Recent Posts by Janice Heiss

A new article, now up on otn/java titled “JavaOne 2013 Review: Java Takes on the Internet of Things,” takes a look back at the lively happenings at JavaOne 2013, which reprised the 2012 JavaOne "Make the Future Java" theme. The articles quotes JavaOne keynoter Peter Utzschneider, Vice President, Java Product Management at Oracle, who said, "There is a lot going on in the industry, with massive shifts and innovation happening which pose huge challenges and opportunities for...

The latest issue of Java Magazine, which takes as its theme “Seize the Cloud,” has an article by IndicThreads founder Harshad Oak, titled “Hands on with Oracle Java Cloud Service, Part One,” that provides an introduction to Oracle’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Java offerings. PaaS is about renting a software platform and running a custom business application on it, thus enabling developers to focus on the business application and not have to worry about the hardware or core...

Over at the Java SE demo booth, Oracle’s Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro, Senior Group Product Manager, briefly discussed JDK 7 and JDK 8.“People may not realize that we’ve recently added new functionality to JDK 7,” he said. “So with JDK 7 u40, we added Mission Control and Flight Recorder to the JDK, something we're very proud of. Flight recorder is a feature that works a little like the flight recorder on a plane; you leave it on and it doesn’t really impact your production. It...

Over at the Java SE demo booth, Oracle’s Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro, Senior Group Product Manager, briefly discussed JDK 7 and JDK 8.“People may not realize that we’ve recently added new functionality to JDK 7,” he said. “So with JDK 7 u40, we added Mission Control and Flight Recorder to the JDK, something we're very proud of. Flight recorder is a feature that works a little like the flight recorder on a plane; you leave it on and it doesn’t really impact your production. It...

by Timothy Beneke Geoff Lees, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Microcontrollers, at Freescale Semiconductor, got things rolling Thursday morning at the Java Community Keynote to a packed, standing-room-only crowd. Lees presented a precise and thoughtful vision of how the coming Internet of Things (IoT) might become a reality. “The microcontroller community is rapidly moving to adopt Java and we need your help,” said Lees. He described a picture of the IoT that, for...

by Timothy Beneke Geoff Lees, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Microcontrollers, at Freescale Semiconductor, got things rolling Thursday morning at the Java Community Keynote to a packed, standing-room-only crowd. Lees presented a precise and thoughtful vision of how the coming Internet of Things (IoT) might become a reality. “The microcontroller community is rapidly moving to adopt Java and we need your help,” said Lees. He described a picture of the IoT that, for...

Throughout JavaOne (and Oracle OpenWorld) the movements of attendees were being tracked in an impressive demonstration that powerful applications of the Internet of Things can be rapidly put together in order to gather a host of data with relatively little expense or effort. Throughout the conference, IoT in Motion has been efficiently counting and tracking conference attendees in various locations to reveal the power and utility of end-to-end data collection and management...

Throughout JavaOne (and Oracle OpenWorld) the movements of attendees were being tracked in an impressive demonstration that powerful applications of the Internet of Things can be rapidly put together in order to gather a host of data with relatively little expense or effort. Throughout the conference, IoT in Motion has been efficiently counting and tracking conference attendees in various locations to reveal the power and utility of end-to-end data collection and management...

Java Champion Johan Vos of Lodgon and GUI expert Hendrik Ebbers of Materna GmbH gave a session on Vos’ labor of love, Project DataFX, a 2-year-old free and open source project intended to make retrieving, massaging, populating, viewing, and editing data in JavaFX UI controls easier. In so doing, they extend the functionality of JavaFX.The goal of the session was to teach attendees how to develop enterprise applications in JavaFX with real-world services and data. They were...