Interview with John Weir, CTO of Operations Technology Group at Goldman Sachs on Goldman Sachs nomination for the JCP SE/EE Executive Committee.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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Show Notes

News

• Java EE 7 - what about caching?

Events

• May 10-11 JavaOne India,

• May 10-11 GeeCON, Krakow, Poland

• May 11th-14th LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany

• May 13-14 JustJava, Sao Paulo, Brasil

• May 14 IT Care, Curitiba, Brasil

• May 20 OTN Dev Days, Redwood Shores

• May 25 Oracle Java Developer Day, Brisbane, Australia

• May 27 Oracle Java Developer Day, Perth, Australia

• May 31 GlassFish Bootcamp Santa Clara, CA

Feature interview

John is the chief technology officer for Operations Technology. He oversees the design and development of application software for the Operations Division and sets technology strategy with respect to cost, controls, quality and commercial needs.

John joined Goldman Sachs in the London office in 1997 as a software engineer in Clearance and Settlements, focusing on scalability and stability. In 2000, he moved to the newly formed Credit Derivatives team to lead the design and development of the Odyssey Derivatives factory. John represented Goldman Sachs on the FpML Standards Committee for Credit Derivatives and was also on the FpML Architecture Committee. He assumed oversight of the global Fixed Income front office trading platform in 2005 and relocated to the New York office in 2006. John was named technology fellow in 2004 and managing director in 2008.

Prior to joining the firm, John was an independent software consultant working in the financial services sector. He contributed to application development in the areas of Foreign Exchange (FX) Trading, Equity Derivatives, and strategic middle offices for several global firms.

John earned a bachelor of information technology degree (Hons) from De Montford University, Leicester, England, in 1992.

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Under "Java SE 6 End of Life (EOL) Notice" it says that "Java SE 6 will no longer be publicly available after July 2012." This sounds like middle of next year we won't be able to download preexisting versions of Java SE 6. That can't be right?! Java SE 1.4 and 5.0 (long past their EOL dates) are still available for download. Craig Hollister

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Interview with Sharat Chander, JavaOne Program Committee Chair, on the JavaOne 2011 Call for Papers.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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News

• JCP Program Special Elections

• Oracle Magazine: “Billions Served”

• Android and iOS tracking user locations. Why care?

• Coherence 3.7 released, Coherence\*Web Support for GlassFish 3.1

• GlassFish 3.1.1

• EJB 3.2 and CDI 1.1 approved by JCP EC (Review Ballot)

• Java SE 6u25

Events

• April 28th GlassFish @ BruJUG, Brussels, Belgium

• May 2 OTN Dev Days - Korea

• May 2nd-6th JAX, Mainz, Germany

• May 10-11 JavaOne India

• May 10-11 GeeCON, Krakow, Poland

• May 11th-14th LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany

• May 13-14 JustJava, Sao Paulo, Brasil

• May 14 IT Care, Curitiba, Brasil

• May 20 OTN Dev Days, Redwood Shores

• May 25 Oracle Java Developer Day, Brisbane, Australia

• May 27 Oracle Java Developer Day, Perth, Australia

Feature interview

Sharat Chander is the 2011 JavaOne Conference Program Committee Chairperson, focusing on the content review, selection and scheduling process, similar to previous JavaOne conferences.  Sharat has worked with many in the community in planning past Java events and programs, and is passionate about and focused on supporting Oracle's developer efforts specific to community outreach.

Sharat and Roger discusss the JavaOne Call For Papers opened April 27 and will close on May 23. Decisions are expected to be made by the end of June. Listen to Sharat explain the selection process and how to submit a proposal the Program Committee will select. For more information on JavaOne see the following links:

• JavaOne Conference Blog
• JavaOne Conference Website
• Social Network connections

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What's cool

• blogs.sun.com => blogs.oracle.com

• Java Spotlight hits 100,000 downloads

Interview with John Jullian-Ceccorelli, Netbeans Development Manager on Netbeans 7.0 Release. See the NetBeans IDE 7.0 Oracle Press release for more details.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java free and open source software ambassador.

