Java screams on Sun UltraSPARC T2 declares David Dagastine in his October 9th blog, noting, "The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers equipped with a single UltraSPARC T2 processor at 1.4GHz, delivered a World Record single-chip result of 192,055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24,007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. An average of 464 Watts of power to obtain this result. This result beats the previous SPECjbb2005 single-chip world record by 71%."
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The Lively Kernel welcomes visits by members of the open source community at the invitation of project leader Dan Ingalls, distinguished engineer at Sun. Alex Handy reports in SD Times that the Lively Kernel is a JavaScript-based kernel for building web applications that can be modified at runtime and that can spawn copies of itself and of the objects it contains. In addition, the Lively Kernel includes support for vector graphics inside the browser.
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Sun Labs Voice Bridge is now an open source project named jVoiceBridge. This Java application handles Voice over IP (VoIP) audio communication and mixing for tasks such as conference calls, voice chat, speech detection and audio for 3D virtual environments.
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John O'Conner, SDN staff writer and developer, has explored the ins and outs of JavaFX Script in a three part article series entitled "Learning Curve Journals," where he chronicles his experiences in learning Sun's latest software innovation.
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When governmental bodies decided on Daylight Saving Time (DST), they didn't have JRE in mind. However, it is important to keep JRE updated with the latest DST rules to ensure that Java technology-based applications always know the exact time in a given location.
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