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  • J-Fall 2008

    I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG . J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how...
    Published 12-11-2008 21:17 by peterhe
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  • JavaFX: coming soon now

    Finally, a ship date is set for JavaFX: the new UI toolkit from Sun, designed to go head to head with Flash and Silverlight. December 2nd (2008) is the date that JavaFX 1.0 final will be shipped. Sun will also announce some other news regarding the future...
    Published 09-11-2008 13:46 by peterhe
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  • Java 6 update 10 available

    Without a lot of buzz, Sun released update 10 of Java 6 yesterday on the download page . Update 10 brings a lot of improvements I've written about before and is the base release for the JavaFX framework. Update 10 also has a consumer download for...
    Published 17-10-2008 8:06 by peterhe
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  • Silverlight, JavaFX and Eclipse

    You may already have heard: Silverlight 2.0 has been released. This is a big update to the Microsoft alternative of Flash. It will be interesting to see whether Silverlight will gain momentum on the web, it will probably require another YouTube or a controversial...
    Published 14-10-2008 20:37 by peterhe
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  • The battle of the screens

    Adobe today launched the Flash Player 10 beta player. See some demo videos on some new features, notably 3D and the "weird text layout" support, which is great because the Flash text layouting really could use a tune-up. Adobe also launched...
    Published 16-05-2008 20:53 by peterhe
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  • Java 6 update N beta available

    At JavaOne 2007 Sun announced that it would do a Java 6 "refresh" release, geared at improving the Java desktop experience. After several other codenames this release is now named " Java SE 6 Update 10 ". This release is pretty substantial...
    Published 03-04-2008 11:52 by peterhe
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  • JavaOne: day 2

    After some sleep, a big breakfast and loads of coffee it was time for day 2 of the JavaOne. Today's morning session was done by Oracle. Like usual Oracle did some cool scripted demo's that showed how to create a complex SOA/AJAX application by...
    Published 10-05-2007 8:24 by peterhe
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  • JavaOne: day 1

    This day, the JavaOne conference started for real. Sun like usual opened with some major announcements saved for the occasion. The open source Java project is now fully live, all the code is now available. Real Time Java is available, bringing a full...
    Published 09-05-2007 8:39 by peterhe
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