Java Coming to FIRST Robotics Competition
It's the culmination of an international competition that last year included a total of more than 40,000 participants and 1,680 teams from 11 countries. This year's championship is being held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta (April 16-18, 2009), with thousands of spectators in attendance. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, best known as the inventor of the Segway. And the open source Sun SPOT platform and Squawk VM play a big role in it.
Mixins in JavaFX 1.2 Technology
With the release of version 1.2 of JavaFX technology, developers have a new style of class inheritance: a mixin. A mixin is a type of class that can be inherited by a subclass, but it is not meant for instantiation. In this manner, mixins are similar to interfaces in the Java programming language. However, the difference is that mixins may actually define method bodies and class variables in addition to constants and method signatures.
Learn about the "mixin class," a new feature in JavaFX 1.2 that offers programmers a simplified form of multiple inheritance.
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