Newscast for August 23rd 2007
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More details on the Java Posse (Hello) World Tour
NetBeans 6.0 is to be released under the GPL v2 license with the Classpath exception (the same license as the OpenJDK)
TheServerSide has an article up about OpenID, saying that it is a great idea, but a bit bewildering for consumers
The PlentyOfCode blog has a useful list of Java decompilers and Java obfuscators
Library of the week: Jasper Reports 2.0
Java Application of the week: Hudson - Continuous Build engine
Quick News Items
Java.net have launched a new column by David Flanagan, the author of Java in a Nutshell
- MyEclipse 6.0 is out. This new version is based on the new
Eclipse 3.3 Europa platform, and adds Java EE 6 support and "redefines
AJAX productivity"
Geronimo 2.0 has been released. The apache Java application server now offers full Java 5.0 support and is certified
- Romain Guy has put up 82 swing and 2d demos on his blog
that he and Chet Haase released to go along with their new book "Filthy
Rich Clients"
The latest version of SWTSwing, version 3.2.0005, brings the possibility of running SWT 3.2 on top of Swing
ServerSide again, this time Vladimir Blagojevic describes the new features in JGroups 2.5
Interface 21 has announced Spring Web Services 1.0
JSR 286 - the Portlet Specification 2.0, is in the public review ballot stage until August 27th
If you are looking for an easier way to call native code from Java on Windows, check out NativeCall
Kelly O'Hair has an update about the current status of moving the OpenJDK project to Mercurial
Google has released the proposed final draft for JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API
Oracle has just released a new version 3.4.42 of the Berkeley DB, Java edition
IBM Developerworks has a good article about mylyn 2.0 (formerly mylar), the task focused UI extensions for eclipse
JEuclid 3.0 has been released
Tim Boudreau has become a contributor to the apache wicket plugin for NetBeans project
Special Section for this week - Gossip
- Jim Louderback, Editor in Chief for PC Magazine, declared
this week that Vista just ain't cutting it, and that if Microsoft can't
get Vista working, he is contemplating moving to Linux
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