The screenshot above is from Anthony Rogers’ blog (UI designer for the tool), and the next one is from Chris Oliver’s blog, who successfully managed to hide away from most of the geek crowds at JavaOne. The design of the tool is looking really nice and clean, the timeline reminds me a bit of the [...]

“The classpath is dead“ … that’s what Mark Reinhold (Principal Engineer @ Sun) said at a general session during JavaOne 2009. It’s the type of statement that should resonate with any of us who have been victims of classpath/jar hell. Mark announced this in the context of reviewing the new language features due to be [...]

During this morning’s JavaOne general session, the “James Gosling’s Toy Show”, Tor Norbye gave another preview of the “JavaFX Authoring Tool” (TODO: Needs a cool codename!!!). In 2007 when I blogged about the original JavaFX announcement at that year’s JavaOne, one of my first questions was about the tooling. At first we basically just had [...]

I’ve heard this question asked quite a few times around the hallways of the Moscone Center this week. There are no guarantees or definite answers, even Ellison didn’t really provide many details when asked (he probably can’t) but I think the answer is a definite no. It is well known that Java is a big [...]

Visiting the JavaOne pavillion yesterday at CommunityOne, one thing that stood out was the absence of Oracle. This year there is no Oracle booth, which is very unusual, and a lot of people are wondering what is going on with the Sun/Oracle merger which nobody from Sun is really talking about. My guess is that [...]

JavaOne officially starts tomorrow but today Sun has kicked off CommunityOne. Which is a more open source focused and free conference that precedes the bigger event. The main theme this year is cloud computing. The presentation today has been about showing several vendor solutions in the areas of virtualization and large scale application deployment that [...]