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Handling moderation e-mails automatically: If you maintain a project, you may have dealt with a mailing list problem where a non-subscriber tries to post to a moderated list. As Kohsuke Kawaguchi explains in Handling moderation e-mails automatically, he and Ryan Shoemaker have created an auto-responder to ask such posters to subscribe first.»Read more

Java Specification Requests
JSF 1.2 and JSP 2.1 JSRs: Two key web application JSR's have reached propsed final draft status: JavaServer Faces 1.2 and JavaServer pages 2.1. Ed Burns' blog has a high-level overview of the changes in each, and solicits feedback via the java.sun.com JSF forum. The new features are already available in GlassFish's JSF implementation.»Read more

Weblogs

Kickin', rockin', jammin' FX for Swing
SwingLabs provides a variety of awesome components and frameworks. It now brings cool eye-candy effects for your Swing apps. — Romain Guy

Should we generify Swing's filtering and sorting?
We want to know, will generifying Swing's filtering and sorting API in mustang help or confuse you? — Scott Violet

Using Swing's JFormattedTextField for integers is not as trivial as it should be.
Recently, the javadesktop.org JDNC forum has hosted some spirited discussion about using Swing JFormattedTextFields for decimal input/output. I'd written a blog on a similar topic about 8 months ago and forgotten to actually publish it. So here it is! — Hans Muller

Forums

Google Talk - Jabber RA?
Google got on the VoIP bandwagon too. A few weeks after Yahoo! made their move. http://www.google.com/talk/ The initial feedback I am hearing on Google Talk is: Good: 1) Supports Jabber's XMPP, which is open source and well supported 2) Plans to implement SIP for IM and Voice 3) Supports many free clients. Not so good: 4) Uses a proprietary extension to XMPP for voice, but it will be documented 5) Echo cancelation is not implemented yet So, anyone interested to write a Jabber RA? —

Migrations
Have you recently come to Java from another language? Are you thinking about leaving Java in favor of some other language? This topic is meant to discuss migrating to or from Java: how to do it, where to go for more information, what effect it will have on your career, etc. —

Also in Java Today

Kent Beck on Developer Testing
O'Reilly's ITConversations Pick of the Week brings you "new ideas through your headphones" from the ITConversations site. In Developer Testing, "Kent Beck describes the situation in which companies wait until the day that the software isn't 'shaking' and that's the day they do a release." This presentation was recorded at the Developer Testing Forum held in Palo Alto, California, November 17th, 2004.

Internationalization, Part 1
Java is built to support internationalization, but is your application using its features? In Internationalization, Part 1, an excerpt from Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, David Flanagan looks at Java's support for displaying text in the local language, and for using local standards for time, currency, and other customs that may vary from one locale to another.

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