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Java Spotlight Episode 66: Java User Group Leaders Live at the IOUG

2012-01-30T17:00:00+01:00

Java Spotlight Episode 66, recorded live at the International Oracle User Group Summit in Redwood Shores, CA, features JUG leaders from five continents (Frank Greco, Daniel deOliveira, Ben Evans, Raj Hegde, Badr El Houari, and John Yeary), experts on everything related to JUGS. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, assume their customary seats on the Java All Star Developer Panel.

Java Spotlight Episode 65: Deployment & Plugin

2012-01-24T17:00:00+01:00

Episode 65 of the Java Spotlight features an interview with Joe McGlynn, Thomas Ng and Henry James of the Deployment and Plugin Team about recent changes in Java Deployment and Plugin. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, are this episode's panelists.

Optimizing GlassFish Server Performance

2012-01-16T17:00:00+01:00

Optimizing performance of the GlassFish Server is the topic of Rene van Wijk's post on Middleware Magic. He shows how to improve server performance by adjusting a few deployment and server configuration settings. Choosing throughput optimization as the method, van Wijk also shows how to optimize performance of the JVM. He demonstrates as well how to avoid performance constraints imposed by operating system restrictions. The post concludes with a test regime.

Java Spotlight Episode 63: JavaME Network APIs

2012-01-09T17:00:00+01:00

In Episode 63 of the Java Spotlight Alok Patel shares his expertise on the new Java Network APIs. Patel is Principal Product Manager with the Java Mobile team. The Network API is a set of APIs provided by network operators to enable client/server access to such major cellular network functionality as messaging, location, and payment. The Network API requires only the basic functionality of the mobile terminal, allowing for wide deployment in emerging markets such as BRICA. MIDlets on lower-end phones, hybrid applications on powerful feature phones can all use Network API.

Java Spotlight Episode 64: NetBeans 7.1 Release

2012-01-09T17:00:00+01:00

Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manger in Oracle Developer Tools for NetBeans, is the guest on Episode 64 of the Java Spotlight podcast in a discussion of the NetBeans 7.1 release. NetBeans IDE 7.1 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. Additional highlights include Git support integrated into the IDE, new PHP debugging features, various JavaEE and Maven improvements, and more.

GlassFish Open Source and Commercial Editions

2012-01-02T17:00:00+01:00

The differences between the GlassFish open source and commercial editions are examined in Arun Gupta's blog, where he notes that the GlassFish Server Open Source Edition provides a full Java EE 6 compliant, is free, and an open source application server. The Oracle GlassFish Server is Oracle's commercially supported GlassFish Server distribution and constitutes a suite of features that improve performance, allow automatic backup of configuration and application data, enable fine-grained monitoring, and enable more secure and highly available production deployments. Customers also get 24 x 7 support, priority for their bug fixes and patches/hot fixes for them.

Java ME Regains Ground as O/S Platform for Mobile

2012-01-02T17:00:00+01:00

Net Applications analysts posted results of their findings on OS net usage share in November 2011 which revealed Apple's iOS dropping seven points and Android two points. These losses contrasted with a hike in usage by Java ME 2, which captured a 20% usage share for the same period. RIM's Blackberry and Symbian also showed slight gains while Microsoft's Windows Phone platform trailed the pack with less than one percent.

Java Spotlight Episode 61: Jim Weaver, Java Champion, on Java FX 2.0

2011-12-31T17:00:00+01:00

Episode 61 of Java Spotlight features Jim Weaver an independent Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for new application development.

Java ME Remains the Platform for Majority of US Cell Phones

2011-12-19T17:00:00+01:00

Politics is not the only realm in which corporate interests (include the media in this category) distort the truth for their benefit, Hinkmond Wong reminds readers in his article "Mobile Trends for 2012: Majority of US phones still use Java ME tech." The media, he asserts, would have us believe otherwise. Wong includes a link to Josh Smith's GottaBeMobile.com article "7 Mobile Trends for 2012: NFC, Nokia, Apps and HTML5" for corroboration.

Join Java Spotlight Episode 60 to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Globalcode

2011-12-14T17:00:00+01:00

Episode 60 of Java Spotlight features Vincius and Yara Senger, co-founders of Globalcode, the largest Brazilian educational center specializing in software development on the organization's 10th anniversary. Mike Lehmann, Oracle senior director of product management, joins the Java All Star Developer Panel to provide insight on the Oracle Weblogic 12c release.

