I passed out of grad college as an electronics engineer with little background of programming and luckily enough my first job involved Java/j2ee. The need of the hour was to learn it. It was hard for a month, everything after that was an love affair.

Since those old days, I simply couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that Microsoft’s Windows-based servers still exist in the market having a share as large as 20% where Linux was 65+%. Sooner I realized, easier it became to grasp  that I wasn’t  the only one troubled with it.

Java may not still be the best Web .. Read Further »

Last weekend, Oracle announced it’s latest offering that enables Virtualization-Aware Java Applications on top of Weblogic webserver.

Taking it further, is Salesforce and VMware, who are turning cloud computing into a Java runtime environment. The companies have partnered to together enable Spring framework based Java cloud. The foundation would be  VMware’s vSphere virtualization infrastructure and will be hosted, of course, at Salesforce.com.

VMforce (the name is obvious) will be able to host any Java .. Read Further »

After finishing off it’s recent acquisition of Sun and BEA (earlier),  Oracle is set to do magic around the heart of Java, Virtual Machines.

Larry had promised that Oracle will continue to innovate in Java, and the first step seems to be on the road. Oracle is planning to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM, to produce a single JVM with ETA of 18 months to two years.

For the short term, the .. Read Further »

Oracle recently announced that Approval from EU for the Oracle-Sun merger. Rumors of layoffs may have just started, but there is a move from the CEO before it all happens.

Sun’s CEO Jon Schwartz’s recent all-hands memo (read below) to employees had all the sentiments embedded that hinted his farewell. Sources close to Schwartz tell that he will soon resign as CEO, leaving the company in the hands of new owner Oracle. Schwartz’s departure will likely coincide with final approval of the deal and official change in control of the company.

Schwartz joined the CEO position with  the aim of .. Read Further »

Reverse engineering is becomes a necessity every now and then. When it comes to java decompilation, there are several available in the wild that do it pretty well but the problem: Most of them are either paid or non-gui based with little IDE integration.

Till recently, I was using DJ decompiler, which is just a GUI on top of the jad command line utility.

But here comes a new Java decompiler which might .. Read Further »

Java VisualVM was released more than year and a half ago, but its still worth blogging since most people don’t know about it.

VisualVM is an open source tool for monitoring and profiling your Java applications. VisualVM is now integrated with JDK 6 update 7 release and also available as a stand-alone setup. Java 7 plans to integrate next version 1.2.

So, from now on you need not pay a hefty price for licensing third party profilers. In this article we’ll walk through the features of VisualVM and see how it is different from commercial profiling tools.

Let’s see what .. Read Further »

JavaFX meets TaranFX.

JavaFX is built on top of a mature Runtime that gives developer’s amazing features. Java being in market since several years, they now have a more sophisticated API.

Update: This Blog post is Winner of Java Blogging Contest.

So what is JavaFX Hype all about?

I first got to hear about JavaFX more than a year back when I attended Sun Tech days. It wasn’t very mature at that time and failed to catch my attention. It was this year in Feb, when I saw a momentum and maturity in this platform, which encouraged me to take my steps further.

JavaFX gives developers an amazing feature-Rich API which will help .. Read Further »

Java has been the industry standard for all kinds of business applications. The reason of success had been the platform portability, perfect OO programming, Evolution of 3rd party frameworks & tools, and ofcourse Open source nature.

There had been one concern though. the performance. When Java released 1.3 way back in time a decade ago, it was featurefull but sluggish. As Java eveolved over all these years to current release Java 6, It has gained lots of Virtual machine optimizations. There were improved memory management using intelligent GC. We have seen compile time and compiler optimizations which enabled improvement in run time performance.

Comparing the performnce of 1.3 vs. 1.6, you will see differences of Big Leap. There are certain computational aspects where VM is .. Read Further »

Larry Ellison has said that the “new Oracle” will continue to invest in Java and will consider building Java-powered netbooks and phones.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy at the JavaOne conference choose not to discuss the future of Sun’s hardware businesses, which include processors, servers, storage arrays, network switches and thin-client terminals. Ellison did say the new Oracle will consider building Java-powered netbooks and phones.

Larry Ellison, in his first public appearance since Oracle announced April 20 that it intends to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, told a packed auditorium in an informal appearance onstage at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco that his new ownership will continue to invest heavily in .. Read Further »

The GreenTea Software is a pure Java Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based Grid OS platform that facilitates P2P computing, distributed computing, grid computing, and network computing by harnessing the idle computing resources on the network. GreenTea is written entirely in the Java (TM) programming language. It runs on any Java enabled computing platforms, such as PCs, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, even Java-enabled Cell phones. GreenTea .. Read Further »