Terrence Barr initiates a three-part series, in which he tries to distinguish some important trees within the Oracle Sun acquisition news forest, with Oracle+Sun: Java News Round-Up, Part 1:
Last week saw a flurry of news, announcements, webcasts, and information around the Oracle-Sun acquisition. In fact, there was so much detail it is easy to miss some of it … so I thought I’d summ
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Now that the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems is complete, java.net is seeking new growth for our community: bloggers and article authors, along with people who want to participate in our java.net communities and projects...
Peligri has created a very nice consolidated "Summary of Post-Oracle Links and Changes":
This running entry collects key announcements related to
Oracle's Acquisition of Sun;
some from the
Jan 27th event,
some from
companion webcasts,
and some later announcements. The main theme of the acquisition is
"We're Changing the Way you Buy, Run and Manage Business Systems"...
Joe Darcy talks about one of my favorite annoyances in Purging LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
Java developers are familiar with dynamic linking. Class files are a kind of intermediate format with symbolic references. At runtime, a class loader will
load, link, and initialize new types as needed. Typically the full classpath a class loader uses for searching will have several logically distinct sub compone
 Apples new so-called "game changer" doesn't support Flash, it seems. What future for the likes of JavaFX if manufacturers can control what software platforms are allowed on their devices?  Using Custom JAAS Login Modules instead of Realms for Authentication in GlassFish (JSR-196 Login Bridge Profile) 
Quickies
Jfokus team: fantastic people! Mattias, Helena and all the conference team, thank you!
Jfokus conference: excellent!
Graph DB is buzz word, Emil Eifrem an unique character.
Ed Burns, Toni Epple and Laforge, we missed you guys.
Scrum loosing value due to...
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