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Are we there yet?

Mad musings on travelling, IT (Java and Open Source in particular) and anything else that wanders its way into my head.


My 2012 - including a new Garbage Collection Tool

Hi all,

So I haven't written here for over a year!  Why?



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JavaOne 2011 - Days 1 and 2 (Sunday/Monday)

Hi all,

So I'm at JavaOne and it's been an interesting first couple of days!  I'm live tweeting a number of live announcements and insights but I thought I'd try to round-up my experiences so far on Days 1 and 2.

Apologies for anyone/thing I've missed - it's been a whirlwind! 

Sunday

My Walk

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My Interview with MyFear

I was humbled to be interviwed as part of MyFear's Java Hero's series - If you want to know some of my motivations then go here

 

The OpenJDK as the default Java on Linux

Hi All,  (this post is x-posted to the java7developer blog and the ljc blog)

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JavaOne schedule

Here is my JavaOne schedule:  I can't mimic the nice colouring that Steve On Java has, but hey :-).



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The Data Grid JSR Backlash and why you should support the JCP reforms


The recent backlash against Red Hat's data grid JSR proposal sparked an interest as I know the JCP is going under reform right now.



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OSGi - Are we there yet?

A few nights ago John Stevenson (@jR0cket) and I were fortunate enough to be taken through a explanation of OSGi by some of its key proponents: Neil Barlett (@njbarlett), Zoe Slattery (@zoe_slattery) and Alasdair Nottingham.

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Bit of a hiatus

Hi all,

With "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" deadlines approaching and my arms starting to feel the strain I'll be taking a break from writing any blog posts for a few months.  Not that it's been real busy here anyhow, but I thought you should know :-).

Cheers,
Martijn

 

JBoss - separating application logs without using monolithic jboss-log4j.xml

A minor irritant we've discovered in implementing applications for Jboss AS is that that the logging configuration for applications has to go through their monolithic jboss-log4j.xml file.

So we've managed to find a work-around (after some investigation of the Jboss class loaders and some trial and error).  This technique has been confirmed for jboss-eap-4.3 and jboss-4.2.3.GA but will likely work for other versions.

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Java is dead, long live the Java developer! - Part II


Hi all,
This is an updated post based on the recent announcements and events in November, enjoy!


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Java is dead, long live the Java developer!

Hi all,

Well, what a few months it has been in the Java space!  It started with Oracle announcing that the best plan to move the Java language forward was to split the existing openJDK work into Java 7 (for summer 2011), followed by a Java 8 (for summer 2012?).  You can see the current feature list for JDK7 at http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/.  Now that a decision has been made I think we'll see some good progress on this front.

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Dependency Injection in Java 7

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A Little Directory love

Hi all,

The Well Grounded Java 7 Developer

Hi all,


I've obviously not posted for quite some time and here is the reason why.....
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