[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
> There is however, a very big difference between looking at a language > change from the perspective of a language implementor vs a language > user. In any case, I look forward to our discussion! And I look forward to listening! > > - Joe (the other Joe) > > On Sep 2, 8:44 pm, jddarcy wrote:

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joe Nuxoll (Java Posse)
I am looking forward to our discussion in person hopefully tomorrow (Wed) after the languages summit. We'll bring a recorder, of course so the listeners get the benefit of hearing you directly. We're all huge fans of yours Joe, but of us 4 - probably Carl is the only one you could label as a "co

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Lee
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > Well no matter how you cut it, the amount of stuff that has been > dropped is staggering > Well, I find the amount of stuff that's going in to the language in Java 7 to be staggering and even worrying. You could say we're looking at a bigger

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread Sang Shin
Just to add to what Kirk said, there is a NetBeans profiler hand-on lab that shows how you can do what he suggested. http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/nbprofilerperformance/index.html This is part of the following online course http://www.javapassion.com/javaperformance/#Topics -Sang

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Darcy
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > > > Also, Java 7 isn't the end of the line. Just because a feature > > doesn't make it into 7 doesn't mean it will never make it in. > > Neal has also stated here and on other blogs > > Well no matter how you cut it, the amount of stuff that h

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Casper Bang
> Also, Java 7 isn't the end of the line. Just because a feature > doesn't make it into 7 doesn't mean it will never make it in. > Neal has also stated here and on other blogs Well no matter how you cut it, the amount of stuff that has been dropped is staggering and a prospect of JDK8 in another

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Lee
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dick Wall wrote: > Firstly, perhaps folks out to go back and listen to the first 20 > minutes of episode 277. The emphasis of that discussion was in no way > bullying anyone from the pulpit, not negative in context, it was more > of a "hey, isn't this Lombok a cle

[The Java Posse] Re: OpenCL (or sort of) with Java?

2009-09-15 Thread Gary Frost
On Sep 1, 8:51 am, Michael Bien wrote: > Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > mbien wrote: > > >> Hi Fabrizio, > > >> I 'll work on a JNI/GlueGen basedOpenCLbinding toJavaas part of my > >> bachelor thesis. If everything works well it will be an optional > >> extension of JSR231 aka JOGL (and will also fu

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
where i work, we use an isolated (non virtual) hudson for performance test. its an old machine, but we're only interested on relative times (each run takes around 6 times). you might want to virtualize the os's and use hudson locks. On 9/16/09, Patrick wrote: > > You might take a look at Japex,

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
there's a jvm argument that makes it dump the heap on OOME. i use that as a starting point and either jhat or visualvm to analyze it... On 9/16/09, kirk wrote: > > kittu wrote: >> Hi >> >> I facing the problem of out of memory and fatal shutdown of the >> device, in the logs i not able to find a

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread kirk
kittu wrote: > Hi > > I facing the problem of out of memory and fatal shutdown of the > device, in the logs i not able to find any clue regards memory > increament continuosly. the device is down after few days due to > continuous memory usage increment >256MB (actually 60 -90MB > acceptable). > >

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Dick Wall
I think it might be time for a bit of a reset of this thread, since it seems to have wandered off into the rough. Firstly, perhaps folks out to go back and listen to the first 20 minutes of episode 277. The emphasis of that discussion was in no way bullying anyone from the pulpit, not negative in

[The Java Posse] Re: Web services

2009-09-15 Thread Martin OConnor
Unfortunatly, that is a known bug in the current version of the eclipse plugin, rendering it pretty much useless (at least in this release). Use the axis2 shell or batch utilities to generate the wsdl instead. On Sep 15, 4:04 pm, WebServicesNewbie wrote: > Any one have experience with Axis 2 cod

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Lee
Dick, It really irks me to see you bully Joe from your pulpit like this. Comparing your job to his is comparing apples to oranges. I'm quite certain you wouldn't get paid to work on your *closed source* product if it didn't make a profit. The fact is, Sun doesn't profit from adding features to th

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread hlovatt
Joe, I seemed to have failed in the intention of my post. I was trying to be constructive and offer a way forward; but all I seem to have done is upset you, this was not my intention. I think there is an ever increasing feeling that Java is stagnating, and as a consequence many people, including

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread Viktor Klang
Not to be an asshole or anything, but was google broken? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM, kittu wrote: > > Hi > > I facing the problem of out of memory and fatal shutdown of the > device, in the logs i not able to find any clue regards memory > increament continuosly. the device is down after fe

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Waterer
If you are on Java 1.6.7+ (I think this is the version that it was released on), then you can use the jvisualvm command. As with any tool, it has its limits. However, you can get a heap dump, which will then show you how many times a particular object is created/destroyed, how it was used, etc.

