Why A New Scripting Language for JavaFX?

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.

March 22nd, 2009 As many of you know, I was invited to JavaOne 2008 as Press Analyst by Sun Microsystems. I went all the way from India to attend the event.

November 3rd, 2004 I was recently pulled into Groovy, a new Java based scripting language. You can read a good article highlighting groovy in onjava.com.

May 6th, 2008 JavaFX The keynote was centered around JavaFX, Sun's solution for creating rich interactive internet applications with immersive user interface. Sun's value proposition is ubiquitousness of JavaFX on mobile platform and internet enabled devices.

May 23rd, 2005 Oracle integrates PHP scripting engine (dubbed "Zend Core for Oracle") with its 10g database and application server for building apps based on the open source development language. What remains to be seen is whether Oracle is shifting focus away from Java or just encompassing additional languages.

May 6th, 2008 All throughout the JavaOne 2008 keynote presentation, I had the same nagging question, how is Sun going to profit from all these diverse technologies? In the end I don't have an answer. Purely from business standpoint it doesn't make sense.

December 6th, 2008 JavaFX is an expressive rich client platform for creating and delivering rich Internet experiences across all the screens of your life. It offers users freedom and flexibility to create rich Internet applications (RIA) and content quickly and easily across multiple screens.

July 17th, 2005 According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

February 25th, 2005 I am so happy! Now we have an expression language to create an expression language! Next we need an expl (my shortened form of expression language) to create an expl to create an expl ... ad-infinitum.

September 29th, 2005 According to TIOBE Programming Community Index Java is the leading programming language again, ahead of C and C++, its nearest rivals. Perl and PHP occupy 4th and 5th positions respectively attesting to the power of scripting languages.

April 20th, 2008 AWK is an extremely versatile and powerful language for processing files and text data. Often you can use awk to perform complex tasks on Unix / Linux / Mac OS command line which would otherwise take a full-fledged programming effort.

February 10th, 2005 Background I started my career with C then move to C++ and finally stuck on with Java ever since late 1995. I learnt other languages like VB, Basic, Fortran, Pascal (I loved it!) and recently php and some smattering of perl, lisp etc.

July 24th, 2006 Many online blogging software and other products require some type of cron and / or asynchronous execution functionality. Spammers and web robots are an essential part of any website today.

May 5th, 2006 This is a list of top 10 features missing in Java, features that I think will help Java survive and thrive in 21st century. As Java developers let's take this occassion to raise our voice and let our demands be heard.