In his how-to piece on managing the ZFS Storage Appliance with JavaScript Peter Brouwer covers three approaches: grouping CLI commands in a file to perform batch processing; executing user-defined scripts; and using workflows. Brouwer writes that his article primarily provides details on how to use JavaScript programming features within the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, as well as providing detail on the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance script architecture, the JavaScript interface into the appliance, and methods for executing scripts. The piece is not, he cautions readers, a tutorial for the JavaScript language nor the appliance's CLI command language.
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The NetBeans IDE consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++. NetBeans IDE 7.1 Beta introduces support for JavaFX 2.0 by enabling the full compile/debug/profile development cycle for JavaFX 2.0 applications. The release also provides significant Swing GUI Builder enhancements, CSS3 support, and tools for visual debugging of Swing and JavaFX user interfaces.
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Here are the categories for which 2011 Bossie Award winners have been named:
Best Open Source Software
Best Open Source Desktop and Mobile Software
Best Open Source Application Development Software
Best Open Source Data Center and Cloud Software
VirtualBox won with this endorsement: "A free-to-use and open source virtualization solution for desktop environments, VirtualBox changed hands from Sun to Oracle when the latter bought the former. That hasn't changed the pace or tenor of its development, though, and the last few revisions -- including a major update to the left of the decimal point -- have continued to pile on reasons to ditch commercial alternatives. For anyone who even dabbles in virtualization, it's gone from useful to must-have."
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"JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition" by David Flanagan is now available from O'Reilly, which describes the volume as " ... a programmer's guide and comprehensive reference to the core language and to the client-side JavaScript APIs defined by web browsers. The 6th edition covers HTML5 and ECMAScript 5, with new chapters on jQuery and server side JavaScript. It's recommended for experienced programmers who want to learn the programming language of the Web, and for current JavaScript programmers who want to master it."
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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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