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May 2007
JavaOne 2007 : Extreme Swing (video of Iris, video from Makeover)
Thursday, 31 May 2007 12:07 A GMT-08
I missed alot at JavaOne because I was in the Hands-on-Labs. So I am going back and trying to see the tons of Swing stuff in keynotes and demos. Swing is back and hot. Check out the 2 videos - Iris in the keynote and Extreme Makeover session.
NetBeans Visual Library : Huge Features With Ease-of-Use (Screencast)
Wednesday, 30 May 2007 1:12 A GMT-08
Wow. I didn't see it until today and the new 18 minute screencast highlights how far and how advanced the NetBeans Visual Library has come. Huge features are provided with ease-of-use. Very nice tutorials. More...
Good Reading : Java 3D, JOGL and more.
Tuesday, 29 May 2007 6:00 P GMT-08
If you are interested in 3D and Java - there are some nice chapters and code from Pro Java 6 3D Game Development - Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL API available.
Solaris Best Practices : Securing Web Servers
Tuesday, 29 May 2007 8:56 A GMT-08
Bumped into a bunch of good best practices and tutorials - one was on securing web servers using Solaris 10. More...
JavaOne 2007 : JavaFX PDF Viewer (video)
Monday, 28 May 2007 11:09 P GMT-08
I forgot, but at JavaOne Chris Oliver in his JavaScript talk demoed a nifty tool, a PDF Viewer. Someone took a video of the tool. Very cool - check it out.
Post-JavaOne 2007 逛逛 : Resources for Building JavaFX Desktop Apps
Saturday, 26 May 2007 10:39 A GMT-08
I've been busy looking around for JavaFX resources and I have found some interesting ones.
GlassFish v2 Beta2 is here, v3 Preview too (screencast)
Friday, 25 May 2007 9:00 A GMT-08
Early access versions of GlassFish v2 and v3 are here. Nice screencast of v3. More..
JavaFX Rocks : Check out JFXBuilder (Updated)
Thursday, 24 May 2007 8:36 P GMT-08
Wow! Very quick. Check out ReportMill's nice JFXBuilder demo. If you are interested in JavaFX this is a very cool demo that shows off its power.
Index Shows Groovy Moving Up Quickly, New Groovy Plugin
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 5:31 P GMT-08
If you missed it, this month TIOBE Index states that Groovy is on a swift rise. It has gone from language 103 to 52 quickly. Meanwhile, there is a NetBeans Groovy Plugin. More...
JavaOne 2007 : NetBeans Grows, Doubling Users, NetBeans 6.0 Preview Announced
Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:37 P GMT-08
NetBeans is gaining new users very quickly, it grew by 92% year-over-year. The latest version of NetBeans 6.0 (M 9) Preview provides some killer features - the new NetBeans editor is faster and feature-rich and there is alot more in 6.0. More...
JavaOne 2007 : Java Desktop Widgets - Glossitope
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:50 P GMT-08
A very new and cool widget-set is here. More...
JavaOne 2007 : Java Kernel, Ericcson & GlassFish, Solaris on a Toshiba Laptop
Sunday, 13 May 2007 10:56 P GMT-08
If you missed it - Ericcson is joining the open source party by contributing to GlassFish. Also not to be missed is the work going on in the Java Kernel Project. More...
JavaOne 2007: Getting Started Building a Grid App with 200 Free Grid Hours
Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:54 P GMT-08
So now that you have 200 free hours of grid-time, how will you get started building something cool ? I found some nice resources and tutorials on getting started. More...
JavaOne 2007 : Grid Offers Your App A Large CPU Farm, Great Demo [Updated]
Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:31 P GMT-08
There was a elegant display of using grid computing from a spreadsheet demoed at JavaOne. If you haven't seen the session - it is available and extremely interesting. More..
JavaOne 2007 : Great Talk on JavaFX Script and the Robot Hands-On-Lab
Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:02 A GMT-08
Two very cool events : The SunSpot, Robots and Java Technology hands-on-lab was great and Christopher Oliver's JavaFX Script showed what and why JavaFX Script is great stuff. More...
JavaOne 2007 : Cool Things You Can Do With Groovy (TS-1742) Presentation Available
Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:28 P GMT-08
I asked Dierk Konig for his presentation and he said I could share it! So here is the very cool Groovy presentation that Dierk, Guillaume LaForge and Guillaume Alleon gave. Check it out.
Groovy and Grails On A Roll
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 1:29 P GMT-08
To anyone with the slightest powers of observation, it is now obvious that Groovy and Grails are growing quickly. A symptom of this growth is the the60 0 developers attended the JavaOne 2007 Groovy session. More...
JavaOne Announcements : JavaFX Mobile
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 1:04 P GMT-08
Another JavaOne announcement was JavaFX Mobile. They showed off some interesting PDA and cell phones running JavaFX Mobile (pic included). More...
Java In A Flash : JavaFX
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:01 A GMT-08
It's fast. It's flashy. It's a new way to do rich Internet applications and a new rich mobile architecture. More...
Tomcat, GlassFish and Scott's Approach To Large-Scale Testing of Your App
Friday, 4 May 2007 9:47 A GMT-08
Nice chart of Tomcat and GlassFish. Benchmarks and Scott Oaks nice approach to looking at your app.
New Article : NetBeans Lighting Up IDE Space
Tuesday, 1 May 2007 2:40 P GMT-08
Great article that talks about NetBeans growth and new features. Dan Roberts and Tim Boudreau discuss aspects of the growth.