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Other People's LivesPosted by editor on July 22, 2008 at 4:33 AM PDT
Reading between the lines of a brief mailing list note Kirill Grouchnikov's Swing links of the week post notes an apparent leadership change in the Swing Application Framework project. "A message from Richard Bair on the mailing list of AppFramework (reference implementation of JSR 296) announces that Alex Potochkin has taken over the ownership of this project." The project was founded by Hans Muller, who left Sun in May. I wasn't sure whether to give this front-page billing, since Richard's e-mail only has one new paragraph:
Now that's obviously not the kind of substantial status update one might have hoped for, particularly when you consider, as Kirill notes, that the project hasn't had any source commits since October, 2007. But given the importance of the project and the number of people who would like to see some best practices established around Swing application life-cycles -- the typical real-world Swing application still launches from Also in Java Today, Java ME user interfaces are about to get an exciting boost with the early release of a new library and tool from Sun called the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT). In the DevX article Java ME User Interfaces: Do It with LWUIT, Jim White looks at the problems the LWUIT is meant to solve and the environments in which it runs, demos a simple LWUIT application, and digs into LWUIT's significant features. "Among developers, there's a behavior that is more damaging than guessing. Because we're trained to look at code, when something goes wrong, we look at code. And no matter how good our code is, we can always find something wrong or ugly that's begging to be fixed." But, according to performance expert Kirk Pepperdine, it's foolhardy and counter-productive to jump into code without profiling, and without looking at the context the code is operating in. In the SDN interview Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine, he shares more of his experiences and insights. Today's Weblogs begin with the update JRuby 1.1.3 released - Getting Started with GlassFish from Arun Gupta. "JRuby 1.1.3 was released last week - download here. The highlights are: * 82 issues resolved since JRuby 1.1.2, * RubyGem 1.2 (phew, finally Gem installation is much faster again :), * Bunch of Compatibility and Performance problems. Going forward, JRuby point releases will be on a 3-4 week frequency. And you can always checkout the trunk and build yourself." In A bit off-topic: "We're Not *Resources*", Terrence Barr writes, "this is a bit off-topic but it struck a chord with me. Mark Turansky posted an article on JavaLobby a few days ago which analyses the thinking that creeps into the planning process when you term software developers as "resources"..." Scott Schram posts a warning in Why are Getty Images and Flickr teaming up? It may cost you. "If any of the images (or portions of images) on your site are licensed to Getty Images, it may cost you thousands of dollars. And soon thousands of Flickr images will be licensed to Getty Images."
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