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David Herron

David Herron is a writer and green technology advocate living in Silicon Valley. He had worked for 10+ years in the Java SE Quality Engineering team. Work there included open source community engagement, mentoring team members, running contests, developing test suites and GUI test automation tools. He was a co-author of the original java.awt.Robot class. His prior experience is in development roles, in cross-platform GUI toolkits, and electronic mail systems. David graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1988. David's other blog sites include David Herron .com, Seven General Ruminations (covering sustainability, alternate energy, etc), VisForVoltage (an electric vehicle discussion forum) and writing for examiner.com as the Green Transportation Examiner.
 

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j1-2k7-mtW09: OpenJDK Quality Team Introduction and Discussion
It takes a village to grow an open source project. Any open source project lives from a wide range of contributions, not just bug fixes, new features, and other changes to the software, but evangelism, user groups, artwork, and more. The OpenJDK Quality Team is being formed by Sun's Java SE quality...

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The DLJ project is dead - long live the OpenJDK

There appears to be over-reacting and fearism concerning a recent decision to cancel the DLJ project, and subsequently Ubuntu's plan to remove DLJ-based Java packages from their repository....

Node.js, the exciting web development platform, from a Java programmer point of view

Hey, it's been awhile since I last posted on this blog, largely because I didn't have much to say about Java for awhile, and partly because I've been working with Node.js over the last year....

The iPad, the Flash kerfluffle, Applets and JavaFX

 Last week Apple released their latest product destined to change the world (the iPad).  At least that's what they want us to believe.  Perhaps the biggest controversy over the...

Is the JCP fundamentally the wrong model (now) for Java?

I'm drawing on several threads of thinking in several presentations and conversations this week at JavaOne, and am thinking the Java Community Process (JCP) no longer serves the needs of the Java...

JavaOne 2009 opening Keynote

The JavaOne opening keynote is still a fancy rock & roll show with fancy stage and the like. It's always exciting to see what they have to say, and they do a good job of spinning a story that...

OpenJDK Porter Group BOF
Just a reminder to those of you a) attending JavaOne, b) interested in porting OpenJDK to other platforms, we have a BOF on thursday night. Please attend. The agenda is to simply bring the right...
Rich User Interfaces for Java ME, Project Capuchin (Sony/Erricsson), JavaFX

This session is conducted by a pair from SonyEricsson, and they're discussing Java based rich user interfaces for "mobile" devices. As always the word "mobile" is overly constrained to mean "cell...

Blogging from JavaOne
I am attending JavaOne and will be posting a series of blog's about each session I attend.
Oracle+Sun effects on Java...?

So, hmm, Oracle+Sun. Interesting twist from the IBM+Sun matchup earlier. There has been numerous rumors over the years about SUN+xyzzy mergers such as Fujitsu, IBM, SGI, Apple, etc. And it's...

Sun+IBM ==> What does it mean for Java?

I've been gone from Sun for a little while now but of course I'm still interested in Java, and thankfully still have access to this...

It will be (Open)JDK7 where OpenJDK==JDK

I'm listening to the 'holidays 2008ish' episode of Javaposse and in reviewing their last years predictions they have enough fumbling...

Using an external library w/ JavaFX app

I've been toying with doing a blog or podcast aggregator with JavaFX. I have a feeling that the strengths of JavaFX, animation, graphics, media, etc, could be put to good use in such an app....

JavaFX 1.0 is launched

You can view the updated site, launch videos, sample apps, and more, at javafx.com .. well .. when the server comes back up, it's having a little bit of trouble at...

The upcoming JCP Java ME Executive Committee Election

Just in case you're not all election'd out, and just in case the recent election in the U.S. gave you some hope that things can change through elections, here's an opportunity to affect the...

Sun Shows Signs of Life

The Sun Shows Signs of Life "After two-plus years of..generally eerie calm..sun is finally showing signs of life.."I...

Is there a standard way to deploy a Java application?

I've been thinking about this a bit recently and a comment on the javaposse google group tipped me into blogging mode. While...

6u10 is out!

We finally know the value for N in the equation 6uN .. N = 10.

Browser makers walled javascript garden

Why JavaFX should be inlineable with HTML raises an interesting question in my mind. He's...

OpenJDK in 10 yrs?

Frans Thamura asks an interesting question... What do you think of OpenJDK 10 years from Now? .. gosh. Okay, we first...

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 ?? Huh?

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 ?? Surely you jest, surely this is one of those "the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated"...

Getting closer...

We've been working legal ropes for awhile to get this result: Sun Approved: Merge from BSD Java to...

Thoughts on Rich Internet Applications

The latest javaposse episode had an interesting go around what is a 'rich internet application'. BTW, guys, I'm really bummed you're...

Free Java is nothing to yawn about

Neil McAllister asks Java is free at last.

On the evolution of the Java plugin

Ted Neward on the demise of Java applets is an...

Great milestone reached by OpenJDK on Fedora

Java is finally Free and Open .. hey, The Fedora/IcedTea team have reached a great milestone. Their build of the OpenJDK has passed the (...

OpenJDK Regression Test Harness, also known as jtreg, now available as open source

Go to openjdk.java.net and scroll your eyes down to the Tools section of the navigation bar. You will see a link that's been there a long time,...

Open media and open screens

On an earlier blog posting a commenter asked: "I would like to know how to use the VLC media...

Java 6 for OS X

It's been how long? Thank you Apple for getting this out! Anyway, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1: This Java for Mac...

On hacking the OpenJDK

I'm giving a session at JavaOne this year titled "Hacking the OpenJDK...

Interplanetary migrations

I've been subscribed to Planet Classpath and Planet JDK for a couple years. This blog has been aggregated into...