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June 03, 2013 -
I’ve recently made some changes on the OpenDJ nightly builds page and made available 2 new deliveries for OpenDJ : an RPM package and a Debian package. The goal of providing native packages for OpenDJ is to make things much easier for the Linux system administrators and the DevOps who want to deploy OpenDJ automatically, as well as for whoever wants to run OpenDJ in a VM in the cloud... The packages available with the nightly builds are taking advantage of the new upgrade mechanism that has been developed, allowing an easier and smoother migration from previous releases...
June 03, 2013 -
[Last time] learned what can be the reason for OutOfMemoryErrors and what tool-chain we can use to diagnose it. Today we will learn by example how to use the most important one: jhat. I've prepared a sample project for this exercise, which can be cloned from github. The code is really simple and its problem is obvious, but this simplicity will make it easy to get to know jhat. First, we need to run our program...
June 02, 2013 -
Global Information Solutions is a value added services provider that specializes in content delivery via USSD, SMS, and MMS. Based on their experience, the company saw that it was crucial to deploy stable services quickly to market, especially in a climate where multiple providers and operators already exist. If this is not achieved, there is a risk of competition gaining market share because of better first-to-market approaches. To help meet these needs, the company has developed a Product Delivery Platform and a Product Designer...
June 02, 2013 -
If you ever worked with Java enums in JPA you are definitely aware of their limitations and traps. Using enum as a property of your @Entity is often a very good choice, however JPA prior to 2.1 didn’t handle them very well... Luckily Java Persistence API 2.1 (JSR-388) released a few days ago provides standardized mechanism of pluggable data converters. To my knowledge Eclipselink is the only JPA 2.1 implementation available to date, so we will use it to experiment a bit...
June 02, 2013 -
JeeConf 2013 was held in historic Kiev on May 24-25. JeeConf is the most significant Java conference in the Ukraine. The conference attracted a bevy of local and international speakers including Venkat Subramaniam, Yakov Fain, Talip Ozturk, Jacek Laskowski, Mohamed Taman and Sander Mak. Topics included Java SE, NoSQL, cloud, HTML5/JavaScript, Arquillian and of course Java EE...
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Editor`s BlogFollowing the development of Java EE 7 has required reading lots of different posts about the different JSRs that are part of Java EE 7. On Wednesday, June 12 (or Thursday, depending on where you live), you'll have an opportunity to familiarize yourself with Java EE 7 in one sitting, by attending "Introducing Java EE 7," a live global interactive webcast... SpotlightsJavaOne India was a opportunity to touch base with Java developers in India, and get a sense of the developer community there. What impressed me about India is the scale: there are so many people and so many developers! I got a chance to talk to some of them at the OTN lounge. Sit back and enjoy the following interviews with JUGChennai founder Raj Hegde, Java Champion Hardshad Oak... This post very briefly summarizes some recent developments in the world of Java. Yet Another Java Versioning Scheme: Oracle has changed the Java version numbering schema again, this time in an effort "to avoid confusion caused by renumbering releases" because of the "recent increase of security releases" that have already led to skipped numbers and renumbered releases. The Closure of... This week brought new Early Access builds of the JDK and related projects. On the JDK 7 side, the JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access Releases have been updated to 7u40 Build b26. This build updates HotSpot to hs24-b45 and upgrades JAXP to 1.5. A list of changes is available here... On the JDK 8 side, the JDK 8 Early Access Releases Build b91 is now available for testing. An extensive list of changes... Do you enjoy playing with software and hunting for defects? If you are an experienced NetBeans IDE user and you have a few hours per week from June 2013 through mid September 2013, you can join other community volunteers in the NetCAT 7.4 program. Get your NetBeans bug(s) fixed and make friends along the way... |