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Well, you may have seen the Java Industry Newsletter's hot story, "Eclipse
versus NetBeans." As an editor of this fine publication, it's my privilege to
see all of our feedback arriving at my inbox. My first reaction was, oh
please, not another IDE war. But I dutifully suppressed the urge to delete
the e-mails and started to read them.
Most of the posts tried to be helpful by offering advice like, "Eclipse
rocks, its user interface feels more natural and is very snappy." There were
other comments like "NetBeans rocks,... (more)
We've all heard the news: JBoss has received $10 million in funding and now
it's time to sit back and mull it over. Without a doubt this infusion of
capital is a signal of confidence for JBoss Group. But is this investment a
good thing for open source? Not an unimportant question for those of us who
have decided to use open source in our enterprise applications. If
organizations are just... (more)
By necessity, the operating system loads each VM into its own separate
process slot. Consequently, each VM is forced to duplicate the other's
initialization efforts and resource allocations. Specifically, each VM is
required to load the JDK core classes into their respective heap spaces.
Running several Java applications in the same VM would eliminate this
duplication of effort. There's ... (more)
(May 29, 2003) - Late last week, Sun Microsystems started briefing everyone
on the changes that will be implemented in version 2.6 of the JCP. In this
revised version of the JCP are plans to increase both the transparency and
the level of involvement in the process. "We want to make the process more
transparent" stated Aaron Willams of Sun Microsystems, the Spec Lead for JSR
215.
To achi... (more)