Tag: java

At JavaOne this year Sun announced that they had plans to open source parts of the Java platform, although at that time the details were thin. This week, Sun have announced that they will be open sourcing two critical parts of the Java platform, the javac compiler, and the Hotspot virtual machine – both of these will be released to the open source community by the end of 2006.

Up until this year Sun has resisted community pressures to open source Java, over worries that the language and the platform may ‘fork’ into different branches of Java that may diverge in their language support and become incompatbile. This is not something that happens often in the open source world, and if it does it is usually because of good reasons, to address particular very specific needs.

It will be interesting to see how the Java platform evolves past this point, and longer term what this will mean for Sun and their involvement with the Java platform.

Steve Anglin on the OnJava.com site has an interesting article listing ’10 Misconceptions About Spring.’

This is a good list of points that are commonly misunderstood by people who have not yet started working with Spring, or who have taken a brief look but not grasped the goals of the Spring Framework.

Nastel have performance monitoring utility for J2EE applications that instruments and monitors running applications, and reports on code execution time through all the layers of the application.

They have a personal use version available from their site here.

Looking Glass 3d is an awesome project to build a next generation 3d desktop environment by Sun and the Java community on the java.net site, and is an excellent demonstration of the graphical capabilities of Java and the Java 3D API.

This week there was a copy of a video of Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, demo’ing Looking Glass posted to YouTube.com, only that the caption for the video reads “Internal Review of Microsoft 3D Vista”.

What is even funnier is the comments posted to the site – “This is freaking awesome! Microsoft Rules!”.

Yes it is freaking awesome, and implemented in Java with no Windows anywhere in sight 🙂