Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, discusses current web trends. I actually like his cautious view of RIAs (although it conflicts with Sun’s current JavaFX direction). Some highlights of the interview: WS* is already legacy. WS* will be more and more replaced with RESTful services RIAs are overrated, user like simple interfaces [...]
JavaFX 1.0 is around the corner. The planned release date was December 2nd, but it has been postponed to December 4th. What can we expect from the release? Despite the doubts from the community and my own, I actually looking forward to it. Why? A couple of thing: Tool support has still a long way [...]
Since April 1st (no it’s not again a bad joke) the Java SE 6 Update Beta build is available. For all you don’t know what this is about (yes, you two in the corner), here are the major features: Enhanced Java deployment: Deployment Toolkit, Java Kernel online installer, Java auto-updater, and server side requirements are [...]
