A compilation of O'Reilly Media's information about the Java programming language, from news, books, conferences, courses, community, and reports. Copyright O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://oreilly.com/java/ 2009-11-10T10:19:53-08:00 O'Reilly Media, Inc. no O'Reilly Media, Inc. webmaster@oreillynet.com http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596809393/

Great Java: Level 1 will teach you the fundamentals of Java, from the basics of compilation through methods, objects, and the key concepts of good programming. By the time you're through these lessons, you'll be programming, and programming well.<br /> <br /> Throughout the course, you'll progressively learn to code and compile programs, work extensively with text, and declare, convert, and cast between data types. You'll also read files, get user input, and build arrays, including multi-dimensional arrays. Finally, you'll move into objects, modeling your data and behavior into core Java structures. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/7XUesELfjFI" height="1" width="1"/>

Brett McLaughlin 2009-11-10T10:19:53-08:10 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596809393/ http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/announcing-oreilly-answers.html

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/puiBWffkI30" height="1" width="1"/>

Allen Noren 2009-11-04T09:57:52-08:11 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/announcing-oreilly-answers.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356494/

Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can't afford not to learn. This second edition is completely updated for Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Android 1.6 (Donut). <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/k754iiKl87M" height="1" width="1"/>

Ed Burnette 2009-10-23T23:50:58-08:12 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356494/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356463/

Java web development is notoriously tedious, but help is on the way: Grails. Using the principle of convention-over-configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language, Grails takes the pain out of web development and brings back the fun. This book will get you up and running with Grails by putting it to use in constructing an original, working application from start to finish. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/7iIKmCJTr2s" height="1" width="1"/>

Dave Klein 2009-10-21T23:50:59-08:13 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356463/ http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/potomac---bringing-osgi-modula.html

OSGi is taking over the Java world. The modularity features offered by OSGi have become so popular that it seems like all the major Java enterprise applications and frameworks have adopted OSGi or have plans to. Products and frameworks such as Eclipse (and therefore Flex Builder), Spring, Websphere, Guice, Weblogic, and JBoss all use OSGi. Even organizations such as NASA have adopted OSGi. So what is OSGi and why is it so popular? This article will try to answer those questions and introduce you to Potomac - the new OSGi inspired framework for Flex. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/JzFBPNJjSpM" height="1" width="1"/>

Chris Gross 2009-10-01T13:10:01-08:14 http://www.insideria.com/2009/10/potomac---bringing-osgi-modula.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/is-there-any-correct-java-code.html

Writing correct, concurrent code is really hard. Java makes it seem easier than it is, even when you think you're being careful. The language support is better than it was before Java 5, but we still have a lot to learn. And we have to learn fast, because our code is running on more and more processors every day. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/oMpT5yXCiJ8" height="1" width="1"/>

James Elliott 2009-08-05T15:26:05-08:15 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/is-there-any-correct-java-code.html http://training.oreilly.com/androidapps/

Learn to build mobile applications for the exciting new Android platform. In this dynamic, online workshop, you'll get up to speed on the basics of Android development, including the Android SDK and the Eclipse IDE. As you learn in this session, you'll build a simple Android app from start to finish. During the workshop, you'll have direct access to the instructor via online Q&amp;A. Attendance is limited, so register now! <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/3a3J00V-fSk" height="1" width="1"/>

O'Reilly Media 2009-07-30T17:25:53-08:16 http://training.oreilly.com/androidapps/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356319/

Scala is an exciting, modern, multi-paradigm language for the JVM. You can use it to write traditional, imperative, object-oriented code. But you can also leverage its higher level of abstraction to take full advantage of modern, multicore systems. <i>Programming Scala</i> will show you how to use this powerful functional programming language to create highly scalable, highly concurrent applications on the Java Platform. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/fMvoPsN1LyY" height="1" width="1"/>

Venkat Subramaniam 2009-07-01T23:50:04-08:17 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356319/ http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/java-to-actionscript-converter.html

I needed to estimate the effort required to port a Spring Rich Client application to AIR. Spring RCP applications are actually Java Swing applications. The project had 93 Java files, consisting of 118 Java classes and 16,950 total lines of... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/pA3Nqm6oAgk" height="1" width="1"/>

Mike Slinn 2009-06-19T17:57:02-08:18 http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/java-to-actionscript-converter.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356401/

