[The Java Posse] jconsole vs. profilers...

2010-02-27 Thread Jess Holle
In the latest podcast, Tor mentions jconsole as having a cut-down version of the NetBeans profiler in it. This is incorrect. VisualVM has this, jconsole does not. He is correct in stating that this ships with the Sun's Java 6 JDK, however -- just don't look for it in jconsole. Last I checke

[The Java Posse] London Scala/Lift Talk

2010-02-27 Thread andy
Hi all The London Scala User Group (LSUG) will be presenting a talk by Richard Dallaway on 'Getting started with Lift' at SkillsMatter on the March 8th 2010 at 6:30. This will be a general talk on the basic of Lift, what can be achieved and how you can perform common web tasks. For details of th

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-27 Thread Josh Marinacci
I wouldn't worry about one earnings warning. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Palm has a very good future. On Feb 25, 2010, at 6:17 PM, CKoerner wrote: > Poor Josh, out of the frying pan and into the fire. > > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/25/palm-ceo’s-letter-to-employees/ > > I think

[The Java Posse] The difference between the Java language specification second edition and third edition

2010-02-27 Thread agile java
Hi all: I have a doubt about the JLS(Java Language Sepcification) Chapter 17 of the content. In the second edition of JLS have such a description: "Each thread has a working memory, in which it may keep copies of the values of variables from the main memory that is shared between all threads. To

[The Java Posse] IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-27 Thread phil.swen...@gmail.com
I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies are: -windows only (XP) -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server) -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on your machine -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho)

[The Java Posse] Re: jconsole vs. profilers...

2010-02-27 Thread Tor Norbye
Yes, sorry -- in that discussion I was thinking of VisualVM, not jconsole -- visualvm also ships with JDK6. -- Tor On Feb 27, 7:56 am, Jess Holle wrote: > In the latest podcast, Tor mentions jconsole as having a cut-down > version of the NetBeans profiler in it. > > This is incorrect.  VisualVM

[The Java Posse] Re: The difference between the Java language specification second edition and third edition

2010-02-27 Thread Ben Schulz
See the (then) new section 17.4 which defines Java's memory model. The happens-before order (§17.5.4) should be of particular interest to you. With kind regards Ben On 27 Feb., 19:40, agile java wrote: > Hi all: > > I have a doubt about the JLS(Java Language Sepcification) Chapter 17 of the > co

[The Java Posse] Re: software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-27 Thread Christian Catchpole
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Re: [The Java Posse] Re: software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-27 Thread Wildam Martin
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:37, warwickhunter wrote: > How about a utility that performs a search through JAR files for a > pattern? Yes, and when it finds fruit pieces it should chop them fine. mmmhhh. ;-) -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

[The Java Posse] Re: IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-27 Thread Steven Herod
Do you work for a bank? We had everything you mention at the insurance company I worked at. On Feb 28, 7:24 am, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" wrote: > I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies > are: > > -windows only (XP) > -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber ser

Re: [The Java Posse] software engineering ideas can implement by JAVA

2010-02-27 Thread JamesJ
I have always wanted to build a "micro" audio recording solution. Lets say you wanted to create a simple tutorial or testing app. For example, say a spelling tutor for grade schoolers. It would be very nice to have an efficient way to record, clip (remove silence from front and back) and normali

[The Java Posse] Re: IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-27 Thread phil.swen...@gmail.com
nope, just a pretty big enterprise software company. I don't think I should mention the name... On Feb 27, 5:37 pm, Steven Herod wrote: > Do you work for a bank? > > We had everything you mention at the insurance company I worked at. > > On Feb 28, 7:24 am, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" > wrote: > >

Re: [The Java Posse] IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-27 Thread Alexey Zinger
I'm currently consulting for an internal office of a huge multinational corporation, one which rolls a lot of its own IT, separate and different from some company-wide policies. The ones I've been exposed to are quite similar to your list: * every connection to outside goes through int

[The Java Posse] Re: IT policies of large corporations - what is normal?

2010-02-27 Thread Christian Catchpole
It's all a mix of those depending on where you go. Australian government lock their web and machines down pretty tightly. And they arn't used to being development shops. I had to get a special auth to install software. Symantec was interesting. While security was high, and Symantec Anti- virus

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The difference between the Java language specification second edition and third edition

2010-02-27 Thread agile java
Do you mean JLS specification is no longer clear that the memory threading model, but with the happen-before rules instead? So removed the description of thread working memory? Best regards. 2010/2/28 Ben Schulz > See the (then) new section 17.4 which defines Java's memory model. The > happens