Whilst Jenkins 1.397 has been released, Sonatype have been pressing on with build and architectural changes to Hudson. In order to facilitate further developer interest, the Hudson codebase will be moved back to GitHub. By Alex Blewitt

Microsoft shipped its Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Feb. 10 as a near-final version of the browser that features significant performance enhancements, user experience improvements and standards compatibility advancements. The release candidate, known as IE9 RC, is available at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 40 languages, Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, said in a Feb. 10 blog post. Hachamovitch said with IE9 RC, Microsoft has incorporated more than 17,000 pieces of feedback about IE9, and moved the browser forward in terms of performance and standards, user experience, and safety and privacy. Microsoft culled insights from more than 25 million beta testers to update the IE9 technology, including making the browser's "Chakra" JavaScript engine at least 30 percent faster than it was in the beta version. As for hardware acceleration and interoperability in the latest release, according to the SunSpider benchmark, IE9 RC is 35 percent faster than Internet Explorer 9 Beta& 322 ms in the beta versus 209 ms in RC. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to implement standards as they become stable, and IE9 RC supports geolocation, playback of H.264-encoded video using the HTML5 video tag, and now WebM video, when a VP8 code is installed on Windows.? - ...

On year ago, tomorrow, Oracle became the steward of Java through its acquisition of Sun.We invite you to join us tomorrow on the anniversary of this memorable event for a special TechCast Live conversation with Ajay Patel, VP of Product development for Application Grid Products and Justin Kestelyn of Oracle Technology Network. Topics that will be covered include:- Highlights, challenges and what we learned over the past year - The Future of Java and its importance to Oracle and the community - Oracle's Application Grid product portfolio todayDate:Feb, 15, 10:00am PSTWatch it live (tomorrow)

Two links, one from dzone and one from sys-con, addressed "what's wrong with java". Interesting thoughts, the dzone guy has an excellent point. But there's more.

So, you know the drill. All of the friends you went to high-school with see you driving around in your flashy car, living in your penthouse apartment overlooking the city's skyline, and just generally throwing your surplus cash around like you were a filming a gangsta-rap video for MTV, and they want to know how they can cash in on all of the glamour and fame that comes with the role of being an entry-level Java programmer. So, how does one do it? How does one get into the industry and get a job as a Java programmer?

Try and discover an original front-end stack based on JSF2 + PrimeFaces + Spring Web Flow

This is a short tutorial on Developing web applications with Spring MVC. Leverage the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern with Spring to build decoupled web applications.

Table-distribute feature is released in guzz1.2.9 named VirtualDB. In VirtualDB, you can split a big table into many small ones, and distribute them in several machines on your own rules.

GlassFish, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. Learn how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy them on GlassFish v3 running locally and then deploy it using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures. In his session at the 8th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist at Oracle, will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In addition he will talk about what Java EE currently offers for the cloud and the future directions in Java EE 7 in relation to cloud.

I read about the jflicks media system through an announcement here on JavaLobby. It sounded like a great project - an open source project, written in Java, to access all your media on your TV. Everyone wants to get at all of their media from the comfort of their sofa. That's why we have solutions like GoogleTV and Boxee. An open source project like jflicks is a great opportunity to add in some of...

I keep seeing people asking about salary ranges for number of years of experience, and the type of questions that get asked, in job discussion forums and as comments to online articles on job interview questions. For example,

The amount of creativity currently happening the realm of JavaScript (JS) is simply amazing. People invent all kinds of nifty tools and extensions. But with that comes fragmentation and the proliferation of JS frameworks has turned JS into an assembly of incompatible sub-languages. In contrast, Java has standardized the following six things and JS should do the same. After listing them, this...

I have been trying to get a simple @ManagedBean example working without the use of faces-config.xml. My bean is fairly simple:@ManagedBean(name = "patientBean")@SessionScopedpublic class PatientBean { Integer randomInt = null; Integer userNumber = null; String response = "test"; private long maximum = 10; private long minimum = 0; But when I try to access...

The image parameters of an IBM Cloud image can be retrieved through a URL called "manifest" that is provided by the image description. The URL returns an XML response. In this article, the author explains how to transform that XML response into a Java-usable response by creating Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and calling JAXB's unmarshal method -- once you have this response, it will be easy for you to send requests to create new instances based on images that request parameters from Java classes.