From the outside looking in it would appear that jSeamless is all but dead, but if you’ve been paying attention to SVN commits you’ll notice there’s been quite a lot of activity for the past several months. I have somewhat abandoned what small community I had with jSeamless 1.0 in an effort to “start over”…
Category: sun
Java Delegates in xjava
I posted over a year ago about Delegates in Java, and since I kicked off an exploration of the functionality I’m providing in my xjava framework with my previous post I thought I would continue with my newest iteration of the Delegates concept as utilized in xjava. Until you use a language like Scala or…
The Death of Beans
My previous post was more of a rant about the frustrations of Java Beans: Have Beans been holding us back? I stated at the end of my post/rant that my next post would be about what I suggest as the viable successor to Java Beans. To that end, I begin my discussion about properties. Though…
Have Beans been holding us back?
I have been a Java developer for many years now and have always taken for granted some of the standards pushed on me from the beginning. Java standards such as basic Java Beans (aka POJOs) are supposed to make life easier by providing simple getters/setters that work with the private fields of your Object. For…
I Hate JavaFX; I Love JavaFX!
I’ve posted a few places and gotten into more than a few rants publicly about how awful I think it is that Sun has been pushing JavaFX to the Java community. This has not been based on what JavaFX provides, because I think that’s absolutely spectacular, but rather that they created a whole new language…
jSeamless: The Conspiracy
Okay, so this probably doesn’t par up to the JFK assassination, those crop circles, or how in the world John Locke can survive a bullet in the chest, but it’s starting to really bother me. I developed jSeamless with the intent of “seamlessly” bringing technologies together to make life easier on the developer. However, I’m…