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java.net Projects and Communities ArchiveApril 01, 2005
Duke opensourced under JRL: Sun has announced that Duke has been open-sourced under the Java Research License. This is not considered to be a free and open license for mascots according to the FSAF (Free Stuffed Animal Foundation). » Read more
Solaris required for JCP members: Now that Write Once Run Anywhere is a reality, the JCP is simplifying compatibility between working groups with the new Write on Solaris Run Anywhere initiative. All JCP members are required to do all of their coding on a Solaris box. » Read more
March 31, 2005
Appear on the Portlet homepage: The Portlet community invites you to contact them if you are working on JSR 168 or WSRP and interested in being featured in the Company Spotlight on the community homepage. » Read more
The Paint Helper project: The Java Tools community's Paint Helper project will provide a tool for prototyping graphics which are going to be changed programatically or simply shown static. » Read more
March 30, 2005
Jini Porter Starter Kit Available: The Jini community has released the Jini Starter Kit v 2.1 beta under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The kit gets "you started developing with Jini technology, as well as assist your advanced development and deployment of Jini technology-enabled solutions." » Read more
Survey Tool: The Java Enterprise community project Survey Tool illustrates "how to use the various J2EE 1.4 web technologies together (JSF, JSTL, JSP and Servlet) to deliver powerful results", by offering an survey web application with a reporting tool that produces PDF output. » Read more
March 29, 2005
Teach your TiVo New Tricks: A link on the Linux Java Community home page highlights the article Teach your TiVo New Tricks with the HME SDK, which introduces development of Home Media Engine (HME) applications for the TiVo platform and shows how to pull stock quotes with a Java application and push them to the TiVo's display. » Read more
MIDP Developer Chat Tuesday: Early birds in the Embedded Java community may want to jump on this: the online chat Create a MIDP Application Using Drag 'n' Drop begins at 9AM Pacific. The chat features Martin Brehovsky and David Kaspar of the NetBeans Mobility Pack team, discussing visual development of mobile applications. » Read more
March 28, 2005
WDM (Web Database Manager): The China Users Group in the JUGs community has released WDM(Web Database Manager) which "is a web-based managment system for relative database.It provides a web application client for database." » Read more
The HyperJAXB Project: The Java Web Services Developer Pack sub-community hosts the
HyperJAXB Project which combines "Sun's reference implementation of JAXB with Hibernate, a well-known object/relational mapping tool." » Read more
March 25, 2005
Swing Pointers: The JavaDesktop community home page is featuring Charles Ditzel's Swing Pointers page, a collection of tips on using Swing and Java 2D including classic tutorials, recent blogs, forum postings, and other items. » Read more
Rename Packages: The Java Tools community project rename-packages has graduated from the incubator. This tool allows you to simply rename packages created in AppFuse, performing all the necessary work in an easy-to-use ant task. » Read more
March 24, 2005
Launching the eBay Java SDK API Calls: Brian Leonard has posted a demo of using NetBeans for Launching the eBay Java SDK API Calls. This project is built around the API Calls Demo posted at ebay. » Read more
Squeezing Performance from the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine: Peter Kessler and Ross Knippel answered your questions on Squeezing Performance from the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine . Read the transcript and post to the linked forum. » Read more
March 23, 2005
JXTA-C 2.1: JXTA-C, the C-language bindings to the JXTA core, recently released version 2.1. This new version offers new tutorials, clean up of source and header files, and code-level fixes including TCP latency improvement and expired cache removal. » Read more
Javapedia: Multitaneous Apps: The Javapedia page Multitaneous Apps describes applications "that allow many people to be editing the same work product (e.g. document) at the same time," and cites SharedPage as an example. You're invited to contribute to this entry. » Read more
March 22, 2005
Java game toolkit released: Slashdot has a report and discussion on the release of Narya, an open-source gaming toolkit from the developers of Puzzle Pirates. Members of the Java Games community might find this a good way to get started. » Read more
