Joining Host Roger Brinkley on Java Spotlight Episode 50 to discuss the release of JavaFX 2.0 is Jasper Potts, Developer Experience Architect for the Java Client Group at Oracle, where he is responsible for technical design for everything that is on the core platform including Controls, Tools, Samples and Blueprints. The Java All Star Developer Panel for this episode consists of Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate; Tomas Nilson, Java SE Principal Product Manager; and Ashwin Rao, NetBeans Principal Product Manager.
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The Oracle White Paper "Deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series Systems" provides technical information on the Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series systems and the mainframe-class RAS features and resource management capabilities that they offer. The white paper also explores the virtualization capabilities provided by Oracle Solaris and the Oracle Sun Enterprise M-series Systems, and offers as well several recommendations on how to combine virtualization technologies for enterprise deployments of Oracle Database.
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Oracle plans on introducing a new set of Java APIs that will open JavaFX capabilities to all Java developers without the need for them to learn a new scripting language. This update, expected in the next release of JavaFX due out in calendar Q3 of 2011, promises to deliver advanced graphics, high-fidelity media, and the ability to render HTML content within Java applications.
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For those users who have undergone the costly and damaging experience of having their web site hijacked, "How to Eliminate Web page Hijacking Using Oracle Solaris 10 Security," an Oracle white paper, offers recommendations on steps one can take to minimize this growing risk. The paper promises its readers that they will learn the processes necessary to secure common web servers.
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The TPC BenchmarkTM H (TPC-H) is a Decision Support benchmark that evaluates the performance of various Decision Support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions. In this particular instance, as reported by Joerg Moellenkamp in his blog, a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with partitioning and automatic storage management was pitted against an IBM p595, with both servers at the same 3 TB scaling factor. The Sun M9000-32 was reported to yield 188,229 QphH@3000GB with 32 processors, 128 cores, resulting in $23.99/QphH@3000GB.
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