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Java Tools

JavaTools Community Newsletter #64: The JavaTools Community Newsletter #64 is out. This edition discusses ideas for creating short videos of projects to be shown at the JavaOne 2006 Community Corner. It also welcomes two new projects to the community and links to a tip for creating Ant build files from Eclipse project configurations. Previous newsletters are available from the JavaTools Community newsletters archive.»Read more
(December 2, 2005 3:03AM PT)

Jini

Jini at Your Service: "What most people didn't realize during the initial launch of Jini was that it also provided a gorgeous framework for building service-oriented applications. The failure to notice this important capability is easily understood: the term service-oriented architecture (SOA) had not even been invented yet." In the JavaPro article Jini at Your Service, Alex Krapf looks at Jini's second life as a distributed enterprise technology.»Read more
(December 2, 2005 3:02AM PT)

Community Weblogs »

Java EE 5 specifications in PFD: The GlassFish Community is implementing the Java EE 5 specifications. Almost all those specifications are now in the Proposed Final Draft stage, which means they are done, except for fixing substantial problems. Here is a list of pointers to the specification documents...
pelegri from Java Specification Requests (December 04, 2005 01:40:07 PM PST)

The Aquarium: News from the GlassFish Community: We have started a new blog to highlight interesting news from the GlassFish Community.
pelegri from Java Web Services and XML (December 01, 2005 09:57:20 PM PST)

Also This Week

Portlet

Portlets and Servlets: What’s the difference?: The community tip Portlets and Servlets: What's the difference? starts off by showing the similarities between the purposes and processes of these two popular web application standards. It then examines the key differences of portlets: portlets provide only fragments of pages, users see portal URL's and not portlets themselves, portlets support persistent configuration and customization, etc. » Read more

linux.java.net

Escaping the Java Trap: The document Escaping the Java Trap: A practical road map to the Free Software and Open Source alternatives presents the current state of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects that aim to deliver a complete Java stack. It provides an overview about runtimes, compilers, libraries, applications, packaging into Linux distributions and Java SE / EE coverage and certification initiatives. » Read more

Mac Java Community

Mac OS X Zeroconf javadocs: The recently-published DNS Service Discovery API Reference for Java offers documentation for the Mac OS X Java bindings to Zeroconf / Rendezvous / Bonjour self-networking technology in a Javadoc format. Use this along with the upcoming book Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide to jump-start your Java-based Bonjour development. » Read more

Java Communications

jd2xx: Windows and Linux developers can access some USB devices with jd2xx, a Java wrapper to the Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) D2XX direct USB driver. "FTDI chips are used in a variety of USB products such as serial converters and dongles." The project owner's jd2xx page hosts a simple programming example of accessing devices from Java. » Read more

Java Games

Jake2: Quake 2 in Java: Jake2, the Java port of the GPL'ed Quake 2 game engine, recently got "slashdotted", with the popular technology site noting that Jake2's Java Web Start page allows you to download, configure, and launch the game from your browser. Web-Start-ing allows you to choose (and evaluate) two versions of the game, one using JOGL for its graphics, the other using LWJGL. » Read more

Java Web Services and XML

XBRL: The Java Web Services and XML Community page is spotlighting Lorna Stafford's blog entry on the advantages and disadvantages of XBRL, "an XML-based language which allows business information to be electronically communicated more easily than through other available formats." More information about the language is available on the XBRL home page. » Read more

Java Specification Requests

jsp-spec-public: The JSR Community project jsp-spec-public "provides information on the work being performed on the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specification (JSR-245)." The emphasis for JSP 2.1 is to better align with the next release of JavaServer Faces", working with JSF's (JSR 252) expert group on a unified Expression Language for the web-tier. A final proposed draft is available. » Read more

NetBeans

NetBeans JBoss support forum: According to the support doc New NetBeans JBoss Support Forum, JBoss is now hosting a NetBeans forum for discussing development of Java EE applications on JBoss using NetBeans. The upcoming NetBeans IDE 5.0 includes extensive support for JBoss 4, including fast deployment, starting and stopping JBoss, and access to its administration console. » Read more

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JDK Community Starter Bug List: Want to contribute to the JDK but don't quite know where to begin? The JDK Community Starter Bug List collects bugs identified by JDK engineers as well-suited for outside contributors to fix. These bugs were chosen for being useful, easy to fix, low impact, and not already on Sun's to-do list for Mustang. A getting started page suggests how you can claim a bug, collaborate with others, and contribute a fix.

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Community Events »

The Spring Experience 2005
December 7-10, 2005
Sheraton Bal Harbour Beach Resort Hotel
Bal Harbour, Florida

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