JavaOne Keynote - JavaFX To Run Consistently On Billions Of Devices

Rich Green, EVP Software at Sun, kicked off the 2008 JavaOne with a keynote presentation today.  He began by saying there were going to be some surprises.  He wasn’t wrong; although, having said that, almost all of what he talked about is still being built.  Mostly, nothing is shipping yet and so all we got […]

Silverlight 2 and Flash In RIA News

The world of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) just took a couple of fascinating turns.   Silverlight version 2 is now out in beta; and it looks… well it looks TOTALLY AMAZING.  It can be programmed using serious, elegant, programming languages; it has great tool support; and a version of Silverlight is coming to mobile phones […]

Installed Java 6? Wanna See How Applets Run?

So, you’ve seen the news - Sun Microsystems has just released Java SE 6, and you’ve installed it.
Now, with Java 6 installed, you want to see how it runs. So, how about a simple “Hello World” applet? Feel free to try this one. It doesn’t do anything interesting - it’s just a test. […]