By Kirk Pepperdine Has it really been a year since the last JavaOne? It seems like yesterday that I was watching James Gosling launch T-shirts into the audience using a trebuchet! What a year it has been. Who would have thought that Microsoft and Sun would come to the agreement they did? Those of us watc... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,159 |
By Kirk Pepperdine Just recently Gartner reported that IBM has overtaken BEA in application server market share. The interesting thing is that Gartner's expression of market share is in a single number, dollars. While dollars are certainly an important factor in declaring a market leader, is this an accu... Jun. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,337 Replies: 8 |
By Kirk Pepperdine It was April 2, when I first heard the news that Sun and Microsoft had reached a settlement on their long-standing dispute over Java. When I first saw the headline, I honestly thought it was a leftover April Fool's joke, so I ignored it. It was only when I saw the words 'Microsoft and ... May. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,894 Replies: 1 |
By Kirk Pepperdine 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 t... Apr. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 31,448 Replies: 9 |
By Kirk Pepperdine 'We want to involve more people sooner,' says Sun's Aaron Williams, as Sun launches JCP 2.6. JDJ's enterprise editor Kirk Pepperdine talks with Williams about his passionate belief that transparency will help demystify the process by which JSRs move through the various stages of their ... Mar. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,630 |
By Kirk Pepperdine 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 u... Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 28,313 Replies: 3 |
By Kirk Pepperdine Last year I was introduced to the No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS) Software symposium in Atlanta. It was a high-quality experience in every aspect. The speakers delivered more than technical information, they delivered an insight into what was happening in our industry. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 20,641 |
By Kirk Pepperdine Do you enjoy history? I do. In fact, I've always enjoyed history for I've always found that understanding the past has been useful in helping me to understand the here and now. Part of my here and now is the taking on of the role of enterprise editor. Feb. 5, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,498 |
By Kirk Pepperdine Kirk Pepperdine spent the last few days in Antwerp at the BeJUG's (Belgium Java Users Group) second offering of JavaPolis. Learn how he got on. Dec. 8, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,271 Replies: 3 |
By Kirk Pepperdine The JRockit engineers made two assumptions when they first designed JRockit. First, server VMs run for a long time and, second, memory is cheap and plentiful. Nov. 3, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 34,156 |
By Kirk Pepperdine You have a task that your Ant build process needs to perform and none of the built-in or dozens of optional tasks fits the bill. If at this point you're thinking that Ant won't work for you, then the authors of Ant have some wonderful news. The framework they use to run built-in ta... Sep. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,722 Replies: 2 |
By Kirk Pepperdine Up till now, changes to Java have been pretty much constrained to APIs and the inner workings of the Java 2 platform. All of this will change once the JDK 1.5 has been released. The extent of these changes was revealed in a recent interview with Joshua Bloch. Aug. 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,196 Replies: 3 |
By Kirk Pepperdine 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 space... Apr. 1, 2002 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,872 Replies: 1 |
By Kirk Pepperdine (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 th... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,574 Replies: 3 |
Kirk Pepperdine has more than 10 years of experience in OO technologies. In edition to his work in the area of performance tuning, Kirk has focused on building middleware for distributed applications.