Java Spotlight Episode 59: Alan Bateman on the NIO2 APIs in JDK 7

2011-12-09T17:00:00+01:00

In Episode 59 of the Java Spotlight Alan Bateman, an engineer in the Oracle JDK team, discusses the NIO2 APIs in JDK7. Bateman's focus as part of the Oracle JDK team has been chiefly on the core libraries/APIs and lead JSR-203 that defined the new file system API and asynchronous I/O APIs that are new in JDK 7. Regular member of the Java All Star Developer Panel Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, assumes his usual seat.

Java Spotlight Episode 58: Peter Korn and Ofir Leitner on ME Accessibility

2011-12-01T17:00:00+01:00

Java Spotlight Episode 58 features a discussion with Peter Korn and Ofir Leitner on mobile and embedded accessibility. Korn is Oracle's Accessibility Principal, as well as Technical Manager of the AEGIS project, leading an EC-funded �12.6m investment building accessibility into future mainstream ICT. Ofir Leitner is the architect of one of LWUIT's key features - the HTMLComponent which allows rendering HTML within LWUIT applications and embeding web-flows inside apps. The regular members of the Java All Star Developer Panel, Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate are also featured.

Java Spotlight Episode 57: Live From Devoxx 11

2011-11-22T17:00:00+01:00

Java Spotlight Episode 57: Live from Devox 11 features an interview with Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg from the London JUG along with Yara Senger from the SouJava JUG. Under discussion are the JCP Executive Committee Elections, JSR 248, and Adopt-a-JSR program. Host Roger Brinkley points out that both the London JUG and SouJava JUG are JCP Standard Edition Executive Committee Members. He identifies some new faces on the Java All Star Developer Panel as well: Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manger in Oracle Developer Tools; Stephen Chin, Java Champion and Java FX expert; and Antonio Goncalves, Paris JUG leader.

Java Spotlight Episode 56: Stephan Janssen

2011-11-21T17:00:00+01:00

Java Chamption Stephan Janssen joins Roger Brinkley on Java Spotlight Episode 56 for a discussion of Devoxx and Parleys. Janssen is the CTO of the Java Competence Center at RealDolmen and has been involved with developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and manufacturing industries. Server Side has named him as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise Java 2004. Sun recognized him in 2005 for his efforts in the Java Community and has engaged him in the Java Champion project. Seated on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

'Java Performance": New Title by Charlie Hunt and Binu John

2011-11-15T17:00:00+01:00

High praise comes for the new 700-page book "Java Performance" by Charlie Hunt and Binu John in a blog by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, where he describes the tome as " ... a definitive guide to performance." The contents of "Java Performance" include such topics as performance goals, JVM monitoring and tuning, hotspot-detailed architecture and behavior, Java EE and application server performance and tuning, the blog reports. Four entire chapters are devoted to multitiered applications, web applications, web services and JPA and EJB performance, he writes.

Java Spotlight Episode 55: Georges Saab, VP of Core Java Development in the Java Platform Group

2011-11-14T17:00:00+01:00

Georges Saab, VP of Core Java Development at Oracle, joins host Roger Brinkley for Episode 55 of the Java Spotlight. Saab's history includes his current work on the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. Saab is a 20-plus-year veteran of programming language and platform development. Members of this episode's Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

Java Spotlight Episode 54: Stuart Marks on the Coinification of JDK7

2011-11-07T17:00:00+01:00

Stuart W. Marks, Principal Member of Technical Staff in Oracle's Java Platform Group, is the guest on Episode 54 of the Java Spotlight Podcast, where the discussion involves the coinification of JDK 7. Marks is currently working on enhancing the core libraries of the JDK and has previously worked on JavaFX and Java ME at Sun. Host Roger Brinkley notes that Marks has over 20 years of software platform product development experience in the areas of window systems, interactive graphics, and mobile and embedded systems. Once again, Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, sits on the Java All Star Developer Panel.

Java Spotlight Episode 53: Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group

2011-11-03T16:00:00+01:00

In Episode 53 of Java Spotlight Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group, discusses Java 7 and the future of Java SE. Reinhold currently leads the Jigsaw and JDK 7 Projects in the OpenJDK Community. Seated this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

Java Spotlight Episode 52: JavaEE

2011-10-24T16:00:00+01:00

Episode 52 of the Java Spotlight features Cameron Purdy, VP of Development at Oracle, on the subject of JavaEE. Purdy discusses his responsibilities at Oracle, the product sets and the new investments that Oracle is making in cooperation with the community behind JavaEE development. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, are the Java All Star Developer Panel.

