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Clothes that monitor your baby's vital signs. Prescription medicine bottles that remind you to take your pills (and can tell others when you don't), wind...

Clothes that monitor your baby's vital signs. Prescription medicine bottles that remind you to take your pills (and can tell others when you don't), wind turbines that turn themselves on in anticipation of high energy usage, traffic lights that adjust to traffic conditions, trash cans that send a text when they are full. These are all examples of the rapidly growing world of the "internet of things." There is a lot of interest in this trend, so it wasn't surprising that the...

Java Magazine: Big Data

Simply put, big data is a big deal. As the volume, velocity, and variety of big data continue to increase, so do the opportunities for creating new applications...

Simply put, big data is a big deal. As the volume, velocity, and variety of big data continue to increase, so do the opportunities for creating new applications for big data. The new issue of Java Magazine is all about big data. The good news is that Java developers are well positioned to take advantage of this opportunity because so many of the tools for big data are built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Most of the pages in this issue to are dedicated to big data: In our...

Top Java Technical Articles of 2013

The most popular technical articles published on OTN in 2013 shows the variety in Java technologies. The top article, by a large margin, was about the internet...

The most popular technical articles published on OTN in 2013 shows the variety in Java technologies. The top article, by a large margin, was about the internet of things. The rest of the list shows lots of interest in the new Java EE 7 functionality. In honor of the upcoming Java SE 8 release, here are the top 8 articles of 2013: 1. Getting Started with Java SE Embedded on the Raspberry Pi by Bill Courington and Gary Collins How to get Linux and Java SE Embedded running on...

Java 8 is Coming to EclipseCon

By Guest Blogger Ian Skerrett We are very pleased to announce that we have added a Java 8 Day to EclipseCon 2014. Java 8 is scheduled to be released in March,...

By Guest Blogger Ian Skerrett We are very pleased to announce that we have added a Java 8 Day to EclipseCon 2014. Java 8 is scheduled to be released in March, close to the same time as EclipseCon, so we thought it would be great to have EclipseCon attendees participate in the launch of the new Java release. In collaboration with Oracle, a new 1 day event has been added to the EclipseCon schedule. EclipseCon attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Java 8 from Oracle...

Java SE 7 Update 51 Released

Java SE 7 Update 51 (Java SE 7u51) is now available. This update release contains several enhancements and changes, as well as important security fixes. Oracle...

Java SE 7 Update 51 (Java SE 7u51) is now available. This update release contains several enhancements and changes, as well as important security fixes. Oracle strongly recommends that all Java SE 7 users upgrade to this release. For more information, see the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory. See the release notes for the complete list of changes in this release, including: - Changes to Security Slider (see this blog for additional information and the Java Control Panel...

Java EE 8 Community Survey - Part 2!

By Guest BloggerDavid Delabassee The second part of the Java EE 8 Community Survey is now open! During the last 5 weeks, we have been positively surprised by...

By Guest BloggerDavid Delabassee The second part of the Java EE 8 Community Survey is now open! During the last 5 weeks, we have been positively surprised by the community responses on the first part of the survey. We have received a lot of valuable feedback! That means we have *a lot of data* to process, a really nice problem to face! Thanks to all who participated in Part 1! If you haven't, there still time to answer Part 1. Part 2 of the survey is focusing on topics such...

NightHacking Online: Lambdas Hacking with Brian Goetz

NightHacking is kicking off the new year with Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, providing an in-depth look at Lambdas. Watch the live stream and...

NightHacking is kicking off the new year with Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle, providing an in-depth look at Lambdas. Watch the live stream and join the three-hour hacking session. There will be a Google Hangout setup for groups participating remotely. Find a NightHacking Meetup in your city or create your own. While you can hack in a group of any size, 5-15 is the ideal range. NightHacking will supply the Git repo and examples, you supply the coffee or beer!...

JOGLO Con: Java in Java

by guest blogger Yosi Pramajaya JUG Joglosemar in Java, Indonesia hosted JOGLO Con in December. It was one of the biggest Java conferences in the Yogyakarta...

by guest blogger Yosi Pramajaya JUG Joglosemar in Java, Indonesia hosted JOGLO Con in December. It was one of the biggest Java conferences in the Yogyakarta region, with over 160 people attending. The main topic was Java EE 7, and we were honored to have Java Evangelist Reza Rahman present (virutally) about WebSockets. JUG Joglosemar was glad for the chance to show universities, software companies, schools, and freelance programmers, the latest information about Java (the...

Top Java Stories of 2013

2013 was a year of Java releases, good news, less good news, and a community that just keeps on truckin'. Thanks for a great year! Release of Java EE 7Java EE 7...

2013 was a year of Java releases, good news, less good news, and a community that just keeps on truckin'. Thanks for a great year! Release of Java EE 7Java EE 7 was the result of industry-wide development involving open review, ongoing builds, and extensive collaboration between hundreds of engineers from more than 30 companies. Key features included better support for HTML5, websockets, JAX-RS 2.0, an update to JMS 2.0 and more. Java and the Internet of ThingsFrom Forbes to...