Google Chrome and Grizzly Comet: does it works?: The buzz around Google Chrome attacked me...just to make sure Chrome supports Comet, I did try using the monster implementation to see if sockets in Chrome works with Grizzly Comet (and Java). Guess what? Posted by jfarcand at (13:57 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Resuming work on jrawio: jrawio is an ImageI/O plugin for "camera raw" image formats. I've started writing it a few years ago for my Nikon D100, and later extended it for working with a larger number of formats. As far as I know, it… Posted by fabriziogiudici at (07:27 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Tomorrow Never Comes: Remember November and the M3DDs? Think January, actually. Also:
Java Today: Mobile, Media & Embedded Developer Days reschduled, JTHarness 4.1.4 milestone, and NetBeans.tv on plug-ins and Swing
Featured Podcast:Java Mobility Podcast 55: Back to School Special
Weblogs: Gosling on Java versus Fortran performance, converting from SOAP to JPA, and better UML management
Forum Posts: ME market challenges, seeking list of WebStart resources, GlassFish logging advantages, and timing resolution on Windows Posted by invalidname at (06:39 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Substance Version 5.0RC Provides Significantly Enhanced Performance: Kirill Grouchnikov has announced a release candidate for Substance 5.0. In its recent development, Substance "has undergone significant internal and external changes to address major performance issues and to ensure the long-term code health of the project." Posted by kfarnham at (07:14 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
GlassFish and MySQL Student Contest - 3 steps to earn $500:
Are you a student and like to earn $500 ? Here are three steps: Download GlassFish
v2 UR2 and MySQL
5.1 Community Edition Create a cool open-source web application using them Write a review and submit your URL That's all it takes for… Posted by arungupta at (05:08 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Question: how to bind SOAP <-> ORM JPA ?: Few days thinking about the best way to copy values between the objects representation of SOAP message elements and JPA entities. I couldn't find a good answer, so I am sharing the question. Posted by felipegaucho at (01:57 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (5)
Rails Conf Europe 2008 - End of Tutorial Day:
Sep
2, 2008 was the Tutorials Day @ Rails Conf Europe.
I attended Renegade's
Guide to Hacking Rails Internals (partly) and Deploying
and Monitoring Ruby on Rails. The first session did exactly
what it says - explained the complete internals, digging deep into the
code and how… Posted by arungupta at (00:20 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
September 02 2008
A better way for UML management: While aiming at blueMarine 1.0 for the end of the year, the effort is being put not only to stability and performance, but also on cleaning up the APIs in order to have a polished and stable version that others… Posted by fabriziogiudici at (23:22 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Hudson project-based matrix security is out!: One feature that I've been waiting for a long time to see in Hudson is project-level security. To be able to say that certain projects can only be built by certain users. Definitely one of the more exiting Hudson features to have come out in a while (and that's saying something!). Posted by johnsmart at (14:13 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
I Want To Want You: Is MIDP evolving too slowly? Also:
Forum Posts: MIDP 3 and the JCP, how to look up a resource adapter, and how to map SOAP to ORM
Java Today: Project WebSynergy stable build 2, customizing Nimbus with UIDefaults, and interview with Sahoo
Weblogs: Automatic binding, JMX Event Service in JDK 7 snapshots, and abstractions vs. plain ol' bits Posted by invalidname at (08:16 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Glassfish in Argentina: Last week I returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I had a chance to speak about Glassfish. I visited two of the major universities and also spoke at the free software conference "Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre" (JRSL). Overall, everyone was quite impressed with the power that Glassfish, Netbeans and MySQL have to offer. Posted by spericas at (06:34 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
NetBeans Editor Folding with style: The folding GUI is an often neglected part of the IDE. It allows you to focus on the work at hand by hiding the unneeded parts of the code. What it didn't have so far was... style. Posted by emilian at (06:06 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (2)
Mango* - King of FOSS Offerings:
If there is one thing that I terribly miss after moving to this
country, that would be the variety of Mangoes
in India. I've been asked at the United States Customs if I'm importing
any mangoes. The fruit's flavor, fragrance and color is… Posted by arungupta at (05:55 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (5)
September 01 2008
Rails Conf Europe 2008 and Bratwurst-on-Rails: I arrived Berlin yesterday on a non-adventurous United flight from San
Francisco, just the way I like it! The flight from Frankfurt was
delayed 30 minutes but that's normal these days :) The venue of RailsConf
Europe 2008 is same
as last year so… Posted by arungupta at (23:17 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
It's All Just Bits: Developers often get so involved with design abstractions that those concepts can block understanding of what's really happening during execution. Reminding yourself that "it's just bits" regularly can keep you on top of whatever problem you are investigating. Posted by tball at (21:04 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)
Automatic Binding: We illustrate automatic binding of typical Swing input components (eg. JTextField, JComboBox) using convention-over-configuration, assuming that the names of the components in the view, match property names in presentation model. Posted by evanx at (10:55 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Remember November: M3DDs coming up sooner than you might think... also:
Spotlight: Mobile, Media & Embedded Developer Days
Java Today: Java Posse interviews Kito Mann about JSF, making RESTful Comet web services, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #179
Weblogs: Tagging releases with Maven, embedded storage with Java DB, and getting control over JAXBContext
Forum Posts: Benchmarking startup time, MIDP 3 delays, and querying the Scene Graph timeline Posted by invalidname at (07:34 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Service communication: mail crash: This is not a technical post, but a service communication for people that might have contacted me recently.During August I've experienced two crashes of Mail, the latter a few days ago and the worst one, since it happened while the… Posted by fabriziogiudici at (01:45 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
August 31 2008
Mobile Distillery training in Bay Area, Sept 16th: Tools-based parametric application development is an interesting and increasingly used approach to broaden the range of target devices and addressable market while lowering development and deployment costs. One of the companies in this space is Mobile Distillery and I am… Posted by terrencebarr at (21:43 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
Using the Maven Release Plugin: It is an excellent and widely used best practice to tag each of your stable releases in your version control system for future reference. However, this sort of bookkeeping is tedious and error-prone at the best of times. Like… Posted by johnsmart at (21:23 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (2)
Another look at Object Oriented versus Process Driven Design: Friends were troubled when I blogged "Object Only Programming is Silly". They know from experience that life after OO is dramatically better than life was before OO... so my criticisms just don't sit well... Obviously I must have gone off the deep end :-)
Posted by johnreynolds at (08:59 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (2)
Merry Little Fancy Things: How will OpenJDK celebrate its 10th anniversary? Also:
java.net Poll: Where will OpenJDK be 10 years from now?
Java Today: GlassFish updating and packaging, Caciocavallo portable GUI backend project, and Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and JPA
Weblogs: JavaFX early adopter trickiness, lazy testing in Java, and Kohsuke heads to Brazil
Forum Posts: Doubts about server-class machine detection, options for pushing data to clients, and how to make a tooltip in LWUIT Posted by invalidname at (07:59 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
FREE Ticket to Rails Conf Europe 2008: Are you a Start up company interested in jump starting and meets the
following criteria ? In business six years or less A maximum of 150 employees, including any affiliates Based in a country
in which the program is offered A verifiable… Posted by arungupta at (06:36 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)
August 28 2008
Watched Pots and JavaFX: Sigh! They say a watched pot never boils -- I wonder if the same is true for early access releases? There you are, having the time of your life with a new bleeding edge API, then !!boom!!, suddenly that one key function you need is frustratingly non-existent! Not to worry -- it'll be in the next update... won't it(?!?) Posted by javakiddy at (13:54 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (3)
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