Earlier this month, the LJC, aka the London Java User Group (JUG) became the first JUG to be elected to an open seat on the Java Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition Executive Committee (Java SE/EE EC in short). This post explains what the forthcoming changes to the Java Community Process (JCP) mean and how the LJC intends to help with the process of reform at the SE/EE Committee level.
The latest DZone cheat sheet covers EclipseLink, the JPA 2.0 reference implementation and GlassFish JPA provider. This 6-pager is loaded with useful content.
The much-anticipated JavaFX 2.0 beta release is now available for download—which means you can take advantage of all the new benefits that JavaFX 2.0 brings to the Java platform.
This article presents the Java 7 answer to the automatic resource management problem in the form of a new language construct, proposed as part of Project Coin, called the try-with-resources statement.
As a follow-up to the Project Coin documentation posted for the JDK 7 developer preview and with work on JDK 7 officially ramping down, Joe Darcy has posted documentation on the semantics of the Project Coin features as implemented in JDK 7 b143.