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Calvin Austin
A section editor of JDJ since June 2004, Calvin Austin is an engineer at SpikeSource.com. He previously led the J2SE 5.0 release at Sun Microsystems and also led Sun's Java on Linux port. |
The Unwritten Story Of
Open Source Java By Calvin Austin  I left Sun in 2004 after
8 fun years at Javasoft.
Open Source Java was a
annual discussion at Sun
and in many conversations
with open source
advocates and companies.
Many of the engineers I
knew were for open
sourcing Java as long as
the motivation wasn't
just to ... Jun. 2, 2007 08:15 PM Reads: 22,571 Replies: 1 | Java on Fiesty Ubuntu -
Will Anyone Notice? By Calvin Austin I've been busy working on
our Web 2.0 release so
didn't have time to
update my laptop until
now. I was generally
happy with my Ubuntu
breezy 64bit install, I
had the JDK on there,
Java worked in firefox
32bit, I could remotely
display my screen to a
projector and ... May. 16, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 14,460 Replies: 2 | SOA & Web Services: Why
Can't We Just Talk? By Calvin Austin You may be wondering, why
hasn't the uptake of Web
services matched the bold
predictions made when it
was first launched? There
are certainly more
developers thinking about
Web services with the
advent of
service-oriented
architectures (SOA).
However, the number o... May. 16, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 30,288 | What PHP Needs to Learn
From Java By Calvin Austin We all know that there
isn't a single language
or platform that is
totally secure, much in
the same way that no
matter how well you
secure your house, it's
still possible to leave a
door unlocked. However if
your house has few locks,
open windows and is it a
bad n... May. 12, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 20,474 Replies: 3 | C#: Is the Party Over? By Calvin Austin  Five years later what do
we see? The .NET platform
has been under constant
development, often too
fast for many corporate
users to adopt. There has
been a 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0,
each which could be
counted as a significant
version in their own
right. Following the
chu... Jan. 18, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 89,651 Replies: 79 | JavaOne 2006: Open Source
Java By Calvin Austin Next came one of the
conference sponsors, Ed
Zander with Motorola who
picked up a duke choice
for a Motorola phone.
Then the JDK java distro
license change was
introduced by Mark
Shuttleworth of Ubuntu
fame. Jonathan hinted
about Ubuntu on
'servers', which of
co... May. 16, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 10,394 Replies: 2 | Java: What's in a Name By Calvin Austin Well first let me tackle
the Tiger bit. The Java
codenames are all listed
here. Tiger or 'Project
Tiger' was the name used
on a day to day basis,
its a convenience instead
of saying one point five
point zero. The names are
chosen as big animals
(birds, mammals) for ... Apr. 28, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 10,443 Replies: 1 | Calvin Austin's Java
Blog: "Go Geronimo Go!" By Calvin Austin Geronimo 1.0 was released
last week. Apache
Geronimo is a new, open
source, J2EE 1.4
certified application
server. It is built from
many established open
source projects, like
OpenEJB, Tomcat and the
Derby database so it
already has some
pedigree. The more I
thi... Jan. 9, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 17,910 Replies: 2 | Help I'm Out Of Memory!
