Bluetooth and GPS: Part 1 - Reading Wireless Serial Port Data
In the first of this multi-part series, Bruce Hopkins describes how to construct a low-cost solution that allows you to install, debug, and test your JSR-82 applications on your computer, and how to read data from a Bluetooth-enabled GPS device.

Digisoft.tv's John Allen on Interactive Television
Sun's Jennifer Yonemitsu interviews Digisoft.tv CEO John Allen to discuss the Java ME-based client platform for IPTV set-top boxes, using Sun's Java technology-based media client and Digisoft.tv's middleware/SDK.

Book Review: Head First Software Development
O'Reilly's new Head First Software Development sums up decades of research on what works and what doesn't in the often arcane world of software development.

Java ME Technology: Everything a Developer Needs for the Mobile Market
This overview looks at the economics, cost of entry, and learning curve in using Java ME technology to penetrate the mobile market. It introduces the JSRs included in the Mobile Services Architecture (MSA) standard.

An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology (Part 2)
Learn about approaches to garbage collection (GC) and the new features and improved tools in the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS).

An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology (Part 1)
Often associated with high speed, real-time computing is more about predictability, the knowledge that the system will always perform within the required time frame.

The New Draggable Applet Feature in the Java SE 6 Update 10 Plug-In
Java SE 6 Update 10, currently in beta release, reintroduces the concept of the applet, which unifies the desktop and browser experience.

JDK 6 Update 7
Java VisualVM is a new GUI-based tool for troubleshooting Java applications and is available as part of Java SE 6 Update 7. VisualVM incorporates technologies such as jvmstat, JMX, the NetBeans profiler, and more. Also see the Open Source Project Page.

Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C: A Conversation With Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud
Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud discusses ways to integrate mobile devices into the computer science curriculum -- and incur the gratitude of students.

Learning Curve Journal, Part 1: Exploring the JavaFX Script Programming Language
This series follows a developer as he learns the JavaFX technology. In Part I, he sets up the environment for JavaFX Script programming, then builds and runs a JavaFX Script program.

Learning Curve Journal, Part 2: Declarative User Interfaces
Part 2 focuses on the declarative style of coding enabled by JavaFX Script. You'll see how this style can make the code for a graphical application simpler and more intuitive.

Learning Curve Journal, Part 3: JavaFX Script Functions
Part 3 shows you how to use JavaFX Script functions to implement actions in a Java FX Script program.

Learning Curve Journal, Part 4: Accessing a Web Service
Part 4 completes the JavaFX Script version of the application, which enables users to search, list, and display images from the Flickr web site.

Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine
Java Champion and Java performance expert Kirk Pepperdine shares ways to identify and solve Java performance bottlenecks.

Ask the Experts Session Transcript: JRuby Support in NetBeans 6
Enhancements to the JRuby debugger, Matisse-like tools, thread safety -- these topics and more were covered in an Ask the Experts session on JRuby support in NetBeans 6. Read the transcript

Registering Products Using Sun Service Tags
Use Sun Service Tags to track and manage your registered Sun products, such as the JDK, GlassFish application server, and NetBeans IDE.

Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology
Discover the new Java Plug-in technology, which runs applets in a different, more efficient and reliable way than ever before.

Using jMaki With PHP on OpenSolaris
Learn how to create a PHP web application that incorporates jMaki widgets, communicates with a MySQL database, and runs in the OpenSolaris OS.

Using Scene Graph in JavaFX Script
This article describes a demo that uses the scene graph features in JavaFX Script, enabling you to apply animation and translucency effects.

Using JavaFX Script Objects in Java Programs
In this article, Sun software engineer Michael Heinrichs presents possible ways to create JavaFX objects and use them in Java code.

How the Java Platform Plays With Scripting Languages
Instead of hot debate, this article provides a comprehensive picture of how Java plays with scripting languages to leverage the advantages of both technologies.

How to Create Translucent and Shaped Windows
With the Java SE 6 update 10 release, you can create uniformly translucent windows or per-pixel gradients, or apply a shape to a non-decorated window.

Working With Java Technology in a Multicore World
This 2008 JavaOne session discussed some of the advancements made in JSR 166, Concurrency Utilities, which was initiated by Java technology luminary Doug Lea, in light of the upcoming JDK 7 release.

