Superpatterns

del.icio.us' link posting function seems to be on the blink right now; here are my last few, lovingly hand-pasted...

• Is Sun Microsystems Re-Inventing Itself?
  Ryan de Laplante gives a great overview of Sun's open source product lines, from OpenSolaris to OpenSSO
  (tags: glassfishv2 netbeans opends opensolaris opensso ryandelaplante sun ultrasparct2)
• Time to overcome Java misconceptions
  Google engineers Jeremy Manson and Paul Tyma challenge commonly-held assumptions on Java performance
  (tags: google java jvm performance)
• The new standard for meetings and conferences
  This is why I often just leave my laptop at home when I go to the office - I'm there for the interaction, not to type alone in my office.
  (tags: blog businesssethgodin travel web work productivity conference)
• TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
  Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness. Well worth the 18 minutes.
  (tags: brain jillboltetaylor stroke ted)

• Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds support for Java SE 6
  Yay - Java SE 6 on Leopard!!!
  (tags: java leopard mac osx)

• Seriously, deploying apps to Glassfish couldn't be easier
  Handy set of tips for autodeploy on Glassfish
  (tags: applicationserver autodeploy glassfish j2ee javaee sun java)

If you are working with Java on OS X, then you are probably aware of 13949712720901ForOSX, a call for Apple to support Java 6 on Mac OS X Leopard.

My personal take on this (stressing the personal - despite my highly exalted position at Sun I have no insider knowledge) is that Java 6 was in Leopard at some point in time (witness the Java 6 developer preview download at ADC - long gone now). Apple put resources into iPhone at the expense of Leopard. I reckon that Java 6 was cut to bring in Leopard's ship date, and Java 5 hastily put in its place, hence the Java 5 issues we are seeing.

All of this would be of little import, were Apple not dealing with a developer community that has become addicted to openness. Apple's ruthless, consumer-oriented, information management just doesn't work with this crowd. And, devoid of any official position from Apple, the community assumes the worst. It's only a matter of time before the first blog entry appears alleging that Java 6 was dropped from Leopard because Steve Jobs spends too much time eating babies (oops - there it is! ).

I guess the first we'll hear from Apple is when the download appears in Software Update. It can't happen too soon...

It's just one of those days - the bloggable thoughts are coming thick and fast...

For some time now, Sun has been unusual in providing the entire stack of hardware and software, from the metal right on up to the product on which I work, Sun Java System Access Manager:

Well, now there is an open analogue to every one of those layers:

Open all the way up the stack - now that is cool!

GPLv2 and everything. Wow. And Glassfish adds GPLv2 to the existing CDDL. Cool.

Go get it!