Sometimes there's just too much interesting news for me to be able to select just one story to write about. Too many items seem worthy of at least some attention, worthy of pointing out, before they slip away beneath the next day's headlines. Monday was that kind of day. In addition to the stories we're featuring in Tuesday's Java Today, there was a lot of other stuff that attracted my attention as the day flew past.
For example, mid-afternoon my time (Eastern U.S.), the announcement that the JavaOne Call for Papers deadline has been extended arrived in my inbox, with a request that I help spread the word. The suggested message:
Folks,
Just in case daylight savings time got the best of you this weekend, we have extended the JavaOne Call for Papers by 48 hours. If you have not yet submitted a topic or have additional ideas, you have until 11:59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 16th to get your abstracts in. Keep the submissions coming—this is looking to be the best JavaOne ever!
OK, well... I don't know if any countries other than the United States switched to Daylight Savings Time over this weekend -- but I guess that's as good a reason as any to give for extending the CfP deadline by two days!
Enjoyed REST & JAX-RS 1.0? You'll love JAX-RS 1.1 & Jersey (Paul Sandoz in new GlassFish Podcast episode) http://bit.ly/a2SOSp
which brought me to a "blog" I didn't know about before now: The GlassFish Podcast, which features "Interviews, Presentations, and news for and from the GlassFish community." The entry Alexis points to is Episode 48. So, there's a lot there for me to catch up on!
When I fired up Blogbridge, my preferred feed reader, I saw a bunch of interesting new stuff. There was:
Joe Darcy's Beware of Covariant Overriding in Interface Hierarchies: "One of the changes to the Java programming language made back in JDK 5 was the introduction of
covariant returns, that is, the ability in a subtype to override a method in a supertype and return a more specific type. For example..."
Dustin Marx's Dealing with NetBeans New Source Template Annoyance: "Yesterday I ran across one of those blog posts that made me realize that I am not the only one with a particular pet peeve. In this case, Emilian Bold addressed my pet peeve about developers leaving the NetBeans-generated template instruction comments in the code..."
I actually could continue that list. But, I think you get the point. It was that kind of day. I'm hoping to be able to give some of these items a closer look in the coming days...
In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter wrote about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases were a bad approach to language design. This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language...
The Continuous Blog announced the release of Hudson 1.350, followed by rush delivery Hudson 1.351:
Finishing off the second week in March, the Hudson team rolled Hudson 1.350 off the assembly line last Friday, bringing a slew of fixes. Of particular interest to users of Hudson's various native packages for Red Hat, openSuSE, Ubuntu/Debian and Solaris, was a change that suppress the "self-upgrade" functionality in the "Manage Hudson" page. On the enhancements side of the fence...
It's my great pleasure today to announce the availability of release candidates of the following projects: * Substance look-and-feel version 6.0 (code named Sonoma); * Trident animation library version 1.2 (code named Cookie Jar)...
Modularity is the essential design and implementation consideration which every software architects and designers should have in mind to get an easy to develop, maintain and extend software. GlassFish is an application server which highly benefits from a modularity system to provide different level of functionalities for different deployment and case studies. GlassFish fully supports Java EE profiles, so it provides a lot of features which suits different case studies and different type of use cases. Every deployment and case study requires a subset of functionalities to be provided...
Sometimes, you may need to move or copy Hudson build jobs from one Hudson instance to another, without copying the entire Hudson configuration. For example, you might be migrating your build jobs to a Hudson instance on a brand new box, with system configuration details that vary from the original machine. Hudson stores all of the data it needs for a project in a sub-directory of the 'jobs' directory in $HUDSON_HOME. This sub-directory is easy to identify - it has the same name as your project. Incidently, this is one reason why your project names really shouldn't contain spaces...
Last week Atlassian released their new JIRA Studio, which is a hosted software development suite that supports every role of a high-performing development team throughevery stage of your development process.. One of the new feature is called the Activity Bar and it is powered by Atmosphere! ...
In the Forums, agentjava has a Java3D question, How to change color of shape: Hi, I know this particular question has been posed many times over the years, but after following all the solutions from previous threads, I'm still stumped. Here's my scenario. I'm trying to render a Box to an offscreen canvas. I...
In the LWUIT forum, raki_j2me is confronting a TextArea Issue - Showing two scrollbars when there is more text appended: Hi Guys, This is a very basic issue with TextArea. I want to just display more text (i.e more than 10 or 20 lines). I have done that using this code :- Dimension d = new Dimension(getWidth() - 5,getHeight() - 15); ...
In the Metro and JAXB forum, davidwarren has a problem with Requests missing SAML assertions allowed when policy requires STS assertion: This is similar to a question I recently posted that was fixed in the 12 March 2010 nightly build. In that issue, a web service configured using the "SAML Authentication over SSL" security mechanism in NetBeans was allowing requests without SAML...
We have just released version 1.1.5.1 of Jersey, the open source, production quality, reference implementation of JAX-RS. The JAX-RS 1.1 specification is available at the JCP web site and also available in non-normative HTML here...
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