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I personally never fight JOptionPane any more, for example, because I've written my own wrapper that beats some sense into it. But that doesn't mean JOptionPane is anything above awful. (This is the Python 3K blindness: it's harder for old-timers to appreciate how broken things are because they've got a good feel for where the dangerous swamps are, and ready-made duckboards for the areas they can't avoid. And aren't you supposed to get a bit wet anyway?)

--elliott hughes
Read the rest in elliotth's blog: Swing 2: Pissing in the Wind

Today's News

Sun has released NetBeans 6.7, its open source IDE for Java. New features in this version include:

  • Integration with Project Kenai, "a collaborative environment where developers can host their open-source projects. With NetBeans and Kenai, a team of developers can create projects, edit, debug, build, and commit code, and have discussions all through one easy-to-use interface."
  • Maven support
  • GlassFish and Hudson integrations
  • JavaScript 1.7
  • Ruby Remote Debugging
  • Java ME SDK 3.0

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 (Permalink)

Version 5.3.0 of PHP has been released. New features include:

This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards compatibility breaks:

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.0, see the ChangeLog.

Friday, June 26, 2009 (Permalink)

Google has released the Android Native Development Kit 1.5:

As you know, Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows developers to implement parts of these applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain kinds of applications.

The NDK provides:

  • a set of tools and build files used to generate native code libraries from C and C++ sources
  • a way to embed the corresponding native libraries into application packages files (.apks) that can be deployed on Android devices
  • a set of native system headers and libraries that will be supported in all future releases of the Android platform, starting from Android 1.5 documentation, samples and tutorials

This release of the NDK supports the ARMv5TE machine instruction set and provides stable headers for:

  • libc, the standard C library
  • libm, the standard math library
  • the JNI interface
  • libz, the common ZLib compression library
  • liblog, used to send logcat messages to the kernel

Keep in mind that using the NDK will not be relevant for all Android applications. As a developer, you will need to balance its benefits against its drawbacks, which are numerous! Your application will be more complicated, have reduced compatibility, have no access to framework APIs, and be harder to debug. That said, some applications that have self-contained, CPU-intensive operations that don't allocate much memory may still benefit from increased performance and the ability to reuse existing code. Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing.

Honestly, this is 1.0; but I guess they wanted to sync the version number with the OS.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 (Permalink)

The Eclipse Project has released Eclipse 3.5 Galileo, an open source integrated development environment for Java. (Other languages such as C++ are supported, but not especially well. I'll have to try the new PHP and XSLT support.) New features in 3.5 include (among many others)

  • Mac Cocoa 32 and 64 bit support.
  • New Memory Analyzer tool to help analyze memory consumption of Java applications
  • PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.1 is first PHP toolkit to support the new PHP 5.3 language release, including namespaces and closures.
  • New Mylyn WikiText support for editing and parsing wiki markup.
  • New XSL tooling for XSL editing and debugging.
  • Solaris support
  • toString() generation
  • {@inheritDoc} in the javadoc popups.
  • Warning overriding a synchronized method by a non-synchronized method.

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