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JavaFX 2 Beta: Time to Reevaluate JavaFX?

JavaFX 2 beta was released earlier this week. The main JavaFX download page states the following regarding this release:
JavaFX 2.0 Beta is the latest major update release for JavaFX. Many of the new features introduced in JavaFX 2.0 Beta are incompati… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: General Observations and Overall Impressions

JavaOne 2010 is over. Some questions have been answered, many in the way that I hoped they would be. Overall, it was a great conference. Here are some of my thoughts regarding JavaOne 2010.JavaOne’s Relationship to Oracle OpenWorldAlthough I don’t know… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: Concurrency Grab Bag

The final session that I attended at JavaOne 2010 was the presentation “Concurrency Grab Bag: : More Gotchas, Tips, and Patterns for Practical Concurrency” by Sangjin Lee and Debashis Saha (not here today) of eBay. Despite what my schedule stated … Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: A Brief Introduction to Scala

Steven Reynolds (a “software developer and manager” who works at INT) presented “A Brief Introduction to Scala” at JavaOne 2010. [As a side note, JavaFX Script is a casualty announced at JavaOne 2010, but JavaFX’s use of SceneGraph seems stronger … Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: Performance Tuning from the Pros

John Duimovich (“special guest”) presented Trent Gray-Donald’s  (IBM Java) “Performance Tuning from the Pros” presentation to a well-beyond-standing-room-only audience at JavaOne 2010. According to Duimovic, Trent keeps tweaking this presentation … Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: The Garbage Collection Mythbusters

As members of the Garbage Collector Group of the HotSpot Virtual Machine Development Team, John Coomes and Tony Printezis have the credentials for presenting “The Garbage Collection Mythbusters” at JavaOne 2010. The speakers took turns talking and they… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: JavaFX Graphics

In late July, I publicly wondered how much time I should spend on JavaFX at JavaOne 2010. JavaFX was the big announcement at 2007 JavaOne and dominated 2008 JavaOne and had numerous sessions in 2009 JavaOne, but it wasn’t clear to me that JavaFX’s… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: Polygot Programming in the JVM

I was impressed with how Andres Almiray’s performed as a substitute speaker for Hamlet D’Arcy’s JavaOne 2010 presentation “Code Generation on the JVM” and looked forward to his presentation of his own talk: “Polygot Programming in the JVM: Or… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: JUnit Kung Fu: Getting More Out of Your Unit Tests

My Wednesday at JavaOne 2010 began with John Ferguson Smart’s standing-room-only presentation “JUnit Kung Fu: Getting More Out of Your Unit Tests.” Most of the overcapacity audience responded in the affirmative when Smart asked who uses JUnit. While th… Continue reading

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JavaOne 2010: Visualizing the Java Concurrent API

One of my goals at JavaOne 2010 was to attend some sessions on Java concurrency. I had not been aware of the Java Concurrent Animated project until reading the abstract for this presentation:This presentation will consists of a series of animations tha… Continue reading

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