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New National Java Competition In Planning Stage for Indonesian Students

4 | 0 Frans Thamura, Java Champion and leader ofJUG Indonesia, has announced on theJava.net Java User GroupsJUG-Leaders email list that he is working on a national Java competition for students in Indonesia (thefourth most populousnation in the world). As...

Polls: Do You Read Java Magazine? And the Java 7/8 "Plan B" Decision (in Retrospect)

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77 | 0 Ourmost recently completed pollsuggests that, while the newJava Magazineis starting to find a regular readership, there is still plenty of room for more growth. A total of 266 votes were cast in the poll, along with a single comment. The exact...

Preparing to Compute Using the Fork/Join Framework, Part 1

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| 0 A couple weeks ago I figured out (more or less)what's wrong with Java threads. It's not that there's anything so wrong with Java threads per se -- it's just that they were designed to meet a need that is different from what developers face today: a world...

Poll Result: Expected Impact of Lambda Expressions (Closures) on Programming with Java 8

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| 0 Brian Goetz recently provided new details on the status ofJSR 335in his OpenJDK documentState of the Lambda: Libraries Edition.Project Lambdais a fundamentally important enhancement to Java 8. And, based on the response of developers in ourrecent pollasking...

Brian Goetz Provides an Updated "State of the Lambda: Libraries Edition"

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| 0 Recently, I've been investigating the methods Java provides for developing desktop applications that efficiently utilize multicore processors. Java 7'sFork/Join Frameworkis the current focus of my investigation. But, Brian Goetz has just provided an update...

Multithread Programming Versus Parallel Programming; or, What's Wrong with Java Threads?

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| 0 A few nights ago, I was browsing the chapters about concurrent programming in Herbert Schildt's excellentJava: The Complete Reference, 8th Edition, and I was struck by the evolution of concurrency in Java over the years, from threads, through the richness...

Java 7 Fork/Join Framework Initial Look, and Resources

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| 0 In some earlier posts, I've talked aboutJava threads,Java Thread Overhead, andAmdahl's Law and Parallel Processing Speed-Up. My next investigation in this series is Java 7's newFork/Join Framework. I plan to spend quite a lot of time in this particular...

Amdahl's Law and the Not-So-Simple Problem of Speed-Up Due to Parallel Processing

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1856 | 0 With the advent of multicore processors on everything from desktop computers to tablets, pads, and even mobile phones, parallel processing is gaining increasing attention. This is at least in part what's behind the release of theFork/Join Frameworkin...

JavaOne Call for Papers Ends Monday; Please Don't Wait Until the Last Moment!

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4 | 0 It seems not that long ago that theJavaOne 2012 Call for Papersbegan. Yet, here we are, in the CfP's final weekend! All proposals for JavaOne 2012 sessions must be submitted by 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time (US) on Monday. Now, I'm not going to try...

Java User Groups Promote Java Education

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| 0 Java User Groupsare becoming active in educating the next generation of Java developers. In a post to the JUG Leaders email list, theMoroccoJUGstated that they organized "a new program to give Java EE courses to students in their graduation year (from...