http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 08:18:19 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19374/JNode_0.2.6_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19374/JNode_0.2.6_Released/ JNode 0.2.6 has been released. "JNode is a free, open source Java technology based OS written fully in Java language (with a very small assembler nano-kernel). This release features over 99 percent java 6 api compatibility, hotswapping, nfs, hfs+, even more openJDK integration, jetty6 and of course bug fixes and improvements." Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:36:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Java 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Martin Husted Hartvig http://www.osnews.com/story/19337/IcedTea_1.6_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19337/IcedTea_1.6_Released/ The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. This release adds the "Zero-assembler" port which will allow IcedTea to run with zero (ok, minimal) porting effort on any GNU/Linux architecture that has a gcc and libffi port available. JNLP support has been added through the addition of NetX, which makes a lot of java webstart applications work out of the box. Check out the screenshots. Gary Benson will give a talk about the zero-assembler port at FOSDEM during the free Java developer meeting where GNU Classpath, OpenJDK and many other Free Java projects come together to plan the future of Free Java on GNU/Linux. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:50:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mark Wielaard http://www.osnews.com/story/19105/IcedTea_1.5_Adds_PowerPC_Java_Port/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19105/IcedTea_1.5_Adds_PowerPC_Java_Port/ The IcedTea project added a PowerPC Java port (both 32 and 64 bit) of OpenJDK. IcedTea 1.5 now also tracks the mercurial repo, provides better GNU/Linux integration by using standard system libraries (libpng, libjpeg, zlib, giflib) and can be bootstrapped with the free gcj/ecj/classpath toolchain. OpenJDK just accepted a new porters group and Gary Benson wrote a guide to porting IcedTea that might be the start of a lot of other Java ports. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:22:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mark Wielaard http://www.osnews.com/story/19070/Java_SE_6_Developer_Preview_8_for_Leopard_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19070/Java_SE_6_Developer_Preview_8_for_Leopard_Released/ Straight from the ADC site (a free online account is enough to gain access to the download): "Java SE 6 Developer Preview 8 is an implementation of Sun's Java SE 6 for Mac OS X v10.5.1 and later. This Preview includes Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_01. This Developer Preview does not change the default version of Java. This release is only for Mac OS X v10.5.1 and later, and should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X. This release is for 64-bit Intel-based Macs only and cannot run on PowerPC-based or 32-bit Intel-based Macs." Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:13:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News meianoite http://www.osnews.com/story/18808/Sun_Scrapping_Mobile_Java_Moving_Devices_to_Standard_Java/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18808/Sun_Scrapping_Mobile_Java_Moving_Devices_to_Standard_Java/ Sun's starting to phase out mobile Java that's been the standard on cellphones and other small devices in favor of their standard edition, which are made for PCs everywhere. Sun VP James Gosling's reasoning for shifting everyone over to Java Standard Edition is because 'cellphones and TV set-top boxes are growing up', meaning they're getting enough processing power to handle all the demands of full-featured Java. Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:23:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18800/GNU_Classpath_0.96_IcedTea_1.4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18800/GNU_Classpath_0.96_IcedTea_1.4_Released/ GNU Classpath 0.96 "Staying Alive!" and IcedTea 1.4 just got released. GNU Classpath is slowly turning into a bootstrapping platform for IcedTea/OpenJDK by providing the necessary free software plugs that are missing from Sun's OpenJDK to provide various GNU/Linux distributions with the fully free GPLed IcedTea Java platform implementation that will be in the Fedora (Werewolf), Debian, and Ubuntu (Gutsy) releases. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:54:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mark Wielaard http://www.osnews.com/story/18706/Performance_Monitoring_Enhancements_in_the_Latest_Java/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18706/Performance_Monitoring_Enhancements_in_the_Latest_Java/ Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 focuses on performance, with expanded tools for managing and monitoring applications as well as diagnosing common problems. This article outlines the basis of monitoring and management in the Java SE platform and provides detailed information about the relevant enhancements in Java SE 6. Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:20:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News BlueVoodoo http://www.osnews.com/story/18688/JNode_0.2.5_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18688/JNode_0.2.5_Released/ "After nearly a year of hard work the JNode team is proud to announce the release of JNode 0.2.5, the new intermediary development version of the JNode operating system. JNode is a free, open source Java technology base OS written fully in Java language (with a very small assembler nano-kernel). This release features OpenJDK integration, Java 6 support, substantially impoved consoles, experimental support for isolates and a large set of bug fixes and improvements to all parts of the system, including better memory mamagement and increased performance." Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:08:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Martin Husted Hartvig http://www.osnews.com/story/18651/Fully_Time_Deterministic_Java/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18651/Fully_Time_Deterministic_Java/ For cost reasons the space agency is more and more interested in using Java for safety-critical missions. Until recently the lack of a time-predictable standard library has been a major hurdle to Java adoption in that particular field. It is no more the case as demonstrated by this AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) paper [.pdf] presented the first day of the Space 2007 conference (Long Beach, CA) and introducing the first fully time-deterministic (and open-source) library for Java: Javolution. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:10:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Jean-Marie Dautelle http://www.osnews.com/story/18601/JavaFX_JavaFX_Script:_What_Is_It_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18601/JavaFX_JavaFX_Script:_What_Is_It_/ "I recently gave a presentation at the Portland Java Users Group about Java FX. After talking to some of the fine members of PJUG I realize that there is a lot of confusion about JavaFX and JavaFX script. JavaFX Script is just one part of the larger JavaFX umbrella. In fact, you don't even have to use JavaFX Script to gain many of the benefits of JavaFX! This weblog posting is my attempt to clear up a few things and get you excited about the future of client Java. After reading it I hope you will come away with a better understanding of what JavaFX is and why we created it." Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:50:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News frozen5555 http://www.osnews.com/story/18558/Fedora_Includes_Sun_OpenJDK_GNU_Classpath_Fusion_IcedTea/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18558/Fedora_Includes_Sun_OpenJDK_GNU_Classpath_Fusion_IcedTea/ Just in time for Fedora 8 test 2 IcedTea has landed in Fedora RawHide. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from the Sun OpenJDK project using Free Software build tools (gcj) and provides replacements for the non-free binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. Installing this experimental GPL Java platfom is now as easy as yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea. In addition, Sun has promised to provide a Test Compatibility Kit soon so people can see how 'officially Java' this package really is. Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:43:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mark Wielaard http://www.osnews.com/story/18376/Sun_Unveils_Open_Mobile_Platform:_JavaFX/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18376/Sun_Unveils_Open_Mobile_Platform:_JavaFX/ Sun has unveiled a new open mobile platform called JavaFX, which it hopes will bring open rapid open development to the mobile space, an environment long dominated by telcos and cellular carriers. Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:42:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Java 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mag.R http://www.osnews.com/story/18345/Better_OS_X_Java_with_Eclipse/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18345/Better_OS_X_Java_with_Eclipse/ Mac OS X is a powerful platform for Java development. While the Java development environment is fully integrated into Mac OS X, the Eclipse integrated development environment brings a fully integrated Java development environment to Mac OS X that provides a consistent cross-platform experience. This article shows you how to use this environment to import existing Xcode projects into Eclipse, tweak key bindings, and integrate Eclipse with the Mac OS X-bundled Concurrent Versions System. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:13:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18258/Take_Charge_of_Your_Architecture/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18258/Take_Charge_of_Your_Architecture/ The architecture you think you have is often different than what you actually have. It's time to take charge of your architecture and learn how you can discover deviations by writing tests using JUnit, JDepend, and Ant to discover problems proactively instead of long after the fact. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:17:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Java 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News IdaAshley http://www.osnews.com/story/18050/Free_GNU_Classpath_OpenJDK_Hybrids_Appear/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18050/Free_GNU_Classpath_OpenJDK_Hybrids_Appear/ Red Hat just made it possible to bootstrap OpenJDK using only Free Software by building on top of gcj and replacing the binary blobs with code from GNU Classpath. The result is called IcedTea. IKVM also made a GNU Classpath/OpenJDK hybrid making it possible to run parts of the OpenJDK class libraries on mono and .net. And finally the Cacao team released a new version of Cacao that can use either GNU Classpath for a full J2SE implementation or that uses the Sun GPL J2ME libraries, including jits for lots of different architectures (alpha, arm, mips, ppc, ppc64, x86 and x86_64). Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:40:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Java 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/24 News Mark Wielaard