Code for teaching
What care should be taken with the code we give our students

[ 07 Dec ][ News ]: The VCS Team is Asking For Your Feedback
VCS support is an important part of NetBeans, which allows for the smooth integration of versioning operations against different target VCS systems into the overall IDE development workflow.NetBeans' VCS team is currently working on laying out the future direction of development and would like to understandthe usage of its' current functionality. The aim is to identify the most useful features as well as potential deficiencies to be addressed in upcoming NetBeans releases.By taking the time to complete this short survey you will directly contribute to building a better NetBeans IDE.The survey begins December 7th and will continue until Wednesday, December 22nd. Continue to Survey >>>

Producing Enterprise Architecture:
A Conversation with Sun's Dan Hushon, Part Two In the final part of a two-part interview, Sun Microsystems' Dan Hushon talks about adaptive enterprise architectures, the market for developers, Java Centers of Excellence, and loosely coupled components.

Key Reason to Move to Java 5.0 ... Ocean: A bit of a stretch

I'm browsing through my RSS reader this morning and the Del.icio.us Java posts start coming through as usual. One of them is:

Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform

Looking at the post, reason number one is "Your application already works on 5.0". Then I see it, a subpoint under this section...

New Look and Feel

The Java platform already contains a pluggable Look-and-Feel framework. The addition of the new Ocean Look-and-Feel enables cross-platform applications to switch between Ocean or the native operating system's look-and-feel, without the need to rebuild or recompile them.

The answer to all my problems has been found. Ocean will make the move to 5.0 painless, save time, and get me a beer out of the fridge.

Chat Transcript: New Language Features in J2SE 5.0
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0. includes the biggest set of language changes since the original release of the Java programming language. Read what two key members of the core Java team had to say about these features in this recent question and answer session.

More than a dream
The need for a more representative sample

Tell Sun What to Have at JavaOne

Chet Haase has created a forum for discussion about possible JavaOne topics. Take a minute to post what you want to see at this years conference.

JavaOne: What do you want to see?

ClientJava.com Links(8) - JNLP &SOAP, .NET Applets, Agile UI Dev.

Leverage JNLP and SOAP for Java Thick-client Development
Although Java never quite lived up to its early promise of thick-client computing on the Web, intranets can benefit from the capabilities the JNLP protocol affords?especially when combined with the SOAP protocol.?

Swing: The Grey Fog
There has been a lot of buzz about the Swing 'fog'that occurs when painting is being delayed by other processes.

Useful Java Application Components 0.9.19
Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) is a collection of components that may be useful for your project. It provides a powerful expression interpreter, an iText-based document processing engine that generates PDF documents based on XML templates, a charting library supporting JSP custom tags, and much more.

Java Launcher 2.00 released
(1) Launching java applications and applets by double-clicking class files from Windows explorer.
(2) Launching java source code and class hierarchy by right-clicking class files from Windows explorer.
(3) Creating Windows exe files for Java applications with user icon, arguments and manifest files
(4) Creating executable Jar files for Java applications

install3j 3.1.2
New features:

• full support for unicode on Windows
  
• allow user variables for application ID
  
• replaced InitHandler with a more powerful StartupHandler

Psssstt, look what DotNet can do...
Check out this independent library to do vector graphics and animation written for dotnet. The authors recently figured out how to host their Control inside Internet Explorer with default permissions. In other words the code loads up without asking any questions and runs in a safe environment, so it is essentially an applet. Because it's an ActiveX control, it can run in other environments, too.

Is Macromedia Flex the Right Fit for You?

Agile User Interface Development
"If you're not doing Agile, you're in the past."This is the message of the recent SD Best Practices 2004 conference. Agile processes like XP and Scrum are becoming pervasive in the world of software development. Agile is a sea change, refocusing software developers on quality and speed. Its impact on the practice of software development is already being compared to that of object-oriented design. However, one area of effort has been slow to change: development of the graphical user interface (GUI). Since most software includes some type of GUI, and a good percentage of software development is completely GUI-centric, applying the advantages of Agile to GUI building is of key importance...

Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons
You might think of Gentoo as a bleeding-edge distribution for development workstations, but the simple packaging system can make it a good choice for any production system that needs to stay up to date.