Kev's Development Toolbox

May 16, 2006

JavaOne 2006 day 1: Sun expected to announce open sourcing many of it’s Java based tools and apps

Stopping short of open sourcing the language itself, which I think is a good thing, Sun are today expected to announce that they will be open sourcing many of it’s development tools and applications.

Announcements are expected for:

a Java EE 5 Application Server (based on GlassFish? – this would seem logical since GlassFish is already open source)
Sun Java System Portal 7 – an integration server
Java Studio Enterprise (their enterprise flavor of their IDE, based on NetBeans)
message queing software
Web Services Interoperability Technology

May 15, 2006

JavaOne this week! PDFs available for download prior to sessions!

It’s JavaOne in San Francisco this week, starting tomorrow. New this week, Sun is offering a large number of PDFs for the sessions available for download prior to the sessions, so this year you won’t have to wait several weeks before you can get hold of the PDFs.

Check out the session browser here.

May 15, 2006

Microsoft offering Vista developers $100 per bug fix

In an effort to fix as many bugs in the Vista codebase before a beta test version of Vista is shipped out to roughly 2 million users, Microsoft is offering it’s developers a bug fix bonus of $100 per bug fixed. Depending on how stable the code currently is, that sounds like a good incentive for their developers, but does not paint such a good picture on the quality of their code if their have to go to those lengths to get bugs resolved.

May 15, 2006

Netbeans 5.5 Beta – Java EE 5.0 support

In time for JavaOne this week, Netbeans 5.5 beta is announced complete with Java EE 5.0 support.

In general I’ve been impressed with the Netbeans 5.0+ IDE, but from my recent experience with the 5.5. daily builds, there are still plenty of bugs to be ironed out in the Wizards before they are usable. The one that has caught my eye is the ‘JSF pages from Entities’, but it’s not very stable – throws lots of exceptions, and the generated code does not yet run on JBoss 4.0+.