Oracle Restores Confidence in its Stewardship of Java

2011-10-24T16:00:00+01:00

The release of Java 7, improvements in JavaFX and reforms to the Java Community Process are among the developments at Oracle that have renewed Andrew Binstock's confidence in Java Technology. Writing for Dr. Dobb's, Binstock proclaims that Oracle's clear commitment to Java has infused new life into what many feared would become a neglected technology following the acquisition of Sun. At the end of the recent JavaOne Conference, Binstock claims, the collective feeling was that Oracle is moving Java very much in the right direction.

Java EE and GlassFish Presentation Slide Sets

2011-10-18T16:00:00+01:00

Readers can catch a glimpse of the varied program at JavaOne 2011 in the blog posted by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine who has assembled links to slide sets from some of the presentations at JavaOne dealing with Java EE and GlassFish. He also provides a link to the conference content calendar.

Java Spotlight Episode 51: Live at JavaOne

2011-10-18T16:00:00+01:00

Java Spotlight Episode 51 reprises the timelines and/or milestones for the Java Platform and covers as well the 2011 Duke Choice Award Winners. The timelines include the JDK Roadmap; JavaFX Roadmap; GlassFish Roadmap; and the Java ME/Embedded Roadmap. Seated on the Java All Star Developer Panel for this episode are Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

Java Spotlight Episode 50: Jasper Potts on Java FX 2.0 Release

2011-10-17T16:00:00+01:00

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.

Momentum Persists for Java EE Technology

2011-10-11T16:00:00+01:00

With 10 active Java Specification Requests (JSRs) currently being worked on through the Java Community Process (JCP) by over 20 different participating companies and represented by hundreds of engineers, indications are that Java technology, Java EE 7 in particular, is alive and well. And Java EE 6 is not doing all that badly either, given that six major IT vendors have released certified, open source and commercial implementations of Java EE 6 since it became available in December 2009. Java EE 7 is being designed to further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments.

Oracle Increases Investment in Java ME

2011-10-04T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle has outlined its plans for the further evolution of the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)through the submission of new Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to the Java Community Process (JCP). As a result Oracle and members of the Java community will submit new JSRs for Java ME 7 and begin development within the JCP, among them an update to the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) virtual machine and library specifications to enable better alignment with Java Development Kit (JDK) 7.

Java Spotlight Episode 49: Charlie Hunt on Java Performance

2011-10-01T16:00:00+01:00

Charlie Hunt, JVM Performance Lead Engineer at Oracle and the lead author of the newly published Java Performance book, joins host Roger Brinkley on Episode 49 of Java Spotlight to discuss both Java performance and the book as well. Hunt's responsibilities at Oracle include improving the performance of the Java HotSpot VM and Java SE class libraries. He has also been involved in improving the performance of both GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and Oracle WebLogic Server. In his customary seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel during Episode 49 is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.

Java Spotlight Episode 48: Stephen Chin

2011-09-21T16:00:00+01:00

In Java Spotlight Episode 48 Java Champion Stephen Chin, Chief Agile Methodologist for GXS, focuses on three of the four sessions that he is presenting at Java One 2011 in San Francisco. Chin, along with James Weaver, Weiqi Gao, and Dean Iverson, is the author of Pro JavaFX 2 Platform: A Definitive Guide to Script, Desktop, and Mobile RIA with Java Technology. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, are on the Java All Star Developer Panel.

Java Spotlight Episode 47: JavaOne 2011 San Francisco

2011-09-14T16:00:00+01:00

JavaOne is just around the corner, as host Roger Brinkley reminds his audience by inviting Alvina O'Neal, the JavaOne Conference Lead, and Sharat Chander, the JavaOne Program Chair, to discuss what attending developers can expect for JavaOne 2011 San Francisco with regards to the programming and logistics for the event in Episode 47 of Java Spotlight. As usual, Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, takes his customary place on the Java All Star Developer Panel.

Java Spotlight Episode 46: Oracle Linux

2011-09-07T16:00:00+01:00

In Episode 46 of the of the Java Spotlight, Host Roger Brinkley interviews Lenz Grimmer, a member Oracle Linux Product Management team on the subject of Oracle Linux. Grimmer worked from 1998 to 2002 as a distribution engineer for SuSE Linux AG in Nuremberg, Germany, and then joined MySQL AB as a release engineer, later becoming a member of MySQL's Community Relations team. Taking his customary seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine.

Java Spotlight Episode 45

2011-08-31T16:00:00+01:00

Episode 45 of the Java Spotlight finds Lúcio Camilo Oliva Pereira, Fúlvio Longhi, and Giovanni Roberto Machado, all senior analysts at Banco do Brasil, talking about Java development at the bank. Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine takes his customary seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel alongside host Roger Brinkley.