JLogic: The Global Education and Learning Community home page is featuring JLogic, a digital circuit simulator. The project recently graduated from the incubator and the project owner shared some of his thoughts in a recent interview. » Read more
March 21, 2005
Linux community home page: The java.net Java Linux community homepage has been relaunched. The left column is full of resources including links to active projects, books and articles, distributions, JVMs, and development tools. » Read more
Factory Chain: A Design Pattern for Factories with Generics: How do Generics alter the implementation of some of the classic GoF patterns? Java Patterns members should read Hugo Troche's article Factory Chain: A Design Pattern for Factories with Generics. » Read more
March 18, 2005
jPortlet: An open-source implementation of JSR 168 is available from the Portlet Community, in the form of the jPortlet project. jPortlet is a compliant portlet container with an integrated portal, and offers many features including fine-grained security, customized layouts, multiple portal support, and more. » Read more
Simplifying Jini GUI threading: Members of the Jini Community may be interested in Greg Trasuk's weblog entry Jython eases Swing Multithreading for Jini apps (and others), which takes on the problem of how to handle the threading required to process Jini events and properly interact with Swing and the AWT event dispatch thread. » Read more
March 17, 2005
Javapedia: TestingGUIApplications: The Javapedia page TestingGUIApplications discusses the importance of and various methodologies for performing automated testing on Java desktop GUI applications. It also lists many tools available for testing AWT, Swing, and SWT applications. » Read more
Direct Web Remoting: The Java Web Services and XML Community project Direct Web Remoting offers a simplified way to call selected Java methods from JavaScript. DWR simplifies the process of writing dynamic web pages that interact with a server, and the project singles out GMail as the kind of application it can help create. » Read more
March 16, 2005
Fun for Fingers: More encouraging news for members of the Java Games community: the Newsweek article Fun for Fingers says that mobile gaming downloads accounted for $350 million in revenue last year and will surpass ringtone revenue by 2008. » Read more
OS X Help and Java: The Mac Java community page is featuring Apple 's sample application HelpHook, which shows how to integrate a J2SE application with the Mac OS X Help Viewer application. It also demonstrates how to avoid a thread deadlock between AWT and Cocoa when making the call. » Read more
March 15, 2005
JavaLive chat on HotSpot VM performance: Tuesday at 11:00 A.M. PST/19:00 UTC, bring your questions to the JavaLive chat on HotSpot VM performance with Sun engineers, Peter Kessler ( technical lead for garbage collection) and Ross Knippel (HotSpot Server Compiler). » Read more
New GELC projects: Daniel Brookshier reports on new GELC projects including lionra (high performance computing), cas (computer algebra system), javabr (a Java web source for Brazilians), and JRoom (a learning project for room rentals). » Read more
March 14, 2005
MagPlot: The Java Tools community has graduated the MagPlot project from the community incubator. MagPlot provides visually-appealing 2D charts, based on the ideas of Edward Tufte, offering both high-speed low-res drawing for real-time display and high-quality rendering for printing, and output as EPS, PS, and BufferedImages. » Read more
Calling all editors, writers at SDWest: If you are planning to be at or near SD West this week, join us Thursday night for the java.net BoF. If you are a book, magazine, or online editor come share your experiences. The session is an informal discussion with whomever shows up to discuss writing and publishing about Java related technologies. » Read more
March 11, 2005
High Performance Chat transcript: The JavaDesktop community links to the transcript from the recent
Java Live Chat with Chet Haase and Scott Violet which included discussions on "Longhorn, SwingWorker as official API, acceleration work in progress, and grey rectangles". » Read more
Introduce Adapter: The
Patterns community is featuring a pointer to the Refactoring:Introduce Adapter. The advantage is it "limits the possible inputs to the actual object to what clients would normally need so developers do not have to know which part to get from the data." » Read more
March 10, 2005