Attack complexity in your Java applications using <i>Modular Java</i>. This pragmatic guide introduces you to OSGi and Spring Dynamic Modules, two of the most compelling frameworks for Java modularization. Driven by real-world examples, this book will equip you with the know-how you need to develop Java applications that are composed of smaller, loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive modules. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/VoTGcGAy-_I" height="1" width="1"/>

Craig Walls 2009-06-16T23:50:43-08:19 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356401/ http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-4.html

In previous articles, we finished writing most of the code of the Pac-Man game. In article 3, we implemented a simple algorithm for the ghosts to catch the Pac-Man. The ghosts randomly decides in which direction they move. They do not chase the Pac-Man even they are very close to him. This makes the game less challenging. In fact, the behavior of the ghosts are the most tricky part of the game. According to Iwatani, the author of the original arcade game, he had designed each ghost with its own distinct personality in order to keep the game from becoming too difficult or boring to play. ( More info) However, there is generally no conclusion on what behavior of the ghosts are good for the players. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/DDQbO63IH1U" height="1" width="1"/>

Haining Henry Zhang 2009-06-12T10:32:31-08:20 http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-4.html http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-3.html

In the last article, we developed a preliminary version of the Pac-Man game. Four ghosts are randomly roaming the maze and a Pac-Man character can be controlled by a player. Now, we write some more code for the interaction between ghosts and the Pac-Man: Pac-Man eats a ghost after he gobbles a magic dot. A ghost eats the Pac-Man when it touches him. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/hynGZDae1LE" height="1" width="1"/>

Haining Henry Zhang 2009-06-04T18:26:47-08:21 http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-3.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/sun-launches-a-java-centric-ap.html

As Schwartz touts the massive market penetration of Java on "Billions of PCs and Mobile Devices". Sun introduces a Java-centric App Store to bring the advantages of this distribution to Java application developers. Scott McNealy invites Larry Ellison to the stage to talk about the future of Java, how JavaFX is better than AJAX, and how he intends to compete with Google's Android. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/Ip5HS2RRGYA" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-06-02T12:33:45-08:22 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/sun-launches-a-java-centric-ap.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522049/

Creating Distributed Enterprise Applications <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/QtDVbfxNlJI" height="1" width="1"/>

David A. Chappell, Richard Monson-Haefel, Mark Richards 2009-05-28T23:50:46-08:23 PRINT or PDF http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522049/ http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-2.html

We are now ready to create the ghosts in our game. The four ghosts, namely Blinky(red), Pinky(pink), Inky(cyan) and Clyde(orange), are trapped inside a cage when a game starts. After some time, they get out of the cage one by one and start roaming the maze. Their goal is to catch the Pac-Man. The Pac-Man dies if he is touched by one of the ghosts. If the Pac-Man swallows a magic dot, he has the power to eat ghosts for a while. During this time, the ghosts turn hollow and move more slowly. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/3YclDuWJ1As" height="1" width="1"/>

Haining Henry Zhang 2009-05-28T20:56:44-08:24 http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-2.html http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520687/

Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/opM_HZ8Hgow" height="1" width="1"/>

Steven Levithan, Jan Goyvaerts 2009-05-27T23:50:59-08:25 PRINT or PDF http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520687/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356333/

If you're a Java programmer, if you care about concurrency, or if you enjoy working in low-ceremony language such as Ruby or Python, <i>Programming Clojure</i> is for you. Clojure is a general-purpose language with direct support for Java, a modernized Lisp dialect, and a set of functional data structures. <i>Programming Clojure</i> shows you how to write applications that have the beauty and elegance of a good scripting language, the power and reach of the JVM, and a modern, concurrency-safe functional style. Now you can write beautiful code that runs fast and scales well. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/Cx-j2Djd2Ts" height="1" width="1"/>

Stuart Halloway 2009-05-21T23:50:07-08:26 PRINT http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356333/ http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-1.html

In last article, we designed a data model and drew a maze with dots spread into the maze. Now we are ready to create the Pac-Man character. The Pac-Man character is controlled by the game player to move around the maze. While he is moving, he keeps gobbling dots along the path. To implement the Pac-Man character, we divide the coding into a few tasks so that we can create it bit by bit: <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/RdMdGwQQLQY" height="1" width="1"/>

Haining Henry Zhang 2009-05-21T22:26:09-08:27 http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja-1.html http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja.html

