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JavaDesktop milestone

Posted by daniel on January 26, 2005 at 8:18 AM EST

More than 200 projects strong

Roger Brinkley announces that the JavaDesktop Community tops 200 projects. He writes "What excites me the most about the 204 projects is the distribution of the projects between incubator, linked, and full fledged projects." He goes on to detail the projects of different types in the community and sets 300 projects as a goal to be reached by the end of this year. Congratulations and thank you to Roger Brinkley and Kathy Walrath for their leadership and hard work in making the JavaDesktop community so successful.

Also in today's Weblogs , Kirill Grouchnikov cautions Garbage collection - not a panacea . He writes " Sometimes a Java developer is falsely lulled into creating a lot of objects by thinking that the garbage collector will make the ends meet. It actually does, but the price is very high."He provides an example from profiling the JXM project.

Also in Also in Java Today , as expected, more uses for J2SE 5.0's Annotations are being discovered. In Validating Objects Through Metadata, Jacob Hookom shows how he used annotation to provide validation to method calls in his application - attributes indicate which methods are to be validated and in what way, and reflection code picks up these attributes and implements them at runtime.

You've heard it before - when it comes to refactoring (and much of what we do as Java developers), Smalltalk had it long before Java was even a language. In Refactoring as Meta Programming? Dave Thomas writes Once we accept that it is useful to write programs (queries) to understand programs, it is a natural progression to think about other meta programs that would be useful. [..] We conjecture that it may be fruitful to look at refactoring as a domain-specific programming language for making specific program transformations. Further, a programming environment that readily supported such a language would most certainly support a wide variety of tools for program understanding and development."

In Projects and Communities, the Portlets Community page is featuring a link to the opinion piece Passing Fad or Real Value?, in which Janus Boye compares the promises made by portals to their price, performance and usability.

The JXTA community announces an update to the JXTA Programming Guide and Companion Examples. Download the pdf of the guide along with a zip file containing the examples.

Still pondering Const or Immutable objects? In today's Forums MDernst writes "A paper on integrating immutability with the Java language appeared in the 2004 OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications) conference. The paper addresses many of the same concerns and ideas that have been raised in this forum, and it provides a concrete proposal for extending the Java language, along with a prototype implementation."

Johnapps adds his thoughts on this year's JavaOne conference. "I'd like to see more sessions given by people who do not work for Sun. This has nothing to do with a dislike for Sun, but with a balanced set of sessions from the IT community at large."

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