Java

Daily Dose - GitHub Hits 1 Million Projects

Source hosting site, GitHub, reached more than one million projects over the weekend, according to their VP of R&D.  Around 60% of projects are full...

2 replies - 4804 views - 07/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hibernate 3.5.4 and 3.6 Beta 1 Released in Tandem

JBoss delivered the final version of its Hibernate 3.5.4 maintenance release this week along with the first beta of 3.6, which adds some new features.  First...

1 replies - 5576 views - 07/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - RichFaces On the Road to Full JSF 2.0

The first of JBoss RichFaces 4.0's monthly milestones was released this week.  RichFaces 4.0 is going to provide full support for the Java EE 6 JSF 2.0...

2 replies - 4077 views - 07/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Beefs Up Add-on Features

Spring Roo 1.1 M2 and STS 2.3.3 M2 were simultaneously released this week with hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements since milestone one.  Spring Roo 1.1 M2...

0 replies - 5102 views - 07/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 Blasts Off

Stick a fork in it - Scala 2.8 is done.  The GA release hit this morning with sweeping changes that include a revamped collection library, named and default...

0 replies - 5070 views - 07/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Skills in Higher Demand than IT Security

According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills.  In previous surveys, security specialists were...

0 replies - 5533 views - 07/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Reaches Milestone One

The Oracle-SpringSource venture, Gemini, is finally bearing fruit this month with the release of the OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Reference Implementation.  The...

0 replies - 4269 views - 07/07/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Push Notifications: Standards Coming

Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps.  This week they formed a...

0 replies - 5326 views - 07/02/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - JBoss Keeps its Portal Fresh

At this week's JBoss World and Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced the final released the final version of the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0.  The EPP is...

0 replies - 5332 views - 06/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java ME Devs Get a Testing Price Cut

The mobile manufacturers that make up the Unified Test Initiative have decided to lower the price of testing Java ME software on different mobile phones and...

0 replies - 4124 views - 06/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GlassFish 3.0.1 Supports JRockit, OEL, and More

Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy.  First,...

0 replies - 4868 views - 06/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android 3.0 May Focus on the UI

Multiple sources at Google are saying that Android's "Gingerbread" (version 3.0) will attempt to refine the user experience to make it as likable as...

0 replies - 7173 views - 06/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - More Firefox 4 Features Leak Into Preview

The Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview was released this week with the 1.9.3 alpha of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.  This release includes some...

0 replies - 5774 views - 06/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Twitter Tinkers With Redis

Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and...

0 replies - 5251 views - 06/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Tomcat 7: So Close You Can Taste It!

It's almost here!  Tomcat 7 RC4 just went live and it includes all the goodies that we've been anticipating since October '09.  Tomcat 7 will implement the...

0 replies - 7141 views - 06/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose