fidzu : Java

Last year we saw the launch of a new Web programming language Dart - Structured Web Programming from Google. A very interesting approach to support web application development. Not so long after Go, Groovy, Ruby, Scala, << Name your DSL here >>; we see Dart. Is it a good thing to have at least one programming language to solve one problem? The answer is, like we already know, it depends.

Stay Away From "Do it Yourself"

It is your choice as to if you will try to do things yourself or allow the truly seasoned professionals to help out. Some decide that they are going to try to go it alone when they are programming something new, but this often ends up in a less than desirable place. It may even be more expensive than just hiring an expert who can help you get it programmed for you in the first place.

13 Aug 2022 3:27pm GMT

Pivotal announced yesterday that Groovy 2.4 And Grails 3.0 will be the last major releases under Pivotal sponsorship. This is big news that has not surprisingly created a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. In this post, I describe some of the questions that others and I are wondering about and speculate on Groovy's future.

Groovy's Future is in Doubt

Sadly, it appears at this time that is more likely than not that Groovy does not have a significant future ahead. It would seem that the developers of this program are going to allow it to rot away instead of taking any action steps to potentially stave off such an outcome.

13 Aug 2022 11:26am GMT

I wrote about cypher's MERGE function a couple of weeks ago, and over the last few days, I've been exploring how it works with schema indexes and unique constraints.

An Exciting Time to Be a Developer

There is so much that could be said about the merging of Neo4j and Cypher right now, but it is certainly reasonable to point out that this merger will likely result in many exciting developments in the programming world.

13 Aug 2022 8:34am GMT

Java serialization is convenient to store the state of Java objects. However, there are some drawbacks of serialized data:

1. It is not human-readable.

13 Aug 2022 8:18am GMT

In just over six years, Apache Maven has become one of the most coveted tools for project build and reporting management. It's been five years since the release of Maven 2, and now the Maven committers have released the next landmark version of the software.

Incredible Improvements in Little Time

It didn't take long for Maven to become one of the most respected and desired tools in computer engineering. However, the product only continues to improve as Maven 3 is now available for those needing this extra computing power.

13 Aug 2022 8:08am GMT

Tight coupling between modules is a bad idea, and the worst form of coupling is cyclic dependencies between modules. Fortunately, there are a few techniques we can use to break the cycles. They are Callback, Escalation, and Demotion, and I'm going to walk through some examples that show each of them in action.

Then, once the dependencies are broken, we'll look at two more techniques that allow us to invert and eliminate the relationship altogether. The code for each of the samples can be found in the edcie project on my Google code repository. Each example includes a build script and a simple test case. To execute them though, you'll need GraphViz if you want to use JarAnalyzer. To invoke the build scripts without invoking JarAnalyzer, you can simply type:

12 Aug 2022 12:04pm GMT

For developers having worked on J2EE web applications for many years, getting into Flex will seem both very fun and familiar of the simplicity and power of ActionScript and the UI framework, and quite tedious and frustrating when it comes to developing the core application logic and the server integration.

In some ways, developing Flex applications with widely used frameworks like Cairngorm and BlazeDS involves a lot of plumbing code (business delegates, service facades, conversions between JPA entities and value objects,...) and will remind you of the days of Struts and EJB2.

12 Aug 2022 11:54am GMT

Spring Roo is an rapid application development tool that helps you in rapidly building spring-based enterprise applications in the java programming language. Google app engine is a cloud computing technology that lets you run your application on Google's infrastructure. Using Spring Roo, you can develop applications that can be deployed on the Google app engine. In this tutorial, we will develop a simple application that can run on the Google app engine.

Roo configures and manages your application using the Roo shell. Roo shell can be launched as a stand-alone, command-line tool, or as a view pane in the Springsource tool suite ide.

12 Aug 2022 11:22am GMT

In The Joy of Clojure (TJoC) destructuring is described as a mini-language within Clojure. It's not essential to learn this mini-language; however, as the authors of TJoC point out, destructuring facilitates concise, elegant code.

Making Code More Understandable

One of the scariest things for those who are just now learning how to do some coding is the fact that they have to try to figure out what a seemingly impossible set of rules and structures means for the work that they are trying to do. It is not easy at all, and many people struggle with it in big ways.

12 Aug 2022 6:17am GMT

In Jonathan Giles's post An FX Experience Retrospective, he starts by looking at the history of JavaFX and focuses on "what has happened in the world of JavaFX" in 2011. I was highly skeptical of JavaFX prior to JavaOne 2010 (see here and here for examples), but started to think more positively about it after the JavaOne 2010 and JavaOne 2011 announcements related to JavaFX.

One thing that has been a little tricky about learning JavaFX since JavaOne 2011's big announcements have been knowing for certain whether a particular resource on JavaFX applies to JavaFX 1.x or JavaFX 2.x. Reading the An FX Experience Retrospective post provided a different perspective on the risks and challenges Oracle and the JavaFX team has faced in making this major overhaul.

12 Aug 2022 6:10am GMT

In my latest post I explained the reasons that can cause the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space crashes. Now it is time to talk about possible solutions to the problem. Or, more precisely, about what the Internet suggests for possible solutions. Unfortunately, I can only say that I felt my inner Jamie Hyneman from MythBusters awakening when going through the different "expert opinions" on the subject.

I googled for current common knowledge about ways to solve java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space crashes and went through a couple dozen pages that seemed more appropriate in Google results. Fortunately, most of the suggestions have already been distilled into this topic of the very respected StackOverflow. As you can see, the topic is truly popular and has some quite highly voted answers. But the irony is that the whole topic contains exactly zero solutions I could recommend myself.

