Archive for August, 2008

WebSynergy Build 2 Released

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

As you know, in May of this year, Sun and Liferay announced a partnership to jointly develop next generation enterprise portal technology.  The Sun portal team has since begun the rollout of Project WebSynergy, codename for the initiative to release a product based on this common technology. The Project WebSynergy ...

Project Nile

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

User Experience Designer Jeff Hoffman shows how to use the features of Project Nile, a component of the Java FX SDK Preview Release. Project Nile is a suite of tools and plugins to enable scripters to take assets from design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and to use them directly ...

Geolocation available from Google

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Google has come up with the Geolocation module which lets web applications to obtain the geographical position of the user. Using it web applications will be able to get the last known position of user, change in position of user and the current position of the user. With the Geolocation module ...

Java SE 6 Update 1

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Java has long been plagued by the perception of being old school, slow and clumsy to run on the desktop and/or browser. SE6u10 changes all of that... in major, major ways! Take a look...

Sun’s Chief Architect of Client Software on JavaFX Preview…

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Danny Coward, the Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software, which means Java SE, Java ME and JavaFX has written a nice article on the preview release of the JavaFX SDK. It is an informative piece. Read more... Aside from being the Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software, Danny is also Sun's Java ...

Sun Developer Network Article

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

New Article: Creating a Custom Scrollable Table With JavaFX Technology James L. Weaver has been posting a special series of articles in his JavaFXpert.com blog. In this series, he is collaborating with graphics designer Mark Dingman of Malden Labs on an imaginary application called Sound Beans. Read article

Malden Labs CEO to Keynote at ECC Conference

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Malden Labs CEO Mike Wetzer will be a featured keynote speaker at this years ECC Conference held in Scottsdale AZ September 3-6. Session 3: New Frontiers: New Technologies Coming to your Project Attendees will enjoy this lively plenary session that looks at the world of emerging technologies and execution approaches that will ...

Wonderland .4 Released

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Congrats to the team and the community. Great job! Link to Wonderblog.

Open Source LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

ZDNet Dev Connection has a good article on the differences between recently open sourced LWUIT based on JavaME and JavaFX Mobile as explained by Dave Hofert, group manager, Java platform marketing at Sun. Read more...

2008’s 10 Best Applications…

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Jakob Nielsens Alertbox: Many winners employ dashboards to give users a single overview of complex information and use lightboxes to ensure that users notice dialogs. Also, the Office 2007 ribbon showed surprisingly strong early adoption. Link Hopefully Jacob will select Malden Labs' 6thSpace as a 2009 Best Application!