Java

"Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java and Charles Nutter JRuby Core Developer, have done in the past." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"IBM has made available version 2 of its Multicore Software Development Kit for Java, a freely available all-in-one toolkit for the development of parallel programs on multicore platforms. The SDK offers various useful tools -- including those for testing, debugging, and analyzing applications targeting multicore systems -- to help developers and testers to find concurrency errors and locate performance bottleneck in parallel/multi-threaded programs." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

I was actually hacking on a (failed) fork of Processing called OhProcessing. The point was to cleanup the code base which is horrendous. Processing is awesome, but the command-line options were unfinished and there's quite a bit of duplication in the source... - Rudolf Olah

"In Ehcache 1.6, HashMap was replaced with ConcurrentHashmap with statistical sampling for eviction. Having completed 1.6 and released it there were a few surprises along the way with ConcurrentHashMap performance." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language. One of those opinions is being voiced by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who is calling on Oracle to keep Java open. During a conference call yesterday to discuss Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) first-quarter fiscal 2010 results, Whitehurst also took aim at Oracle's operating system business." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

Yeah, RH gets a lot of revenue from their JBoss subsidiary. Oracle could put a serious kink in that money pipeline. Thankfully, if they turn the screws too tight, some can now fork Java, though I think you'd have to have pretty deep pockets to pull that off. - Michael R. Bernstein

There's no need to fork Java again since there's openjdk. - imabonehead

Now that's the 1st open p2p PDF share that I'm aware of on FF (under new circumstances). - Graham Steel

Modular Java is a pragmatic guide to developing modular applications using OSGi, the framework for dynamic modularity in Java, and Spring Dynamic Modules, an OSGi extension to the Spring Framework. You'll start with the basics but quickly ramp up, creating loosely-coupled modules that publish and consume services, and you'll see how to compose them into larger applications. Along the way, you'll apply what you learn as you build a complete web application that is made up of several OSGi modules, using Spring-DM to wire those modules together. - New Tech Books

This is a gimmicky book that actually works for once. It is an intelligent and well thought-out discussion of Java design patterns, and if you dont know what a design pattern is then this is an excellent way to find out. It is also an interested discussion of object-oriented design. I found that the authors often anticipated my reaction to their initial explanations and asked the questions that I would have asked had it been a lecture. - Mike James - New Tech Books

also its very fun and easy to read, brain friendly. highly recommended for anyone looking for a introduction on design patterns. - Murat Can ALPAY

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thnx. i think if i need such feature, it could be usefull for others... - green-creeper

JavaFX™: Developing Rich Internet Applications brings together all the knowledge, techniques, and reusable code you need to quickly deliver production-quality solutions. Writing for both developers and designers, the authors explain how JavaFX simplifies and improves the RIA development process, and they show how to make the most of its ready-built components and frameworks. - New Tech Books

This is stupid. Why do you care what I think about this? It sounds like what you think won't change. "Is Java dying?" has been asked so many times. Do the research yourself: http://www.google.com/search... - Eric Guanlao

@Eric don't be so aggressive. I just wanted to start a conversation to see if Java devs still react to this question as usually :) I'm sure Java as a language has long and glorious history ahead, but I'm questioning survivability of some branches of Java technology, especially J2EE. Let's face the facts: J2EE is not the most scalable technology out there; it is relatively hard and... more... - Pavlo Zahozhenko

all this talk of google wave is likely to raise interest in the underlying framework - Franz Sittampalam from Bookmarklet

I'm developing something on it at the moment. Its really easy to get started, but a different way of developing - the datastore is not a RDB. I wrote about my experience here: http://briansilberbauer.blogspot.com/2009... - Brian Silberbauer

Has anyone got Quartz scheduler to run on it? - Eric Guanlao

Apress Pro Spring 2.5 http://www.apress.com/book... - farzaam

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Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java is the first dynamic analysis solution for multi-threaded Java applications that automatically and predictably detects existing and potential race conditions and deadlocks that can cause deadly application behavior. - Michael_techie