http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/ O'Reilly ONJava Blog en Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 10:16:08 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sitting in the FindBugs session, it's pretty interesting. The last time I interacted with static analysis it was a product from Parasoft (?) and it wasn't that compelling. FindBugs looks interesting, simple, and is integrated with Hudson. Everyone seems to... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/findbugs_session_notes.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/findbugs_session_notes.html News 2008-05-08T10:16:08-08:00 Tim O'Brien Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday's keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O'Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/neil_young_at_javaone.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/neil_young_at_javaone.html News 2008-05-07T22:52:34-08:00 Tim O'Brien My entries are a day behind. I'm not a reporter, I'm a blogger, and I think it is more important to spend time talking to people than it is to work to some deadline in the press room. There's a... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_impressions_from_tuesd.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_impressions_from_tuesd.html News 2008-05-07T13:34:57-08:00 Tim O'Brien So, the big kickoff for JavaOne. I guess there was news. Solaris on EC2, which is fine. More JavaFX demos. Expected that. Other than that, what? So one thing that really struck me: Project Hydrazine. Can someone tell me what... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/java_one_day_0.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/java_one_day_0.html News 2008-05-07T11:26:42-08:00 Robert Cooper Last year JavaOne got the UN guy and was trying to eradicate poverty; this year they got Neil Young and were showing off the cool stuff. CNET blogger Dan Farber has a good write-up and the video that tells you... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/neil_young_the_cool_stuff.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/neil_young_the_cool_stuff.html News 2008-05-07T11:05:19-08:00 Shashank Tiwari JavaFX.com is up and running! The problem is that it doesn't work well on most browsers. The small fonts are unreadable when viewed in FireFox or Safari. The site takes a long time to load up. The only thing notable... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javafx_showcase_should_you_car.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javafx_showcase_should_you_car.html News 2008-05-07T07:55:49-08:00 Shashank Tiwari CommunityOne was huge. Having been to various what-use-to-be NetBeans Day at what-used-to-be the Argent, seeing the Moscone filled with people for C1 was actually quite strange. In real terms, the experience didn't seem that different, however. CommunityOne works the big... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_day_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_day_1.html News 2008-05-06T11:56:24-08:00 Robert Cooper Although JavaOne 2008 officially starts tomorrow, it commenced today with CommunityOne. Carrying on the trend that started a couple of years back JavaOne is continuing to emerge as an event for things more than just Java. For statistics sake at... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_more_than_java_more_th.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_more_than_java_more_th.html News 2008-05-05T16:04:36-08:00 Shashank Tiwari So I am going to break rules here, I am pretty sure, six ways from Sun-day (haHA!). I am pretty sure I have never commented on this before, because, I agree with the 16,000 of you who will tell me... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_day_2.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/javaone_day_2.html Opinion 2008-05-05T00:24:33-08:00 Robert Cooper If you are following JavaOne on Twitter, you should "track javaone". If you haven't already signed up, you should read Bob Lee's Going to JavaOne? Sign up for Twitter blog entry from two days ago. People were using Twitter last... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/new_name_javaone_-_j1_nutter_on_call_path_everybody_twitter.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/new_name_javaone_-_j1_nutter_on_call_path_everybody_twitter.html News 2008-05-04T07:57:55-08:00 Tim O'Brien Assaf Arkin (of Buildr) writes a very long, very informative piece about Git in Git Forking for Fun and Profit. Apache built a great infrastructure around SVN, lots of sweat and tears went into making it happen, and at first... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/git_with_gitsvn_livespreemptiv.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/git_with_gitsvn_livespreemptiv.html News 2008-05-01T08:24:45-08:00 Tim O'Brien As Flash's strength is in UI development and Java's strength is in services, security and distribution, lots of Java developers are adopting the Flash as their UI choice. When it comes Java ME development, its an application sitting on... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/flash_lite_in_java_me.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/flash_lite_in_java_me.html Technical 2008-04-30T20:26:24-08:00 Hari K. Gottipati In Choosing an OSS License and the Ext-JS saga, Graeme Rocher (of Groovy on Grails fame) reacts to the recent ExtJS switch from LGPL to GPL. Here's a quote: What they have effectively done is built up a community, taking... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/license_fakeout_hits_extjs_and.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/license_fakeout_hits_extjs_and.html Opinion 2008-04-28T15:08:32-08:00 Tim O'Brien By way of Geertjan's Blog, apparently Netbeans supports Wicket development. Also, from Geertjan is an interview with Jonathon Locke, Eelco Hillenius, and Igor Vaynberg. Read this if you are interested in learning about how Wicket does Ajax. In other news,... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/quick_wicket_pointers_netbeans.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/quick_wicket_pointers_netbeans.html News 2008-04-28T11:46:31-08:00 Tim O'Brien Harnessing Hibernate is finally available for purchase, and should provide newcomers many useful ways to quickly come up to speed with Hibernate, and have a longer shelf life than my earlier efforts. http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/harnessing_hibernate_in_sto.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/harnessing_hibernate_in_sto.html News 2008-04-27T12:53:47-08:00 James Elliott