To commemorate Sun’s awarding over half million certifications, Sun will allow you to re-take the exam one additional time, should you need it, for free if you place your order by June 20 2008. If you are not sure about your chances in the very first time, this is a golden opportunity for you. Here’s how you can avail this opportunity.

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I am preparing for attending JavaOne. I will cover JavaOne 2008 live on this blog and on twitter.

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I got an invitation for covering JavaOne and received a Press pass for the conference.

I am planning to attend the conference from 6-9 May in San Francisco and live blog about the event. I will be updating soon on the sessions I plan to attend and more.

Looking forward to meet some old friends in San Francisco during my stay.
Let me know if you are planning to attend too…

It was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country. What was even more surprising is that USA doesn’t figure in top 10.

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Openfire (Jabber/XMPP server) by default binds on port 8080 which is also used by Tomcat. This causes Tomcat to fail when openfire is started before it. The solution, as always, is simple.

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Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge. However we will look into the simplest and most reliable method of intra-applet communication.

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There is a minor-war going on in Sun Alumni mailing list and elsewhere where the common misconception: “Java is slow” is surfacing again and again, much to the dismay of knowledgeable Java developers who have known for ages that Java is fast even compared to C++ and has been so for several years. All this re-surfaced because Sun decided to change its ticker symbol to JAVA (previously it was SUNW). All of this is terribly frustrating to Java developers who take pride in Java and are well aware of its capabilities because they leverage it every day. So let’s rest this myth to rest once and for all, shall we?

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Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a heart-felt piece on the value of branding for a company and its customers. I very much agree with him. A brand is not just a promise, it is an expectation, it is a theme to rally behind.
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Kind of gives you a clear indication where Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW) is headed, doesn’t it? It does give me a warm feeling too knowing Sun is so much committed to Java, a language I have been working on since 1996. The change will go into effect on Aug. 27.

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Fedora Core developers make it rather hard to install and properly configure Sun’s JVM. All said and done Sun’s JVM (comes with JDK) is the best JVM implementation out there; not to mention that it is the reference implementation. Here is how you can easily install JDK 6 / Java SE 6 in 5 minutes or less. Here are the steps:

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