J2SE 5.0 available.
Although there have been fairly stable beta versions available for
months, it's nice to have the final version of the Java Tiger release
downloaded and installed. If you are just getting acquainted with
Tiger, take a look at our excerpt from the book "Java 1.5 Tiger: A
Developer's Notebook". Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan have
written an "...
Tiger is coming to a desktop near you.
Developers have seen lists of changes to the language for the Tiger
release for months. Generics, varargs, static imports, enums, ... lots
of new toys for us to play with. In today's Weblogs, Chet Haase
writes about the features that the end users will notice in
Tiger on the Desktop. It is one impressive list - don't miss the
item that shows you how...
java.net moves to Movable Type
John Reynold's leads off today's Weblogs with a post
about the open letter from Sun regarding Java persistence. In
Someone's listening, he links to Sun's letter supporting the
creation of a "common persistence API underlying JDO and EJB."
Meanwhile, Joshua Marinacci continues his exploration of the
concept of mini-apps with his...
Join the chat tomorrow with java.net on Java Live
The city is working on the water main for our street. We have a
small red hose running water to our house from a 4 inch temporary pipe
that runs down the street for the length of the block. At the end of
the block it branches to a two inch pipe that crosses the street and
runs up the other side of the street. You can see a red hose branch of...
Is Computer Science fading to Computer Fashion
The debate returns on whether or not Java is cool or not. In
today's Weblogs,
Brett McLaughlin complains that "there's just something sort of
boring about the Java space right now. Don't get me wrong--it's
still my language of choice. It's still what I go for when I need
something done, and I still have something like 3 or 4...
What word did you mean to use?
Remember when spell checkers first started appearing in consumer
applications. We all had a lot of fun with the wacky suggestions that
we would get. You would leave out the space in "a business" and the
suggestion would come up "Did you mean 'abysmal'."
How would you implement a spell checker? How would you create
lists of words that the author may have meant...
Refactoring can take you where you need to go.
You are coding along and notice that you have a fairly lengthy
case statement that you have used more than once. It
occurs to you that the State pattern might be a better approach and
so you start to refactor your code. In today's Weblogs, Vincent Brabant
praises Joshua Kerievski's book Refactoring to Patterns
as "The best book I readed...
A cool jar-file hack
In today's Weblogs, Laird Nelson
offers up a Cheap
Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class. The
hack is very cool - I love these kind of blog entries. He "put
together a class that itself is installed as the Main-Class in a
jar file, but which consults a file (also in the jar) to let it
know what class to actually use as the...
Our java.net poll asks the continent on which you code
We run a new poll each
Friday. The latest asks On
which continent do you mainly write code. Even a simple question
like that is difficult to phrase correctly. We wanted to know a bit
about where coders are. But we couldn't ask where are you from as
people are often not coding in the country that they consider to be
their nationality. Then...
What's your Meyers-Briggs classification
In today's
Weblogs,
Craig Castelaz reports that "nearly every conversation I've
ever had about extreme programming eventually works its way to
pair programming, which pretty much kills the dialog part of the
conversation." I think he's dead right about this. I've always
argued that pair programming is orthogonal to...