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News

• Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster (with Java)
• GlassFish.next = 3.2
• Nominations are open for elected seats in the 2011 Special JCP Executive Committee Elections
• More Performance World Records for Oracle Java
• Java Magazine

Events

• April 18-20 dnevi slovenske informatike, Portorož, Slovenia

• April 28 Java Klassentreffen, Vienna, Austria

• May 2 OTN Dev Days - Seoul Korea

• May 2nd-6th JAX, Mainz, Germany

• May 10-11 JavaOne India

• May 11th-14th LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany

• May 13-15 JustJava, Sao Paulo Brasil

• May 20 OTN Dev Days - Redwood Shores

Feature interview

John Jullion-Ceccarelli is the head of engineering for the NetBeans open source project and for the VisualVM Java profiler. John started with Sun Microsystems in 2001 as a technical writer and has since held a variety of positions including technical publications manager, engineering manager, and NetBeans IDE 6.9 Release Boss. He recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area after 13 years living in Prague, the Czech Republic.

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What's cool

• Language designer's notebook: Quantitative language design
• JSR 292 support in b136

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Live from JavaOne Russia. Interviews with DEMOGrounds staff at the Java booths at JavaOne Russia.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador.

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News

• JavaOne Russia
• Confess
• OTN Dev Days - Istanbul

Events

• April 12, 2011 @ 10:00am PST GlassFish 3.1 Developer Productivity Features

• April 12,13 JavaOne Russia, Moscow

• April 18-20 dnevi slovenske informatike, Portorož, Slovenia

• April 28 Java Klassentreffen, Vienna, Austria

• May 2 OTN Dev Days - Korea

• May 2nd-6th JAX, Mainz, Germany

• May 10-11 JavaOne India

• May 11th-14th LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany

• May 13-14 Just Java Sao Paulo Brasil

• May 20 OTN Dev Days - Redwood Shores

Feature interview

Short interviews with Java developers at the booths at the JavaOne Russia DEMOGrounds.

What's cool

• Smalltalk on the JVM
• JVM Authors on JSR 292

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Interview with Joe Darcy, Project Coin Lead, on the JDK 7 changes coming from Project Coin.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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News

• JavaEE 7 transparency: JSRs as open projects on java.net, JMS 2.0 - Time to get involved! 
• Oracle Senior VP Steve Harris on Oracle’s Vision of Java
• NetBeans: NetBeans 7.0 RC 1, 200th NetBeans Platform screenshot , see also DZone's Refcard for the NetBeans Platform
• UTI releases “Best Practice Guidelines for Developing Quality Mobile Applications”
• Maintenance Review of the Java Language Specification

Events

• April 6 Nova/DC Java Users Group

• April 6-8 33 degree, Krakow, Poland

• April 7 OTN Developer Day, Reston VA

• April 12, 2011 @ 10:00am PST GlassFish 3.1 Developer Productivity Features

• April 12,13 JavaOne Russia, Moscow

• April 12-14 CON-FESS, Vienna, Austria

• April 18-20 dnevi slovenske informatike, Portorož, Slovenia

Feature interview

Joe Darcy - Project Coin Lead

At Oracle Joe is currently the lead engineer of Project Coin, the effort to select and implement a set of small Java language changes for JDK 7. Until recently, Joe was also concurrently the release manager, lead engineer, and quality lead for OpenJDK 6, an open source implementation of the Java SE 6 platform. A longtime member of the JDK engineering group, Joe was previously specification lead for JSR 269, the Pluggable Annotation Processing API, which delivered a standardized annotation processing API and mirror-based language model into JDK 6 to supersede the earlier apt tool from JDK 5. Joe assisted in implementing the JDK 5 language changes with work spanning core reflection, javac hacking, and general library support.

Joe holds a master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley and a master's degree in applied math from Stanford University.

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Agnès Crepet I follow your podcast every week: CONGRATULATIONS!!!! they are nice and very interesting...

Could you speak about our event, Mix-IT in your next podcats...?

