Tech Tips from July 2008 Newsletter
07/09/2008
- Here’s an eWeek article that summarizes a recent Oracle webcast to discuss Oracle’s roadmap for integrating BEA’s product lines. The future of WebLogic, Fusion Middleware, WebLogic Workshop, JDeveloper, etc becomes a bit more clear. (Full webcast available here) In related news, TheServerSide polled their audience on their thoughts on the future of Oracle and the support of BEA products, and the results definitely show some skepticism. However, it appears that the poll was completed during a quiet period, which means BEA/Oracle reps couldn’t make statements on the roadmap for the products. The poll results were posted one day before the webcast.
- Looking for a nice Pro-Maven article that talks about how Maven can simplify your life working with EJB3? If not, don’t read it.
- More debate on closures...
- In this interview from QCon, Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Portfolio, the Oracle/BEA and Sun/MySQL acquisitions, Java EE 6, Tomcat and Spring, Spring Dynamic Modules, the future of enterprise Java, the benefits of OSGi for application developers, the Covalent acquisition and Spring 3.0. However, he does not discuss his favorite color.
- This Spring tip just off the autowire...
CLASSIC VINYL
The Internet Foundation Classes (IFC) were a graphics library for Java originally developed by Netscape Communications Corporation and first released on December 16, 1996. On April 2, 1997, Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation announced their intention to incorporate IFC with other technologies to form the Java Foundation Classes. (REFERENCE WIKIPEDIA)
Remember hearing the phrase “Pluggable Look and Feel” every time the wind blew? Remember believing that Java was primed to take over the desktop with that fancy new Swing API? This article isn’t all that over the top in it’s praise for Swing. Under the covers the article is actually more about MVC than Swing. It’s classic because it just has that nostalgic “JDK 1.2 Will Save the World” feel. It even has an applet example that requires a JDK 1.1-compliant browser – think you can find one of those around?
archives
11/04/08: Tech Tips from November 2008 Newsletter
11/04/08: "Got a Complaint About Java? Did You Vote?"
10/08/08: Tech Tips from October 2008 Newsletter
10/08/08: "Questions From My Inbox, Fall 2008"
09/10/08: Tech Tips from September 2008 Newsletter
09/10/08: "And the Candidates Are..."
08/06/08: Tech Tips from August 2008 Newsletter
08/06/08: "The Intangibles - Why Your Tech Skills Alone Sometimes Aren't Enough"
07/09/08: Tech Tips from July 2008 Newsletter
07/09/08: "What it Takes to Be An Independent - From Head to Toe (but not in that order)"
