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Java 6 for Mac OS X Back on the Radar
Date: 12/19/2007
Nearly two months on from the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and the resulting uproar from Java developers over Apple’s silent removal of preview builds of Java 6 for Mac, Apple has just as quietly released Java SE 6 Developer Preview 8, the first developer preview of Java 6 that runs on Leopard.
Many [...]
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Missing in Action: Java 6 for Mac
Date: 11/08/2007
Java developers are up in arms over the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, and the sudden silence from Apple regarding the future of Java 6 on the Mac. Not only did Leopard not ship with Java 6, but Apple has quietly taken down the developer preview of Java 6, and is reportedly deleting [...]
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First Look: Google Web Toolkit
Date: 05/24/2006
Portions of this entry were first published in the SitePoint Tech Times #139.
Have you written your own AJAX framework yet? It seems all the big boys are doing it. Microsoft is bringing us Atlas for ASP.NET, Yahoo!’s User Interface Library is open source, server agnostic and beautifully documented and Adobe is working on Spry, which [...]
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Write Java Web Apps in Visual Basic (or JavaScript!)
Date: 05/19/2006
More from the JavaOne 2006 keynotes…
One of the new key features in Java 6 (Mustang), available now in beta and weekly snapshots and slated for release in October, is support for alternative languages running on the JVM. In particular, Java 6 will ship with support for running JavaScript code as a first-class citizen, with complete [...]
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Sun: Open source Java not whether but how
Date: 05/18/2006
Sun has conceded: Java will be open sourced.
During his opening keynote at JavaOne 2006, newly annointed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz welcomed to the stage Rich Green, Executive VP of Software, with the hard question: “Are you going to open source Java?”
After a little mock evasiveness, Green explained Sun’s latest thinking on the matter, ending with [...]
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Follow JavaOne 2006 online
Date: 05/18/2006
If you enjoy working in Java like I do, there are probably few places you would rather be right now than at JavaOne 2006. Particularly hot web development topics at JavaOne this year include the newly-released JavaEE 5 platform for building enterprise Java applications more easily, and the associated updates coming in NetBeans 5.5.
But whether [...]
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JRun 5 hits beta
Date: 05/01/2006
Adobe (formerly Macromedia) JRun 4 was released in 2002. Since then, Java web development has moved on somewhat. JRun 4 supports Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2, while most servers are now on Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. At four years since the last release, many developers assumed development of the server had ceased.
But now it [...]
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Tomcat sucks? Is Apache flawed?
Date: 04/21/2006
High on my list of Java blogs is Hani Suleiman’s The BileBlog, in which he gives unapologetically abrasive reviews of popular Java projects and the people behind them. In the past, he has had been less than complimentary of the Apache Project’s various open source (”opensores”) Java offerings like Maven and Struts. Today, he took [...]
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Sun Developer Days 2006: Day Two
Date: 04/09/2006
The second day of Sun’s Developer Days 2006 conference in Melbourne last week was a similar mixed bag to the first. Be sure to read my coverage of day one if you missed it.
Before the day’s sessions began in earnest, Sun organiser David Coldrick got up to plug two useful resources for Java developers to [...]
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Sun Developer Days 2006: Day One
Date: 04/05/2006
Sun Microsystems is winding up a tour of Australia and New Zealand with the final stop of its Sun Developer Days 2006 conference today and tomorrow in Melbourne. Fellow SitePointer Lachlan Donald and I were there today to take in the Java vibes, and as with most free conferences there was a great deal of [...]
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