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Dalibor gets even more involved with OpenJDK

You might recognize the name Dalibor Topic from a number of times we've mentioned his blog entries in the editor's blog or in the Java Today section. Or maybe you know him as a member of the OpenJDK Governance Board, or lead developer of the F/OSS Kaffe VM. Or maybe you heard him interviewed a few months back on Java Posse, or seen him on the Posse's IRC channel.

Yeah, busy guy. About to get busier too.

He shows up twice in today's Java Today section, first as the author of the announcement that the OpenJDK Porters Group has approved a new project to port OpenJDK to the MIPS architecture. This Linux-based port aims to keep up-to-date with the OpenJDK base, provide client and server compilers, and generalize the port to all MIPS variants, while focusing primarily on MIPS32 and MIPS64 (currently, MIPS64 is the only implemented variant).

Moreover, Dalibor has announced in his blog that he is joining Sun as a F/OSS Ambassador. He writes,:

I was looking for a job that would let me influence the future direction Open Source Java is taking more directly. Sun has made a lot of progress in the past couple of years, both as a good corporate Free Software citizen, and as an Open Source company, and I think it's the right place and time for me to do my next little bit to keep pushing Java Libre forward.

Anyways, congratulations to Dalibor, as this is not the kind of thing that would have happened without the efforts of him and many others to nurture and grow the field of free and open source Java, both inside and outside Sun.

Also in Java Today, the latest in the SDN's series of interviews with Java Champions is Better Programming With Java EE: A Conversation With Java Champion Adam Bien. In it, the self-employed consultant / lecturer / software architect / developer / author talks about the perceptions and real challenges of Java EE, the utility of EE patterns, hazards of large IT projects, the power of GlassFish, favorite features in Java SE 6, the traits and habits of effective developers, and more.

In today's Weblogs, Marina Sum previews the Highlights of Java University at 2008 JavaOne. "Java University, which will begin on Monday, May 5, 2008 as part of 2008 JavaOne, is available for attendance by Conference Plus Pass and Java University Pass holders. Have a look at a synopsis of the sessions."

John Ferguson Smart blogs about Cleaning up spurious SpringIDE warnings, in which he shows "how to eliminate spurious SpringIDE warnings when using multiple Spring configuration files."

Finally, John O'Conner considers Another solution for non-UTF8 source files in NetBeans 6.1? "Recently I mentioned a potential problem when saving source files in a non-Unicode charset encoding. The potential data loss is significant for large projects. After thinking about the problem a little more, I have a potential solution, a solution that allows you to save to a non-Unicode encoding but also prevents data loss."

In today's Forums, rogerl announces an RSS Feed for 6u10 Early Access, be notifed by email when there is an update. "Want to be notified when we release the next 6u10 build? We have been using an RSS feed since build 04 when builds are released. In addition to the build releases we also post when there have been updates to the 6u10 page. If you are interested in using the RSS feed us this link in your favorite RSS reader: http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/feed/entries/atom?cat=%2FJava+SE+6+Update+N, or if you like email better, you can be notified by Feedburner when there is a new post: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1820505&loc=en_US. The volume has been low, about 1-2 posts per week."

Sounds like sjoekie is seeing a network timeout somewhere (maybe reverse DNS lookup?) in Re: Glassfish startup/shutdown inside NetBeans is slow. "Most of the time, it's fast. For example, the last week, an undeploy/deploy never took more than 10 seconds. But suddenly, without me changing anything, this can change dramatically to 2min (can be 1, can be 3). Then, it will stay around 2min for every undeploy/deploy operation. I tried restarting glassfish, restarting netbeans, even restarting my computer, but nothing could get this time down to the 10seconds it used to be. And then, after more than 2 days of pure frustration, it dropped to 10s. Again, without me doing anything."

Finally guns_14 asks How do i create a license for my J2EE product. "We have developed a J2EE web based product and going to install it in our client's server. I would like to know how we can package our product so that nobody can view our JSPs and nobody has access to our class files. First I would like to know if it is possible. I would also like to know how we can make licensing possible so that the client will not be able to use it after a certain period. Please help me in these two regards."

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Comments

• Thanks... you've inspired me to break out all my old Pixies albums. And thanks for your daily blog - it's educational :)

  Posted by: epricer on April 09, 2008 at 02:37 PM

• Thank you very much, Chris!

  Posted by: robilad on April 09, 2008 at 04:33 PM

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