When I was young I was fascinated by arcade games. One of my favorites was the Pac-Man game. Recently, when I was learning the JavaFX language, I decided to write the game in JavaFX. Based on my experience in other programming languages, I assumed there would be some amount of work in building a game such as Pac-Man, giving me a good feel for RIA development in JavaFX. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/UzXv6GcZ9uI" height="1" width="1"/>

Haining Henry Zhang 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:28 http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/writing-the-pac-man-game-in-ja.html http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/poll-results-how-will-the-orac.html

From the results of this poll it appears that the acquisition of Sun by Oracle will not effect your choice of any of Sun's open source projects. Only 20% of those responding said they would be less likely to use... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/E5uHW2k9fkA" height="1" width="1"/>

Rich Tretola 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:29 http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/poll-results-how-will-the-orac.html http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/exploring-apache-pivot-11-part.html

This is the first in a series of several articles that explore some of the new features in Apache Pivot 1.1. Pivot is a Java-based RIA toolkit that is currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. This article discusses Pivot's support for drag and drop. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/G37l67Gq7IQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Greg Brown 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:30 http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/exploring-apache-pivot-11-part.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/what-the-sunoracle-combination.html

What does the Oracle/Sun merger mean for Java? There's been a lot of speculation and a fair amount of apocalyptic, "sky is falling" Twitter activity, but does anyone really know what Ellison has in store for Java? <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/K-nBoymY5ZQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:31 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/what-the-sunoracle-combination.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/google-introduces-a-comprehens.html

Google's announcement of Java support in AppEngine is more than just the announcement of support for a second language. Java on AppEngine changes the dynamics of the Java ecosystem and redefines the concept of Write Once Run Anywhere. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/iSRavw1XZcI" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:32 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/google-introduces-a-comprehens.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/java-for-google-appengine-fina.html

At last after one year, Google announced the availability of the Java for AppEngine platform. When the AppEngine announced last year, the very first issue filed was - a request for Java. Since then lots of Java developers want to see their favorite language supported by the AppEngine. Finally it arrived and let's take a look at the features/limitations. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/ZP4UBqKihhA" height="1" width="1"/>

Hari K. Gottipati 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:33 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/java-for-google-appengine-fina.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/an-up-and-down-week-for-java.html

...and, I'm not talking about the language. I'm talking about the stock, Sun Microsystems is down 20% in the futures market @ 8:10 AM ET. -20% On the news of the $7 billion game of brinksmanship, it is important to... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/eN_y9qJGYnY" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:34 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/an-up-and-down-week-for-java.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/blue-sun-what-an-ibm-acquisiti.html

Sun's software side of the acquisition ledger, especially by IBM, has been rather oddly overlooked, given that it will likely have major implications for software development and cloud computing for years. Sun's software holdings cover five primary areas - Java, Solaris, mySQL, Open Office, and Sun's recently acquired QLayer cloud infrastructure. Understanding how IBM could potentially ramp up (or destroy) each of these gives some interesting insight into the real value of IBM's potential software acquisitions. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/En2_kGkzue0" height="1" width="1"/>

Kurt Cagle 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:35 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/blue-sun-what-an-ibm-acquisiti.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/apache-up-against-corporate-do.html

Read the rather startling comments to the article The long-running Sun-Apache dispute <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/6aFhyueSKD8" height="1" width="1"/>

Rick Jelliffe 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:36 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/apache-up-against-corporate-do.html http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/java-collections-for-flex.html

As I have previously reported, lots of Java programmers are adopting Flex. One question that Java programmers always ask is "where are my beloved collections classes?" First, the good news: this blog will point you to some excellent collection classes,... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/JEowah8aK2s" height="1" width="1"/>

Mike Slinn 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:37 http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/java-collections-for-flex.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/a-conversation-with-the-author.html

Henry Liu and Justin Edelson authors of the just released JRuby Cookbook talk about JRuby, the current state of the Java platform, and some of the compelling benefits of integrating a language like Ruby with the Java platform. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/8ZKnmOgfXEw" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:38 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/a-conversation-with-the-author.html http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/springsource-getting-into-the.html

Rod Johnson and Graeme Rocher discuss SpringSource's acquisition of G2One. In this 20 minute interview, both Johnson and Rocher discuss the differences between Groovy and other scripting languages available on the JVM and why they believe that Groovy on Grails provides the path of least resistance for enterprise web application development. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/java/~4/WD-NjtzmEpA" height="1" width="1"/>

Timothy M. O'Brien 2009-05-15T20:50:34-08:39 http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/springsource-getting-into-the.html