http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/ en-us 2009-06-04T09:29:57-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/06/is_the_jcp_fund.html I'm drawing on several threads of thinking in several presentations and conversations this week at JavaOne, and am thinking the Java Community Process (JCP) no longer serves the needs of the Java ecosystem. I'm not the first to say this,... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-06-04T09:29:57-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/06/javaone_2009_op.html The JavaOne opening keynote is still a fancy rock & roll show with fancy stage and the like. It's always exciting to see what they have to say, and they do a good job of spinning a story that Java... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-06-02T14:50:26-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/06/openjdk_porter.html Just a reminder to those of you a) attending JavaOne, b) interested in porting OpenJDK to other platforms, we have a BOF on thursday night. Please attend. The agenda is to simply bring the right people into the room and... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-06-02T11:38:22-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/06/rich_user_inter.html This session is conducted by a pair from SonyEricsson, and they're discussing Java based rich user interfaces for "mobile" devices. As always the word "mobile" is overly constrained to mean "cell phone" which is to me a misnomer because "mobile"... Community: Mobile & Embedded robogeek 2009-06-02T11:36:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/06/blogging_from_j.html I am attending JavaOne and will be posting a series of blog's about each session I attend.... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-06-02T11:21:36-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/04/oraclesun_effec.html So, hmm, Oracle+Sun. Interesting twist from the IBM+Sun matchup earlier. There has been numerous rumors over the years about SUN+xyzzy mergers such as Fujitsu, IBM, SGI, Apple, etc. And it's finally come to Oracle. It seems there's a lot of... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-04-26T10:48:52-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/04/sunibm_what_doe.html I've been gone from Sun for a little while now but of course I'm still interested in Java, and thankfully still have access to this java.net blog. Anyway the recent news about IBM pondering buying Sun has piqued my interest.... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-04-04T20:44:10-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/01/it_will_be_open.html I'm listening to the 'holidays 2008ish' episode of Javaposse and in reviewing their last years predictions they have enough fumbling around the status of OpenJDK that I want to do a little bit of explaining. OpenJDK 6 != JDK 6... Community: JDK robogeek 2009-01-05T14:48:05-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/12/using_an_extern.html I've been toying with doing a blog or podcast aggregator with JavaFX. I have a feeling that the strengths of JavaFX, animation, graphics, media, etc, could be put to good use in such an app. Additionally most podcasters put little... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-12-04T17:27:06-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/12/javafx_10_is_la.html You can view the updated site, launch videos, sample apps, and more, at javafx.com .. well .. when the server comes back up, it's having a little bit of trouble at this moment. Anyway, I want to post a few... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-12-04T16:17:10-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/11/the_upcoming_jc.html Just in case you're not all election'd out, and just in case the recent election in the U.S. gave you some hope that things can change through elections, here's an opportunity to affect the direction of Java ME. JCP Java... Community: Embedded Java robogeek 2008-11-11T13:29:44-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/11/sun_shows_signs.html The Sun Shows Signs of Life "After two-plus years of..generally eerie calm..sun is finally showing signs of life.."I think..minimum is behind us," says sun..statement is prompted by an October flurry.."This represents a real increase in .. activity."..Hathaway tamps down the... Business robogeek 2008-11-09T07:56:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/10/is_there_a_stan.html I've been thinking about this a bit recently and a comment on the javaposse google group tipped me into blogging mode. While discussing the recent shipping of JDK 6u10 Reinier Zwitserloot said On windows, and on linux, there is no... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-10-24T08:50:31-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/10/6u10_is_out.html We finally know the value for N in the equation 6uN .. N = 10. A set of slides have been posted discussing what's new. This release started out as Consumer JRE and became more, and more, and more, etc..... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-10-21T09:38:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/08/browser_makers.html Why JavaFX should be inlineable with HTML raises an interesting question in my mind. He's making a number of suggestions about JavaFX and many boil down to the power of "View Source" and perhaps JavaFX script code should be directly... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-08-27T12:07:14-08:00