Wireless Gaming Held Hostage: The Wired article Wireless Gaming Held Hostage describes the coming boom in mobile gaming in the U.S., and the challenges posed by inconsistent billing systems and carriers largely unwilling to work with independent game developers. » Read more
Jini Online Chat Transcript: From the Jini Community: the transcript from the January 11 online chat with Jini technology architect Bob Scheifler and marketing manager Jennifer Kotzen is now available. In it, they discuss new features in starter kit 2.0, using Jini with J2ME, and Jini's open-source future. » Read more
March 09, 2005
MacJTray: Help the Mac Java Community project MacJTray provide the tray icon functionality of JDIC on Mac OS X. With its first public preview, the project is seeking developers with Cocoa expertise to help with the native platform integration. » Read more
Slim down with Stripper: Reduce the size of class files with the Java Tools community's new incubator graduate: project Stripper. This tool lets you remove class file attributes selectively from a command line or from Ant. » Read more
March 08, 2005
Managing tasks with Workeffort: The
Java Enterprise community's Workeffort project is a "Work effort / time tracking application [..] built using some of the most popular and widely used open source frameworks in the J2EE space." » Read more
What's new in JDNC: Check out the new Data Set and Authentication features in JDNC (JDesktop Network Components ) as well as a list of the bugs that have been fixed. » Read more
March 07, 2005
Better Profiling through Code Hotswapping: In Better Profiling through Code Hotswapping, Micha Dmitriev explains "Code hotswapping is probably the most powerful way to address the performance problems of profiling, while still collecting useful data." » Read more
Implement JXTA-for-JMS: In part two of a series on Wireless messaging with JXTA, Faheem Khan explains how to implement the bridge between a J2ME client and a JMS application using JXTA-for-JMS. » Read more
March 04, 2005
Project Jatse: Project Jatse, "owned by Eric Brown-Munoz is an open source (LGPL) set of tools for teaching, learning and playing with algebra [..] to provide a broad range of symbolic algebra functionality that is missing in the open source community." » Read more
Moore's Law and Binary XML: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart has written about Moore's Law and Binary XML providing reasons that we can not just wait for technology to catch up and make binary XML unnecessary. » Read more
March 03, 2005
Genesis: The Genesis project uses Hibernate, AspectWerkz, Thinlet, Jakarta Commons and other open source projects to simplify client-server and desktop application development by providing an environment that is both scalable and testable. » Read more
Hudson: The Hudson project from the Java Tools Community monitors execution of repeated jobs, making it ideal for building software projects continuously, or to monitor the execution of externally-run jobs, such as those launched by cron. » Read more
March 02, 2005
NetBeans: Open Source Tool of the Year: The NetBeans Community reports that their IDE is Developer.com's open source tool of the year. Developer.com lauds the IDE for its cross-platform support, J2SE 5.0 integration, extensibility, and flexibility. » Read more
JDO 2.0 approved: The JSR community points to the recent vote to approve JSR 243 on JDO 2.0. There were twelve yes votes, four abstentions, and zero no votes. The comments that accompany the votes are illuminating. » Read more
March 01, 2005
Live chat: Deployment with Java Web Start: Chat with key members of the Java Web Start engineering team, in the JavaLive chat Deployment with Java Web Start . Bring your questions for Andy Herrick, Stanley Ho, and Thomas Ng March 1, 2005 11:00 A.M. PST/19:00 UTC. » Read more
Fernando Lozano joins Java Linux community leadership: In his blog The Linux Java community, Fernando Lozano introduces himself and his new role with the community and asks for your suggestions on where to take it. » Read more
February 28, 2005
JXTA Election Results: Members of the JXTA Community have elected new representatives to the JXTA Board of Directors. The JXTA election results page reports 55 community members participated, and elected Daniel Brookshier and Ray Gao. » Read more
OctLight: The Java Games Community project OctLight intends to provide a game engine that includes an LWGWL-based renderer, scene graph, object framework with collision detection and visibility checking, and networking, AI, and GUI modules. » Read more
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