Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is a CEO once more!  He's started a new company called Informed Biometry.  No one knows what they do yet, but it's great news for Schwartz.  Now I want to know when he's going to write that 'tell all' biography.  Or at least comment on the Oracle v. Google fiasco.1.5GHz Snapdragon Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2011

The Free Software Foundation has been relatively quiet about Oracle's lawsuit against Google, which was announced nearly a month ago.  This week, the organization's compliance engineer Brett Smith asserted the FSF's position on the lawsuit.  Unsurprisingly, they've voiced their support for Google and have asked them to take a "principled stand against all software patents" by fighting...

After their long 3-year legal battle around the open source Zettabyte File System (ZFS), Oracle and NetApp announced their mutual dismissal of patent litigation against one another.  The case, which involved patent claims on both sides, was left over from the Sun Microsystems era.  The agreement should benefit a number of vendors who use ZFS in their software.  

In a statement that took everyone by surprise today, Apple has decided to roll back the rules they implemented in April which were most likely a response to Adobe's CS5 Flash-to-iPhone compiler.  If you watched Apple's recent iOS 4.1/iPod/Apple TV presentation, did you ever ask yourself, 'how did they implement the Unreal game engine in their demo of the "Epic CItadel" game?'  The...

In this application performance testing tutorial, find tips, how-tos and screencasts on best practices from testers and experts in the software testing industry.



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In my previous post I discussed the case for Properties and the basics of how they work. In this post I will dive into the specific workings of Properties in Sgine and how to use the various features it provides. This post is all about Properties in Sgine for use primarily with Scala but the concepts and ideas are applicable to Java as well. Properties provide the future of object architecture and beans should have been deprecated long ago.



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In his latest blog entry , Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group, explains how the current schedule for JDK7 is unrealistic. Following the Oracle acquisition, there were some delays in integration that slowed things down. Mark explains that there are two plans at the moment:     Plan A:      JDK 7 (as currently defined)    ...

Software Engineering is often regarded as an oxymoron by those of us with any experience in this industry. Craft? Sure. But Engineering? Not!References Reference:  Software Engineering: An Oxymoron? Mitchell Pronsc...

Mark Reinhold principal engineer at Sun/Oracle, breathes some common sense into the JDK 7 release schedule with a suggestion of a 2011 release, but with a catch.

Welcome to the first in a series of interviews dedicated to learning more about JetBrains Development Academy Experts.  In this interview we have a conversation with Academy Board Member Michael Hütter Article Type:  Opinion/Editorial Article Resources:  MH.jpg ...

I followed the steps mentioned below in order to enable lazy loading of child nodes in TreeTable in Wicket. I did not find a component in Wicket to do this directly. (I may be wrong, as I am new to Wicket) It seems javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel and javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode are generally used for creating the TreeTable.

One of the big focuses of Maven 3 is to provide a more reliable, more stable and better performing build tool. And one big area of improvement is Performance.

This is a brief tutorial that takes a quick look at some of the very basics of JSF, how we define pages and hook them up to server side objects. Rather than cover the fundamentals of starting a new JSF application, I’m going to start from one of the Knappsack archetypes which can provide you with a JEE 6 application ready to roll. In this case, we are going to start with a servlet based...

We've all known for some time that the JDK 7 development schedule was a bit too ambitious given the sudden addition of closures and the re-structuring after the Oracle acquisition.  Having been written 'pre-acquisition', the initial JDK 7 roadmap looked unrealistic even in late 2009.  So what does this mean?  More delays?  Not necessarily, says Mark Rienhold.  

The fourth milestone of Gemini Web (formerly Spring Dynamic Modules) was released today with various test and build improvements.  The project has also brought upgrades to Tomcat 6.0.29 that close security holes.  The changes also make embedded Tomcat work well inside an OSGi container. That upgrade has been present in the Tomcat 7 line for a long time, but it wasn't approved by the Apache...

If you are developing applications for a specific mobile platform, you will eventually feel the need to debug on an actual device. Windows Phone 7Currently, only a limited number of developers have the actual Windows Phone 7 device, therefore it is hard to say how the debugging experience is on the actual hardware.

How often have you lived this scenario? Customers and managers beg, scream, and demand more features tomorrow. No matter what you tell them you can get done, they ask for more. So you work very hard... you do Whatever It Takes. You consume vast amounts of Red Bull, Mountain Dew, and other caffeine rich beverages. You eat cold pizza and food from a vending machine. You work late into the...

Selenium is an open source, robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications. In this post we will look at some code samples and how to create test plan with selenium.



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This the second delivery in a series of articles targeted at showing developers how db4o (an open source database that leverages today's object-oriented languages, systems, and mindset) is being used in several Android projects to avoid all the pitfalls and hassles of object-relational mapping while benefiting from an concise and straight forward way to evolve a domain model which, in the end,...

With PostgreSQL 9.0 approaching its final release, work on the next incremental version has already begun.  Today, PostgreSQL project developers released the first alpha of version 9.1.  This future release will add several major new features including compact representations of numeric types, and new XML-related functions.