Interview with Joe McGlynn, Director of Engineering atOracle overseeing Java client development, on the new Java security dialogs, plugins and applet support.

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Show Notes

News

• OpenJDK Governing Board Elects At-Large Members
• Changing Sources and Moving Targets: Evolving the javac command line
• Eclipse Tutorials - are looking for a new maintainer
• Round 1 Picks for JavaOne
• JavaOne San Francisco Call For Papers Extended
• ScalaFX Milestone 3 Release
• JSR 353 (JSON-P 1.0), JSR 343 (JMS 2), (JSR 349) Bean Validation 1.1, (JSR 352) Batch 1.0 go final
• JAX-RS 2.0 Article at OTN

Events

• Apr 17-19, Oracle User Group, Norway
• Apr 23-24, JavaOne Moscow, Russia
• May 8-9, JavaOne Hyderabad, India
• May 10, GIDS, Bangalore, India
• May 14, Java Day Tokyo
• May 18-19, Geecon, Poland
• May 22-24, GR8Conf, Denmark
• May 24-25, JEEConf, Kiev

Feature Interview

Joe McGlynn is the Director of Engineering at Oracle overseeing Java clientdevelopment.  He is currently leading development of Java Deployment, Scene Builder, and JavaFX.  Joe has managed software engineering organizations for 25 years in a variety of product domains including Developer Tools, Distance Learning, Call Center Automation and Biotechnology.

New Java Security Dialogs for Java in the Browser + tech details.

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