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OpenJDK 6: Logistics of Partial Merge with 6u10
Changes from Sun's JDK 6u10 are making their way into OpenJDK 6, but it's not a simple process, as Joe Darcy reveals in his blog OpenJDK 6: Logistics of Partial Merge with 6u10. "A large fraction of my work for OpenJDK 6 build 12 was porting all of the cumulative fixes in selected areas of the 6u10 code base into OpenJDK 6. Internally, like the forest of Mercurial repositories of JDK 7, the code base of OpenJDK 6 is composed of a set of teamware workspaces for different areas: cobra, hotspot, jaxp, jaxws, jdk, and langtools. Previously, the non-HotSpot code lived in a single "j2se" workspace which was split as part of the JDK 7 transition to Mercurial. I worked on merging in the fixes from the corba, jaxp, jaxws, and langtools areas. Jon helped with langtools too."

Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server
A new SDN article by Sidharth Mishra and Marina Sum explains the process of Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server. "OpenSSO, Sun's open-source project for access management and federation, is a self-contained Java EE application that offers federation, access management, and Web-service security capabilities. Installing and configuring OpenSSO is simple and efficient, with no external dependencies." The article offers three options for deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish (automatic, command-line, and with the GUI), and then walks through configuration of OpenSSO.

NetBeans Innovators Grant Award Winners Announced
Sun Microsystems has announced the winners of the NetBeans Innovators Grant contest, selecting 13 open source innovators to share prizes totaling $127,500. The contest was part of Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open source communities with a $1 Million total prize. Four of the projects were singled out "for meeting high standards of quality, usability and demonstrating potential for future growth": gold award medalists Cube°n and Scala Support, and silver award medalists IvyBeans ($5,000) and PL/SQL Editor. There's also a podcast interview with winning developers Anuradha Gunasekara and Hong Wei Deng.

Launch of Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0: See the announcement and a few related articles.
marinasum from Identity Management   (October 03, 2008 01:20:53 PM PST)

Update on the schedule for the Java EE 6 Platform: Now that JAX-RS 1.0 has been finalized, it's time for an update on the overall Java EE 6 schedule.
robc from Java Enterprise   (October 03, 2008 10:41:46 AM PST)

Kohsuke traveling to Japan: I'll be traveling to Tokyo in the next week.
kohsuke from Java Tools   (October 02, 2008 02:39:15 PM PST)

NetBeans Featured Language Community of the Week: Chinese
NetBeans developers are a diverse bunch of individuals, working in multiple programming languages and speaking in even many more tongues. Where and how do these users, from all corners of the globe, exchange programming tips and offer each other support? Find out in the coming weeks as we spotlight some of the popular foreign language portals, forums, blogs and mailing lists devoted to or related to the use of the NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform. This week, we compile a list of sites favored by Chinese-speaking developers.

EJB 3.1 Public Draft Now Available
The Aquarium reports that the EJB 3.1 Public Draft is now available. "The JSR-318 EG has released the Public Draft of EJB 3.1 (Download). Ken (the EG lead) is soliciting feedback by email or directly in his blog. Ken will continue to providing highlights of the new features through his blog, a practice he started after the first Early Draft ([1], [2], [3], [4]). His latest entry is Guide to the EJB 3.1 Public Draft." They also remind us that "Ken will present on this topic today (Thursday) at 11:15 am Pacific Time in the GlassFish Online Webinar."

OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge Awards Announced
Sun has announced the winners of the OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge, part of the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to fund open-source communities. Clemens Eisserer picked up the Gold award for the Implement XRender pipeline for Java2D project, Neal Gafter took Silver for Closures for Java, and two Bronze awards were handed out: Stephen Colebourne and Michael Nascimento Santos for Provide date and time library from JSR-310 and Roman Kennke and Mario Torre for Portable GUI backends. Dalibor Topic has posted a set of audio interviews with all the winners in Ogg Vorbis format.

GlassFish Awards Program winners announced
The GlassFish Awards Program has announced the winners for the first year of the program. Jitendra Kotamraju writes, "Congratulations to GAP winners, especially to : Jungwook Chae, Tatu Saloranta, Ernesto Jose Perez Garcia, Karel Kolman, Franke Markus, Ryan de Laplante who have contributed to GlassFish Metro web services and its sub projects. I also acknowledge that there are many others who contributed to metro community (you need to submit entries !). Thanks and congratulations to all."

DesignGridLayout project revived, releases version 0.9
Kirill Grouchnikov notes the revival of the DesignGridLayout project: "Jean-Francois Poilpret has taken over the development of DesignGridLayout project that has been in limbo for the last two years. Release 0.9 fixes all known bugs, along with refactoring the code to improve the API, complete Javadocs coverage for the public APIs, and changing the license from GPL to ASL 2.0. It is also available on the java.net Maven site."

Java Posse #208 - Report from JVM Languages Summit
The latest episode of the Java Posse podcast is a Report from the JVM Languages Summit. "We bring you a situation report recorded from the JVM language summit, including some special guests and special announcements." Aside from the usual Posse voices, participants include Charles Oliver Nutter, Neal Gafter, Bill Pugh, and Christian Kemper. Dalibor Topic has also posted a JVM Language Summit Roundup, collecting commentary from various attendees.

2009 Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers Ending September 30
Don't forget that the 2009 Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Call for Papers closes today, September 30, for technical sessions, panel sessions, hands on talks, and lightning talks. If you want to submit any of these for consideration, visit the Call for Papers page and follow the instructions there.

Debugging Swing applications with SwingExplorer
Noted in Kirill Grouchnikov's Swing Links of the Week, Maxim Zakharenkov has posted the slides (PDF) for his JavaZone presentation on debugging with SwingExplorer. The slides show a simple but buggy Swing application, and how SwingExplorer can be used to track down problems with layout, painting, event-listening, and misuse of the event-dispatch thread.

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