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JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Dmitry Jemerov is a lead developer on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. In this wide-ranging interview with Artima, Jemerov discusses the main focus areas for the upcoming IntelliJ 8 release, as well as his views on IntelliJ's support for Flex and Scala.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_dmitry_jemerov.html

JavaOne 2008, Day 1: Rich-Client Misconceptions - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Rich clients are more than just about user interfaces, argues Adobe's James Ward in this JavaOne 2008 interview with Artima. Rich clients are about architecture, and are also about collaboration between developers and designers.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_james_ward.html

JavaOne 2008, Day 1: Application Factories - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Re-using developer knowledge is an important concern for many enterprises. In this interview with Artima, CodeGear's Jeff Anders talks about Application Factories, a feature of the new JBuilder 2008 IDE that facilitates knowledge sharing among developers.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_jeff_anders.html

Scala: A Scalable Language - (Found July 2, 2008 )

In this article, which is based on Chapter 1 of the book, Programming in Scala, you'll get an overview of the Scala language and insights into its design.
http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/scalable-language.html

Rethinking Application Security - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Discovering security problems early in the development cycle is only the first step toward creating more secure and reliable applications, says Parasoft's Wayne Ariola in an interview with Artima. For developers to work effectively, addressing security-related coding issues must be integrated into developers' daily workflow.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_wayne_ariola.html

Scala Tendencies and Concurrency - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A programming language is as much about a set of design principles as it is about syntax and code structure. In this brief interview Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala language, talks about design tendencies that Scala encourages, especially in comparison with Java. He also discusses Scala's approach to concurrency.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_martin_odersky.html

JavaOne 2008, Day 3: Hosted Developer Tools - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Software-as-service (SaaS) has started to permeate the field of software development tools, says Atlassian's Jeffrey Walker in this interview with Artima. Walker describes important characteristics of hosted developer tools, and highlights the need for such tools to integrate well with locally-installed tools, such as IDEs.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_jeffrey_walker.html

Next-Generation Object-Oriented Databases - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Object-oriented databases complement relational databases in important ways, says Anat Gafni, VP of Engineering at db4objects, the company behind the open-source object database db4o. In this interview with Artima, Gafni explains how OO databases support agile development, and how they co-exist with relational databases in an enterprise.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_anat_gafni.html

Visualizing Cluster-Based Applications - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Detecting concurrency-related bugs and performance bottlenecks is hard, especially on clusters consisting of a large number of nodes. In an interview with Artima, Terracotta co-founder and CTO Ari Zilka explains the importance of visualization in cluster-based applications, and introduces Terracotta's open-source cluster visualizer tool.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_ari_zilka.html

Sources of Java Errors - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The Java VM shields most developers from having to think about the memory-management aspects their Java objects, but it does not completely manage other types of resources automatically, says Gwyn Fisher, CTO of Klockwork in this interview with Artima. Great Java developers learn to understand what the JVM does, and does not do, for their objects.
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_gwyn_fisher.html