Enterprise Java Tech Tips Quiz
The Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips have covered a wide variety of enterprise Java technology topics. Take our quiz and test your knowledge.

New Gaming Experiences With Mobile Sensor API
Erik Hellman, a Java technology consultant in Sweden, uses a game scenario to tout the winning qualities of the Java ME platform's Mobile Sensor API.

2008 JavaOne Conference Wrap-Up: Wherever You Go, There You Are -- and So Is Java Technology
2008 JavaOne Conference, SDN staffer Laureen Hudson is pleased to report that this year's conference was ubiquitous in all worlds -- real, virtual (Second Life), and via webcast. Now, you CAN be in several places at the same (time-shifted) time.

Rock Star Joshua Bloch
Janice Heiss chats with Rock Star Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect and a former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Rock Star Raghavan Srinivas
Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is the CTO of technology evangelism at Sun Microsystems, focused on new technology directions and trends.

Rock Star Ben Galbraith
In 2007, Galbraith sold two companies he founded: Ajaxian.com, a media property and related conference series, and Feature50, a high-end software consulting company. What's he up to now?

Rock Star Tony Printezis
Tony Printezis, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, spends most of his time working on dynamic memory management for the Java platform, concentrating on performance, scalability, responsiveness, parallelism, and visualization of garbage collectors.

Rock Star Tor Norbye
Tor Norbye, principal engineer at Sun Microsystems and member of the Java Posse, talks about the NetBeans IDE, Java technology, and what every beginning developer should know.

Rock Star Chet Haase
Chet Haase, senior computer scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, talks about graphics software, the importance of mathematics, the Timing Framework, and banana phones.

JavaFX Platform - Sexy Interfaces for Mere Mortals
JavaFX developer Joshua Smith provided a practical demonstration of JavaFX, what it can do, and the idioms required to build a compelling GUI in this example-intense session.

Scripting Language Smack-Down
Where at the JavaOne conference does "www" stand for "world-wide wrestling?" In session PAN-5435, that's where -- it's called the Script Bowl.

Sentilla's Pervasive Computing -- The Universe Is the Computer
Sentilla CTO Joe Polastre's session on Mote software and pervasive computing illustrated how we've moved from "The network is the computer" to "The universe is the computer."

Motorola General Session -- Mobile Evolution, Innovation, and Opportunity
Christy Wyatt, vice president of Software Platforms and Ecosystem at Motorola, Inc., explores current and future trends in the mobile market, how developers can best bring their innovations to market, and Motorola's many initiatives to provide an optimal road map for the mobile space.

Gosling's Christmas-in-May Toy Show
James Gosling's annual pick of extreme innovation in Java technology takes place at the 8:30 a.m. technical session at the 2008 JavaOne Conference. Mars surface maps, talking pens, massive super-colliders -- read all about it.

The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before
2008 JavaOne Conference, One of the powerful features added to NetBeans IDE 6.0 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails.

Making JavaOne More Environmentally Responsible
Find out what the 2008 JavaOne Conference Team did to make this year's conference environmentally friendly.

Intel General Session -- Exploring Innovation Through Software
In the Thursday, May 8, general session, Douglas W. Fisher, vice president and general manager of the System Software Division at Intel, shared insights on how hardware can most effectively meet software in an era of abstraction, open source, cloud computing, social networking, and mobile Internet.

Mapping Mars
2008 JavaOne Conference, This year the focus went to an all important mapping system called Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS), a Java technology-based geospatial information system developed by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University.

Creating a Java EE Appliance With GlassFish Application Server on OpenSolaris
2008 JavaOne Conference, At the JavaOne conference Wednesday morning, Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee led a technical session on how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application server on OpenSolaris and offered many practical and insightful tips for developers and system administrators alike.

AMD General Session -- A Different Perspective on Java Technology Evolution
2008 JavaOne Conference, In the Wednesday, May 7, general session, Leendert vanDoorn, senior AMD fellow, explored the role of the microprocessor in the evolution of Java technology -- how Java technology sets AMD free to innovate and how the Java community benefits from AMD's forward-thinking hardware and software initiatives.

Mobility General Session - Java Wherever You Are
This year the Mobility General Session has moved to the 'big-tent'. Find out what all the hoopla is about.