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Darcy
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > Oh, I'm sure it's difficult. None of that changes the fact that we're > all perfectly capable of judging new language features with: > > - a readable description that is NOT up to JLS standard. > Sections from the Project Coin pro

[The Java Posse] Web services

2009-09-15 Thread WebServicesNewbie
Any one have experience with Axis 2 code generator eclipse plug in. I am getting a java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException when trying to generate wsdl from the source. Help! Thanks, Sonia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subs

[The Java Posse] JVM garbage collection

2009-09-15 Thread kittu
Hi I facing the problem of out of memory and fatal shutdown of the device, in the logs i not able to find any clue regards memory increament continuosly. the device is down after few days due to continuous memory usage increment >256MB (actually 60 -90MB acceptable). is any way to debug this sce

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Patrick
You might take a look at Japex, which was developed at Sun for benchmarking some of the XML libraries. It offers a harness in which you can run tests and gives you a sort of framework by which to handle initialization and warmup issues, plus it can compare between runs and against a baseline. I do

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Oh, I'm sure it's difficult. None of that changes the fact that we're all perfectly capable of judging new language features with: - a readable description that is NOT up to JLS standard. - a thorough pros and cons list - plenty of 'real life' examples, preferably not constructed just to highl

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Yep. Pretty much you need to create a hudson slave just for running your tests. Tests should always be run on an isolated server. Fortunately Hudson makes this pretty easy. - Josh On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > Robert Casto wrote: >> That depends of course on what

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Darcy
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Sep 15, 12:30 am, jddarcy wrote: > > My message announcing the final five makes clear that this > > decision was made based on resourcing concerns rather than the merits > > of the idea itself. > > Whilst acknowledging the 'real worl

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Robert Casto wrote: > That depends of course on what you are trying to do. > > Joshua wants to measure average system performance while things are > humming along. > > If you want to know how long it takes to startup, then you keep the > data. I tend to separate the two in reports I give to comp

[The Java Posse] Re: Web UI testing framework for Internet Explorer

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Casto
I'm guessing you are looking for something free, but QTP does a pretty good job and has adapters for lots of different environments. If you fail to find a free option, you could look into it. I have used it before when doing performance testing on a Java Swing application. It works which is about a

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
Yep. It all depends in what you are trying to measure. - Josh, on the go On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Robert Casto wrote: > That depends of course on what you are trying to do. > > Joshua wants to measure average system performance while things are > humming along. > > If you want to know h

[The Java Posse] Re: Web UI testing framework for Internet Explorer

2009-09-15 Thread Ruben Reusser
I tried that, but the app does not work at all in FF so I can not record and have to write everything by hand unless I missed something in Selenium to record in IE. Ruben On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Robert Casto wrote: > You can make Selenium work for IE but it requires more effort. It is

[The Java Posse] Re: Web UI testing framework for Internet Explorer

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Casto
You can make Selenium work for IE but it requires more effort. It is 100% Javascript and you just have to work harder to make it play nice. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ruben Reusser wrote: > Hi, > > we have to build a test suite that tests an existing web application - the > application onl

[The Java Posse] Web UI testing framework for Internet Explorer

2009-09-15 Thread Ruben Reusser
Hi, we have to build a test suite that tests an existing web application - the application only runs in IE and I was wondering if any of you have a suggestion what test framework to use. Thanks Ruben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Casto
That depends of course on what you are trying to do. Joshua wants to measure average system performance while things are humming along. If you want to know how long it takes to startup, then you keep the data. I tend to separate the two in reports I give to companies. Very different work is done

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Alexey Zinger
Interesting, but don't you think that for certain situations, throwing away results that might be affected by start-up times is the exact wrong thing to do? Alexey From: Joshua Marinacci To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43

[The Java Posse] Re: Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
When performance testing the client JRE we do two things which seem to help: 1) check out both the latest and your older / baseline releases of your code. Test them *both*. This lets you plot how you have improved, regardless of what computer your tests are running on. It's also the only

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Joshua Marinacci
> Where coin went a bit wrong, I think, is in how you required more work > from the community than what you require internally. I presume when > (outside of coin) sun employees decide on java features to add to the > language, they first do some analysis of which ones are worth it, pick > one, nai

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Vince O'Sullivan
On Sep 15, 12:30 am, jddarcy wrote: > My message announcing the final five makes clear that this > decision was made based on resourcing concerns rather than the merits > of the idea itself. Whilst acknowledging the 'real world' constraints of limited resources; I'm curious about the fact that i

[The Java Posse] Query-Network Programming question

2009-09-15 Thread jitesh dundas
Hi Friends, I have to develop this progem and I need some expert to advise me on this.. Consider an SMTP server that sends an email via relay method. In this relay, it accesses multiple IP addresses and then sends to the receiver. I want to track this entire activity via java networking(maybe c

[The Java Posse] Problems with continuous performance testing, solutions anyone?

2009-09-15 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Working with imaging, I came to the conclusion that I need continuous performance testing more than one year ago (http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/stopwatches-anyone-or-about-co). Of course, the idea is not mine, but seems surprisingly "old" (2003, http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/16755). As you

[The Java Posse] Re: #277: Not a view from an ivory tower

2009-09-15 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Your complaints about community whining (defined as: People who want language changes but do not offer to do the work) is entirely justified. Where coin went a bit wrong, I think, is in how you required more work from the community than what you require internally. I presume when (outside of coin