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Posted by Frank Sommers, December 14, 2009,
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During its close to one-and-a-half decade of existence, Sun's JDK has built up many internal dependencies. As a result, many core Java APIs depend on a large number of other JDK APIs. A key goal of JDK 7 is to minimize such dependencies, resulting in a more modular JDK. That goal, however, is not easy to reach, writes Sun's Alan Bateman.
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Posted by Frank Sommers, December 9, 2009,
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The latest release of Google's open-source Web development framework includes the new Speed Tracer performance analyzer, declarative UI definitions, improved layout capabilities, code splitting, compiler optimizations, and numerous enhancements to the Eclipse plug-in.
by Kevin Wright, from A Taste of Scala, December 7, 2009,
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A not-so-serious overview of the events in software development that led to the creation of Scala.
by Kevin Wright, from A Taste of Scala, December 2, 2009,
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Using Scala to make your code lovely.
Posted by Frank Sommers, December 2, 2009,
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The JCP's Executive Committee for Java SE/EE voted yesterday to approve the final umbrella specification for JSR 316, Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6. Several component JSRs were also approved, such as Servlet 3.0, JPA 2.0, and EJB 3.1.
by Jeremy Meyer, from Musings on Language and Design, November 30, 2009,
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Jeremy Meyer takes a happy little voyage of discovery down the Groovy road.
by Kevin Wright, from A Taste of Scala, November 26, 2009,
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Reducing accidental complexity in Scala
by Michele Simionato, from The Explorer, November 24, 2009,
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A short note about making sure that different caches are cleared consistently, written for people wondering about real-life use cases of metaprogramming techniques.
by Bruce Eckel, from Computing Thoughts, November 23, 2009,
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I finally bought a Dyson vacuum cleaner yesterday. It completely changes my cleaning experience. Design that asks and answers the right questions can completely change other experiences, too.
Posted in Java Community News for Bill Venners, November 19, 2009,
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At the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium, Sun's Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to Java in JDK 7. In this interview, Stephen Colebourne, coauthor of the FCM closures proposal, gives his perspective on this surprise announcement.
by Michele Simionato, from The Explorer, November 18, 2009,
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Some musings about my personal history with inheritance and interfaces, solicited by the release of the Go language this week.
by Frank Sommers, November 10, 2009,
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Flex 4 introduces a new API to define effects for rich-client applications. This article provides an overview of new features in Flex 4's effects and animation-related APIs.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 6, 2009,
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Google released today a series of open-source libraries that make it easier to work with highly optimized JavaScript. Closure Tools includes a JavaScript compiler, a set of utility libraries, and a client-side JavaScript template engine.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 4, 2009,
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At its X Innovate 2009 Developer Conference, PayPal announced today a new platform and APIs that allow developers to integrate a variety of payment types into applications. In an interview with Artima, Damon Hougland, senior director of the PayPal Platform, talks about integrating payments into end-user applications.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 2, 2009,
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Traffic Server is an open-source HTTP proxy that has been in production at Yahoo and other large Web sites for several years, and is capable of handling over 35,000 requests per second.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 30, 2009,
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YouTrack is a new bug and issue tracker that provides a simple, keyboard focused UI, with an intelligent, context-sensitive search box, to speed up locating and modifying issue and bug status.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 27, 2009,
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Amazon released today a relational database service as part of Amazon Web Services. The service provides a cloud-based equivalent of a MySQL 5.1 database engine, and is priced based on usage.
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