Mix-IT will occur on the 5th of April 2011 in Lyon at the Epitech Computer School. By mixing agile, test, java, craftsmanship and new trends (NoSQL, HTML5, etc.), you will have a full day conference to share and improve your knwoledge in these domains.

Customer What are the security fixes going into JDK 7

Nothing much except: TLS 1.2 and ECC

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#fa534339
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#f73

They also do strict class-file checking now too.

What's cool

• WebSockets in GlassFish
• Rafael Tores and Fred Louis
• Paul Hohensee added tracking of cumulative Java heap bytes allocated on a per-thread basis to HotSpot in JDK 7
• OpenJDK 6 for OS/2 and eCS - version 1.6.0 Build 22 RC
  
• initial check-in for Cocoa-based AWT and lightweight peers - macosx-port-dev thread, commit

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Interview with Vinicius Senger, Netbeans Dream Team member, on embedded development.

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Show Notes

News

• JSR 334 (Project Coin) is now in Public Review

• SigTest 2.2 Milestone Release

• Google Analytics ME

Events

• March 30 NJUG(Nashiville JUG), Roger Brinkley, Java 7 Language Features & Language Roadmap

• April 7 OTN Developer Day, Reston VA

• April 12, 2011 @ 10:00am PST GlassFish 3.1 Developer Productivity Features

• April 12,13 JavaOne Russia, Moscow

• April 12th-14th CON-FESS, Vienna, Austria

• April 18th-20th dnevi slovenske informatike, Portorož, Slovenia

Feature interview

Vinicius Senger, a Netbeans Dream Team member,got his start in the tech world at the age of eight toying around with Basic and Z80 computers. By 13, he was exploring software development and using tools such as Clipper and Dbase. After years of working professionally with C, C+, Perl, VB, VC+, he discovered Java nine years ago and today is a Java Enterprise Architect and develops web solutions. He is also the founder of Globalcode, the largest Java Training Company in Brazil. Over the last two years he has started working with embedded devices. His new company, Elétron Livre is a Globalcode's initiative towards electronics production, robotics, open-source and digital divide inclusion.

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What's cool

• DFJUG JEDI project have trained 28,945 students and now are training 7,888 people in numerous Telecentres in locations from the rain forest jungle to slums in the big cities. 49% of the poor students had increased their earnings after JEDI training. Congrats to the DFJUG.

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Interview with Steve Harris, Senior VP of Application Server Development at Oracle on the Java EE 7.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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Show Notes

News

• Grizzly 2.0 is here

• Oracle presence @ EclipseCon

• Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client Now Available

• Early Access: Java SE 6 Update 25 build 03 

• JSR 269 Maintenance Review 

• JDK 7 nearing the endgame

Events

• March 21-24, 2011 Eclipse Con

• March 22, 2011 OTN Developer Day, Bangalore

• March 23 OTN Developer Day, Pune

• March 24 OTN Developer Day, Chennai

• March 30 NJUG(Nashiville JUG), Roger Brinkley, Java 7 Language Features & Language Roadmap

• April 7 OTN Developer Day, Reston VA

• April 12,13 JavaOne Russia, Moscow

• April 12th-14th CON-FESS, Vienna, Austria

• April 18th-20th dnevi slovenske informatike, Portorož, Slovenia

Feature interview

Steve Harris is senior vice president of application server development at Oracle. He joined Oracle to manage development of the Java virtual machine for the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire Java Platform, Enterprise Edition technologies in the Oracle Application Server and WebLogic Server product lines, including EJBs, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and Web services support in both the application server and database. This interview focuses on Java EE 7 platform development

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What's cool

• Daniel Oliveria, DFJUG and Java Champion - I'm really proud to invite you all to the inauguration ceremony of the pre-JEDI courses that will start here in the surroundings of Brasilia, Monday March 28, in a favela (slum) called “Invasão da Estrutural” (Structural invasion)

• The End Of OpenJDK Binary Plugs

• Charles Oliver Nutter on OpenJDK

• Oracle Open Positions: Russian Federation Edition

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Interview with Stephen Chin, Java Champion, on Visage, the opened sourced Java FX Compiler for Java FX 2.0

