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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Last December I did a presentation about JavaFX in Spanish for the Panama Java User’s Group (JUG). This event took place in the city of Chitre, and was a lot of fun to participate in, specially since it gave me a chance to visit my native country. The presentation aimed to serve as an introduction [...]