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Sea Of JoyPosted by editor on December 24, 2008 at 5:11 AM PST
Dive into the holiday season Today's front page is the last update we'll be making before the holiday break. Thanks as always to the team at Sun (Marla Parker, Gary Thompson, Sonya Barry, et. al.), O'Reilly (Nancy Abila, Sarah Kim, Jennifer Palm, Kevin Farnham), Collabnet (Andrew Kelly and crew), and elsewhere (Eric Renaud, community leaders one and all). We hope we've been able to continue a sense of community in java.net, and that it will continue to be valuable to you in 2009. In Java Today, Danny Coward's year-end post points us to Infinity Labs' interesting list of Ten Amazing Java Applications. "Java is such a great language and platform for any kind of application. It is open, fast, powerful, runs on any platform, and there are more jobs for Java than any other programming language. After reading more FUD and Java bashing from Ruby land I thought it would be fun to put together a list of truly amazing uses of Java that covers a wide spectrum." java.net projects on the list include Project Looking Glass and Flying Saucer. Kirill Grouchnikov has announced a core feature freeze and release schedule for the Flamingo Swing component suite. New features for 4.0 are: Contextual task groups, Taskbar, Application title bar, Main application menu button, Pluggable resizing policies, Minimizing the ribbon, Horizontal scrolling for content under small widths, Better support for placing core controls and button groups in ribbon bands, Key tips, and Screen tips (AKA rich tooltips). A release candidate is due January 26, 2009, with final release following on February 9. The Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days are just four weeks from now. Read the featured segments on embedded sessions in the third of our weekly M3DD newsletters. This edition of the newsletter includes profiles of speakers Joe Polastre of Sentilla and Eric Arseneau, Primary Investigator on the Squawk project. Today's Weblogs begin with James Gosling's year-end greeting, Merry Christmas Everyone! "It's been a great year in the Java universe: JavaFX 1.0 launched; NetBeans 6.5; Glassfish V3; JDK6u10/11; MSA; OpenJDK&jdk7... OpenSolaris 2008.11, OpenStorage, OpenSSO, VirtualBox, OpenOffice 3, MySQL 5.1..." Jacob Hookom offers some ideas for Accelerating Applications with Java 5 Concurrency. "Does your service tier or web tier processor sit wastefully idle under peak use? A look at Java 5 concurrency and ways to increase efficiency of linear processes and services, especially for high throughput situations. This blog deals with shared Thread Pool use and preventing resource starvation." In today's Forums, the LWUIT project's Chen Fishbein announces a New Code Drop available for download! "We have uploaded a new version to the site. The new version highlights are: * Bug fixes and performance are the major aspects of this drop, * Major refactoring of the implementation code moving it into a public package to allow extending using a standard approach. *Improved touch functionality in LWUIT including support for multi-touch devices and click screen devices (pointer hover). * Improved the edt loop including performance improvements and perceived performance issues. * New auto-testing and recoding framework for LWUIT debugging. * Memory/Performance improvements for bitmap font drawing, using WeakReferences for better caching and removing the current hack with light mode. * Added the encoded image class which is designed to load the image as a byte array and only show it as a weak reference.* LWUIT Makeover is now a part of the binary drop. Enjoy!"
Finally, Current and upcoming Java Events :
Registered users can submit event listings for the java.net Events Page using our events submission form. All submissions go through an editorial review before being posted to the site. Oh, and for those of you playing the Editor's Daily Blog game, here's the answer key for 2008. You can scan through the blogs in the archives. How many did you get?
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