Stephen Colebourne has a thoughtful post about one of the biggest possible changes in the Java landscape. Java SE will not be a open standard any more?. This seems completely in contrast to the spirit that is seen in efforts like Project Coin. [Continue]
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Project Coin For Small Improvements To Java
Project Coin is an effort to draw contributions from the community for small improvements to the Java language for JDK7. A new JSR will be drafted to include a subset of proposals. I personally feel that all kinds of efforts should be taken to make changes to the Java API to help reduce the verbosity of the code. [Continue]
Why Is Affordable Java Hosting Not As Common
A friend, who was recently exposed to Web development, was wondering why Java hosting was not as popular as it was for other Web technologies. It was a lot easier to find hosting, right from cheap shared space to dedicated machines, for other languages like PHP and Python. Why not for Java? [Continue]
Free Java Now Available
The hype around open sourcing of Java has mostly died down after the announcement. Not many have followed it up. Red Hat had started the IcedTea project to remove the last obstacle in freeing Java. [Continue]
How Interface Has Helped Me
Reg Braithwaite wants to read three blog posts, including one about how learning a programming language helped you program better in another programming language. I like learning new programming languages. One, because I like that, and two because it makes me a better programmer. [Continue]
Will Erlang Replace Java?
There were various reactions to Sun’s announcement of moving from SUNW to JAVA. Frankly, I never thought there will be any from the technical world. But there are interesting ones, reflecting more on future of Java. [Continue]
SUNW To JAVA
Normally a company’s programming and stock market worlds are not directly related, at times even worlds apart. But Sun Microsystems is about to change that. The stock market ID SUNW, which means Standford University Network Workstation, will be changed to JAVA. [Continue]
Why Java Is A Different Beast
Michael Coté explains why Java is a different beast. It is the culture that makes the developers focus more on Java than on the purpose and delivery mechanism of the application. I believe even .NET applications are in the same boat. [Continue]
My Favorite Open Source Tools
Andrew Wulf has listed his favorite open source tools and frameworks. I am going to pay heed to his call and list my favorite open source tools and frameworks for programming here. However, mine are more heterogeneous in terms of the programming language and includes both desktop and web programming. [Continue]
JDocs - Java API Documentation
Dion Almaer noted that JDocs is now AJAX powered. JDocs is a place where you can search for Java API documentation for various libraries. There are others out there like gotAPI and Javaref, however JDocs lets you contribute to the documentation through annotations. [Continue]
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