As a follow-up to my posting today, I noticed Dave Rosenberg at C|Net news published an article today on why Oracle’s influence will likely be more quickly realizable than previously thought. He cites’ an IDC report that underscores the importance of the Java platform as one of the primary motivators that drove the acquisition. Nothing [...]

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Wondering what the next version of the JDBC specification will look like? What about that issue you logged; will it be fixed? What is JDBC 4.1 going to have in terms of new functionality? Join the JDBC Expert Group (of which I’m proud to be a member) as we cover these topics Tuesday (tomorrow) night [...]

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Performance is a huge concern when writing any Java code, especially since many still do not realize the benefits of coding to a hotspot vm and believe Java to be a “slower” language than something like C/C++. As someone with a hardware background, I frequently hear that faster computers are the answer. To an extent, [...]

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