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What Is JavaFX?

Is JavaFX "reinvigorating the user interface on the desktop?"(1) Is it "more fun"(2) or "the best thing to happen to Java since SWT?"(3) Is it just a great tool...

Is JavaFX "reinvigorating the user interface on the desktop?"(1) Is it "more fun"(2) or "the best thing to happen to Java since SWT?"(3) Is it just a great tool to create animations and steampunk gear?(4) Is it all or the above? None of the above? To get answers, here are opportunities for you to find out more about JavaFX. EclipseCon Europe Nov 2-4, Ludwigsburg, Germany Included in the Java 7 Summit, Steve Northover (aka "the father of SWT") will present JavaFX Past, Present...

JCP EC Elections Happening: Vote!

What is the Java Community Process? It's the way the Java Community participates in the proposal, selection, and development of Java APIs. The JCP Executive...

What is the Java Community Process? It's the way the Java Community participates in the proposal, selection, and development of Java APIs. The JCP Executive Committees (EC) are members who guide the evolution of Java technology in the Java Community Process (JCP). There are two ECs: the Java SE/EE Executive Committee and the Java ME Executive Committee. EC members represent both major stakeholders and a representative cross-section of the Java Community. Each year, a third of...

Perspectives on Garbage Collection

In a new article, part of the Developer Insight series, and titled “The Developer Insight Series, Part 6: Perspectives on Garbage Collection,” now up on...

In a new article, part of the Developer Insight series, and titled “The Developer Insight Series, Part 6: Perspectives on Garbage Collection,” now up on otn/java, three leading Java developers offer insight into garbage collection. Oracle Lab’s Ron Goldman notes, that, “Although automatic memory management has existed for more than 50 years, a lot of people still don't want it in their systems because it seems inelegant. It just strikes people as wrong – ‘It's my memory. I...

"Looking Back on JavaOne 2011" feature article

A JavaOne “afterglow” article, “Looking Back on JavaOne 2011” is up on otn/java. The article reviews the spirit, highlights, and feel of the 2011 JavaOne...

A JavaOne “afterglow” article, “Looking Back on JavaOne 2011” is up on otn/java. The article reviews the spirit, highlights, and feel of the 2011 JavaOne Conference. From the article itself: “It was at times difficult to take in all that has been achieved in the last year. The announcements at this year’s JavaOne came fast and furious -- the summer release of JDK 7 (including preview release for Mac OS X), the debut of JavaFX 2.0 (Oracle’s premier development environment for...

JavaOne 2011 Recap

The 2011 JavaOne Conference, the sixteenth, had its own distinctive identity. The Conference theme, “Moving Java Forward,” coincided with the spirit that seemed...

The 2011 JavaOne Conference, the sixteenth, had its own distinctive identity. The Conference theme, “Moving Java Forward,” coincided with the spirit that seemed to pervade the attendees – after more than a year-and-a-half of stewardship over Java, there was a clear and reassuring feeling that Oracle was doing its part to support Java and the Java community. Attendees that I spoke to felt that the conference was well put together and that the Java platform was being well...

Java Champion Michael Hüttermann on Best Agile ALM Practices

JavaOne 2011 - Java Champion and Agile ALM expert Michael Hüttermann gave a session, "Agile Application Lifecycle Management (18180)" on Tues., Oct. 4, designed...

JavaOne 2011 - Java Champion and Agile ALM expert Michael Hüttermann gave a session, "Agile Application Lifecycle Management (18180)" on Tues., Oct. 4, designed to help Java developers integrate flexible agile practices and lightweight tools into software development phases. Hüttermann is the author of Agile ALM and CEO of Systemtechnologie Hüttermann. He covered:* Task-based development for aligning activities with tasks, resulting in traceable artifacts * Advanced...

The Heads and Tails of Project Coin

JavaOne 2011 - Joseph Darcy, Member of the Oracle Technical Staff, spoke to a very large, packed conference room in his “The Heads and Tails of Project Coin”...

JavaOne 2011 - Joseph Darcy, Member of the Oracle Technical Staff, spoke to a very large, packed conference room in his “The Heads and Tails of Project Coin” (22641) session Tuesday. Project Coin, a central part of Java 7, was described by Darcy as “a suite of language and library changes to make things programmers do everyday easier.” Project Coin makes life easier by removing extra text to make programs more readable; encouraging the writing of programs that are more...

And The Winners Are.......The Duke's Choice Award

On Sunday evening, Oct. 2, at the JavaOne Open House, Oracle welcomed and celebrated the 2011 Duke's Choice Award winners, all talented developers who have...

On Sunday evening, Oct. 2, at the JavaOne Open House, Oracle welcomed and celebrated the 2011 Duke's Choice Award winners, all talented developers who have demonstrated extreme innovation in the creation of Java-powered applications. Drum roll: And the winners are...• Arquillian Project - Arquillian is a platform for simplifying Java integration testing. We transparently handle the pesky scaffolding like server startup, framework initialization and deployment - leaving you to...

Greg Bollella and Eric Jensen on the Future of Cyber-Physical Systems with Embedded Java and Berkeley DB

At JavaOne 2011, Greg Bollella, Chief Architect for Embedded Java and Eric Jensen, Oracle Principal Product Manager and a former embedded developer, gave a...

At JavaOne 2011, Greg Bollella, Chief Architect for Embedded Java and Eric Jensen, Oracle Principal Product Manager and a former embedded developer, gave a session (25143) titled “Telemetry and Synchronization with Embedded Java and Berkeley DB”. Bollella has been a leader in the Embedded Java and real-time Java space since Java was first applied there. The presentation offered a vision of the potential future of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), defined as, “a system featuring a...