Setting in this week for Terrence is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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Show Notes

News

• The Server Side Symposium coming out this week:
  • interesting keynotes (Steve Harris and Adam Messinger for the Oracle part)
  • Jerome, Adam Bien, websockets, ...
  • Jim Knutson, Java EE Architect, WebSphere, IBM, Presenting: Core Java Track Keynote: Enterprise Java Platforms for the Next Decade

• GlassFish 3.1:
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/clustering_in_glassfish_3_1 (Article)
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_embedded_server_a_blog (lots of RT's)

• We often mention GlassFish, JBoss, Oracle WebLogic, Geronimo, IBM WebSphere and sometimes Caucho Resin but JOnAS is also approaching Java EE 6 with a 5.2 M5 release.

Events

• March 17, 2011 10:00 AM GMT - WebLogic Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Webcast

• March 17, 2011 PCQuest - SparkIT 2010

• March 21-24, 2011 Eclipse Con

• March 22, 2011 OTN Developer Day, Bangalore

• March 23 OTN Developer Day, Pune

• March 24 OTN Developer Day, Chennai

• March 30 NJUG(Nashiville JUG), Roger Brinkley, Java 7 Language Features & Language Roadmap

• April 7 OTN Developer Day, Reston VA

• April 12,13 JavaOne Russia, Moscow

Feature interview

Java Champion Stephen Chin is Chief Agile Methodologist for GXS, a company that has for 20 years been in the supply chain and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) marketplace. In his spare time, he works on various JavaFX projects, such as JFXtras, a collection of utilities, add-ons, and samples for the JavaFX language, Piccolo2D, a Zooming User Interface (ZUI) library for Java., and Visage, a DSL for building UIs based on JavaFX Script. Chin, along with James Weaver, Weiqi Gao, and Dean Iverson, is the author of Pro JavaFX 2 Platform: A Definitive Guide to Script, Desktop, and Mobile RIA with Java Technology. This interview focuses on the Visage project, an open source implementation of the Java FX Compiler for Java FX 2.0

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Interview with Pete St Pierre, Member of Technical Staff working on the Sun SPOT program under Oracle Labs, on the new SunSPOT Rev 8 release that is now available at the Oracle Store.

Joining us this week is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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News

• Java EE 7 JSR filed (along with others)

Events

• March 9-11 QConn London - The Future of Java Track

• March 10, 2011 10:00 AM GMT -Web Apps with JAX-RS and JQuery Webcast

• March 10, 2011 Indonesi: Java Workshop

• March 12, 2011 The Server Side Java - Las Vegas - Adam and Steve doing Keynote, Jerome doing Session. Arun too.

• March 17, 2011 10:00 AM GMT - WebLogic Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Webcast

• March 17, 2011 PCQuest - SparkIT 2010 - Arun doing 5 Sessions listed on Calendar

• March 21-24, 2011 Eclipse Con - Danny was to sunmit an abstract for Steve/Adam for a joint presentation with IBM - Mark Reinhold and John D are doing ajoint session

• March 22, 2011 OTN Developer Day, Bangalore

• March 23 OTN Developer Day, Pune

• March 24 OTN Developer Day, Chennai

Feature Interview

Pete St Pierre is Member of Technical Staff working on the SunSPOT program under Oracle Labs. In this interview he tells us about the new SunSPOT Rev 8 hardware and software release that is now available at the Oracle Store. More information about SunSPOTS is available at Sun SPOT World.

What's cool

Gerbrand van Dieijen I have yet to listen to them, but maybe if I have some time left. Should find a way to broadcast audio while doing the dishes

GlassFish is hiring

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Interview with Patrick Curran, Chair of the Java Community Process (JCP) and director of the JCP's Program Management Office on all things related to the JCP.

Sitting in for Terrence this week is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

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News

• GlassFish 3.1 is here.

• Oracle Labs is pleased to announce that the re-branded, updated Revision 8 Sun SPOT Java Development Kit is now available on the Oracle Store. For additional information, you may also visit http://www.sunspotworld.com

• Java SE 7 Developer Preview Release is now available.

