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Welcome to the fifth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 23. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog...
Oct 23, 2017 — 9 minute(s) readExcellent news from the Eclipse Foundation: the next version of Eclipse, called “Neon,” will require the Java 8 runtime. The announcement in email is underwhelming, but the actual project plan is a little more explicit and informative: In general, the 4.6 release of the Eclipse Project is developed on Java SE 8 VMs. As such, the Eclipse SDK as a whole is targeted at all modern, desktop Java VMs. Most functionality is available for...
Aug 19, 2015 — 1 minute(s) readThis is a “simple” example of how to update a progress bar in a Swing application. package org.javachannel; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService; import java.util.concurrent.Executors; /** * Created by odinsbane on 9/22/14. * * This is a quick example of a progress bar that updates. * * This code is distributed as is; without warranty; or guarantee. It can...
Sep 22, 2014 — 4 minute(s) readSomeone on the channel today asked about how to run a series of tasks, with a terminal condition of sorts. Basically, they wanted to run a number of tasks, and know when they were done. The question was originally built around having a List of results (List<integer>, maybe?), counting the number of results until the number of results matched the number of tasks. The channel suggested using an ExecutorService, particularly the shutdown...
Sep 8, 2014 — 3 minute(s) read