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Mobile, JavaFX Emphasized at JavaOne Keynote. JavaFX Script is Dropped
At Monday's JavaOne keynote in San Francisco, Oracle EVP Thomas Kurian highlighted Oracle's plans for the Java platform with a three-year roadmap and demos of JavaFX and other technologies. Elsewhere it announced plans for JavaFX 2.0 and the decision to drop JavaFX Script.
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Java's Baby Steps on Microsoft Azure Cloud
This month Microsoft architect David Chou will be speaking at JavaOne about his experience getting Java applications to run on the Microsoft Azure cloud offering. While the technology is still early days, Mr. Chou promises brighter days ahead.
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InfoQ Cloud Computing Survey – Participate and Get a Copy of the Results
InfoQ Cloud Computing Survey – Participate and Get a Copy of the Results
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Adobe Launches Preview of 64-bit Flash Player with Hardware Accelerated Graphics in IE9
Adobe has made available a preview of Adobe Flash player code-named “Square” that includes native 64-bit support for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It also includes enhanced support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Beta.
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Google Relaunches Instantiations Tools
Having acquired Instantations Java tooling arm last month, Google has now released their tools for free via the Google WebToolkit project. This includes the high-quality WindowBuilder Pro, which can create GUIs in SWT, Swing and GWT, as well as GWT Designer for rapid GWT development, CodePro AnalytiX for automated software quality, and WindowTester Pro for automated UI testing.
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Terracotta's BigMemory Aiming to Eliminate Garbage Collection for Java Caches
Terracotta's BigMemory for Enterprise Ehcache product aims to by-pass Garbage Collection for objects held in the cache. InfoQ spoke to Amit Pandey, Chief Executive Officer at Terracotta, to find out more about the product.
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JavaOne Preview: Java Functional Programming in an Interview with GridGain CEO Nikita Ivanov
This month GridGain CEO Nikita Ivanov will be speaking about functional programming at JavaOne in San Francisco. With its 3.0 release, GridGain added a more functional feel to its product by reworking the APIs. InfoQ contacted Mr. Ivanov to get the deeper story about his company's experiences with functional programming.
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Free Software Foundation Offers Grudging Support to Google in Patent Case
Brett Smith, the Free Software Foundation's compliance engineer, has asserted his organization's opposition to Oracle's lawsuit, but their support for Google is somewhat muted.
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JDK7 Feature Slip
In a post entitled Re-thinking JDK7, Mark Reinhold put forward a suggestion that certain previously planned elements of JDK7 be suspended until JDK8 in order to get the release out of the door sooner rather than later. What does the community think of this suggestion? Read on to find out.
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Cloudant releases Java based view server for CouchDB
Cloudant the company behind CouchDB just released Java View Server for CouchDB. That means that not only Erlang and interpreted languages like Javascript or Python can be used to write Map-Reduce jobs but also JVM based languages.
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CloudBees introduces Hudson-as-a-Service
CloudBees introduces it's fist PaaS offering, Haas (Husdon-as-a-Service), that liberates the continuous building and testing of projects into the cloud where the IT-free setup, configuration, and elastic resource allocations can be taken advantage by anyone.
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Roundup of String to Java Object Conversion Libraries
Stephen Colebourne, of Joda Time fame, ignited a small debate when he released Joda Convert: a Java library to convert basic Objects to and from Strings using annotations. InfoQ surveys the options when transforming from one format to another.
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JBoss Benchmark Claims HornetQ is the Performance Leader of Enterprise Messaging Systems
JBoss has published the results of messaging throughput benchmarks against the leading enterprise messaging servers on the market that implement the Java Message Service (JMS) API. In these results HornetQ demonstrates superior performance compared to the other products.
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jclouds Beta 7 Coming: Interview With Adrian Cole
The open source, Java-based cloud computing and storage adaptor, jclouds, releases a new beta the end of this month. InfoQ interviewed Adrian Cole, the project lead, for his take on marrying Java to the cloud.
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Nuxeo Introduces fise Semantic Engine
Nuxeo introduces fise - an open source RESTful semantic engine to which NUXEO has made contributions. The goal of the fise is to "help bring new and trendy semantic features to CMS by giving developers a stack of reusable HTTP semantic services to build upon." fise is part of a larger effort, IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack) as a means of enhancing CMS offerings with Semantic Web capabilities.