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As InfoQ's Dionysios G. Synodinos reports, "The public draft of the Java EE 6 Platform specification has been published and will remain open for ...
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by gautam on July 30, 2008
Speech Mashups, the latest research project from AT&T looks pretty interesting. The good thing about this project is that your phone will be able to recognize voice commands without the requiremen...
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by gautam on May 16, 2008
Gone are the days when developers used to be sidelined as competition used to be minuscule and generally a single company ruled the roost but all this has totally changed in the current scenario. Thi...
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by gautam on October 25, 2007
Have you tried Java 2D API? It is used for drawing 2D graphics in Java along with extension of Sun AWT capabilities and as a result existing programs can surely work. It offers an ideal platform for...
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by gautam on October 10, 2007
Sriram Natarajan, engineer of Sun and Marina Sun have come up with an article on SDN, Running PHP With Quercus in Sun Java System Web Server which tells us how we can configure Quercus which is an o...
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by gautam on September 30, 2007
Sun is making smart moves to spread Java world over and especially developing countries where it knows it can create an impact since most of these countries have emerged as an outsourcing hub. If we g...
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by gautam on August 29, 2007
Some may feel that NASA World Wind is a clone of Google Earth but this is certainly not the case. Let's check out some of the differences between the software:
World Wind from NASA is open source...
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by gautam on August 28, 2007
How about traveling to the blissful Himalayas or Eiffel Tower without moving an inch from your chair? To me it sounds to be a fantastic idea and all this has been made possible by NASA which has devel...
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by gautam on August 21, 2007
I remember the era when Java licensees had to literally slog to access Java compatibility tests and Sun which was known to be quite fastidious about its Java compatibility tests seems to have moved ah...
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by gautam on August 15, 2007
Sun's multithreading support will be extended for protection of applications and data from entering each others domain and in the process preventing corruption of memory or data but this is not so...
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by gautam on August 9, 2007
An important component of the Java Platform is the Java Virtual Machine or JVM and since it is available for a number of hardware and software platforms, Java can act as both middleware and platform i...
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by gautam on June 22, 2007
How about a smaller JRE so that it could be bundled with your Java application? If you thought that this not possible then you need to read this. Here comes the first Java SE implementation dubbed as ...
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by gautam on June 22, 2007
An update for the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 has been released. The features added under Update 1 are:
• Performance and stability improvements
• Out-of-box Java support for Servlets 2.5, JSP 2...
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by jason on December 5, 2006
One tool that I use every single day as a web developer is Firebug. Joe Hewitt is my hero for having put together this incredibly useful piece of software.
Anyway, Firebug has been around for a whil...
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by gautam on November 30, 2006
Are you debugging a Java program and finding the job quite tiring? If yes then you need the Java Platform Debugger Architecture or JPDA technology from Sun which helps you in debugging a running Java ...
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by gautam on October 13, 2006
Every operating system should be equipped with Java and a number of websites utilize JavaScript in their websites but it has been found out that most of the Linux distributions do not work with Java b...
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by gautam on September 22, 2006
Canoo Engineering has released the ULC XML which enables you to design the GUIs for Java apps by writing XML. It is made available as open source. This product is a bit different as it does not ignore...
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by jason on June 25, 2006
The JavaBlackBelt, certification community site, is trying to put together a Ruby programming language basics test. They are accepting questions that could become part of the test right now. It looks ...
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by gautam on June 14, 2006
As per a benchmark test results published at http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/jAppSer ver2004.html, a popular application server benchmark which features a complete open source stack with My...
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by jason on June 10, 2006
I listened to a recent Java Posse podcast yesterday and heard about the most interesting project. It is funny sometimes that I think I have a good handle on what is going on in the Java world and some...
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by jason on May 27, 2006
Google has released what they call a Web Toolkit. Of course it is label "Beta," but what isn't when Google first releases something to the general public. Gmail is still in beta, which I...
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by jason on April 28, 2006
I saw this posting on JavaLobby titled: AOP: Is anyone using it? Below is my response.
On one of my most recent projects a team member and I decided to use the SpringFramework. So I went out and boug...
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by jason on April 19, 2006
Over a IndicThreads.com they have a good interview with Guillaume Laforge who is a Project Manager for Groovy. I've never used Groovy before so an introduction like that provided in the interview...
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by jason on April 13, 2006
Java World has a good example of how to put together an interesting Mashup involving Google Maps. I find it interesting because google maps does not have the ability to lookup positioning coordinates ...
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by jason on April 3, 2006
TheServerSide.com has covered the release of GRails 0.1. GRails is suppose to be "the java community's answer to Ruby on Rails" but I'm not so sure.
I've tried GRails and had a...
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by jason on March 29, 2006
When I went to JavaOne 2005 in SF one of the sessions I attended was the Java Puzzlers presentation. Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter did a really good presentation. I also recently finished the best Java...
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by jason on March 25, 2006
I need to get up to speed on a project where I'll be using Python as the programming langauge. Normally I would spend the time to read a book about Python and then start programming with it. Howev...
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by jason on March 19, 2006
For anyone that has been reading my blog it must be obvious that I like the Netbeans IDE. I'm not religious about it, like some people can get about these things, but if I'm starting work on a...
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by jason on February 24, 2006
Kristian Dupont Knudsen has a nice article on his site. Instead of telling all of us what we should do as programmers he takes the opposite approach. I find this refreshing for some reason.
A few o...
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by jason on February 22, 2006
When I first heard of the term POJO I had no idea what it could mean. After I asked someone what it meant I felt a little stupid for asking. We tend to over complicate even acronyms but we needed to ...
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