Until Java 9 is ready, there is still an option if you need to reduce the size of a bundled JRE: exclude some files! This is totally official and supported by Oracle; in fact all the files you can exclude from a JRE are listed in the JRE’s README (unfortunately with a few persisting typos…)
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Java in Flux… a Java roadmap (kindof)
Must read keynote from the TSSJS conf last week… I was thrilled by the Aeon Flux reference btw 🙂 [edit: the presentation has been removed and is no longer accessible… you can read the related blog entry here. Thanks Chris for making me aware of this]
Testatoo: TDD for the GUI
Test-driven development is a good thing. We all agree on that, right? But TDD assumes you can write tests before actually implementing the functionality. How do you do for the GUI when most GUI test tools are based on a scenario-recording appraoch? This requires that the GUI already exists; in other words, another instance of
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EricDaugherty.com: Does Write Once Run Anwhere Work?
Eric Daugherty: Realistically, I think tools like GWT are the future. As a Flex developer, I enjoy the ability to quickly and easily create rich applications that will render the same on ever user's machine. But I would prefer that the Flex applications would compile to HTML and JavaScript, so they could be run native
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Kindle Development Kit to use Java
Amazon has unveiled the details of its development kit for its Kindle e-book reader. The so called “Kindle development kit for active content” (or KDK) will be based on Java 1.4 Personal Basis Profile (JSR 217); custom additional APIs will be available for networking, local storage, specific UI components, etc. (see javadoc). As strongly as
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Google Collections Library 1.0 final
The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought to you by Google. It is a natural extension of the Java Collections Framework. We have finally (Dec 30, 2009) released version 1.0-final! The API is now frozen: there will be no more
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Support the Elvis proposal for Java !
Are you tired of writing (x != null) ? x.getThis() : null Would you rather write something like x?.getThis() If so, support the Elvis proposal for Java ! Interesting alternative notations can be found here.
Mark Reinhold’s proposal for Java closures
I believe this proposal, although incomplete, to be much more acceptable to the current Java community than existing BGGA or FCM. Most proposals state that it’s not the syntax that matters, it’s the semantics. While this is undoubtedly true, syntax is the first thing a programmer will see and judge the feature by. If the
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lambdaj – easy collection manipulation
LambaJ is quite an interesting project. How many times did you write the same loop, with only a few differences that were impossible to factor out because of the lack of closures in Java? LambdaJ partially alleviates the need for closures by allowing the manipulation of Collections in a way that doesn’t require iterating through
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“Is Oracle Good for Java?”
Continuing the series, here’s Bert Ertman’s opinion after Oracle’s OpenWorld : (…) To sum things up so far, Oracle’s message is about integrating everything into a single (bright red colored) solution. They deserve credit for the way their current stack seems to deliver to that promise. However, Java’s promise has always been about opening everything
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