• Accelerate Your Development with Oracle WebLogic Suite. Weekly WebLogic Webcasts from 17th February to 17th March Past Oracle Weblogic webinars. Sign up for future webcasts here.

Events

• Tue-Thu Mar 2-3 embeddedworld 2011 , Nuremberg,Germany (EMEA) - Nuremberg,Germany

• Thu Mar 3 OTN Developer Day , Boston

• Thu Mar 3 Thailand: Java Workshop - Bangkok

• March 3, 2011 10:00 AM GMT - Web & JMS Services with Spring on WebLogic Webcast

• March 8, 2011 Philippines - Java Workshop

• March 9-11 QConn London - The Future of Java Track

• March 10, 2011 10:00 AM GMT -Web Apps with JAX-RS and JQuery Webcast

• March 10, 2011 Indonesi: Java Workshop

• March 12, 2011 The Server Side Java - Las Vegas

• March 17, 2011 10:00 AM GMT - WebLogic Troubleshooting & Performance Tuning Webcast

• March 17, 2011 PCQuest - SparkIT 2010

• March 21-24, 2011 Eclipse Con

• March 22, 2011 OTN Developer Day, Bangalore

• March 23 OTN Developer Day, Pune

• March 24 OTN Developer Day, Chennai

Feature interview

Interview with Patrick Curran, Chair of the Java Community Process (JCP) and director of the JCP's Program Management Office. Patrick goes into detail about the SouJava nomination; Java User Groups in the JCP; the JSR process and using that process to manage the JCP itself; Transparency in JSR development, and the issue of trust with the JCP.

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Gábor Gossmann
I think Java FX (in Hungary)don't have a good 250-350 page long free book in the markets. It's harder to begin Java FX or SE/EE for total beginners. Microsoft have(sic) for them own product and FREE!

From the NLJUG meeting:

Is there support for jmf media in JavaFX 2.0?

What is the difference between the AWT and JavaXF threads?

What happens if you have both Swing and JavaFX in an application. Do we have two threads working then?

What's cool

This week DFJUG is celebrating thirteen years of activities.

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Interview with Mattias Karlsson, Java Champion and Jfokus conference organizer. Mattias shares his experience in organizing an Java developer focused conference.

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News

• TechCast Live: "Java and Oracle, One Year Later"  with Ajay Patel. Replay Now Available

• Stephen Chen, OTN interview 

• Berkley DB Techcast 

• LWUIT tutorial 

• Java Space  on Parleys

Events

• Thu Feb 24 Oracle WebLogic Server and Java EE 6 - FREE OTN Virtual Developer Day. Register here.

• Wed Feb 23 OTN Developer Day Guanghzhou - Guangzhou, The Ritz-Carlton hotel

• Thu Feb 24 OTN Virtual Developer Day(PRC)-WLS Focussed

• Fri Feb 25 OTN Developer Day Taipei - Grand Formosa Regent Taipei

• Fri Feb 25 OTN Developer Day Shanghai  - Shanghai Jincang Mandarin Hotel

• Mon Feb 28 Malaysia: OTN Java workshop

• Tue Mar 1 Singapore: OTN Java Workshop - Singapore

• Tue-Thu Mar 2-3 embeddedworld 2011 , Nuremberg,Germany (EMEA) - Nuremberg,Germany

• Thu Mar 3 OTN Developer Day , Boston

• Thu Mar 3 Thailand: Java Workshop - Bangkok

Feature interview

Mattias Karlsson is a Java Champion and the Jfokus conference organizer. In this feature interview we talked about Mattias' efforts in starting and maintaining an annual Java developer focused conference. All areas of conference organization are discussed including venue, content selection, organization, funding and finding your niche with developers.

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What's cool

• Java Duchess Sweden

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Interview with Adam Bien, Java Champion, consultant, lecturer, speaker, software architect, developer, and author of Java books, on just about everything related to Java.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE evangelist.

