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May 14, 2013 -
Dr. Shing Wai Chan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation, specializing in J2EE, Java EE, application servers, web containers, and security. He is Spec Lead for JSR 340, Java Servlet 3.1 Specification, as well as implementation lead on the web container in GlassFish, the Reference Implementation (RI) of Java EE. Previously...
May 14, 2013 -
You could build, test and deploy the entire Java EE Application and even create a working application server from scratch with a single mvm clean install command. The only problem is: it will take forever and you will have to repeat the whole process over and over again, even if you were only interested in...
May 14, 2013 -
We’re pleased to announce that, after a long period of internal incubation, we’re releasing a foundational framework for asynchronous applications on the JVM which we’re calling Reactor. It provides abstractions for Java, Groovy and other JVM languages to make building event and data-driven applications easier. It’s also really fast...
May 11, 2013 -
Java 8 is coming so it's time to study new features. While Java 7 and Java 6 were rather minor releases, version 8 will be a big step forward. Maybe even too big? Today I will give you a thorough explanation of new abstraction in JDK 8 - CompletableFuture. As you all know Java 8 will hopefully be released in less than a year, therefore this article is based on JDK 8 build 88 with lambda support...
May 11, 2013 -
The Joint Expeditionary Collective Protection (JECP) Program is part of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, which is the Joint Services single focal point for research, development, acquisition, fielding, and life-cycle support of chemical and biological defense equipment and medical countermeasures. In developing a family of transportable shelter systems...
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Editor`s BlogFrans Thamura is a leader of JUG Indonesia, a Java Champion, an entrepreneur, and the founder of Meruvian. He has implemented the JEDI program in Indonesia under the goverment's Java education services JENI Project. In this fourth Java.net "Lightning Interview" I asked Frans about starting and leading a Java User Group. SpotlightsIn this installment, I show how these languages improve several Java sore spots: exceptions, statements versus expressions, and edge cases around null... Expressions: One legacy that the Java language inherited from C is the distinction between programming statements and programming expressions. Examples of Java statements are code lines that use if or while, and ones that use void to declare... I gave a talk at Devoxx UK 2013 entitled Accelerated Lambda Programming. Here is the slide presentation from that talk. There are just a few introductory slides in the slide deck, after which most of the talk consisted of live programming demos in NetBeans. Below is the sample code from the demo, cleaned up, merged into a single file, and updated for Lambda build b88... JavaOne India kicked off today in Hyderabad with Duke, dancing and demos. Sharat Chander, Group Director, Java Technology Outreach at Oracle opened by encouraging attendees to learn new things about the Java technology, but just as important, make the effort meet someone new. "The Java community is open and welcoming" ... Congratulations to the newest JCP Star Spec Leads: Pete Muir, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen and Marek Potociar. Pete is the Spec Lead of JSR 346, Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) for Java EE 1.1, and Santiago and Marek are co-spec leads of JSR 339, JAX-RS 2.0: The Java API for RESTful Web Services. Both of these JSRs are part of Java EE 7, the next version of the Java Platform, Enterprise... |