NexJ Scheme is an open source project providing an efficient and powerful interpreter for the programming language Scheme that executes in a Java virtual machine. Today I was sort of shocked to learn that there is another implementation besides SISC and Kawa that runs on Java! There wasn’t even an announcement for NexJ on comp.lang.scheme [...]
Sun’s JDK 1.6 had a nasty nasty bug on Windows that caused compile times to explode. It went unresolved for a very long time until the bug effected Glassfish and made it look bad! Finally, we have relief, and can get back on a “modern compiler”!
Swing is the GUI standard for Java. Clojure is the awesomeness standard for Java. (via Stuart)
Manu put out a challenge to it here.
Here is a video of Philip Wadler talking about his (and others) history with logic and programming languages.
jTracert will allow you to generate sequence diagrams directly from your application runtime! * This gives you a lot of advantages: * Understand the code created by your colleagues/partners in a short time * Rapidly generate documentation for your partners or users. * Easily investigate what’s happening in large Java applications * Excellent companion for [...]
HOPLON Infotainment write MMOG’s with Java on a mainframe. More here. (via IEEE Spectrum Volume 45 Number 8, 2008)
Here is a good post about language design philosophy and implementation details of inner classes in Java. The focus is more on the latter; and the article is still interesting.
Functional Java is an open source library that aims to prepare the Java programming language for the inclusion of closures. It also serves as a platform for learning functional programming concepts by introducing these concepts using a familiar language. The library is intended for use in production applications and is thoroughly tested using the technique [...]