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Java7 Hotspot Loop Bug Details
Last week, Oracle released Java7 to great acclaim. However, an issue identified by the Apache Lucene project pointed to a specific hotspot optimisation bug which kicks in when a loop is executed more than 10,000 times. How serious is this issue, and does it warrant the kind of negative press that has been played out over the last few days?
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Adam Messinger Talks to InfoQ About Java 7 and 8
Following on from last week's release of Java 7, InfoQ spoke to Adam Messinger, Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle, to get more information about the release and Oracle's plan for Java 8.
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Gorilla Logic Release FlexMonkey 5, Open Source Testing Tool for Adobe Flex and AIR
Gorilla Logic have today announced the availability of FlexMonkey 5, their open source automated testing tool for Adobe Flex and AIR.
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Debugging Mobile Web Apps: Weinre and JSConsole Now, Remote WebKit Eventually
Debuggers in mobile web browsers are anemic at best. InfoQ takes a look at existing workarounds and tools like Weinre and JSConsole, as well as the upcoming changes in mobile browsers that will bring full debugging support. Also: the two mobile browsers that already live in the future and ship remote debugging support.
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Java SE 7 Released: First Major Update Since December 2006
Java 7 is generally available from today, the first release of the Java platform since Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The release includes a number of small but welcome changes to the language, incorporates a new file API and the Fork/Join Framework, and improves dynamic language support on the JVM.
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QConSF November: Speakers, Sessions Update, Attendance up 100%
Our 5th QCon San Francisco takes place on Nov 14-18, 2011. Last year QConSF sold out early, and this year we are already 100% above last year’s registrations at this time! Registration is open and all 16 track themes have been announced. Most of the conference sessions are still in development and have not been posted online yet. Save $550 by registering before July 29th.
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Adrian Cole Announces JClouds 1.0 Release
The goal of the new JClouds 1.0 release is to provide a common interface for managing compute nodes and storage nodes across many vendors, providers, frameworks and APIs from IaaS to PaaS, says JClouds founder Adrian Cole.
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ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript
Rich Hickey has announced ClojureScript, a version of Clojure that is compiled to Javascript code, which will bring the Clojure language to the browser and to the mobile space. InfoQ takes a look at the rationale for and implementation of ClojureScript.
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A New Enterprise Platform for Flex/Java EE Applications
Granite Data Services released last week its Enterprise Platform for building Flex/Java EE Applications. Granite DS is an open source framework. InfoQ spoke with Frank Wolff, CEO and Co-Founder of Granite DS, about his perspectives on Rich Internet Applications.
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ZeroTurnaround and Genuitec Announce JRebel for MyEclipse
ZeroTurnaround and Genuitec have announced the availability of JRebel for MyEclipse. JRebel is a popular JVM plugin which permits code modifications without the need for a full redeployment, and MyEclipse is a fully-featured IDE for Java and Enterprise Java development.
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JetBrains introduces the new JVM language Kotlin
So far, Kotlin has been primarily known as a Russian island thirty kilometers west of Saint Petersburg. More recently, the Czech company JetBrains introduced a programming language named Kotlin running on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It is the intent of the Kotlin language developers to get rid of some challenges in the Java language.
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Cross-Compiling Scala for .NET
Scala, a popular language for the Java platform, is making inroads to .NET thanks to a project run by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and funded by Microsoft. The project heavily relies on Jeroen Frijters’ IKVM, which is a Java Virtual Machine that runs on the CLR (.NET and Mono).
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Selenium 2 (a.k.a Selenium WebDriver) Is Released
The Selenium team has recently released Selenium 2 (a.k.a. Selenium WebDriver), a major update to the poplar test framework for web applications.
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CassandraSF2011: Progress and Futures
Johnathan Ellis keynoted at Cassandra SF 2011. Ellis reviewed accomplishments including better support for multi-data center deployments, optimized read performance, included integrated caching and improved client APIs including a SQL-like language CQL. Looking forward, Ellis emphasized polish - efficient database repair, storage compression, optimized performance and an expanded CQL language.
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Cassandra Indexing Guidelines from CassandraSF2011
Ed Anuff reviewed Cassandra's built-in secondary indexes, noting that they don't work well for high cardinality values, require at least one equality comparison and return unsorted results. Anuff presented patterns for alternative indexing including wide rows and tables that use Cassandra 0.8.1's new composite comparator operators to overcome these limitations.