http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/ This forum is for general discussion on Java programming language and concepts. 1998-2010 Marakana Inc., San Francisco, CA. All Rights Reserved.Marakana Spark http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/140.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/140.html Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:08:04 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group hosted an event on June 8th, 2010 with Adrian Cole, the founder of jclouds, who shared with the group how to connect Java apps to the cloud. His open-source cloud abstraction framework makes it possible to write cloud-portable apps for the likes of Amazon, VMWare, Azure, and Rackspace. Truly fascinating stuff. ... (video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/118.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/118.html Fri, 14 May 2010 15:02:02 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group (organized by Marakana) hosted an event on April 13th, 2010 with Kunal Jaggi who gave a talk on integrating GWT with Spring and Hibernate ORM. ... (video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/114.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/114.html Thu, 06 May 2010 00:04:23 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group (that I help organize) hosted an event on April 13th, 2010 with Lars Vogel, a committer on the Eclipse e4 project, who gave a talk on the next generation of the Eclipse Platform. ... (video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/94.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/94.html Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:40:39 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group hosted an event on March 9th, 2010 with Michael Knopp and Shawn Silverman from Livescribe who talked about their Java framework for pen-based computing and the Livescribe Platform. Truly fascinating stuff. ... (Video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/90.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/90.html Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:47:12 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group hosted an event on March 2nd, 2010 with Greg Luck from Terracotta who talked about how to improve Java app performance with Ehcache, the most popular Java-caching framework that he founded.
Ari Zilka, the CTO at Terracotta, also helped answer many questions from the audience. ... (Video available after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/79.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/79.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:33:27 -0800 Java - General San Francisco Java User Group hosted an event on Feb 9th, 2010 with Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who talked about Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things. ...]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/66.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/66.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:30:46 -0800 Java - General How to use Selenium with Maven/Ant to automate testing of web apps at the San Francisco Java User Group.

Chris talked about:

• How to write functional tests with Selenium (including explaining its IDE, architecture, RC, and alternatives like Canoo WebTest)
• How to set up Selenium testing for web apps in continuous integration using Maven, Ant, Cargo, etc.
• How to use Hudson for build server (brief overview)

...]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/45.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/45.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:44:03 -0800 Java - General talk on Google Wave API: Now and Beyond at the San Francisco Java User Group's November 10th, 2009 meetup event held in San Francisco, CA at Google Inc.

Marcel started off with a short overview of Google Wave, and then turned to the Google Wave APIs (Gadgets, Robots, etc.), the federation protocol, and the the road-map for the Wave project. I just wish he had more time to show additional code examples and go into technical details, which is why we'll have to invite him back :-) ...]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/44.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/44.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:00 -0800 Java - General SV-Web-JUG recently moderated a rather interesting talk on the Next Wave of Comet - what some like to call Reverse AJAX.

Kevin is an avid speaker on Comet, having even given a talk on Comet at San Francisco Java User Group, that I help organize.

Anyway, this talk not only discussed the present and the future for Comet, but also HTML 5 and other next-generation web technologies.

Panelists included:
Alex Russell, Google Engine & Past President of the Dojo Foundation.
Michael Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
Ted Goddard, Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Greg Wilkins, Lead Developer of the Jetty
Dylan Schiemann, co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen. ...]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/30.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/30.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:10:32 -0800 Java - General Joshua Bloch serves up a few Java Puzzlers as an appetizer before and as dessert after the main course on Effective Java at SV-Web-JUG on October 20th, 2009 at Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. ... (video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/27.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/27.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:12:11 -0800 Java - General Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open-source web-development framework that helps Java developers build and maintain sophisticated JavaScript-based web apps (all in Java).

In addition to providing an overview of GWT, Fred also touches on lessor known features and focus on those tools which are particularly useful for larger, more complex projects or in environments where the are multiple developers which need to collaborate on a single application. ... (video and slides after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/21.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/21.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:02:09 -0800 Java - General Java DB (a.k.a Apache Derby) at The San Francisco Java User Group's Sep 8th event in San Francisco. ... (video after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/20.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/20.html Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:26:55 -0800 Java - General MongoDB, a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. ... (video after the break)]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/18.html Marko Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/18.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:17:17 -0800 Java - General BIRT open source Java reporting tool at SFJava users group organized by Marakana.]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/11.html Marko Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/11.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:37:39 -0800 Java - General free Java tutorials and other open source related topics. Check it out let us know what you think!]]> http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/6.html Aleksandar Gargenta http://marakana.com/forums/java/general/6.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:12:13 -0800 Java - General
The one I like is Java Tuning White Paper by Sun, but Google lists 5m+ hits on the subject. The question is what's good and what's just clutter?

What do you like?

I am mostly interested in general do-s and don't-s, rather than hacks (e.g. The Commando Pattern) that buy you some performance at the expense of good design practices - which sometimes can be justified.
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