ways that objects interact with each other through methods.
  • Security
    In this trail you'll learn how the built-in Java security features protect you from malevolent programs.
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    Core Java Technologies Tech Tips
  • Superduper Slow Jar Command
    Xueming Shen explains how peeking into the Jar source code (after many years) turned up an opportunity to rev the look-up operation.
  • Overhauling the Java UTF-8 charset
    Sun engineer Xueming Shen talks about why the UTF-8 charset implementation in JDK 7 now rejects non-shortest-form UF-8 byte sequences, and why you should embrace the change. Two words: security and performance .
  • Closing a URLClassLoader
    Sun engineer Michael McMahon describes the new close() method in URLClassLoader, It effectively invalidates the loader, so that no new classes can be loaded from it. It also closes any JAR files that were opened by the loader.
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