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JOLT finalist again

Posted by daniel on February 8, 2005 at 11:01 AM EST

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In Projects and Communities, thank you to all of you who have helped java.net repeat as a JOLT award finalist. We are one of seven finalists in the Websites and Developer Networks category along with Agile Modeling Home Page, developer.*, eBay Developers Program, gantthead.com, IBM developerWorks, and The O'Reilly Network.

I mention the other sites because you may not have heard of some of them and might want to check them out. It's doubly cool for the O'Reilly java.net team. Once again we are competing with ourselves in this category. See you at SD West when the winners are announced.

Members of the Jini Community should note that a new version of the Jini Technology Starter KIt has been released. The announcement of version 2.0.1 says that it addresses four security issues in earlier 2.x releases. These issues are detailed in the release notes.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi introduces a way to Make your builds always available in today's Weblogs . " Making your up-to-date builds always available helps your project by reducing the time it takes for other people to use it. I introduce Hudson, an open-source project that automates this."

Bill Wake reminds us of the Agile 2005 conference call for participation. Also Satya Komatineni comments on CVSNT, Eclipse, and some lessons in OpenSource. " I had the most difficult time getting eclipse 3.0.1 to work with the current CVSNT build CVSNT 2.0.58d. The knot has been finally unravelled and what I found, more importantly how I found out, seem to be a glimpse of how OpenSource and by extension any evoliving (and hence good quality) software matures."

In Also in Java Today , after years of typing public static void main(String[] args) you can (and should) now type public static void main(String .. args). This is just one of the many uses of variable arity parameters known less formally as varargs. In the Core Java Tech tip Using the varargs language feature you see examples of how to use the new feature and explicit cases in which you should not use varargs.

One of the criticisms of XP is the lack of design or architecture. In XP as in other Agile methodologies, you do a lot of design - you just don't do it up front. In Incremental Architecture Bob Martin answers the objection "isn't that just hacking? After all, when architectures evolve, don't they turn into a mess? Isn't that how we used to build systems in the 60's? Didn't we stop because of all the messes we made?"

Chris Campbell responds with some positive news on render speed in today's Forums. "We've been exploring some ways to improve wide (> 1 pixel) line performance. We know that low performance of this case is really impacting many apps out there that want to display complex data, such as interactive maps. We think there are a few simple optimizations that can be made to speed up the simple cases (no round joins or end caps), but we also have some ideas to leverage hardware for even the more complex cases (those that do have round elements)."

Tim Bell clarifies some of the questions about rt.jar with debug symbols. "The rt.jar shipped with the JRE is stripped to minimize download size. The rt.jar shipped with the SDK has line number information in it, but not local variables. So, if you want more information in stack traces, run with the full SDK installation."

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