Java Standard Edition 1.6 Update 21 is available

Oracle (RIP Sun) released the Java SE 6 (1.6.0_21) build a few days ago.
Unexpectedly this release has many new features and updates (no security update anyway).
Here are the major ones.
Java VisualVM Updates

Many bug fixes

Many more supported systems

Java Hotspot VM 17.0

The new JVM includes version 17.0 of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine. This has overall improvements to quality and features such as compressed object pointers, escape analysis-based optimization, code cache management but also G1 garbage collector (not active by default).

Go to grab it while it is hot for testing.

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iPhone 4 is arriving with great new features

All the features of the new iPhone. Just as an example, the screen is smaller than the iPad but the resolution of the screen (960x640) is great permitting to read books, see video/image with a huge enhancement compared to the current state in mobile device. One "bad" point is the FaceTime application that permit "only" wifi video conference, but it is more a restriction on the network than the iPhone or application itself.

Google Maps/Street View are now in 3D with the use of Red/Green glasses...

The popular StreetView Maps now get a Anaglyph 3D imagery.
Click on the Icon that shows the “man with the glasses” in the Street View to get 3D effects.

Good to see that 3D is coming real this year in games, entertainment and business.

Optimizing Trail Recording

Optimizing Trail Recording

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Two Approaches on Multi-Tenancy in the Cloud ...

Very interesting article on how to support resource-demanding applications on cluster/cloud systems. Scalability, heterogeneity of applications and data storages are well considered.

MVC, MVP and DCI... The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming

Check this article if you are interested in MVC (Model View Controller), MVP (Model View Presenter) and DCI (Data Context Interaction) patterns that help to solve
problems concerning separation of concerns mainly for systems with some user interactions (Web, GUI, ...).
http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html