OpenJDK recently listed the features being developed by Oracle and others for JDK 7. The roadmap for JDK 7 and JDK 8 were discussed by Executive Vice President of Product Development Thomas Kurian during his opening keynote of JavaOne 2010, which also outlined plans for the future of the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations.
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This Oracle white paper by Erik Bergenholtz and contributing authors Mark Prichard explains how virtualization is being affected by the shift to the commodity level and to the virtualization of applications in an effort to keep pace with the new level of benefits becoming available with this change. This technical white paper explores the availability of Platform as a Service (PaaS) initiatives and, specifically, the Oracle WebLogic Suite, which delivers an infrastructure enabling effective virtualization of Java EE deployments.
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Setting a new world record result for 8-socket servers with Intel 7500 series x86 processors, Oracle's Sun Fire X4800, which was equipped with eight 2.26 GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors, attained a result of 3369694 SPECjbb2005 bops, 421212 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjb2005 benchmark, as reported in a BestPerf blog entry.
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Published in June 2010, "Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide" discusses Oracle's high-performance java virtual machine (JVM), JRocket. The authors discuss coding best practices and provide insights on techniques to analyze application behavior and gain performance.
Some topics from the book: learn about the JVM building blocks (code generator, garbage collection, threads, synchronization); enhance your understanding of the Java runtime; benchmark and measure performance; JRockit Mission Control; Command-line flags that control JRockit subsystems; Application profiling; memory leak detection; how JRockit Virtual Edition works
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GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.0.1 and the commercial Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 product are both now available. This is its first product release under Oracle, and the newly branded Oracle GlassFish Server includes numerous critical fixes and updated platform support.
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