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Starting All Over Again: A new day for ME development tools... also:
Weblogs: New Java ME SDK, Atmosphere project announced, and Mojarra 2.0 nighly on GlassFish 2.0
Java Today: Thread Dump Analyzer 2.0, NetBeans support for JavaFX discussed, and why new control structures might matter more than closures
Forum Posts: SwingX incubator cleanup, JXLayer versioning, and why aren't JNLP and JavaFX already 64-bit?
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Chickens and Eggs - Methodology and Tools: Which came first? Object Oriented Methodology or Object Oriented Languages? From where I was standing at the time I'd have to say Object Oriented Methodology.
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TOTD #48: Converting a JSF 1.2 application to JSF 2.0 - Facelets and Ajax: TOTD #47 showed how to deploy a JSF 1.2 application (using Facelets and Ajax/JSF Extensions) on Mojarra 2.0-enabled GlassFish. In this blog we'll use new features added in JSF 2.0 to simplify our application: Use integrated Facelets and resource re-location to simplify our facelets Replace JSF Extensions Ajax…
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October 14 2008

Learn about pfexec in the OpenSolaris OS: Passwordless pfexec is the OpenSolaris version of sudo in Linux.
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Write a Review: If you are a user, you can post a review for Java DB (Sun's distribution of Apache Derby).
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Entering the Atmosphere Framework: Comet for Everyone, Everywhere: Introducing Atmosphere, a new framework for building portable Comet based applications. Yes, portable, which means it can run on Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish or any web server that support Servlet 2.5 ... and without the needs to learn all those private API floating around....
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Had I Known You Better Then: A fresh look at the long-lived Servlet API... also:
Feature Article: An Introduction To Servlet 3.0
Java Today: Jersey 1.0 release, resizing JScrollPanes, and securing attachments with Metro 1.3
Forum Posts: Platform support for ME SDK, JFileChooser gripes, and does voting for bugs matter?
Weblogs: New Grizzly committer and more about CoSMo
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TOTD #47: Getting Started with Mojarra 2.0 nightly on GlassFish v2: Java Server Faces 2.0 specification (JSR 314, EDR2) and implementation (soon to be EDR2) are brewing. This blog shows how to get started with Mojarra - Sun's implementation of JSF. GlassFish v2 comes bundled with Mojarra 1.2_04 which allows you to deploy a JSF 1.2…
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October 13 2008

Goodbye WTK, hello Java ME SDK!: For years the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit for CLDC (WTK) has been the reference tool for developing mobile applications and emulating mobile platforms on the desktop. Among it's strengths was that it was compact, easy-to-use, came with a number of…
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New committer for Grizzly framework: Sébastien Dionne a new committer for Grizzly framework.
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FREE Sun Student Technology Camp - Oct 24, 2008: Sun Student Technology Camp is an effort to educate students about what is going on in the world of technology. If you are a student, from middle school on up through university-level, then this is for you! There are presentations, demos, hands-on activities on…
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One on One: Freeing OpenJDK on OpenSolaris... also:
Java Today: Building OpenJDK on OpenSolaris with free tools, Java ME SDK 3.0 EA, and Java Tools Community Newsletter #182
Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 59: CoSMo - Conference Scheduler for Mobile
Spotlight: Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days early bird registration opens
Weblogs: Picking a scripting language for blueMarine, running GlassFish on Joyent Accelerator, and the JAX-WS API Version Mess with Maven
Forum Posts: HTTP Proxy through JAX-WS, principal to role mapping in GlassFish, disabling command menu items in LWUIT, and bemoaning the JFileChooser
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October 12 2008

New issues to CoSMo project and CoSM on Mobility podcast!: With all the source code available on SVN, it's time to create some issues. And also, I talked about CoSMo with Roger @ JustJava 2008.
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October 10 2008

