Archive for the ‘Java’ Category
Apple Dropping Java (Again)
Seems Apple will be dropping Java as a supported programming language for its GUI features. From this point on, developers are encouraged to write their programs in Objective-C. I’m surprised, but not too surprised… Apple does have a long history of NIH decisions.
It is interesting because Apple has been implementing native peers for the Swing [...]
Not JDK’s Fault
Turns out the memory leak was not JDK’s fault. It was Tomcat’s. Upgrading to the latest version solved the problem. We’re pretty sure at least.
Rollout for the lane-beta site should take place tomorrow morning. I’m still adding in features to the metasearch and Phil has come up with a good way to leverage the hit [...]
Whew… JDK’s Bug, Not Lane’s
Charles was able to determine that the memory leak was actually a JDK 1.4.1 StringBuffer bug. We seem to have fixed it by upgrading to JDK 1.4.3. Hooray!
I’m now working on a statistics module so we can see how people use the site. Nothing fancy… just dump results from the database into Excel spreadsheets so [...]
Federated Search Countdown
Okay, two days to our soft rollout of the new website and federated search. We are seeing OutOfMemoryExceptions with the new production machine (leak or not enough allocated?) and something (Tomcat or Apache, we think) is modifying the HTML that comes back by adding a line feed in tags, causing pages to not display (only [...]