Friday, July 15, 2005

2005 JavaOne conference - Daily Prompt, Thursday

2005 JavaOne conference - Daily Prompt, Thursday: "Daily Prompt for Thursday: Thursday Already?

By Robert Eckstein, Thursday, June 30, 2005

It's Thursday already. Who would have thought that the week would go by so fast? Did you catch those 'Extreme GUI Makeover' talks? Wow! Never in my wildest dreams could I have bent and twisted the Swing and 2D APIs to make Java GUIs look like a Mac. (And I co-authored a book on JFC/Swing!) And those fresh GUI components from the JNDC group look pretty slick. Who would have thought that a simple drop-shadow border could make components look so good! Be sure to check those out on java.net as well. Another great talk was Wednesday's 'Coding Across Continents: Technologies for Remote, Real-Time, Collaborative Software Development,' a great way to get Java developers from all over the world to code great programs together."

More on that here:Getting Started With JavaSpaces Technology: Beyond Conventional Distributed Programming Paradigms

By Qusay H. Mamoud, July 12, 2005
The Java programming language continues to be the language of choice for implementing enterprise and distributed applications. This can be attributed to its platform independence, simple object-oriented model, clean syntax, and built-in support for building blocks (such as threads and sockets) for distributed application development.

Building distributed applications is difficult because you must take into account several issues, such as partial failure, increased latency, distributed persistence, and language compatibility.

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