Early Bird Registration for Developer Days is Open: Early Bird Registration for the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days is now open. Additionally keynote speakers and a number of preselected sessions have been identified.
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JAX-WS API Version Mess with Maven: There are different flavors of JAX-WS API based on the Maven repository you use, causing big confusion for the JAX-WS users. This blog talks about the workaround and direction for fixing the mess.
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Play myPicks U.S. Election Game: Check out a fun zembly game for Facebook and MySpace users.
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LOTD #10: Running GlassFish on Joyent Accelerator: Joyent provides a cloud computing environment for all your needs. Beyond their typical reasons (scale on demand, pay for what you use, PHP/Rails/Python/Java pre-installed and ready to go, billions of page views and others), now there is another reason to use their cloud.…
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My Fellow Americans: Check that you can still vote: Here is one way to verify your voter registration information is correct.
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The Engine Driver: Overhauling OpenJDK's FontManager... also:
Java Today: Refactoring font support, Project Wonderland overview, and final review for GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation
java.net Poll: How many active buttons are on the mouse you're using right now
Weblogs: Java ME Platform SDK Early Access and "micro-kernels" in JGroups
Weblogs: Painting an image on a LWUIT form, WSDL and .wars, building phoneME, and getting Fast Infoset working
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Java Card Development Tool Opensource: A new project opensource was started to help developers on the Java Card applets development. The project has a propose to support Java Card 3.0 also. The project JCard Kit is still under definition and receiving contribution requests, if you want…
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Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible: I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But…
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Java ME Platform SDK Early Access: Java ME Platform SDK toolbox for developing mobile applications has been released as Early Access on October 9. It integrates CLDC, CDC and Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J) technology into one SDK. Java ME SDK 3.0 is the successor to the well known Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 and Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC. It provides device emulation, on-device deployment, on-device debugging, a standalone development environment based on Netbeans platform, Java runtime for Windows Mobile and a set of utilities for rapid development of Java ME applications.
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Random pictures from Tokyo: A few random pictures from Tokyo. I took them while I was going out for a lunch.
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October 09 2008

Reminiscing on Micro-Kernels and Group Communications: [I've posted this elsewhere, but now I see I should post it here, too.] Yes, I have to admit that, in my opinion, JGroups is probably the best early example of the "micro-kernel" concept in Java, aesthetically speaking. The Group…
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Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect: Achievable dreams for Java... also:
Java Today: JDK 6u10 patch-in-place, LG SDK 1.0 for the Java ME Platform, and wouldn't it be cool if Java...
Weblogs: Sun Web Stack and how much innovation is too much?
Forum Posts: Establishing trust between GlassFish servers, adding FloatingDock to JDIC, how to free Java2D resources, and JSR implementation recommendations
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October 08 2008

How to Install Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS: A new SDN article describes the procedure.
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Unmarketable Innovators?: I have a friend. He wrote his own programming language. Then he proceeded to embed said language into his own webserver. He built his entire development stack and he is very productive with it. I worry for my friend. Isn't he hurting his marketability? Is there an unmarketable innovator's dilemma?
Posted by rsmudge at (10:35 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (3)

Of Angels and Angles: JCP elections begin: will your voice be heard? Also:
Java Today: JCP balloting opens for ratified seats, GlassFish webinars, and branching and merging in Subversion
Weblogs: Metro GAP winners, installing Hudson as a service on Red Hat, and Kohsuke in Tokyo
Forum Posts: GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation review, LWUIT layout, SJSAS undeployment, and embedding JavaFX in HTML
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Tokyo, here I come!: I'm in Tokyo now.
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Installing Hudson as a service on Redhat: Hudson is a great little Continuous Integration server. One of Kosuke's more recent innovations has been to add a feature that lets you install Hudson as a service on Windows. A very useful feature indeed, as previously this was a…
Posted by johnsmart at (02:48 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (3)

October 07 2008

Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right: Surprising hazards for Swing and BD-J... also:
Java Today: ANTLR grammar for javac, ME framework 1.2 development release, and more JVM language summit roundups
Weblogs: Cargo support for GlassFish, picking phoneME Advanced's next platform, and Gosling wrangles NFS, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
Forum Posts: JNLP from standard Java app, ME serial port access, and LWUIT clipping
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