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Tiger improvements to Java2D

Posted by daniel on November 11, 2004 at 10:51 AM EST

Building on top of OpenGL

In today's Weblogs, Chris Campbell delivers a very thorough explanation of what's going on Behind the Graphics2D: The OpenGL-based Pipeline. His post is designed to "help answer the hot question and explain all the caveats that developers might encounter when they run their application with the OpenGL-based pipeline enabled. Even this one (long!) document is probably not sufficient. There are at least two more topics that I would like to cover in the near future: a performance comparison of the OpenGL-based pipeline, and a roadmap describing some of the features and performance improvements we would like to implement for it in the future."

Lance Anderson provides a quick guide to Using Apache Derby with the J2EE SDK . He takes you through Installing the needed Derby/Cloudscape jar files, Creating Derby Connection Pools, and Using Derby/Cloudscape with the J2EE SDK CMP container.

Billy Newport reports back from the 4th International Conference on Information Technology in Financial Service that J2EE is alive and well in China. He writes " China is coming on strongly in IT and, make no mistake, are using and proficient in the latest software. If the people I met there are anything to go by then the J2EE and Java will be heavily used in projects in China. The students are using a wide variety of Java software there including WebSphere, WSAD, Eclipse, Hibernate, Log4J."

In Also in Java Today , end-users expect that they can cut some text in one application and paste it into another. In Use Java to Interact with Your Clipboard, Kulvir Singh Bhogal explains what is required to get your Java application to behave the way your users may expect. He shows you how to transfer text and images to and from your Java application from the clipboard.

Do we really need another approach to Web Services? In his article on REST Architectural Style, OCI's Mark Volkmann explains the benefits of the REpresentational State Transfer approach. He provides an example of using a simple Java framework for building REST applications and says "REST can be used as a replacement for SOAP, but not WSDL and UDDI. WSDL can be used to describe REST request and response messages. UDDI can be used to catalog and discover REST services. In fact, for distributed applications that don't require the complexity of CORBA, EJB and the like, REST can be used as a replacement for those as well."

In Projects and Communities, the JavaTools Community has just released the fourteenth issue of their community newsletter. This latest installment includes news of interest to tool developers, a tip for developing command-line java tools, and updates from community projects.

From the Java Web Services and XML community news, Norman Walsh writes that he is "not convinced that XML 2.0 is a good idea. The complete failure of XML 1.1 doesn't leave me very optimistic, but maybe a big change would be more palatable than an incremental one."

Got a great suggestion for Mustang? In today's Forums, moderator DenisMo emphasizes that he agrees with "what Tim said - go vote on them. Whenever you see the RFE or Bug that you are interested in seeing in the next release, please, don't hesitate, GO vote for it."

Need links to other date time projects? ScoleBourne writes "For completeness, here are the links of datetime projects I know about [description in full post]: http://timeandmoney.sourceforge.net, http://calendardate.sourceforge.net, http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/, http://joda-time.sourceforge.net"

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