Mind the Gap

Sunbug 6650394 is coming along nicely - both in terms of votes and supportive comments. At the time of writing, it has 99 votes, so thank y...

Sun has kindly raised sunbug 6650394 on my behalf to track the module system interoperation issue for JSR 277. Please consider voting for t...

The Early Draft Review of JSR 294 is now complete. Little seems to have changed since when I left the Expert Group. The main weakness from m...

A couple of weeks in the new job and I work for a different company! Well almost - Interface21 has been renamed to SpringSource to strengthe...

I'm gradually noticing what's different about working in a small company. For one thing, there are very few processes, other than ...

Today I start work for Interface21 in Southampton. After more than a month of gardening leave, or more accurately decorating leave, I can...

Java preserves type-safety when loading classes, even if there are buggy or malicious custom class loaders present. This is important as wit...

James Governor drew my attention to Laura Thomson's summary of good coding practice - like a memory jogger for Code Complete . Don...

Tom Watson and Simon Kaegi are giving an introduction to Eclipse Equinox and OSGi at noon EST on November 27th. Register if you're int...

An estimated 200 people have been killed by the ruling military junta during the recent peaceful demonstrations in Burma. Although the count...

Today I handed in my resignation and will be leaving IBM on November 5. I've had a very enjoyable 26 years here in Hursley working on a ...

Infoq and Alex Miller picked up on my recent comments about the somewhat closed approach being adopted by JSR 277. Since the whole concep...

FeatherCast occasionally has interesting short podcasts about goings on in Apache. Today I noticed a Google advert on the site for humane p...

The modus operandum of the JSR 277 Expert Group is fascinating. Strawman proposals are developed in private by the spec. lead, colleagues fr...

On this topic , Danny Coward recently referred to a limited form of operator overloading specifically for BigDecimal. Good to know this is ...

Eric Newcomer says he's enjoyed working in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. From my experience of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group,...

The last administrative hurdle for JSR 291 has been cleared and the spec., RI, and TCK are now available, either via the JCP site or direct...

The JCP awards brightened up a wet Monday morning. The Apache Software Foundation got the "Member of the Year" (!) award for its c...

Things have moved on somewhat since March , so I thought an update would be helpful. Let's recap first. JSR 277 is trying to create a s...

IBM launched Project Zero on Friday. The aim is to provide simpler ways to build web applications using an approach termed Community-Driven...