Are We There Yet

yes, the extra helpers was a great addition.

2011-10-19T17:17:08.880+01:00

yes, the extra helpers was a great addition.

Thanks Martijn for the update. I saw the webcast ...

2011-10-07T01:19:40.271+01:00

Thanks Martijn for the update. I saw the webcast for Mark Reinhold's keynote on Java 7 and 8 and it was pretty cool.

Absolutely, transparency and openness is the key a...

2011-05-26T19:49:34.074+01:00

Absolutely, transparency and openness is the key area we'll be working with the JCP on.

Is this something that will get more transparency ...

2011-05-26T12:20:09.127+01:00

Is this something that will get more transparency with the LJC on the JCP?

I'm told that the tooling is now adequate, alt...

2011-03-30T19:51:56.085+01:00

I'm told that the tooling is now adequate, although not yet standardised in some areas. I think that could certainly push that aspect from 'Working on improving' to 'the Ugly' :)

so not ready for primetime but the only "ugly...

2011-03-30T19:44:24.948+01:00

so not ready for primetime but the only "ugly" you had was Jigsaw? Having used OSGi on a production enterprise app I can say it has it's place. Definitely in greenfield enterprise app development or complete refactoring into "OSGi way".. Our attempt was embedding it inside a legacy J2EE app.. it was a horrible mess.. worst of both worlds.. JAR file hell from the legacy app and every complication of OSGi (lack of tools, build support etc..) Took the build team 6 months to get an automated CI build going.. Glad I left that company!

I strongly agree with everything that has been sai...

2010-11-20T13:55:44.051Z

I strongly agree with everything that has been said, but one thing I can't understand is the progress on the desktop bit. Java has such a strong community I'm confident they can come up with something that is out of this world!

-Java Amateur

Just for the record, I don't think there's...

2010-11-16T16:19:48.808Z

Just for the record, I don't think there's any reason Java couldn't have a great future as a desktop client. Here is a beautiful Swing app to show it's potential:

http://www.indabamusic.com/landing/mantis

JavaFX is nice, but it falls apart when you try to do anything complex, so I don't pin my hopes on that.

Java is officially in the wrong hands, lets hope G...

2010-11-16T12:33:53.039Z

Java is officially in the wrong hands, lets hope Google take it on. Otherwise the academic institutions will stop producing the huge numbers of Java programmers we see today, the big corporates will slowly but surely see that there are much better alternatives to Java and the myriad of Java add-ons will (rightfully so in many cases) never see wide adoption.

Thanks Steven. I've posted again with the late...

2010-11-16T11:24:35.736Z

Thanks Steven. I've posted again with the latest news. Enjoy!

Nice post! I agree that the Oracle and Google laws...

2010-11-16T10:27:32.867Z

Nice post! I agree that the Oracle and Google lawsuit has really mucked things up for Harmony, but now that Apple and IBM have thrown their collective weight behind OpenJDK, it leaves Project Harmony in an even more precarious position.

Interesting times indeed!

Hi David, Thanks for the kind words! Yes Manning...

2010-10-27T09:36:28.585+01:00

Hi David,

Thanks for the kind words! Yes Manning suggested using that title (it's changed slightly now) as it fell in line with your "The Well-Grounded Rubyist". Hopefully both books will do well and we can keep the series going . See you in the MEAP no doubt!

Cheers,
Martijn

Congrats on the book! And I'm so pleased that ...

2010-10-27T09:29:54.135+01:00

Congrats on the book! And I'm so pleased that you're adapting my title. I'd always hoped someone would -- it could make a great basis for a series, if I say so myself.

I was inspired directly by "The Well-Tempered Clavier". I'm not sure how I made the leap to "Well-Grounded Rubyist", but Bach was definitely the starting point. I was worried at first that Manning wouldn't accept the title, since it didn't match any of their existing series and had a pretty strongly "branded" sound of its own. To my delight they did like it, and I'm glad to see it have new life.

Best wishes for the project!

David Black

Hi Arul, I see you've joined up to out mailin...

2010-10-16T15:40:48.152+01:00

Hi Arul,

I see you've joined up to out mailing list - we'll be letting people know when they can start reviewing once the book is in the MEAP stage.

Cheers,
Martijn

Hi Martijn, I am interested too. Let me know if y...

2010-10-14T20:05:02.732+01:00

Hi Martijn,

I am interested too. Let me know if you are still looking for one.

-Arul

Hi Sandro, Yes that's correct, the Java 7 DI ...

2010-08-24T12:36:41.878+01:00

Hi Sandro,

Yes that's correct, the Java 7 DI specification relies on an external IoC container. However, you can annotate your POJOs with pure Java 7 annotations which means you can move between containers at will (no container lock-in).

Spring 3 and Guice 2 already support this standard as it were, so you can try it out early.

Cheers,
Martijn

Hi Martijn You wrote: "You can annotate a c...

2010-08-24T11:32:52.475+01:00

Hi Martijn

You wrote: "You can annotate a constructor with @Inject and expect its parameters to be provided at runtime by your "configured" IoC container"

Does it mean that Java 7, in order to provide dependency injection, relies on external IoC containers like Spring, Pico, etc?

Can Java 7 provide DI on its own? Could I remove my IoC containers and use a pure Java 7 implementation?

Thanks for the post. Look forward for your book.

Thanks for the catch Stephen! I've updated th...

2010-08-24T10:48:48.143+01:00

Thanks for the catch Stephen! I've updated the entry.

Hi Martijn, Just a couple of nit picks. - Your e...

2010-08-24T10:32:20.079+01:00

Hi Martijn,

Just a couple of nit picks.

- Your example has Content as a parameter, which you later refer to as Context.

- You use the term argument, when it might be strictly more correct to use the term parameter (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_science)#Parameters_and_arguments )

Hi Chris, I've dropped you an email, welcome ...

2010-08-14T11:46:24.318+01:00

Hi Chris,

I've dropped you an email, welcome aboard!

That still feels like a step too much though // De...

2010-08-09T15:15:32.071+01:00

That still feels like a step too much though
// Define the directory
Path dir = Paths.get("c:\\workspace");
// Declare a filtering stream
stream = dir.newDirectoryStream("*.java");

I would prefer something like

Path dir = Paths.get("/workspace").filter(*.java);

which could act as shorthand for the above. Also having a DirectoryStream feels clunky and counterintuitive. What's wrong with Path having Directories?

Sign me up. If I can make sense of it, it's su...

2010-08-05T16:00:53.272+01:00

Sign me up. If I can make sense of it, it's sure ot be a winner!

Great post. I love it. Need to mark it somehow to ...

2010-05-04T13:06:30.121+01:00

Great post. I love it. Need to mark it somehow to be able return back to it time to time.

Good points, anon! I like how's it's laid...

2010-04-12T13:27:48.366+01:00

Good points, anon! I like how's it's laid out like a poem :)

The successful developer is a problem solver. The ...

2010-04-12T09:35:52.434+01:00

The successful developer is a problem solver.
The successful developer is a learner.
The successful developer is a listener.
The successful developer is a researcher.