Skip to main content

Tomorrow Never Comes

Posted by editor on September 4, 2008 at 6:39 AM PDT


Remember November and the M3DDs? Think January, actually.

On Monday, we talked up the Mobile, Media & Embedded Developer Days, the second iteration of the Mobile & Embedded Community's highly-focused conference for ME developers. At that point, we wanted to get the news out because the CFP and registration dates were coming up quickly.

Maybe too quickly, as the decision has been made to push the conference back to January, about the same time of the year that the first conference was held. Roger Brinkley explains the reasoning for the change in Date Changes for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days:

There were a variety of reasons for making this change. Chief among them was an extra cost of running the conference in November and the loss of key personal during the original dates. Additionally, we know that the extra time would allow those of you traveling from outside of the United States enough time to acquire the appropriate visas. The fact that we're getting an extra 2 months of planning time put the decision into a no brainer category.

So we're back to our date of last year, the Wednesday and Thursday after Martin Luther King's birthday. It's too early to tell if this a habit but it certainly appears that way. We do know that this is a time period that a number of attendees can make.

We've also updated this week's Spotlight to reflect the new dates.

Also in Java Today, the JT Harness 4.1.4 milestone release fixes various bugs in the harness. The JT Harness is a general purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness very well suited for most types of unit testing. This
release specifically addresses issues with the display of results and screen refresh
functionality. JT Harness 4.1.4 provides complete backwards compatibility with JT
Harness 4.1.3. For more information, visit the JT Harness project page.

In a new NetBeans.tv interview, Ted Neward interviews Tim Boudreau and Geertjan Wielenga about the NetBeans Platform. In part 1, they talk about plugin development which, it turns out, is "ridiculously easy". Then, in part 2, they talk about creating your own Swing applications on top of the NetBeans Platform, and the book they co-authored with Jaroslav Tulach, called Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform.

The latest Java Mobility Podcast is
Java Mobility Podcast 55: Back to School Special. "Diane Wolff and Melanie Crouch of Virgina Western Community College are starting a new degree program of mobile programming at their community college that is geared to meet the needs of the Roanoke, VA business community."

In today's Weblogs, James Gosling takes a look at the
Current State of Java for HPC. "At the last JavaOne I did a walk-on talk during the AMD keynote where I talked about how incredible HotSpot's performance had become - beating the best C compilers. I ended my talk with a joking comment that "the next target is Fortran". "

Felipe Gaucho posts a Question: how to bind SOAP <-> ORM JPA ?
"Few days thinking about the best way to copy values between the objects representation of SOAP message elements and JPA entities. I couldn't find a good answer, so I am sharing the question."

Fabrizio Giudici points out
A better way for UML management. "While aiming at blueMarine 1.0 for the end of the year, the effort is being put not only to stability and performance, but also on cleaning up the APIs in order to have a polished and stable version that others might use. One of the problems is with the UML diagrams - so far I've used the UML editor in NetBeans, but keeping them up-to-date is really time expensive, especially after some heavy refactoring."

In today's Forums, terrencebarr explains the constraints of the ME market in Re: MIDP3 status? "The mobile/wireless space is subject to competing interests and technologies - arguably more so than most other more established technology areas. Any attempt to standardize on features, APIs, or functionality occurs in this tension field. But standards are necessary to create economies of scale that allows content creation and deployment to occur efficiently and increase the value of the ecosystem for everyone involved. Java ME standardization is a difficult industry-wide effort and the process depends on the willingness of the participants to work efficiently for the benefit of the ecosystem. This is not necessarily a failure of the JCP but more a reflection of the difficult environment is must operate in."

miwur wants
A list of all loaded webstart ressources/jars. "I need a list of all loaded jars in my project which are defined in my jnlp file. An example is the tool "javaws -viewer". There you can list all ressources from javaws. The list should include the full path to the ressource on hdd, because I want to open all jar files with "JarFile" class to extract some information from it. Could you help me?"

Kristian Rink points out a GlassFish advantage in
Re: glassfish and logging. "Point being: Talking about the glassfish administration console, you get a lot more feature than tomcat possibly offers (online log browser, the ability to set log levels for packages and classes without messing with configuration files, log rotation, syslog integration and all that stuff) so while using glassfish logging, you can leave most of the logging configuration out of your application."

nordenberg questions the appopriateness of a workaround in
Re: System.currentTimeMillis() resolution problem.
"I absolutely agree that the registry tweak is not a general purpose solution. There must be a reason for not using the software clock in the first place, so manually forcing to use the software clock probably mean a sub-optimal configuration of the device. I don't agree that the workarounds try to cover up a deficiency in the windows platform though. They are there to make Java applications more portable. The sole purpose of them is actually to try to make the runtime behave closer to the _expected_ behaviour."

Current and upcoming Java
Events :

Registered users can submit event listings for the href="http://www.java.net/events">java.net Events Page using our href="http://today.java.net/cs/user/create/e">events submission form.
All submissions go through an editorial review before being posted to the
site.

Archives and Subscriptions: This blog is delivered weekdays as
the Java
Today RSS feed. Also, once this page is no longer featured as the
front page of java.net it will be
archived along with other past issues in the href="http://today.java.net/today/archive/">java.net Archive.

Remember November and the M3DDs? Think January, actually.

Blog Links >>