Working With Java Technology in a Multicore World
This 2008 JavaOne session discussed some of the advancements made in JSR 166, Concurrency Utilities, which was initiated by Java technology luminary Doug Lea, in light of the upcoming JDK 7 release.

Visiting Virtual Worlds -- Project Wonderland
2008 JavaOne Conference, Virtual worlds are not a thing of the future -- they're here now and in full force.

Java-Centricity -- Java Technology at the Hub of Your Digital Life
In this general session, Sun Distinguished Engineer and chief technology officer for software, Bob Brewin, discusses the role Java technology plays in everyone's digital life.

Learning Web 2.0 Technologies at Java University
A program where developers can take courses on a variety of Java technologies and other technologies.

Duke's Choice Awards Winners for 2008
Each year, the Duke's Choice awards committee invites Java community members to nominate the best and most innovative use of Java technology for recognition. Here are the winners for 2008!

General Session - JAVA + YOU
Technology is no longer the domain of an elite priesthood, says Green. Digital consumers are choosing technology and producing content, both in their work and in their personal lives.

An Overview and Demonstration of OpenSSO and Federation
2008 JavaOne Conference, A late-afternoon session at CommunityOne focused on OpenSSO at opensso.org, Sun's open web access management project.

Welcome to the 2008 JavaOne Conference JAVA+YOU
Rich Green, Sun Microsystems' Executive Vice President of Software, welcomes the Java Community to the 2008 JavaOne Conference and invites their participation.

NetBeans Day at CommunityOne
In only four years, the number of active NetBeans IDE users has increased steadily to 450,000. And an enthusiastic crowd of them attended NetBeans Day at CommunityOne.

CommunityOne: Bringing Communities Together
Last year saw the birth of CommunityOne, a free full-day event that preceded the 2007 JavaOne conference and set the tone for a full week of presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing by and for the open-source community. Celebrating its second appearance, this year's CommunityOne was even bigger and better than last year's version.

Introducing Java SE 6 update 10 Beta
Find out what's new in Java SE 6 update 10 beta.

Using UI Components in Compiled JavaFX Script Technology
With this example program, learn how to use eight user interface (UI) components in JavaFX Script technology.

Better Programming With Java EE: A Conversation With Java Champion Adam Bien
Java Champion Adam Bien talks about the challenges and intricacies of Java EE, ways to conduct large-scale IT projects, and the joys of developing.

Referencing Multiple Web Services From An Application Client
This Tech Tip describes how to develop an application client that references multiple web services that implement any combination of web services programming models.

Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer
What identity-related challenges do application deployers face? What questions must you ponder before adopting a standardized solution? Find the answers, along with tips and guidelines, in this article.

Rails Powered by the GlassFish Application Server
Tired of putting together and managing all the pieces of a Ruby-on-Rails deployment? Simplify your life by developing and deploying with JRuby on GlassFish.

NetBeans, Solaris, GlassFish: The Ruby's Red Slippers Fit
The Ruby landscape is turning into a gem, fueling the move to Web 2.0.

Core Java: Volume I, Fundamentals
With its many code samples and short explanations, this is both an excellent resource for learning and a great reference book.

From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching: A Conversation With Java Champion Cay Horstmann
Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, JavaServer Faces technology, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students.

Adding Voice to Java EE With SIP Servlets
This Tech Tip covers some of the basic concepts underlying Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and SIP servlets. It also presents a sample application that uses SIP servlets and HTTP servlets to provide Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service.

Extended Persistence Context in Stateful Session Beans
This Tech Tip illustrates an application that uses a stateful session bean and an entity manager with an extended persistence context.

Using Subversion, NetBeans IDE, and Sun Java System Web Server With Java ME
This technical article offers Java ME developers suggestions on how to add support for source-code management and application deployment.

Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers
MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database, fills an important niche in Sun's software stack. With Sun's reach and resources, MySQL is poised for even wider adoption.

Core Java: Volume I, Fundamentals (8th Edition)
With its many code samples and short explanations, this is both an excellent resource for learning and a great reference book.

Building Kerberos-Based Secure Services Using Metro
This Tech Tip shows how to build secure web services and clients using the Kerberos support in Metro.

Using JAX-WS With Maven
This Tech Tip demonstrates how to use the JAX-WS Maven plugin to develop web services.

JSFTemplating and Woodstock: Component Authoring Made Easy
Frustrated with the complexities of writing a JavaServer Faces component? With the help of the JSFTemplating and Woodstock projects, you can write a component with only two files.

