Episode 17: Java

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News

• Ouya
• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console
• Is C/C++ Worth it?
• http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/07/23/is-cc-worth-it/
• Engineered “Jellyfish”
• http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/synthetic-jellyfish-a-hybrid-of-rat-hearts-and-plastic/

Tool of the Biweek

• Jason: Cygwin, MinGW & Macports http://www.cygwin.com/ http://www.mingw.org/ http://www.macports.org/ 
• Patrick: uShare http://ushare.geexbox.org/

Java

History

• 1995 “Write Once, Run Anywhere”
• Applets
• 2006 Open Sourced*
• Third Party Virtual Machines

Features

• Generics
• Garbage Collection
• Interfaces (sort of like multiple inheritance)
• Checked Exceptions (except for RuntimeException)

Strengths

• Platform Agnostic
• Large community support
• Many Libraries

Weaknesses

• Speed
• Hardware Abstraction
• Forced object-oriented architecture (not functional)

Tools

• Eclipse
• Netbeans

Uses

• Web
• Server (Tomcat, JSP)
• Client (GWT)
• Android