Onno Kluyt's Blog 2008-04-30T17:57:13Z tag:weblogs.java.net,2008:/blog/onno/385 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, onno Java SE 6 on Mac OS X! 2008-04-30T17:57:13Z 2008-04-30T17:57:09Z tag:weblogs.java.net,2008:/blog/onno/385.9646 2008-04-30T17:57:09Z Today my MacBook's Software Update alerted me to very happy news: Java SE 6 ready to be installed! I knew that Apple was closing in on the release but to achieve this milestone just the week before JavaOne is great! onno Onno.Kluyt@Sun.COM J2SE Apple yesterday pushed out Java SE 6 for Mac OS X. Software Update installs it as an additional Java run-time on your machine. Through the Java Preferences app (found in the Java folder in Utilities) you can set the default VM to use. After installing I set that to SE 6 and I am happy to report so far all is well!

Bahamontes, my own hobby project, works just fine including the Java 3D stuff. Which reminds me that I need to push out to sourceforge the changes I have made in the last couple of months. I have been looking at the SwingX components - so far took in the Calendar and DatePicker components, a huge improvement to the UI of Bahamontes as my ride collection is growing - but there's a lot more interesting stuff there.

And not only Java SE 6 on Mac OS X is new but also the Netbeans community just pushed out Netbeans 6.1 as well! More new installations to do!

]]> FOSDEM 2008 2008-02-24T08:52:39Z 2008-02-24T08:52:29Z tag:weblogs.java.net,2008:/blog/onno/385.9261 2008-02-24T08:52:29Z Reporting live from the Free Java meetings at FOSDEM 2008. FOSDEM is the yearly weekend gathering at the Free University of Brussels discussing all the F/OSS projects in Europe. Last year we were there for the first time discussing our OpenJDK plans, and this year we are back to look at what we have all achieved over the last year and looking ahead to the coming year. onno Onno.Kluyt@Sun.COM Community: OpenJDK fosdem-day1.jpgReporting live from FOSDEM 2008.

Our second day this Sunday morning of our Free Java meetings has just started. Yesterday we had a packed series of sessions. What stood out for me was the tense used in all of the talks regarding Java. Last year attendees were discussing what we could do once our source code for the JDK was out. This year, many of the talks are focused on what everybody is doing with the code. Roman Kennke spoke about his experiences mixing GNU Classpath code with OpenJDK and vice versa. Christian Thalinger discussed CACAO to run various class libraries from OpenJDK, phoneME and Classpath against various VMs. The energy and the diversity of the ideas are just amazing.

Speaking of diversity, Carla Ko and Linda van der Pal presented on "Women in Java" exploring the reasons behind the low percentage of women in core development jobs, how to improve on that but also about networking opportunities for women in this industry. In the ensuing discussion some interesting research was brought up. One was that the percentage of women in corporate software development projects is much higher than in open source projets (20% vs only 3%). Another was that in the 60's and 70's there was much more balance between the percentages of men and women in software development. A presented reason for the change to the levels of today is that then the profession overall had low standing. In any case, if you are woman Java programmer (or aspiring to be a Java programmer) then check out Duchess. Linda started Duchess to help women in the industry network, collaborate and exchange experiences.

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