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 .. Read Further »

There was a along lived myth that claimed “java is slow”. Over the years, we’ve seen Java going faster, and occupying the enterprise, eventually, the mobile space. Running the desktop Hotspot JVM sure is an overkill for the mobile devices, and that brings the need of optimizations that could make the VM lighter and efficient for low memory/CPU footprint devices.

Android is a Linux based OS with 2.6.x kernel, stripped down to .. Read Further »

The Open Source Programming language that powers much of the Internet and many commercial applications today, could replace Java in the Future.

Scala is widely adopted for popular Social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare. An estimated 100,000 programmers are already using the language and it continues to attract attention from industry for its elegance and muscle. Currently Scala v2.8 is capable of delivering some amazing scripting features which somehow Java and several other programming languages .. 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 »

Oracle has unveiled Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option this week, a pair of new applications designed to simplify the deployment and management of Java applications in Virtualized environments.

Officially, this would be the First Application server which is Fully Virtualization-aware. As a result, the enterprises who crave for new tools to help simplify the administration of Java applications in virtualized environments would now have a sigh of relief.

The new apps marks Oracle’s first .. Read Further »

This would, perhaps, be the second most shocking/sad news after the resignation of Jonathan (former Sun CEO). I’m sad and upset after hearing the confirmed news that James Gosling will be leaving Sun/.. Read Further »

For application developers who are hunting down to rewrite GUI for every other OS, there is a simple and yet, an elegant solution : Qt

Qt (pronounced “Cute”) is cross-platform application and UI framework developed and maintained by telecom giant, Nokia. As far as I can tell you, this is the most portable, and yet most feature-ful UI, I’ve seen lately. Surprisingly, it works on both PCs and mobiles, alike. It supports embedded-Linux, Mac OS, Windows, .. 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 »

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 EE 6 just got released yesterday, here is everything you need to know about, in brief.

A look back: Java EE 5 was a remarkable step towards a mature, widely deployed, well supported server-side development platform. EJB 3.0 was re-engineered to ease, the Entity Bean model was stripped and replaced by JPA as the persistence paradigm, JSF was introduced as the standard presentation tier framework and JAX-WS 2.0 replaced JAX-RPC as the SOAP web services API. The focus of Java EE 5 was squarely on reducing complexity by embracing the concepts of annotations, POJO programming, .. Read Further »