Google Web Toolkit Applications

Newscast for December 6th 2007

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  • NetBeans 6.0 is now out!
  • http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/

NewsItemView?newsItemID=1161 + http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=47741 + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/michael_n/archive/

2007/12/netbeans_6_my_f_1.html

  • Spring 2.5 has been released, a new version of the alternative enterprise Java stack

  • http://www.springframework.org/node/561

  • Applets of the week: Maths, Physics and Engineering applets

  • http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

  • Android News:

  • Robert Cooper has written an article covering his first impressions of the Android API's and comments on possible improvements that could be made

  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/

11/android_first_impressions.html

  • Carlos Bazzarella from Poliplus software has started a new project called ME4Android

  • http://www.poliplus.com/android.htm

  • Open Handset Alliance member Ascender has announced “Droid Fonts?

  • http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2007/11/

android-got-new-fonts-from-ascender/

  • Looking to get started with Android? John Lombardo at linuxdevices.com has written an in-depth, hands-on article that introduces Android

  • http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/

AT9900056470.html

  • For people interested in getting Android to work on various real and virtual hardware, there's a new Google group, called AndroidPort

  • http://groups.google.com/group/androidport/

browse_thread/thread/7096532830a2a1f1

  • Karl Pauls of Luminis has managed, with a few hacks, to get Apache Felix (OSGi) to work on Android

  • http://blog.luminis.nl/luminis/entry/

osgi_on_google_android_using

  • https://opensource.luminis.net/confluence/

display/SITE/OSGi+Android

Quick News Items

New jsf project: Project Mojarra

  • TheServerSide has an article up about RestFaces, a library to solve the problem of BookMarkable JSF (JavaServer Faces)
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=47561

  • Mark Reinhold of the OpenJDK Governance Board has announced that the Interim Governance Board has unanimously approved a proposal for the creation of an OpenJDK Porters java.net group
  • http://openjdk.java.net/groups/porters
  • http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/

announce/2007-November/000044.html

  • Think Record Storage is the only option for Java ME development? Think again!
  • http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/JavaMESupport
  • http://blogs.sun.com/wittyman/entry/

javadb_on_sun_javame_cdc

  • Atlassian Software has released version 1.2 of Crowd, its single sign on and OpenID software
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=47697

  • The Apache project has released version 1.1 Final of Continuum, the continuous integration server for building Java projects

  • http://maven.apache.org/continuum/

  • JBoss has released a JSF unit testing tool: JSFUnit

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=47747

  • JSR 321 - Trusted Computing API for Java, has been submitted to the JCP by the IAIK Graz University of technology

  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=321

  • Roberto Chinnici blogs that he has got GlassFish v2 running on SoyLatte on Tiger

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/

2007/11/glassfish_on_so.html

  • DeveloperLife has started a series of tutorials about developing with GWT (the Google Web Toolkit)

  • http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=80

  • The third season of Lost on Blu-Ray will feature a number of enhancements using BD-J

  • http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/817/817072p1.html

  • Sun has announced a new program to compensate Open Source developers for their coding efforts

  • http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/

operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6517 + http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/162244

  • JavaRanch has an article about James Gosling's recent "State of the Java Universe" talk
  • http://radio.javaranch.com/val/2007/12/

03/1196689105739.html

  • Kelly O'Hair blogs that JDK 7 build 24 has switched over to the Mercurial distributed source control mechanism for the OpenJDK sources
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/

2007/12/openjdk_mercuri_7.html

Listener Feedback

  • Closures, BGGA and FCM
  • http://docs.google.com/View?

docid=ddhp95vd_0f7mcns + http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/

entry/first_class_methods_java_style + http://docs.google.com/View?

docid=dxm5z6n_143hpcptw + http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/

entry/java_7_short_declarations

  • Ryan Dewsbury's new GWT book
  • http://www.amazon.com/Google-Toolkit-

Applications-Ryan-Dewsbury/dp/0321501969/

ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=

1197204440&sr=8-1

  • JUG popularity
  • http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/JUGs/JUGHowTo
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/resource/pizza_zoom.JPG

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