A couple of weeks ago I wrote a summary of 7 new cool features in Java 7. Others have written great blog posts about them, so I was thinking it might be useful for me to focus on lesser known or “Hidden Java 7 Features”. In the next few weeks, I’ll try to explore and [...]

The evolution of the Java language and VM continues! Mark Reinhold (Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group) announced yesterday that the first release candidate for Java 7 is available for download, he confirms that the final released date is planned for July 28. For a good overview of the new features and what’s coming [...]

Noticed a good post on this bug here via the Java Posse Google Group, if you parse the double “2.2250738585072012e-308″ it will hang a Thread, both at runtime (via parseDouble) or at compile time (just by defining referencing that number as a literal). Examples (from the post at exploringbinary.com); class runhang { public static void main(String[] [...]

Uh oh … “Why I Quit Oracle” eWEEK got quite the scoop interviewing Java creator James Gosling, where he finally spills the beans on why he quit Oracle earlier this year. If you are a tech geek, or more likely a Java geek, you probably know who Gosling is. I first saw him presenting at [...]

JavaFX Script is officially dead. Oracle has decided to continue investing in JavaFX as the UI platform for Java client applications, but at the same time they’ve realized that the JavaFX Script language was probably a limiting factor in the general adoption of their RIA technology. History On November 8, 2006, Sun engineer Chris Oliver [...]

Well, unfortunately for me I couldn’t make it to JavaOne this year. However I am happy Oracle is keeping JavaOne alive, and that my prediction from last year proved to be true (Is this the last JavaOne ever? – answer: no). If you are not in San Francisco this week or have JavaOne passes, you [...]