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Sun to collaborate with Carnegie Mellon on Alice
Sun has announced it is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to continue work on Alice, the key research project of The Last Lecture author Randy Pausch. The Java-based Alice is "an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. "
10 Years of NetBeans: A Reflection and Birthday Greeting from Jonathan Schwartz
The NetBeans 10th Birthday Celebration closes with a special interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. He talks about why developers are important to Sun, looks back on how software development has changed over the last 10 years and why NetBeans matters to Sun and the industry.
Why (Java) developers prefer Macs
InfoWorld has posted an article on Why developers prefer Macs, pointing out its popularity among Ruby and Java developers. "Java development on the Mac is also very popular, in part because all the major Java development environments are written in Java. Therefore, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and NetBeans all run about the same on Windows, Mac, and Linux boxes." However, the article also notes competition from other flavors of Unix, and James Gosling's recently delcared preference for OpenSolaris over Mac OS X.
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Screencast #28: Simple Web Application using Eclipse and GlassFish v3 Prelude
GlassFish v3 Prelude is now available! Some of the cool features are: Modularity using OSGi, Rapid deployment using retain session data across HTTP redeploys and deploy-on-save, embeddability, dynamic languages and frameworks, faster start up time, integrated NetBeans and Eclipse tooling, etc. This screencast shows how you can create a simple Web application using JSP and Servlets in Eclipse 3.4, deploy it directly on GlassFish v3, use rapid deployment, and debug the application.
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Arun Gupta
RSJUG Day - December 13th of 2008
Upcoming event from Rio Grande do Sul Java Users Group. This is a Java Users Group from Brazil, the first JUG created in Brazil. The call for papers is open, so you can send your proposal until December 1st of 2008.
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Daniel Wildt
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TextField default key codes / mapping
Is there a way to override the mapping of key codes to characters/numbers, for example if I want to have German characters available as well? Looking at the source code I saw that DEFAULT_KEY_CODES is not accessible from outside the class or a subclass. Is there a special reason for that? I see a possibility to accomplish what I need by overwriting the default input modes with my own input modes using addInputMode(). Is this the "correct" way? It might be easier if there was a getter for DEFAULT_KEY_CODES. —
WonderDAC Papers
It's been a while since I last posted, though I have been actively lurking. Some of you may recall that my modest contribution to Wonderland has been to devise a discretionary access control system called WonderDAC. My efforts on this front have recently culminated in a small, but realistic, test of Wonderland and WonderDAC. I won't bother you with all of the details and outcome, here; please visit my website for links to several papers on WonderDAC that I've authored (http://www.cleverbedlam.net/node/21). —
REVIEW REQUEST: Troubleshooting Guide
The GlassFish v3 Prelude Troubleshooting Guide is now available for review. Please review the document and provide feedback by close of business Monday Nov 24th PT (earlier would be even better). I know that's not much time, but that's the reality of the schedule. The document is available from the doc comments wiki: http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=TroubleShootingGuideV3. Please add your comments to the page or, given the short timeline, send them directly to me. —
Re: The ongoing switch from Java to Flash
Also, I use Linux, so when I see an applet loading I cringe. I expect a clunky experience that will increase my blood pressure by forcing me to wonder "is it wedged? is my browser hosed? is it a server issue?" Don't make Linux a second class citizen. We Linux users are a vocal, evangelical, knowledgeable and most important, trusted group. We're the ones who told our Windows using friends to ditch IE for Firefox. We're the ones who explain the liabilities of vendor lockin. We are king makers and you ignore us at your peril. —
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