Glassfish v2: Open for Business
Find out why the open source GlassFish v2 application server is a good choice for handling critical business applications and the demands of a production environment.

Ultra-low Bandwidth Communication with ZigBee and JavaME
Bruce Hopkins explores how to use Java ME and Sun SPOT technology to create a low-bandwidth wireless system to read sensor data. He provides two fully functioning applications: the first one is the base station application, which will receive data from the second application, the free roaming wireless Sun SPOT.

Creating Rich Internet Applications With Compiled JavaFX Script Technology
Learn to use JavaFX Script technology to create a compiled JavaFX program that contains user interface components and 2D graphics.

Book Review: JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications
Do you want to learn about JavaFX Script technology? This book is a quick and easy read for those who are already familiar with GUI programming in the Java platform.

Ask the Experts Transcript: NetBeans IDE 6.0
Is there an obfuscator function in NetBeans? How can I run/invoke JavaFX code from a NetBeans module? What is the current status of PHP support in NetBeans? Get answers to these and a wide variety of other questions about NetBeans in this transcript.

Ending the Spam: SDN Newsletters Migrate to RSS
SDN has moved to a blog/RSS model for developer communications. Find out why.

Getting to Know System Tray
Learn how to add applications to the Microsoft Windows taskbar, the Gnome notification area, or KDE's system tray.

Java SE 6 Performance White Paper
This overview of performance and scalability improvements in Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) provides benchmark results that demonstrate the impact of these improvements.

Tech Tip: Client-Side Polling With Dynamic Faces
See how the Dynamic Faces framework brings the power of Ajax to a real-time, stock query application that does client-side polling.

Deep Dive Video on jMaki
jMaki is a lightweight framework that makes it easy to build Ajax-based web applications. Learn more in this Deep Dive with jMaki Project lead, Greg Murray.

Survey of Java ME Today (Update)
C. Enrique Ortiz updates his article explaining today's Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME), including background information and terminology definitions.

Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) Technologies
You can now more easily look up MIDP, CLDC, JTWI, and their accompanying JSRs using the MSA interactive image. Click on, say, JSR 205: Wireless Messaging to view a page summarizing its packages, system properties, and relevant technical articles.

Installing Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 in Solaris Zones
Solaris zones provide isolated environments for application instances, but propagation among zones complicates installations and updates. This article helps you develop the best strategy for installing Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 (GlassFish V2) in Solaris zones.

Clustering in GlassFish Version 2
Looking for high availability and scalability in your enterprise web application deployments? Try the new clustering capability of the GlassFish V2 application server. This article tells you how it works.

Installing, Configuring, and Deploying Sun Java System Access Manager the Simple Way
Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 integrates authentication and authorization services, policy agents, identity management, and identity federation for protecting network resources.

From Phonetops to Desktops
Bookmark, read, and comment on the Mobility Tech Tips, now on blogs.sun.com.

Learning Curve Journal, Part 3: JavaFX Script Functions and Operations
Part 3 of the Learning Curve Journals describes the differences between functions and operations in JavaFX Script.

Video Interview With Roman Strobl
In this video interview, Ed Ort chats with NetBeans evangelist Roman Strobl at Sun Tech Days in Milan. Roman highlights what he considers to be the most significant new features in NetBeans IDE 6.0.

Project Darkstar's New World of Online Games: A Conversation With Jeff Kesselman
By radically simplifying online game development and enabling games to scale to tens of thousands of players without a glitch, Sun's Project Darkstar -- with a preliminary release now freely available for download under open-source licensing -- is changing the rules of the game business.

Becoming a Better Programmer: A Conversation With Java Champion Heinz Kabutz
Dr. Heinz Kabutz, Java Champion and creator of the Java Specialists' Newsletter, discusses the importance of design patterns and unit testing, the 10 laws of Java concurrency, and life as a developer on the island of Crete.

Long Running Web Process (LRWP) in the Java Platform Using GlassFish
LRWP is a protocol, similar to CGI but faster, used by a web server to communicate with its peers. In Making Java Technology Faster than C with LRWP, we showed that the Long Running Web Process (LRWP) implementation in Java using GlassFish was faster than the implementation in C and Xitami. This paper describes that LRWP implementation.

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