How Badly Do We Want a New Java Date/Time API?

The current Java.net poll question is, “How critical is it for JSR-310 (new Date and Time API) to be implemented…

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Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices (JavaOne 2011)

Justin Murray started his presentation [“Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices” (21860)] about five minutes early and began by saying…

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JavaFX 2.0 Bar and Scatter Charts (and JavaFX 2.1 StackedBarCharts)

JavaFX 2.0 provides built-in capabilities for generating charts, a capability found within the javafx.scene.chart package. In this post, I look…

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Book Review: JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

I eagerly accepted Packt Publishing‘s invitation to review JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration because it has been several…

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Book Review: JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example

Although Oracle’s changes to JavaFX at JavaOne 2010 and JavaOne 2011 have converted me from a skeptic to a believer…

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Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT

One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT. Several…

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Scala for 2012? Deciding Whether to Invest In a Programming Language

I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly…

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Significant Software Development Developments of 2011

As I did in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, I summarize some of the software development events of 2011 that…

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