Scott Delap (of ClientJava.com fame) just sent me a gem of an article: a Washington Post blogger complaining about how hard it is to update Java. I have blogged previously about deployment issues, and it remains my single biggest complaint about the Java platform. So here it is from another perspective, a highly detailed and thoroughly sordid look at Java on the client side. The results aren't...
(If you have no idea what JAXX is, take a look at Introducing JAXX)
I'm usually pretty good about hitting deadlines, but this one was really close. My JavaOne session (TS-4265 User Interfaces in XML: The JAXX Framework) is on Thursday, and I had planned since the very beginning to have JAXX 1.0 out by then, preferably a few weeks prior. Since it is now the day before my presentation and I am...
If you're not familiar with JAXX, it is an open-source XML language for creating Swing GUIs that I'm working on. For a more detailed introduction, Introducing JAXX: A New Way to Swing and Style Swing components using CSS are good places to start.
Today's news is the release of JAXX 0.96, and in particular the fix to circular dependency compilation. Previous versions of JAXX couldn't deal with...
Some time ago I was interviewing candidates for a Senior Java Engineer position. Among the many questions I asked was "What can you tell me about weak references?" I wasn't expecting a detailed technical treatise on the subject. I would probably have been satisfied with "Umm... don't they have something to do with garbage collection?" I was instead surprised to find that out of twenty-odd...
