 |
Search |
 |
|
|
Plain TruthPosted by editor on November 14, 2008 at 7:27 AM PST
A call for greater transparency Last week's most-discussed topic was surely Kirill Grouchnikov's blog Sun setting down on the core Swing, which concluded that the de-funding of SwingX and a seeming shift of client/desktop emphasis to JavaFX implied that Swing has been effectively put into maintenance-only mode. Today, Kirill follows up to say that the underlying problem may not be the actions taken by Sun and others, but the lack of communication about them:
In Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy, Kirill's core argument is that the trust developers have in the future of the platform, particularly on the client side, has been compromised by both deliberate choices to not communicate (which he typifies with an
It's certainly ironic to be reading such a denunciation of Java openness, particularly two years after Java itself was open sourced. But maybe it's not just about the code, but rather where that code is going. Kirill is redirecting comments to his blog on pushing-pixels.com. I suspect it's going to be a busy day over there. In a related vein, the latest java.net Poll asks "Did you expect Java 7 to be released in 2008?" Cast your vote on the front page, then visit the results page for current tallies and discussion. Among today's other Weblogs, Jim Driscoll continues his Ajax adventures in JSF 2.0: Writing fully reusable Ajax Components. "We'll take another look at my example Spinner component, and this time, we'll modify it so that you can put multiple components on a page. There's a few tricks you need to know, but once you get past those, it's pretty easy." Carol McDonald has materials from her most recent hands-on lab in HOL on REST Dojo Comet. "Yesterday I gave a Hands On Lab on REST, dojo and Comet at JFall. You can download the Hands On Lab." In Java Today, Java was well-represented at last weekend's Silicon Valley Code Camp, with a reported 33 Java sessions of the 113 total. Java Champion Van Riper was a co-organizer of the event, and he has posted a slideshow to the Java Champions page. Arun Gupta has also posted a trip report about the GlassFish team's activities: " Jitu, Jiandong, Jacob, and I presented on GlassFish at Silicon Valley Code Camp over the weekend. The event had higher attendance (close to 500) than last year and certainly is a great networking event for the local community." The Refact4J project describes itself as "a set of framework: functors library (like C++ Standard Template Library) and meta-model programming (Entity Object Model). The main goal is to exploit functors and meta-model as a simple design and implementation based on concept of generic and functional programming. Refact4J is a framework for data application development which includes a simple architecture and a number of plain Java APIs." Continuing a series on ME networking with real-world protocols, the SDN has posted Bruce Hopkins' Asynchronous Communications with Java ME and SIP: Part 2. "As you may recall from Part 1 of this series, I showed you two example applications that used the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to send a simple message asynchronously from one application to the other. In this tech tip, we are going to explore why the REGISTER method type is important and learn how to use it. "
In today's Forums,
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. 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 java.net Archive. A call for greater transparency »
Comments
Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first)
|
|
|
||
|
