Why Java needs Oracle
Chris Wong's Developme   Christopher Wong   •  15 days ago  •   rank: 1.2
By filing a patent lawsuit against Google over its Java-like implementation, Oracle probably made itself the world's least liked software company. After all, Java itself is an open standard, open...
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James Gosling: Quite the firestorm
Planet JDK   James Gosling   •  25 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
The last couple of days have been quite an entertaining firestorm of press and blog-o-sphere commentary. Lots of questions were brought up that give me a bottomless supply of blog topics. I hope I...
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Mark Wielaard: Oracle tries to destroy free java – now what?
Planet JDK   Mark Wielaard   •  27 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Seems Oracle bought Sun to become a java patent troll. Trying to destroy the alternative free java implementation that is part of android. Sun used to be agnostic towards Free Software in the past,...
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Oracle vs Google: in search of a silver lining on Android
Chris Wong's Developme   Christopher Wong   •  25 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
There is little to cheer about when the stewards of two of the most important application platforms in the industry, Oracle of Java and Google of Android, decide to fight it out in the courts....
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More Hudson Adoption - CloudBees Provides HAAS
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  14 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
The adoption of Hudson continues in many (or should I say all?) fronts.  At some point it seemed to be mostly just Sun, but now it is Oracle and a whole cast of other companies and groups. Today's...
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Staying the Course - GlassFish v2.1.1 p7 now, GlassFish 3.1 M4 soon
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  11 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
August is normally a slow month in (most of) the northern hemisphere, but this year it is proving to be anything but that for the GlassFish team.  Some events were atypical but planned for (JavaOne...
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Google and Oracle
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  27 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
(This entry was authored on Aug 28th but has been backdated to Aug 13th. It refers to stories between the two dates) Oracle said late Thursday that it had filed a patent and copyright infringement...
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Check these Hudson Trends from Indeed.Com!
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  14 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Shortly after I posted about Hudson Adoption and CloudBees this morning, Kohsuke used Indeed to compare job trends for several CI tools. Specifically he compared "X Engineer Jobs" for Hudson, Cruise...
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GlassFish RESTful administration progress in 3.1
The Aquarium   alexismp   •  16 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Complete administration, from web console to rich command line (asadmin) has always been a strong set of features in GlassFish and often a key differentiator versus other application servers. Jason...
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New GlassFish 3.1 Screencast: Application-scoped resources
The Aquarium   alexismp   •  10 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
This short screencast demonstrates the new application-scoped resources feature available starting with Milestone 4 of GlassFish 3.1 (the demo used promoted build #17). Such resources are bound to a...
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MissingLight 2.0 for BlackBerry
Chris Wong's Developme   Christopher Wong   •  16 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
I released version 2.0 of my MissingLight BlackBerry app a few weeks ago. This blog entry provides the background for this release. MissingLight was my first app, written to scratch a particular itch. ...
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GlassFish CafePress Store - Purveyors to the Community Since 2007
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  22 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
The GlassFish Giftshop has been around since 2007; it currently includes several t-shirts, mugs, stickers and Sigg Water Bottles.  JavaOne (our "best"-selling season?) is around the corner, so we...
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Jeroen Frijters: @ikvm.lang.Internal Revisited
Planet JDK      •  23 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
A couple of days ago, Dawid Weiss filed a bug related to @ikvm.lang.Internal and while fixing the bug I realized that the feature has significantly evolved since its introduction, but that was never...
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John Rose: advice from a master teacher
Planet JDK   jrose   •  24 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Tonight my father and I were talking about education, with the end of the summer and fall classes coming on. He is glad to be retired, but he is still a teacher at heart. I asked him, “What is your...
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Stephen Colebourne: Java generics migration compatibility
Planet JDK   Stephen Colebourne   •  24 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
A quick call for help on generics....
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Spending quality time with the Java EE 6 Tutorial(s)
The Aquarium   alexismp   •  25 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
If you're finding summer to be a good time to learn something new, you could look at the Java EE 6 tutorial. This book makes for a complete and detailed reference for anyone wanting to learn and use...
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Jeroen Frijters: Reverse Engineering the MS10-060 .NET Security Patch
Planet JDK      •  27 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
On Patch Tuesday, one of the patches Microsoft released was MS10-060. It addresses a Silverlight memory corruption and a CLR delegate issue. I was curious about the CLR delegate issue and decided to...
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Stephen Colebourne: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Planet JDK   Stephen Colebourne   •  27 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Today, Oracle proved the old phrase to be true - "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." They also reminded us why we hate Friday the Thirteenth....
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James Gosling: The shit finally hits the fan....
Planet JDK   James Gosling   •  28 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and...
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NetBeans 6.10 with GlassFish 3.1 and more
The Aquarium   pelegri   •  28 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Tentative plans for NetBeans 6.10 are now available in its NetBeans Wiki page.  The feature set includes improvements in the support for • Java EE 6, full spec and Web Profile (details) •...
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