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Java Enterprise

Open Java DB: Bernt Johnson's blog Open Java DB covers the ApacheCon announcement that Apache Derby will be redistributed by Sun as "Open Java DB" and integrated into many Java projects, including the GlassFish J2EE application server. NetBeans will also get a plug-in for working with Open Java DB. More information about Open Java DB is available in a Sun press release.»Read more
(December 14, 2005 7:18AM PT)

Java Web Services and XML

XML Schema Object Model: The XML Schema Object Model (XSOM) project is "a Java library that allows applications to easily parse XML Schema documents and inspect information in them." It's a helper for applications that need to work with XML schema, and comes in two versions - a J2SE 5.0 version that uses generics, and a J2SE 1.4 version.»Read more
(December 14, 2005 7:15AM PT)

Community Weblogs »

Using AJAX with Java Technology: I recently did a tech tip for java.sun.com on a very basic AJAX autocomplete client. This tip will walk you through the client and server side code.
gmurray71 from Java Enterprise (December 14, 2005 01:09:20 PM PST)

Ubuntu Review:
eitan from linux.java.net (December 14, 2005 11:58:55 AM PST)

An Epiphany:
eitan from linux.java.net (December 14, 2005 09:48:43 AM PST)

Also This Week

JavaDesktop

Substance 2.1: The Substance look and feel project has reached their 2.1 release. Kirill Grouchnikov's blog entry summarizes and has screenshots of new features, including new shapes and gradients for buttons, Mac-like "unsaved content" indicators, 21 additional themes, a new color wheel chooser, custom UI delegates for NetBeans components, and more. » Read more

Java User Groups

JavaPosse: Interview with Burr Sutter: Episode 19 of the Java Posse podcast features an interview with Burr Sutter of the Atlanta Java Users Group. Sutter talks about the group's history and activities, his history with it, and the group's heavily-trafficked AJUG jobs page, as well as his role heading up the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. » Read more

Jini

Banking on Jini Services: The Artima.com article Banking on Jini Services, the first in a series on innovative architectures, looks at how Rubean, A.G., developed a Jini-based system for managing devices in banks. Online since 2002, the system serves over 35,000 customers and is a model of a decentralized system and one that can use Jini to proxy legacy devices. » Read more

Mac Java Community

NetBeans Performance Profiler for Mac: Tor Norbye's weblog Performance profiler - now for the Mac! notes that Milestone 11 of the NetBeans Performance Profiler now works on Mac OS X. The profiler is based on JFluid and previously required a special JDK. Those modifications have been rolled into the JDK and were part of the latest update to Apple's J2SE 5.0 VM. » Read more

Java Tools

Coyote: The JavaTools Community page is spotlighting the Coyote project, whose goal is to create NetBeans plug-ins to simplify writing code in dynamic languages. The project is initially targeting Groovy and Jython, but intends to develop a common framework that could be used by many languages (noting there are nearly 200 languages that run on the JVM). » Read more

NetBeans

Project Matisse Interview: The SDN feature The Next Wave of GUIs: Project Matisse and NetBeans IDE 5.0 interviews Scott Violet and Tomas Pavek, creators of the Project Matisse GUI builder for NetBeans. They discuss Matisse's goals, its use of a new LayoutManager, the challenges of developing a cross-platform GUI builder, two-way editing vs. guarded blocks, and more. » Read more

JXTA

JXTA Java SE 2.3.6 beta: Recently announced on the discuss@jxta.org list, a beta version of JXTA Java SE 2.3.6 is now available. You can build the beta from the CVS sources or download binaries. Community members are asked to test their JXTA applications against 2.3.6 in advance of its scheduled release on December 15th. » Read more

Java Enterprise

Tag Library Documentation Generator 1.3: The taglibrarydoc project has released version 1.3. taglibrarydoc "is a utility for automatically generating javadoc-style documentation for JavaServer Pages (JSP) Technology Tag Libraries. It accepts a set of tag libraries as input, and generates a set of HTML files as output." » Read more

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Ricoh Java Programming Contest 2006: The ricoh.dev.java.net project is the home of the Ricoh Java Programming Contest 2006. Students from universities in six European countries are encouraged to develop innovative Java-based applications for Richo's Aficio multi-functional products. Information on entering the contest is compiled on the ricoh project's front page, and requires being a java.net member, joining the CoolThreads project and the support forum, and then submitting a project request. Registration is open through February 15, 2006.

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