We've officially opened the site for Android developers to help build the world's best Android how-to site, If you've written any Android apps, please share what you've learned with your fellow developers, at androidcookbook.oreilly.com Sorry for the long name; if you're typing it longhand use …
After a very long and uncomfortable silence, Oracle, having passed the last(?) regulatory hurdle to their acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today announced that the JavaOne conference will in fact go ahead - this year. It will be co-located, but not merged, with Oracle OpenWorld; this year's …
If you're not a Java programmer, you might as well run along to the next blog entry below. If you are, how often have you seen - or tolerated - code like this in a library you're using?
try {
clazz= Class.forName(className);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { …
JavaFX is Sun's new Rich Client strategy for Java. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the demos on the JavaFX home page. Unlike Adobe Flash and unlike M$ Silverlight, this technology actually works on "minority" OSes - my OpenBSD laptop with Java 1.6.0 is officially way behind the …
Gavin King is often thought of as the developer of Hibernate, but he deserves as much credit for making Seam, the web framework that unifies JSF and EJB3. Now he's going for the standards hat, making Seam into "Web Beans", a Java Community Process standard (JSR-299) that should get …
This has been a very busy week at JavaOne, with lots of new announcments but few major ones. One of the largest announcements was a small but powerful technology called JavaFX, which is potentially very significant because it provides a compositional API for Java 2D, similar to that for Swing. Java …
At this week's JavaOne, Sun announced that they have uploaded more pieces of the JDK to the open source repository. At the same time, they announced that there are some big missing pieces that will not be available under GPL until somebody replaces them, which may take six-twelve months. There …
JavaOne is Sun's annual Java conference, held in San Francisco's cavernous Moscone Centre each year. I'm here to present a talk based on my new eBook Checking Java Programs, in which I talk about PMD, FindBugs and Pathfinder. There are huge crowds for the keynote session, which I skipped due to …
Since I hope someday to release a third edition of the Java Cookbook, I've been thinking about what recipes need to be replaced, added, removed. I've set up a directory with some new/replacement recipes. Some are complete but some are just placeholders. Feel free to look and, as always, comments …
Getting JSR-310 into Java 8 is a major step (see https://threeten.org/), but to make it even more useful it should be recognized by major other APIs. There are issue trackers where you can trivailly vote on to help get this message across to API suppliers:
JPA -> …