Category: Kev’s Blog

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.

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.

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.

Macromedia have released a J2EE based server-side development environment that allows Java and .NET developers produce Flash content for the browser client.

The tool translates server-side Java (or .NET) code into XML which is sent to the Flash plugin in the browser to produce rich media Flash content.