12 Aug 2022 5:58am GMT

When we are in the learning phase of some technology, we always find the cleanest scenarios and examples in books and tutorials. It is perfectly logical because then we have to grasp the very core of the concepts involved, and we don't want to be confused by the imperfections coming from the real world.

When we make the first steps in the actual implementations of such learned material we always face some discomfort. Reality is always dirtier than our imagination.

10 Aug 2022 5:04pm GMT

Ahoy, matey!

Welcome back to my journal, where I've been documenting my experience of building a geo-distributed app in Java from scratch. In the previous article, I broke down the definition of geo-distributed apps. If you missed that part of the journey, turn the "page" back to catch up.

08 Aug 2022 3:14pm GMT

Have you heard of geo-distributed apps? According to my statistics around 50% of us haven't!

Microsoft defines a geo-distributed app as an app that spans multiple geographic locations for high availability and resiliency. "Geo-distributed" is a relatively new term, coined around the time when many of us jumped on the cloud bandwagon and started building cloud-native apps like crazy.

04 Aug 2022 5:32pm GMT

03 Aug 2022 1:03pm GMT

java.lang.ClassLoader#loadClass() API is used by 3rd party libraries, JDBC Drivers, frameworks, and application servers to load a java class into the memory. Application developers don't use this API frequently. However when they use the APIs such as 'java.lang.Class.forName()' or 'org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName()', they internally call this 'java.lang.ClassLoader#loadClass()' API.

Frequent usage of this API amongst different threads at runtime can slow down your application performance. Sometimes it can even make the entire application unresponsive. In this post let's understand this API a little bit more and its performance impact.

01 Aug 2022 4:53pm GMT

From the Ceylon dept.:

Gavin King of Red Hat/Hibernate/Seam fame recently unveiled the top secret project that he has been working on over the past two years, a new language and SDK designed to replace Java in the enterprise. The project came out of hiding without much fanfare or publicity at QCon Beijing in a keynote titled "The Ceylon Project - the next generation of Java language?".

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Yet Another dept.:

To further its commitment to the Java Community Process (JCP), Oracle has submitted the first of two Java Specification Requests (JSRs) to update and revitalize the JCP.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Fact Checking dept.:

ZDNET: Sometimes the sheer wrongness of what is posted on the web leaves us speechless. Especially when it's picked up and repeated as gospel by otherwise reputable sites like Engadget. "Google copied Oracle's Java code, pasted in a new license, and shipped it," they reported this morning.



Sorry, but that just isn't true.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Grande dept.:

Oracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the first release of the Java platform under Oracle stewardship.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Jitters dept.:

The next edition of Java has been approved by a Java Community Process executive committee, but not without some acrimony.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the JDK dept.:

After an initial round of testing we've declared build 147 to be the first Release Candidate of JDK 7.



There are only thirteen changes in this build. Over half of them are administrivial updates that don't affect the actual code; the remainder are true showstoppers, including several hard VM crashes and a JIT correctness bug identified by an Eclipse unit test.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Counter dept.:

Google has filed its answer to Oracle's amended complaint and its memorandum opposing Oracle's Motion to Dismiss. And we find out why Google didn't just roll over and pay Oracle for a license. Oracle asked in its motion to dismiss that the counterclaims alleging that Oracle's patents are invalid be dismissed. So Google explains more thoroughly why it believes they are in fact invalid. First, Google asserts:



Each of the Patents-in-Suit is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because one or more claims are directed to abstract ideas or other non-statutory subject matter.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the Dis Harmony dept.:

The Apache Software Foundation - one of tech's most influential open-source groups - is closer to quitting Java's governing body after losing a stand-off vote against Oracle on Java.



The Reg has learned that with 75 per cent of qualifying Java Community Process (JCP) members having voted on whether to ratify Oracle's proposed roadmap for Java 7 and 8, Oracle's plan has been accepted.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the So Long dept.:

The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community. Further, the project communities of the ASF, home to Apache Tomcat, Ant, Xerces, Geronimo, Velocity and nearly a 100 mainstay java components have implemented countless JSRs and serve on and contribute to many of the JCPs technical expert groups.



We'd like to provide some explanation to the community as to why we're taking this significant step.



The recent Java SE 7 vote was the last chance for the JCP EC to demonstrate that the EC has any intent to defend the JCP as an open specification process, and demonstrate that the letter and spirit of the law matter. To sum up the issues at stake in the vote, we believe that while continuing to fail to uphold their responsibilities under the JSPA, Oracle provided the EC with a Java SE 7 specification request and license that are self-contradictory, severely restrict distribution of independent implementations of the spec, and most importantly, prohibit the distribution of independent open source implementations of the spec. Oracle has refused to answer any reasonable and responsible questions from the EC regarding these problems.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

From the DisHarmony dept.:

After the resignation of Apache from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, the time has now come for Harmony to be added to the Apache Attic. Harmony was 'the project to produce an open source cleanroom implementation of Java.' An open vote was taken within the Project Management Committee, which resulted in a 20-2 majority to discontinue development.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

The major update to YourKit Java Profiler has been released. Version 7.0 includes

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

Sun will gradually phase out mobile Java (Java Micro Edition) and move respective services to Standard Edition. "We're trying to converge

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

The development kit and API for Google mobile platform, Android, has been released.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

Sun has started an early access program to Java SE 6 Update N (formerly known as the "Consumer

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

New version of pure Java IDE has been released, with support for many new

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT

We wish a Happy New Year to all our readers and contributers. Hope to see you all in 2008.

10 Nov 2011 6:01am GMT