JavaOne "no thank you" v 1.0 ship

Yesterday was a busy IM day. Friends popped up to say all of their JavaOne session proposals were rejected. Dozens were rejected at the same time so I thought for a moment that I had made it through the first round. Then BAM - six rejections in less than a minute.

What I heard from others echoed my own experience. Some of my proposals were the strongest I've ever submitted. Others also noted that much less strong proposals of theirs have been accepted in the past. My favorite was one on the new Java APIs for Rendezvous with some pretty cool examples. Not cool enough. Fortunately, I'm in some pretty strong company. Many have blogged about rejected proposals. Ted Neward posted about his string of rejected talks and posited that it might be his lack of affiliation with Sun. But Mary Smaragdis and Simon Phipps, both Sun employees, blogged about their rejected submissions as well.

We could probably put together a pretty cool conference built from talks rejected by JavaOne.

David Walend has been wrestling for a while with Better JavaDoc on http://java.net and blogs about it in today's Weblogs . He writes "I'm still not satisfied by publishing my JavaDoc by checking it in to CVS on http://java.net. I'd like to ask for an alternative, but am not sure what would be best."

What's in a name? Tom Ball thinks there is a lot and writes about it in his post The Most Powerful Refactoring? "Guess what the most powerful refactoring is -- Extract Method? Collapse Hierarchy? Remove Middle Man? Tom thinks that one of the simplest refactorings is the most powerful in this blog."

Davor Cengija builds on a story we are featuring today in Commons-chain: a few tips. " ONJava.com published an article titled 'A Look at Commons Chain: The New Java Framework' by Bill Siggelkow. Being a commons-chain user myself for some time now, I thought people might find useful a tip or two."

In Also in Java Today , here is the article that Davor comments on. "Business analysts and managers illustrate such systems using flowcharts and workflow diagrams instead of class hierarchies and sequence diagrams," which can be a different way of thinking from the heirarchical thinking required by object-oriented programming. But Bill Siggelkow, author of Jakarta Struts Cookbook, says that the Jakarta Commons Chain solves some of these problems. In A Look at Commons Chain: The New Java Framework, he shows how some several classic design patterns help Commons Chain simplify sequential activities for Java programmers.

You may have a suite of JUnit tests installed and passing, but how do you know you have sufficient code coverage? Elliotte Rusty Harold writes that you can Test your tests with Jester. Jester "changes the source code, recompiles it, and runs the test suite to see if anything breaks. For instance, it will change a 1 to a 2, or change an if (x > y) to if (false). If the test suite isn't paying close enough attention to notice the change, then a test is missing." Harold shows you how to get started with Jester and points to possible performance issues with using this approach.

In Projects and Communities, help the Mac Java Community project MacJTray provide the tray icon functionality of JDIC on Mac OS X. With its first public preview, the project is seeking developers with Cocoa expertise to help with the native platform integration.

Reduce the size of class files with the Java Tools community's new incubator graduate: project Stripper. This tool lets you remove class file attributes selectively from a command line or from Ant.

Tackline says that we need Better Examples in today's Forums. "The "Totally GridBag" Flash has been widely linked (http://madbean.com/blog/2004/17/). The grid bag code does indeed look bad. Where would some get the strange ideas about coding like that? The JavaDoc is the most obvious place to look. And there it is. The example in GridBagLayout is only appropriate for JDK 1.0.2 and earlier."

Kohsuke follows up in the thread on Identity constraint accessor/mutator generation. "Identity constraints are out of place from the rest of the constraints, because for example the XPath isn't guaranteed to point to any particular element/attribute declaration. This means that without a heuristics, a compiler like XJC cannot generally determine what elements/attributes keys are pointing to, and so on. Also, keys can consist from multiple fields, which further complicates the binding. James Clark explains this more eloquently in http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001papers/tm/web/05-01-03/relaxng.htm"

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