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Extending Concurrency

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Feb 02 01:51:49 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Fri Feb 02 01:51:49 EST 2007
In his blog. Peter Veentjer describes some of the work that he is doing to extend the new concurrency library. The blog expands on his implementation of a thread synchronization class he calls WaitPoint.

Pragmatic Design Principles

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Feb 02 01:22:26 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Fri Feb 02 01:22:26 EST 2007
The design/coding concept "Don’t Repeat Yourself" (DRY) has gained pretty wide acceptance. The originator of that slogan, Dave Thomas otherwise known as the pragmatic programmer, has a number of other principles also. On his website he has a page that lists them with a one line summary for each.

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More Comment on Java 7 Properties

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Jan 31 02:11:37 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Wed Jan 31 02:11:37 EST 2007
In his blog Alex Miller adds more commentary on the growing debate on the new proposed Properties syntax for Java 7. Alex used Stuart Halloway's notion of hygienic syntax to help him sort out his position in the great language debate.

Java as a Second Class Citizen

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Tue Jan 30 00:20:38 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Tue Jan 30 00:20:38 EST 2007
In his blog John O’Conner is asking Apple to give him a reason to continue using Mac OS X as his primary Java development platform. The reason he asks is that although you can download Java 6.0 build #x for Windows, Solaris, and Linux from Sun, Apple is still stuck at build 88.

Why isn't JavaSpaces More Popular

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Mon Jan 29 09:13:40 EST 2007    1 comment    last post: Tue Jan 30 15:28:00 EST 2007
In his blog Lorenzo Puccetti asks the question, why isn’t JavaSpaces as successful as it should be? To answer this question he turns to his readership to ask them that use it a few questions.

Yet Another Generic Puzzler

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Fri Jan 26 06:34:31 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Fri Jan 26 06:34:31 EST 2007
Eric Burke has recently encountered a tricky Generics puzzle. In his blog he has published a simp-flied version of the puzzler. Even more interesting than the puzzle are some of the responses that point to Erasure and the fact that you can’t type token for Generic types as a source of the problem.

XML or Annotation?

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Thu Jan 25 06:50:20 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Thu Jan 25 06:50:20 EST 2007
Annotations are one of the big new features in Java. Annotations are intended to reduce the amount of XML we might otherwise use. In his blog Rob Breidecker writes about when he would choose to use an annotation and when XML may still be the best choice.

Are your Porlets to Specification?

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Wed Jan 24 09:28:51 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Wed Jan 24 09:28:51 EST 2007
Drew Varner has published guidelines for writing a JSR-168 Porlet in the Dev2Dev blogs at BEA. Drew starts the piece by noting that following the specification is not just about portability, it is also about ease of federation.

Afraid of Changing Java?

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Tue Jan 23 07:34:08 EST 2007    3 comments    last post: Tue Jan 30 16:29:19 EST 2007
Stephen Colebourne asks a simple question, "are you scared of Java language change?" In his blog he works to debunk arguments used by many to justify their positions against making more changes to the language.

Rod Johnson on the new Spring IDE

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Mon Jan 22 10:47:22 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Mon Jan 22 10:47:22 EST 2007
From the Interface 21 team blog we have an update from Rod Johnson about what has been happening with the Spring 2.0 IDE. In the entry Rod gives credit a number of people who driven the quick progress.

Five Interviewing Tips from idcmp

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Mon Jan 15 09:35:22 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Mon Jan 15 09:35:22 EST 2007
The company that idcmp works for is hiring and idcmp is interviewing. In his blog he comments on the lack of strong candidates in the market. He also expresses his dismay in how candidates conduct themselves during the interviewing process.

New Java keywords for bean support

Posted by: Kirk Pepperdine on Mon Jan 15 09:31:17 EST 2007    0 comments    last post: Mon Jan 15 09:31:17 EST 2007
In his blog Stephen Colebourne notes that no one has mentioned using a keyword for Java Bean support. He goes on to propose a new keywords, 'bean' and 'property'. He then uses a few examples to demonstrate just how this new keyword could be used.



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