... Thanks for pointing that out. It was years ago, so it must have expired by now....
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Ralph Freese
ralphfreese
May 4, 2011 2:59 am
... Yes, revived. It (HJUG) was started by Philip Johnson just after Java was released. To give you an idea of how early this was, at one of the first meetings...
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Daniel Leuck
danielleuck
May 4, 2011 6:19 am
I remember those days back in '95. I first read about an experimental language being developed inside of Sun called Oak in 93. I learned how to write my first...
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Jim Thompson
gonzopancho
May 4, 2011 9:26 am
Hi Daniel, Java was never named Green that I know of. It was put into "Project Green", which became First Person. ...
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Sam Joseph
samrhjoseph
May 4, 2011 9:49 am
... Three young sons and a couple of industry grants :-) In principle Honolulu Coders could be revived at UH; talking to Philip Johnson or Robert Brewer might...
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Sam Joseph
samrhjoseph
May 4, 2011 9:51 am
Talking of Java, Philip Johnson showed me this great talk by Guy Steele Jr on programming languages, in which he made some very interesting suggestions about...
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Daniel Leuck
danielleuck
May 4, 2011 10:13 am
Hi Jim, Java was never named Green that I know of. It was put into "Project Green", ... I remember references to the "Green platform" very clearly, but they...
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Sam Joseph
samrhjoseph
May 5, 2011 9:02 pm
Hi Dan, ... Interesting. ... Right. Still haven't tried Groovy ... ... I think Guy Steele was ... That's good to know. ... I find that I can get replicate...
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J. David Beutel
david_beutel
May 5, 2011 10:45 pm
... They're not masochists? They might like Groovy better....
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ryankanno
May 8, 2011 8:12 pm
To all - Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought this would be relevant to those on this list. This will be the only email that will come from me concerning...
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piikoicoder
May 8, 2011 10:32 pm
Hi All, Just curious. Is there anyone out there in our cyberspace who has an interest in Java's EJB3? Its difficult to tell which was more insane. J2EE's...
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Thomas Olausson
latompa
May 8, 2011 11:09 pm
Heya George, What type of projects are you doing? Thomas...
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G
piikoicoder
May 8, 2011 11:59 pm
Hi Thomas, Same old application - Go. Only now I'm reworking EVERTHING ... from built-around J2EE/JBOSS to built-around JPA3/Glassfish ... and I am being...
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Daniel Leuck
danielleuck
May 9, 2011 3:43 am
Hi George, You definitely want to go with EJB3 or just straight Hibernate / Spring. EJB (prior to v3) is widely considered to be a failed experiment. Its ...
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G
piikoicoder
May 10, 2011 7:44 pm
Hi All, Please see lack of "closures"; below. In case anyone else would find it of interest, I think "closure" would be an interesting topic for a future...
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Joseph Dane
jnnsierra
May 10, 2011 11:54 pm
Hi George - What about "closure" is it that you think would make a good topic? Do you mean "What is a closure?" Or do you mean "Why doesn't Java have...
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Jim Thompson
gonzopancho
May 11, 2011 2:55 am
Holy Cow! That's the first time I've seen the implementation of closures as fixing a bug in the language. Closures were first implemented in Scheme, not lisp....
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Sam Joseph
samrhjoseph
May 11, 2011 11:24 am
... Looks like Groovy doesn't run so well on android. Actually with Eclipse code completion I think anonymous inner classes get round the lack of closures...
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G
piikoicoder
May 11, 2011 7:09 pm
Hi Joseph, I was thinking more along the lines of a "what" topic. I first encountered "closure" in the context of JavaScript research, because JavaScript...
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Jim Thompson
gonzopancho
May 11, 2011 11:04 pm
A closure is a block of code that can be represented as an object (or first-class data structure) and placed seamlessly into the flow of code by allowing...
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J. David Beutel
david_beutel
May 12, 2011 1:08 am
... What language is this? It looks similar in Groovy: var threshold = computeThreshold() var heavyTravellers = employeeList.findAll {e -> e.milesOfCommute > ...
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J. David Beutel
david_beutel
May 12, 2011 1:22 am
Hmm, I munged up my reply, somehow. I'll try again: ... What language is this? It looks similar in Groovy: var threshold = computeThreshold() var...
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piikoicoder
May 23, 2011 8:41 pm
Hi, I'm too lost to figure out what my question really is. I need help! Here's my sad story. I think (hope) it's interesting enough to intrigue. grin ... it...
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G
piikoicoder
May 24, 2011 12:20 am
Hi, I'm sure all of you already know ... and now I do too. IE9 is an update to windows and not a program. So I did undue that update back to IE8. Then...
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Hal Richman
hrichman99
May 24, 2011 12:25 am
What is this a attempt by Microsoft to do in java??? It sounds like something they would do. Cheers, hal J From: honolulu-coders@yahoogroups.com ...
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Clifton Royston
cliftonr@...
May 24, 2011 7:19 am
... ... So, can I infer that all of these web adventures were using IE? ... In general Microsoft makes it very hard to roll back IE upgrades, though it sounds...
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piikoicoder
Jun 13, 2011 2:42 am
Hi All, The following code works wonderfully easy with my local Glassfish server. -- First it gets the server's InitialContext - 'ctx". -- Then it looks up an...
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Clifton Royston
cliftonr@...
Jun 19, 2011 3:07 pm
... I've never worked with or even heard of Glassfish, and I don't ever do much with Java, but in any such problem, the main thing to do is look at the...
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g
piikoicoder
Jun 19, 2011 7:43 pm
Hi Cliff, Thank you for the suggestions ... but ... well ... that tracing things down part ... it only works till you get to a single line of code using the...
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Clifton Royston
cliftonr@...
Jun 19, 2011 9:04 pm
... Actually, that's the primary point I was trying to make about debugging - to track down what the actual difference between the case that works (local) and...
