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NetBeans

NetBeans Look and Feel Competition: Beautifying your NetBeans environment could win you a t-shirt, USB flash memory, or an iPod. The NetBeans Look and Feel Competition is looking for users who've customized their NetBeans IDE with a custom look-and-feel, or the Substance plug-in. Visit the contest page for details on submitting your screenshot. The contest closes January 15th.»Read more
(December 23, 2005 6:20AM PT)

Java User Groups

JUG Profile: javaBin: The Java User Groups Community is kicking off a new series of profiles with a profile of Norway's javaBin. This interview with Kjetil Jørgensen-Dahl discusses the JUG's organization and membership, its activities, and its organization of the JavaZone conference, which "filled the largest conference hotel in Oslo to its limit" with 1,000 Java developers last September.»Read more
(December 23, 2005 6:20AM PT)

Community Weblogs »

Open Office Java API: When I worked for a consulting firm I got an opportunity to work on a Strategy & Operations pursuit. The task was to fill up a 20 page MS Word report template with lots of data from MS Access and Oracle (which was backend to some ERP system). The requirement was to produce 10 or so reports quickly, which showed the client how the firm can help them to define a strategic sourcing model followed by a transformation roadmap.
tchangu from Java Tools (December 30, 2005 06:20:43 AM PST)

Two new flash demos and NetBeans Module update: The community is awesome to provide feedback about quality and features. The coments left to the previous blog, made me improve the NetBeans Module Startup Settings I am developing, see the screenshot. I created two flash demos to show how to add custom swing widgets to the palette manager, the other flash demo shows how to use GridbagLayout and Freedesign (aka: Matisse) each one with different JPanels, but inside one JPanel (or JFrame).
claudio from NetBeans (December 29, 2005 10:57:15 PM PST)

A JMX MBean to visualize AWT events: How would you go about using the JMX API to instrument AWT events? What would it gain you? My colleague Jean-FranÃ§ois Denise answers in detail.
emcmanus from JDK (December 29, 2005 01:34:01 AM PST)

Also This Week

JDK Community

Mustang JSR: Early Draft Review: The JSR enumerating the proposed contents of Java SE 6.0, JSR 270, is now available for early draft review. As described in Mark Reinhold's blog Mustang Release Contents (JSR 270): Early Draft Review, JSR 270 is an "umbrella" JSR that points to other JSR's that make up Mustang. » Read more

JavaDesktop

JAI 1.1.3 beta: A beta of Java Advanced Imaging (JAI), has been released, and is available from the project's downloads page. According to its README, JAI 1.1.3-beta is primarily a bug-fix release with a few enhancements, such as the ability to build with JDK 1.5 and making JAI available via Java Web Start from java.net. » Read more

Java Enterprise

SimpleDBM: The SimpleDBM project is a new relational database written in Java. The project uses a modular structure that encourages use of components for research and experimentation, and its basis in published research makes it easier for newcomers to understand the code. » Read more

Java Tools

a-jar-stdio-terminal: A recent graduate from the JavaTools Community incubator, the a-jar-stdio-terminal project allows you to take any application jar and attach a Swing "green screen" window to provide access to System.out log message and System.in console input. » Read more

JXTA

JXTA JSE, JXTA-C releases: Two new releases highlight the JXTA community's recent activity. JXTA JSE 2.3.6 adds J2SE 5.0 support, enhancements to ext:config and PSE membership service, performance improvements and bug fixes. On the native side, JXTA-C 2.3 significantly improves RDV support, numeric types in the xpath-style query, and adds interoperability fixes. » Read more

JavaDesktop

Accolades for 3D Java Strategy Game: Realtime strategy game Tribal Trouble from OddLabs.com was ranked number two in the strategy games division of GameTunnel.com's "Game of the Year". Tribal Trouble gained the honor for being fun, entertaining, and easy to play. We're sure that the fact that the game is pure Java had a hand in the victory too. Check out the screenshots. Vikings! » Read more

Java Games

The Java Game Development Tutorial: Java Boutique's The Java Game Development Tutorial offers a crash course in developing Java game applets. "We will talk about Java Applets because everyone has a Internet browser, so everyone is able to play these games without installing the JDK!" The tutorial covers animation, double-buffering, sound, input handling, and points the way to advanced topics like AI, random landscapes, and level editors. » Read more

Jini

Jini builds foundation for SOA: Alexander Krapf's NetworkWorld article Jini builds foundation for SOA details Jini's suitability for SOA architectures. "Jini offers such features as platform portability, mobile code and platform security. It is easily used in applications with access to a full [J2SE] run-time environment. But it also can be used on tiny, embedded devices and in applications written in non-Java programming languages." » 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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