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August 08, 2013 -
Just a really quick post about the availability of Scenic View 8.0.0 developer preview 4. This release is simply to get Scenic View working with the latest release developer preview builds of JavaFX 8.0. For those unfamiliar with Scenic View, here’s a short blurb: Scenic View is a JavaFX application designed to make it simple to understand the current state of your application scenegraph, and to also easily manipulate properties of the scenegraph without having to keep editing your code...
August 08, 2013 -
This week brought new Early Access builds of the JDK and related projects. On the JDK 7 side, the JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access Releases have been updated to 7u40 Build b36. A list of changes in this build since b35 is available here. In addition, there is an updated page listing the 7u40 Early Access Features and Changes in a concise form, with links to further documentation...
August 08, 2013 -
I've always known that if you press Ctrl-R on a Java variable in the NetBeans Java editor, all other instances of the variable are highlighted, and can be renamed at the same time... This is called "Instant Rename". However, today I discovered (simply because I was reusing my Java editor knowledge automatically in the HTML editor) that the same feature exists in the HTML editor: ...
August 07, 2013 -
Last year (2012) was about innovation and execution... we highlighted ISVs, the people who work for ISVs, and all the cool things ISVs are doing. This year we will... look at the role of Java beyond the ISV, while continuing to pay homage to its diversity. It’s about how your work in the Java ecosystem is leading to amazing applications and end user benefits. There’s still some opportunities to include content — if you have amazing end uses of Java technology, please drop me a line ASAP!
August 07, 2013 -
The question of the day comes from the development team working on CAVER, which is a tool for the analysis and visualization of tunnels and channels in protein structures: I would like to keep the tabs and get rid of the "Scroll Documents Left", "Scroll Documents Right" and the "Show Opened Documents list" buttons. Is there a way to do that? ...as luck would have it, a year or two ago Toni Epple and Stan Aubrecht created and integrated into the NetBeans sources an alternative NetBeans Window System implementation based on the standard Java Swing tab classes. Their implementation allows for...
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Editor`s BlogLarry Fernandez is a Principle Software Developer at Amway Corp in Ada, Michigan. He has been in IT software development since 1981, and was named an IBM Champion in 2012 and 2013. Larry's team is currently working on its second major Java/J2EE application using WebSphere Application Server technology. In this fifth Java.net "Lightning Interview" we ask Larry to share some of the wealth his decades of experience in software engineering... SpotlightsWhat is the developer community like in China? I put this question to several members of the Java developer community while at JavaOne Shanghai. "Big!" "Passionate!" "They asked good technical questions." "Eager to learn." Find out what JUG leaders and Oracle had to say on this topic. You can view the entire JavaOne Shanghai playlist and lots of other videos on the Java YouTube channel... Learn about how to adapt and tune the G1 GC for evaluation, analysis and performance. The Garbage First Garbage Collector (G1 GC) is the low-pause, server-style generational garbage collector for Java HotSpot VM. The G1 GC uses concurrent and parallel phases to achieve its target pause time and to maintain good throughput. When G1 GC determines that a garbage collection is necessary, it... Heinz is a Java programmer living on the beaches of the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean. It is from there that he publishes his entertaining "Java Specialists' Newsletter", read by about 70000 Java experts in at least 130 countries (http://www.javaspecialists.eu/countries.html... There is an interesting discussion happening on the LinkedIn “Internet of Things” group right now, in response to the InfoWorld article a few days ago titled “Oracle hitches Java to ‘Internet of things’“. The discussion touches on some interesting details on why Java may or may not be a good choice for embedded. Besides the fact that Java is already proven to be one of the most widely deployed... |
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