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30 Apr 2013 Java Spotlight Episode 130: Santiago Pericas-Geertsen on JSR 339: JAX-RS 2.0 @spericas [30819]
Features an Interview with Santiago Pericas-Geertsen on JSR 339: JAX-RS 2.0.

Dr. Santiago Pericas-Geertsen is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Sun Glassfish organization at Oracle. He is an architect and technical lead in the Avatar project at Oracle. Within the JCP program, Santiago is a Spec Lead for JSR 339: JAX-RS 2.0 The Java API for RESTful Web Services. While at Sun Microsystems, Santiago was a tech lead for the Glassfish Mobility Platform, a developer and lead in the Fast Web Services project and a participant, and editor, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) initiatives including the XML Binary Characterization working group (WG) and the W3C Efficient XML Interchange WG. In addition, Santiago was a Project Management Committee (PMC) member at the Apache Software Foundation representing the Xalan/XSLTC project, and one of the original Sun Microsystems developers of XSLTC, the compiling version of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations now part of the JDK.
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08 Mar 2013 Oracle Produces World Record SPECjbb2013 Result with Oracle Solaris and Oracle JDK [30073]
Solaris Registers Accelerated Performance on both Composite max-jOPS and Composite critical-jOPS metrics

Oracle Solaris and Oracle JDK delivered a world record result on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark (Composite metric), a benchmark designed to showcase Java server performance, Brian posts. SPECjbb2013 is the replacement for SPECjbb2005. The major findings of this benchmark are:

  • Oracle Solaris is 1.8x faster on the SPECjbb2013-Composite max-jOPS metric than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux result.
  • Oracle Solaris is 2.2x faster on the SPECjbb2013-Composite critical-jOPS metric than the Red Hat Enterprise Linux result.
  • The combination of Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle JDK 7 update 15 delivered a result of 37,007 SPECjbb2013-Composite max-jOPS and 13,812 SPECjbb2013-Composite critical-jOPS on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark.

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14 Dec 2012 Documentation Changes Accompany Release of JavaFX 2.2.4 [28896]
New Releases, Updates and Revisions

There have been revisions and additions to the documentation for JavaFX 2.2.4 and JDK 7u10, which were recently released to GA. The changes include:

  • A new document, Using the Image Ops API, describes how to read and write raw pixel data to and from JavaFX images.
  • The Handling JavaFX Events document has been updated with more information on touch events, along with changes to The Working with Touch Events chapter and Touch Events sample
  • The Implementing Best Practices document has been updated
  • The Troubleshooting section of Deploying JavaFX Applications now includes a section about disabling the automatic proxy configuration.
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26 Oct 2012 Java Spotlight Episode 105: Mark Reinhold on the Future of Java [28195]
Java Veteran Is Oracle's Chief Architect, Java Platform Group

The guest on Episode 105 of the Java Spotlight is Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, where he works on the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and OpenJDK. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. Mark was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He is currently leading the Jigsaw and JDK 7 Projects in the OpenJDK Community.
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05 Oct 2012 Roadmap for Java SE and JavaFX at JavaOne 2012 [27913]
Details Announced at JavaOne 2012

Details of the Roadmaps for both Java SE 8 and JavaFX were announced at JavaOne 2012. Java SE 8 is expected to be available in late 2013 though an important component, a module system and the modularization of the Java platform (Project Jigsaw), has been deferred to Java SE 9. Oracle has proposed a set of compact Profiles of the Java SE Platform in order to allow Java SE 8 implementations to scale down to small devices. JavaFX 8 will be released as part of Oracle’s JDK 8 implementation and become the default UI toolkit for Java SE 8 Embedded.
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