Hey all,

After a long period of intensive schoolprojects I finally found some time to post some more. And for all you java developers out there who have been "afk" for some time, here is a must-see movie trailer that was released more than a week ago now, but still is very funny.

Today is THE day. The Oracle “Java Road Trip” bus is starting its two months journey, and this unique bus is passing through twenty cities across the United States. The people touring this bus are key Java technologists at Oracle. They will show you the latest Java software, engage with JUG (Java User Group) members, and will meet with developers and consumers.

Justin Kestelyn describes it as:

ObjectDB is a powerful object oriented database management system (ODBMS). Being compact, reliable, easy to use and extremely fast, ObjectDB provides all the standard database management services, but in a way that makes development easier and applications faster.

On the 20th of May the release of ObjectDB 2.0 became available for the public. With the release of ObjectDB v2.0 there is a discussion about whether or not ObjectDB is portable, because ObjectDB states to be cross platform, yet on the other hand ObjectDB is dependend on JVM.

Spring Roo 1.1.0 M1 is now available for use. With Milestone 1, over 200 fixes, enhancements and new features are included. This is since the Spring Roo 1.0.2 release, which was about three months ago. At the same time as this release, a new version of SpringSource Tool Suite was released. This version of SpringSource Tool Suite has been optimized for the best Roo features.

Some of the Spring Roo changes are:

After 5 months a new version of JRuby has been released. This is a release with mostly bug fixes, but althought most of the bug fixes are just fine-tuning, the JRuby team is confident this version probably fixes most problems you where having with JRuby before.

Basically JRuby is a Java implementation of Ruby. JRuby holds many of the popular characteristics of Ruby, even though JRuby is integrated with the Java platform.

Yesterday the official release of Loom 2.0 has been announced. Since the release of the last version ( 1.5 in May 2009 ) there are a lot of changes. (Full change log)

Loom is a Java web framework (open source) that handles user input validation and HTML generation for enterprise applications. One of the benefits of using Loom compared to other frameworks is that the validation of user input is performed using annotations, with the possibility of reusing any existing JPA or hibernate annotations.

The reason for this major version change is because the release includes some breaking changes in places where backwards-compatible was just not worth it. The list of those breaking changes can be found here.

First for the newcomers, an intro to Spring Web Flow. Springsources.org defines Spring Web Flow as a MVC extension that allows you to define Controllers using a domain-specific-language. This language is designed to model user interactions that require several requests into the server to complete, or may be invoked from different contexts.

Benefits for this extension are:

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Oracle JRockit Mission Control is a tool suite for managing, monitoring, profiling and troubleshooting your Java applications. JRockit Mission Control consists of Management Console, the JRockit Runtime Analyzer and the Memory Leak Detector.

Some of the highlights are:

Today I read that the official Swing Task Dialog 1.0 has just been released. Task Dialog aims to create a trivial Task Dialog API for Swing.

( See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx )

With the TaskDialog's library you can easily create dialog messages of many different kinds.

In this tutorial I will explain how to get and install Netbeans and how to run the sample JavaFX “Hello World”.

 The first thing we want, is the correct installation package.