Who Has My Memory? By Calvin Austin  Many years ago I saved up
for a 16K RAM pack for my
tiny Sinclair ZX81
computer. I thought,
rather naively, that this
was going to be the
answer to all my memory
issues. I would be able
to use increasingly
complex programs, okay
games, and I could
program without ... Oct. 12, 2005 07:45 AM Reads: 24,442 Replies: 5 | What's In A Name: Is This
The End Of J2EE? By Calvin Austin There has been talk
recently that Sun is
planning to end the use
of the J2 platform name
and branding scheme. The
proposal is that the
terms Java Enterprise
Edition and Java Standard
Edition will replace J2EE
and J2SE. If you had the
opportunity to read the
March ... May. 16, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 26,617 Replies: 1 | What Does the Java Future
Hold? By Calvin Austin  Last month I took a trip
down memory lane,
revisiting the history of
J2SE. Apart from trying
to remember key events,
squeezing 10 years of
history into one page was
a challenge. I had to
relegate many significant
technologies to a
sentence or two and some
I didn't... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 26,150 Replies: 1 | 2005 Marks Ten Years of
Java Technology By Calvin Austin This year will mark the
tenth anniversary of the
official launch of Java
technology. It seems like
only yesterday. No doubt
there will be
celebrations similar to
the five-year
anniversary, so I thought
I would take this
opportunity to step back
in time and track Java's
course. Mar. 21, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 33,243 Replies: 10 | Java Inside By Calvin Austin I recently upgraded my
home network to use
802.11g. The prices for
routers and PC cards have
fallen throughout the
year, but unfortunately
the support has only
marginally improved in
that time and, after many
re-installs, my network
wasn't working. I
eventually ha... Jan. 5, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 18,102 | Under the Hood of a J2EE
Application Server By Calvin Austin I recently had the
opportunity to talk with
many Java users about the
current release and their
general experiences with
the platform. One of
those developers told me
that he didn't use J2SE
but his J2EE VM sometimes
caused problems. Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,400 Replies: 1 | J2SE 5.0 Ready for
Business By Calvin Austin I am pleased to announce
that the J2SE 5.0 release
has gone final and is
ready for you to
download! The first set
of downloads for Windows,
Solaris, and Linux are
available from the http:/
/java.sun.com/j2se/5.0
Web site. This even
includes a 64-bit AMD64
port on L... Nov. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,615 | Mastering Multithreading By Calvin Austin Some of you may remember
a time when the world of
multithreaded programming
was limited to a small
set of C or C++
applications. Often the
threads were used
sparingly and restricted
to a specific task or
computation or even
operating system. Oct. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 22,932 Replies: 1 | Java & Linux By Calvin Austin It's been over two years
since I wrote my last
article about using the
Java runtime on Linux
('Java Technology on the
Linux Platform' [JDJ,
Vol. 5, issue 12]). The
Java platform and Linux
distributions have not
stood still during that
time, so I'm taking this
oppo... Jan. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 29,924 Replies: 3 | JAVA Technology on the
Linux Platform By Calvin Austin The Java 2 Platform,
Standard Edition (J2SE
technology) v1.3 for
Linux means that Linux
users and developers can
take advantage of
thousands of Java
technology-based
applications, from
enterprise e-commerce
infrastructure to
client-side applications.
It also ope... Dec. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 17,408 |
TODAY'S TOP 10 LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON! YOUR FEEDBACK  | What Does the Future Hold
for the Java Language? By Joe Winchester Tommy wrote: I simply do
not agree on many parts:
- .NET has a lot of
traction
- you can
certainly know well (and
master) more than one
language. If you cannot
master more than one
language, this could
potentially be one of
your limits.
- Java is not a perfect
language
- It is ea... | | i-Technology Opinion: Why
Use Extreme Programming? By Troy Holmes James Nwaba wrote: This
is a nice article - very
straight froward, easy to
understand.However, there
was no mention of any
organization that have
implemented XP.
The author said, "Many of
the concepts found in
this lightweight method
of development have been
implemented into the ... | | iPhone Office: 100 Ways
to Turn Your Device into
the Ultimate Productivity
Tool By Jessica Merritt QueZZtion wrote: Can the
iPhone really work as a
multimedia remote for
iTunes or even a desktop? | | DoJa in NTT DoCoMo Phones By Zev Blut Venkat wrote: Excellent
explanation. It will be
helpful if it was in
pictorial form ie with
the emulator images. Can
u please send me the
I-mode to I appli
communication and a brief
explanatioj about the
architecture.Thanks in
advance. | | i-Technology Opinion:
Outsourcing...to Students By Yakov Fain Robert Dobbs wrote:
Timothy, this video will
get you started in the
right direction:
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tch?v=3PycZtfns_U |
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