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News

What's upcoming in the GlassFish Webinar Series

2011 is kicking off with the return of the GF Webinar series as you've never seen it before. It's going to be packed with information about Java EE6 and how simplicity, testability and convention-over-configuration is winning the hearts and minds of enterprise Java developers. Don't miss these industry leading speakers and topics reviewing the cutting edge of Java EE6 implementations, tools, and much more.

Running Roller 5 on multiple Java EE AppServers

• Roller 5 on multiple Java EE AppServers

Quick update on GlassFish 3.1

• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/an_update_on_glassfish_3 : people excited about the release (full clustering, centralized admin, app versioning, etc...) but we'll need to wait until Feb to get the quality right.

Events

January 20:Web application development with Java EE 6, GlassFish and NetBeans - Free Webinar with Live Q&A. Register here.

January 20-21: Java EE 6 = Less Code + More Power with Arun Gupta in Budapest, Hungary.

January 24-26: Oracle User Group Leader Summit at Oracle Headquarters, Redwood Shores California.

January 27: Building a Simple Web Application with Java EE Webinair

Feature interview

Adam Bien (blog.adam-bien.com) is a Java Champion, consultant, lecturer, speaker, software architect, developer, and author of Java books and articles including Real World Java EE Patterns: Rethinking Best Practices (lulu.com, 2009). He was Oracle Magazine’s 2010 Java Developer of the Year.

Recent article in Oracle Magazine January/Februray 2011 - Simplicity by Design

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10 Things Java Should Steal from Ruby. What you think -> Java has a lot to things from the Ruby rails lang in terms of simplicity? Dramil Dodeja, Reading, PA

10 Things Java Should Steal from Ruby by Bruce Tate, August 2006.

Java is certainly approachable - it just isn't being presented for beginners. We're still teaching it as if people are coming to it from C. Teach it for Rubyists and Python programmers, teach it for newbies. I'm a teacher though. I think Calculus is great for newbies. - Daniel Steinberg, JavaSpotlight Editor, IPad and Cocoa Instructor for DimSumThinking

I don't think Java is not approachable. But, Java is today a large ecosystem, so, it is true that Java has become so big, with frameworks, tools and platforms, that it is hard to know where to start. If you get a specific part of java, then I don't see a big issue for new users. For example, JEE 6, is accessible; or JavaME, its pretty easy, or even web development with Java. But, when you start, you hear about ME, EE, desktop, servlets, frameworks, hibernate, JPA, netbeans vs eclipse, JCP, apache harmony, plan a and plan b, etc, etc, etc. If you don't focus, it can become daunting. Although you can spend your entire career doing EE or only servlets and never hear anything about ME or desktop, once you enter the Java world, people sometimes expect that you to know it all. If you look at it as you don't have to know it all, but that you can expand your career if you want, then, I think it is very accessible. Bruno Souza, Java Champion, Brazilian Java Man

Is it hard to learn Java? Depends, depends, depends. Depends on how much you want to learn Java, depends on how much experience with other languages or OO you have. Depends on what do you want to do with Java (JavaME, Desktop, Web, Enterprise, ...)

We have successfully trained more then 4000 students on our 128 hours training "Academia Java"

• Syntax,
• OO
• Core APIs: Collections+JDBC, Date, some other APIs
• Advanced APIs: Threads and Swing
• Web Basics (HTTP, JSP, Servlets)

Instead of doing it in 4 weeks we do it in for months, so the student can study and breathe. Do you think 8 hours per week in the classroom for 4 months plus studying another 4 to 8 hours independently is too much for learning Java? It's also very important to start from the right point, not jumping directly on the point you want to work with, like, going from zero to EJBs... or to JSF. Yara Singer, Java Trainer and Owner of GlobelCode

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

Java is getting more complicated (as a language and a set of core APIs) and hence less approachable; indeed it was quite complicated in the first place. But its near-universal applicability and the wealth of materials and tools available ensure its continuing dominance in education, for now.

This issue is related to something we were talking about at JavaOne: adding a new feature to the Java language raises the "barrier to entry", especially for beginners, which certainly makes Java less approachable.

