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 Jav

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
I don't know much about 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 > wrote: >

[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 res

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, N

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 basical

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. B

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

[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 Giu

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

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 g

Re: [The Java Posse] Tor's new venture

2009-12-29 Thread Sean Comerford
An equity fund that specializes in photography, robotics and arson? Where do I sign up?!?!?! On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Eric Raymond wrote: > Been noticing Tor typing a bit more during the past few episodes? > Here's why: > > http://tinyurl.com/ydgslde > > -- > > You received this message

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

2009-11-20 Thread Sean Comerford
-- including abilities to > remember and discover JMX 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 /

[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 instance

[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 en

[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 buyin