Re: [The Java Posse] java sdk vs java ee sdk

2012-07-26 Thread Sean Comerford
Raj SE is all the standard Java libraries for building applications - base data types (string, date, etc) and structures (map, set, list, etc) as well as a ton of utilities for dealing with threads, building GUIs, etc. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/ EE is the enterprise edition

Re: [The Java Posse] Java One or Java ho-hum

2011-10-23 Thread Sean Comerford
I agree with both sides. Tech geeks always want to be on the cutting edge / cool tech. 10 years ago, that WAS java... now it's just a wildly successful but mature and more slowly evolving technology. That being said, JavaOne was WAY better this year with more excitement and I left feeling Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala Adoption - Code Coverage

2011-06-05 Thread Sean Griffin
I've personally used Cobertura successfully with Scala projects. It's not perfect -- it flags a few lines as not being fully covered even though I know for a fact that they are -- and only the line coverage is even close to accurate, but has provided good enough functionality for me so far. For

[The Java Posse] [Scala] Acceptable profilers?

2011-05-31 Thread Sean Griffin
Google seems to indicate that Yourkit (not free) is the only profiling tool that can successfully profile Scala applications. VisualVM appears to choke on the bytecode that the Scala compiler. Has any of the Scala developers in the community on this forum had any success with a profiler? --

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode 341

2011-03-07 Thread Sean Griffin
/steps that help with any of these problems I'd really like to know. -Sean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse

Re: [The Java Posse] McNealy says with Apple takeover, he would have 'screwed up' iphone and iPad

2011-02-26 Thread Sean Comerford
Thoughts his candid admissions on missing the Intel CPU boat were interesting too: If we had just grabbed the Intel Pentium chip and done a one-way and two-way pizza box with Solaris on it, Linux never would have happened. And we would have hit that whole next wave that was post-2000 and we would

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: 64bit JDK on Windoze?

2011-02-11 Thread Sean Comerford
performance differences. I thought 64 bit was supposed to be better at using up memory to get more performance. Is more CPU usage a good thing? Is there a noticeable performance increase? On Feb 10, 10:09 pm, Sean Comerford sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com wrote: Any of you posse people have much

[The Java Posse] 64bit JDK on Windoze?

2011-02-10 Thread Sean Comerford
Any of you posse people have much experience running the 64 bit 1.6 Oracle JVM on Windows? We recently cut some services over to it, using the CompressedOOPS. Accomplishes the goal of giving us 4 GB heaps but the extra cost in CPU usage seems excessively high. We expected some penalty in this

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java developers on Mac OS X: less than 8%

2010-11-07 Thread Sean Comerford
Mac's are overpriced. Comapnies buying computers for a bunch of employees don't buy Mac's unless there is a specific business reason (i.e. they need some mac only software). 10% of Java devs on Mac's sounds right to me. So I don't blame Apple for deprecating Java. Especially since it On Fri,

[The Java Posse] Re: A word on the language discussions

2010-09-30 Thread Sean Griffin
Thank you, Dick, for saying what needed to be said. It doesn't take long before well-meaning discussions dissolve into arguing and general aggressiveness. It's not comfortable and not appropriate for a forum of professionals. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Griffin
I ran across that blog post in my searches a few days ago, but I only read the first couple paragraphs at the time. I fully agree that the title is misleading with a subtle point that: 1. If used as a slant toward sarcasm is a point most will miss or 2. If stated as a true opinion, it's one I

[The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-15 Thread Sean Griffin
going to go with scala, go whole hog. I don't see the point of using scala as a java with slightly more cleaned up syntax. It's not worth the trouble of switching if that's all you're going to do. On Sep 16, 5:12 am, Sean Griffin trenchgui...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, it wasn't my intention

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala vs. Groovy

2010-09-10 Thread Sean Griffin
Tommy, your view appears to be the same view as many in my company, but I see some flaws in it. My response is inline below: On Sep 10, 3:03 am, Tommy tommy@gmail.com wrote: You mentioned you'd chose Scala over Clojure because it's easier to migrate to.  What do you mean by that?  Migrate

Re: [The Java Posse] News from Oracle.

