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Michael Nascimento Santos

Michael Nascimento Santos is a seasoned developer with more than 8
years of experience with the Java platform, from J2ME to J2EE, and
over 14 years of pratical programming experience. He co-leads JSR-310 (Date & Time API), is
a Java Champion, an expert at 5 JSRs - JSR-207 (PD4J), JSR-250 (Common
Annotations) and JSR-270 (Mustang/Java 6), JSR-296 (Swing Application
Framework) and JSR-303 (Bean Validation) -, the java.net Community
Manager for the JSR Community and a java.net blogger. He also helps to
run SouJava, one of the largest JUGs in the world and collaborates
with many open-source projects, such as Thinlet, AspectWerkz and genesis. He has spoken at many
Java-related events, such as JavaOne 2003/2007, JustJava
2003/2004/2005/2006, Abaporu 2003, FISL 2004, COMDEX Brasil 2004,
BrasilOne 2004 and Conexao Java 2005/2006.

 

Articles

Creating and Managing an Open Source Project, Part 1
Do you want to kick off your own open source project? The tools can be provided by java.net, and it helps if you know how to best use them. In this first part of a series of article on open source project management, Michael Nascimento Santos helps you consider whether you need to create a new...
Reflection on Tiger
The introduction of enums, generics, and metadata are changes to the Java language that require modifications to existing APIs, such as Reflection. This article examines the modifications to the Reflection API that are now available to the public as part of JDK 1.5 beta 1 and shows how you can...

Weblogs

Special limited offer: extra seats for Date & Time session repeat

Those of you following my work are probably aware we'll be presenting a...

Making your components work nicer inside Matisse

A co-worker had been developing some nice-looking custom components for a customer project. It was tightly integrated with the backend logic, though, so he tried to use it with Matisse, there were...

Desktop development made easier with genesis

It's been quite a while since the last time I mentioned genesis here. One of the reasons is I've been working on it a lot and there isn't much time left...

Final JavaOne report

Ok, so after a long trip home, I finally managed to write the final installment about JavaOne.

Tuesday BOFs

So, let's proceed with my JavaOne report. I've attended the Meet the Swing, AWT and i18n Teams BOF, mainly because Sun's representative in our JSR would be there. We - Stephen was with me - met...

Tuesday afternoon

So, after hearing from Danny Coward that our JSR is being considered for inclusion in Java SE 7, I came across Neal Gafter:

Everyone is a Brazilian

During keynote this morning, John Gage has said his classic opening sentence again: this week, everyone is a Brazilian. Hey, I am one, so if you come across me during the event, I can probably...

Monday afternoon at JavaOne

After being disappointed at the Matisse session, I decided to go seeing what folks were doing at Redmonk....

A public pledge to NetBeans

I could not be more disappointed after attending the

NetBeans Day morning

So today is the CommunityOne event, an event where several communities get together in order to exchange ideas, watch sessions and, well, go to some parties. Right now, I am attending the NetBeans...

JavaOne 2007 is about to start

JavaOne is about to start and I've already met some old friends again...

'nough said :-). I've...

Displaying messages in the system tray

Many folks are aware that Java SE 6 comes with the new SystemTray and...

Measuring the size of your objects reloaded

The requirements for defining an agent using the java.lang.instrument package have changed since I've done my...

First Java SE 6 bug!
As genesis 3.0 is approaching Release Candidate, I decided to test it using the newly released Java SE 6.
Swing made easy with genesis

Swing was always known as a powerful, highly configurable UI toolkit. However, not much longer after it was born, it was also regarded as a slow, hard to learn, confusing, hard to program toolkit...

Bitten by the class literal change in Tiger

If you are a returning reader, you're probably aware of the enum implementation I wrote for Java 1.4...

The language barrier

Have you imagined how hard it would be to learn and to program in Java if all language keywords, all docs, all things related to Java were written in Klingon? Well, for those who cannot read in...

Tiger and dates don't get along

Since Java WebStart 1.4 does not work on Linux kernel 2.6, there are many new features in a certain operating system...

2006 JavaOne Conference Call for Papers is Open

Just received an email from Sun:

Writing applications that can be embedded in IDEs

Well, every time I think I'll be able to blog more often, something happens. So, I will try not to apologize about it and get straight to the point. :-)

JavaBlogs.com.br is back

JavaBlogs.com.br - or Jablo, as some people call it - is a valuable resource to Java developers that can read Portuguese. Although their names are similar...

Thinlet plugins for NetBeans

Module development for NetBeans is something I've always been interested in, but never had the time to do. This time, however, I was able to; the ThinNB...

Supporting script languages in your application

It's been over a month since we added generic script support to genesis, but it was such an interesting experience I've actually considered writing this...

A tricky issue with java.awt.Font

If your code or code you use relies on loading fonts by name, you may face severe limitations when trying to use your application in a different environment than the one you performed your tests....

More about Practical AOP and Transparent Remoting

I am glad my original post about Practical AOP and Transparent Remoting has received polite and smart...

Practical AOP (Part 1): Transparent remoting with AOP and EJBs

There are basically four views about AOP nowadays (ok, it's more or less the same for any technology): those who think it's the golden hammer and everything is a nail, those who think it has some...

Announcing genesis

A few weeks ago, we've silently released the first public beta version of genesis. But what is genesis about?

Bizarre behaviour in PropertyDescriptor
I've just found out the most bizarre bug I've ever come accross in my 5 years of experience with the Java platform.
AspectWerkz 1.0 RC 1 is out

I should say I am somewhat "attached" to the innovative open source projects I use in my job. Besides Thinlet, a very lightweight and intuitive XUL framework...

My talk at FISL and a new blog in Portuguese

FISL is the most important event about free software in Brazil. People from different countries come to attend sessions about free software...