That's particularly true when a new feature gets retro-fitted into areas of the standard APIs where beginners are going to come across them (i.e. it's in their faces). For instance, when generics were introduced, the following was added to the description of java.lang.Object.getClass() method: "The actual result type is Class<? extends |X|> where |X| is the erasure of the static type of the expression on which getClass is called", which I'm sure most professional Java developers couldn't explain, let alone beginners. In fact that note doesn't matter, but there's no way a beginner can tell whether it does or not.

There may come a point when this accumulation of in-your-face new features becomes too much for beginners (closures, anyone?), but I don't think we're there yet, and I don't see much evidence that others are thinking it either.

But Computing education is a broad church. There are some who believe that any language more complex than Scheme is unapproachable, and others who think that C++ is simple enough for beginners. Java's still close to the middle of that spectrum. Ian Utting, University of Kent, BlueJ and Greenfoot

What's cool

• Simon Ritter is back working for Oracle.
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/macosx-port/

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Interview with Nabor Coutinho De Oliveira Junior, Manager of Mobile Internet and Messaging for Tim Cellular on the TIM Cellular Application Store.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE evangelist.

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News

JavaTest team release JTHarness 4.3 at java.net

Version 4.3 contains bug fixes and the following new features and notable behavior changes:

• MDI and SDI window layout styles are no longer available. The tabbed window layout style is now the only available user interface.
• GUI colors are now partially configurable in the Preferences dialog. Other settings are still available via the command line.
• During services start-up, more information is provided to show progress.
• Saving of previous desktop is now disabled by default (was enabled previous to this release).
• Usability improved in the main test tree. Can now multi-select and right-click to choose from a context menu.
  

JBoss 6.0 Community Release

• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jboss_6_0

New version of LeonardoSketch released. Including Amino toolkit.

• http://leonardosketch.org/news/

Events

• Java EE 6 = Less Code + More Power with Arun Gupta, January 20-21, Budapest, Hungary
• Oracle User Group Leader Summit, January 24-26, at Oracle Headquarters, Redwood Shores California.

Feature interview

• TIM application store. Developers can learn a little more of the business model and benefits and know how to be part of TIM Application Store here.

What's cool

• Alexis: http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/what_about_jsr_310
• Roger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

Show Transcripts

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Interview with Java Duchess leaders Clara Ko and Regina Ten Bruggencate on the Java Duchess program through which women can connect with each other and get involved in the greater Java community.

Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE evangelist.

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News

GlassFish Milestone 7

• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_3_1_milestone_7 : code freeze!

JavaEE & Eclipse Webinar

• 50-min replay: http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_6_and_eclipse, Q&A session to come, etc...

Events

Feature interview

Java Duchess is a global network for connecting women in Java technology. We provide a platform through which women can connect with each other and get involved in the greater Java community. We organize workshops and social events, participate in existing Java User Groups, represent Duchess at Java conferences, and connect with each other online.

What's cool

• Java Duchess local chapter in Paris, France: http://jduchess.org/duchess-france/
• 2010: exciting and challenging. On the GlassFish side, we've put out a roadmap back in March, delivered a 3.0.1 release and seven milestones of 3.1.
• 2011 will see the final release of 3.1, probably another important release (cf. the virtualization prototype) and initial progress on Java EE 7.

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Live from the Great Wall of China and all around the world a montage of Holiday greetings from 60 Java voices in 12 distinct languages.

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A yearly tradition carried over from their Java Mobile and Embedded Podcast this episode is the montage of Holiday greetings from Java developers around the world. This years greetings include sixty one voices in twelve different languages featuring all areas of Java including developers, teachers, engineers, managers, marketing, and executives. This beginning and ending of the show was recorded live on great wall of China shortly after JavaOne China.

Roger and Terrence on the Great Wall of China.

What's cool

Duke's Happy Holiday's from Oracle Technology Network.

The spirit of the holidays comes alive in this charming e-card that features Oracle’s Tux and Duke performing a classic symphonic melody. May your holidays always be this harmonious! Share this e-card with your associates, friends, and family today.