2010-08-17 Thread Sean Comerford
The big thing I keep seeing in all this concern about Oracle is that people continually forget or ignore WHY Sun and Java is now owned by Oracle: Sun focused on the wrong things (including being OVERLY concerned with the community) which led to them losing money year after year after year

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Droid X self-destructs if you try to mod it..

2010-07-20 Thread Sean Comerford
Pretty crazy and I'm NOT saying I approve. But I can't entirely blame them either. I don't really know much about what people mod their phones for (with 2 young kids and a wife that also works I barely have time for my day job work never mind hacking my cell phone :-) especially non apple ones.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JPA w/ Hibernate annotation question

2010-07-02 Thread Sean Comerford
and composite keys: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-hibernatejpa/index.html Short story: you'll have to extract your composite key into its own class and then use that as the @Id field. Good luck. On Jul 1, 3:20 pm, Sean Comerford sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com wrote: Hours

[The Java Posse] JPA w/ Hibernate annotation question

2010-07-01 Thread Sean Comerford
Hours of googling have failed so I'm hoping one of you JavaPosse list geniuses can bail me out here :-) I have what I think is a pretty simple relationship between two DB tables. Record - int seqId (key) int owner (key) String source (key) ... other non key fields ...

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle's best days are behind them now!

2010-06-27 Thread Sean Comerford
So much for Oracle's best days being behind them... earnings beat expectations 60 cents to 54 and a (small) part of it was apparently increase in Sun hardware sales http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/06/25/finally-the-sun-shines-on-oracle.aspx On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Fabrizio

Re: [The Java Posse] Oracle's best days are behind them now!

2010-06-15 Thread Sean Comerford
I hardly think a bastardized Android JVM is a death knell for Oracle. Relatively speaking, Android is still a tiny fraction of the market. Yeah, the Sun acquisition is a bit of a gamble but arguably Sun has some great technology that wasn't properly marketed + sold. So maybe Oracle can figure out

[The Java Posse] JPA Column question

2010-05-12 Thread Sean
Dumb JPA question that I can't Google up the answer for... figuring someone on the Java Posse list must know :-) The DB I'm dealing with uses the _ character in just about every single column name. This then forces me to tediously use the column annotation over and over just to account for the _

Re: [The Java Posse] Oracle Webcast Discussion Thread

2010-01-27 Thread Sean Comerford
Other than confirming that JavaOne will continue to live on, was there anything specific to Java and related products like Glassfish, NetBeans, etc highlighted? I managed to hang in there through most of the hardeware stuff (which while technically interesting isn't stuff I'll use) but of course

[The Java Posse] JMX web console apps?

2009-11-20 Thread Sean Comerford
I'm looking for a web application that I can configure to act as a dashboard for a bunch of JMX connections to various remote Java server instances / processes. I want to be able to easily point and click to see all the standard jconsole things like CPU + memory utilization for multiple instances

Re: [The Java Posse] JMX web console apps?

2009-11-20 Thread Sean Comerford
connections. Sean Comerford wrote: I'm looking for a web application that I can configure to act as a dashboard for a bunch of JMX connections to various remote Java server instances / processes. I want to be able to easily point and click to see all the standard jconsole things like CPU

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle may drop sun deal?

2009-11-04 Thread Sean Comerford
It seems ironic to me that the major hangup here seems to be stopping Oracle from killing MySQL. If Sun isn't bought at (especially if this deals fall through) the company will eventually go bankrupt and MySQL will essentially be dead in the water anyway. And what other company out there large

[The Java Posse] Re: JSF (Java Server Faces)

2009-07-09 Thread Sean Comerford
No matter what you think of it, there's no disputing that JSF never really gained much of a foothold on the Internet at large. But for developing lower traffic, intranet style business apps (workflow management, HR tools, etc) it's actually very good. And attracting the Visual basic, business

[The Java Posse] Re: How three companies wanted to buy Sun

2009-05-14 Thread Sean Comerford
Interesting article... the SEC filing also seems to indicate that Sun (at least in name) will live on as a wholly owned subsidiary. As a former Sun employee, that would make me happy hate to see the old ship sink completely :-/ Whatever happens, I think we're all better off with Oracle buying