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No Sugar MamaPosted by editor on August 1, 2008 at 6:36 AM PDT
And not your Dad's Java either Sun's Jenn Winger posts to the new JavaFX Blog to announce "This Ain't Your Dad's Java".
Speaking of podcasts, the latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 53: Campus Ambassadors and Sun Spots, in which Sun Campus Ambassadors Tom Martini Petreca and Lucas Torri talk about the Sun Campus Ambassador program and their work with SunSpots. Meanwhile, the latest JavaOne Community Corner Podcast is j1-2k8-mtH02: Kepler's Orrery, by Simran Gleason. Kepler's Orrery is a generative music system that uses gravity equations to "compose" and play music. Start with planets (or stars or particles) that each have mass, position, and velocity, then run a n-body gravity simulator to make them move. They attract each other, accelerate, swirl around, and slingshot off each other. Sometimes they collide, and that's what plays the music. Also in Java Today, Robert Lougher has posted the results of an Embedded JVM comparison: "Buglabs have done a comparison of open-source JVMs on their embedded ARM platform (the BUG, based on an ARM1136JF-S core). The tested VMs were PhoneME advanced, Cacao and JamVM. The results are very interesting :http://bugblogger.com/java-vms-compared-160/JamVM comes out the fastest, followed by PhoneME and then Cacao. On startup time, JamVM also comes out top (3 ms), followed by Cacao (12 ms) and PhoneME (16 ms)." Sprint recently announced the Instinct Java Developer Contest, the communication giant's first ever developer competition and focused solely around the Samsung Instinct, its new touch-screen phone. To support the contest, Sprint has made available a series of quick start guides, including one for developing with its WTK and the NetBeans IDE. The Instinct Java Developer Contest is open to all qualifying individuals with great ideas for applications showcasing the Samsung Instinct device. The winner will receive a Grand Prize of $20,000 cash and a free membership to the Sprint Professional Developer Program (PDP). Contest deadline is August 29. James Gosling announces the JavaFX SDK launch in today's Weblogs. In Come and get it! Hot off the grill: JavaFX, he writes, "the preview release of JavaFX is now available, along with libraries, samples, documentation and some early tools. If you like to make pretty things fly around on the screen, this is a pretty tasty piece of work. It really shows what Swing and Java2D can do." In his blog, Laird Nelson works through a problem with Nimbus and Opacity. "Want a text field with a non-opaque background when using Nimbus? Read on." Finally, Simon Morris wonders what to do When Buzzwords Go Bad. "What does it all mean? Seems nobody really knows, not when it comes to Rich Internet Applications anyway! The term is now so diluted, polluted, mutated and contorted, even its own mother wouldn't recognise it! Do we need a RADICAL solution?" The latest java.net Poll asks "Are you going to download the JavaFX SDK?" Cast your vote on the front page, then check the results page for current tallies and discussion.
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