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  • Java Open Sourced under the GPL

    • https://openjdk.dev.java.net/
    • http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/
    • http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/

    java/community.jsp + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/

    2006/11/richard_stallma.html + Duke freed! - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/

    archive/2006/11/the_cream_on_th.html + Java 6 received JSR (270) approval and is now RC1 + http://java.sun.com/javase/6/ + http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4051 + Adobe open-sourced the JavaScript engine (called ActionScript) from Flash, and donated it to the mozilla foundation + http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/

    pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html + http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ + http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/

    adobe-mozilla-and-tamarin

  • Latest language trends - the new TIOBE index

    • http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

  • What's happening with .NET?

  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

support/relnotes/netfx3/default.aspx + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Microsoft_.NET_Framework + http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/ + And also related, Novell has announced the release of Mono 1.2 + http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/

post/20061109-8190.html + Miguel de Icaza has a blog entry on the new Novell/Microsoft collaboration, and what it all means + http://tirania.org/blog/archive/

2006/Nov-04.html + http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page + Also Max Fomitchev from techsearch blogs that .NET and Java are getting more similar + http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/

2006/11/net_and_java_ge.html + Alternative languages on the JVM list: http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html

  • Another google related mobile app of the week - goosync

    • http://www.goosync.com/

  • Good looking app of the week - Insider for Oracle from FourthElephant inc.

    • http://www.fourthelephant.com/features.html
    • http://www.fourthelephant.com/screenshots.html

  • Guy Steele interviewed about Fortress on Software Engineering Radio

    • http://www.se-radio.net/index.php?post_id=141761
    • he server side has a podcast recorded at the server side java symposium in Europe
    • http://www.theserverside.com/news/

    thread.tss?thread_id=42919

  • Project Phobos News

    • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

    serverside_javascript_debugging_in_netbeans + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/

    2006/11/phobos_and_netb.html + JMaki 5.1 + http://cld.blog-city.com/bits__jmaki_v51_available_

    new_netbeans_jmaki_plugin__stylize.htm + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

    new_jmaki_release_supports_mochikit + https://ajax.dev.java.net/download.html

Quick News

  • Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth's company that makes the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced that Sun's sponsored open source application server Glassfish will be distributed with upcoming versions of Ubuntu

    • http://news.com.com/2110-7344_3-6133411.html?

    part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

    more_glassfish_on_ubuntu_... + and related to this, we are including a useful and easy guide to installing Sun Java 5 on Ubuntu that showed up this week + http://dinomite.net/archives/

    installing-sun-java-on-ubuntu

  • Eclipse.org is offering two upcoming webinars on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)

    • http://www.eclipse.org/community/

    rcpwebinars2006.php + Also MyEclipse 5.1 has been released + http://jroller.com/page/myeclipseblog?

    entry=myeclipse_5_1_released_includes

  • The serverside has a complete overview of Java EE 5 support in Netbeans

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

    thread.tss?thread_id=42876 + And Josh Marinacci blogs about his time so far in Prague + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/

    2006/11/my_first_two_we.html

  • JPA in Spring Presentation

    • http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/

    display/PARLEYS/Spring+and+JPA

  • Sun has donated another open source project to java.net - project Shoal

    • http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/entry/

    project_shoal_graduates_with_source + https://shoal.dev.java.net/

  • Winners of the Sun Grid Cool Apps competition

    • https://publications.developer.network.com/

    coolapps/winners/ + http://casteeld.deviantart.com/gallery/

  • Josh Bloch has a video interview up on InfoQ

    • http://www.infoq.com/interviews/joshua-bloch

  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/

reified-generics-for-java.html

  • JSR Roundup

    • Nokia and Sun have posted the public review draft of JSR-280 XML API for JavaTM ME
    • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=280
    • Nokia has posted the early draft review of JSR-293 Location API 2.0 to the JCP
    • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=293
    • Sun's posted a maintenance release of Java Specification Request 118, Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 (MIDP 2.0)
    • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=118
    • Timesys has posted the third maintenance release of JSR-1 Real-time Specification for Java (good old JSR 1...)
    • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=1
    • And The JSR 221 expert group approved the JDBC 4 API specification
    • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=221
    • http://www.artima.com/lejava/

    articles/jdbc_four.html

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