Author: kevin

Sun have a ‘CoolStuff’ page on their site dedicated to new and interesting projects that some of their staff are looking at.

I’m not sure how this page is linked to elsewhere (I certainly did not know it existed), but I found a link to it from one of the JavaOne ’04 Sessions that is going to cover one of these Emerging Technology projects, ‘jvmstat’.

J2SE 1.4.1 and above has built in facilities for ‘instrumentation’ of the VM at runtime. The jvmstat project has a selection of interesting tools that allow you to examine the Garbage Collection behaviour of the VM at runtime.

The JavaOne ’04 session details are now online at their site: www.javaone04.com

Haven’t had time to take a look through to see whats going on this year, but will definitely be checking it out.

There’s an interesting thread on TheServerSide.com right now collecting a list of Who’s Who in the Java world… most of the obvious are there (James Gosling etc) but theres also a lot of other names of people of other lesser known technologies that obviously have gained respect in the community.

Studio Creator, formally known as Project Rave, will be available in an early-release version for download next month (April 2004).

Studio Creator is being pitched as Sun’s attempt to bring additional developers to the Java platform, in particular Visual Basic developers, by offering a visual tool to aid development.