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Amobee Delivers Ad-Funded Mobile Java Apps and Services
The Java Mobility Podcast continues in its eighth episode, Amobee Delivers Ad-Funded Mobile Java Apps and Services. "In this interview at 2007 JavaOne conference, Amobee Media Systems' Ziv Eliraz describes the company's unique operator-centric system for ad-funding mobile services and applications. Developers can integrate Amobee's handset API ("HAPI") in their Java applications and generate revenue in a way that is contextually sensitive and user-friendly."

OpenJDK Community Cosmology
Mark Reinhold explains the "big bang" that will expand into a full-blown community around OpenJDK in his blog OpenJDK Community Cosmology. "So. Here we are. We have a Charter for the OpenJDK Community. The Charter creates an Interim Governance Board, with three members from outside Sun and two from within. The Charter empowers the Board to write a Constitution, get it ratfied by the Community, and then hold elections for the three non-appointed seats. In the meantime Sun will strive to be the very model of a modern benevolent dictator. "

ME developer contests
Several current contests allow ME developers to show off their stuff. The bd-j-application-contest project is home to discussion and submission forums around the FOX JavaOne BD-J Sweepstakes announced at JavaOne. Submissions for this contest are due July 6. Meanwhile, Qusay H. Mahmoud blogs about a number of student contests hosted by Vodafone Betavine, including competitions to develop social networking, information and entertainment, B2B, and social-impact applications. The deadline for these contests is September 30.

Stateful web service support is getting some traction: Stateful web service support seems to be getting some traction, as Scott Balmos reported that it's interoperable with C#. See the discussion in TSS.com.
kohsuke from Java Web Services and XML   (June 08, 2007 01:05:12 PM PST)

Project Grizzly 1.5.1 released: Another release from Project Grizzly! This release contains a lot of new features based on community feedback, and this time the majority of the feedback is coming from external contributors and companies. Ready to use embeddable components are now available for download.
jfarcand from Java Enterprise   (June 08, 2007 10:39:37 AM PST)

Driving innovations in the mobile apps space: I believe that students will play a key role in driving innovations in the mobile apps space, and I am pleased to see that Vodafone Betavine is sponsoring a set of student competitions for innovative mobile applications...
qmahmoud from Mobile & Embedded   (June 08, 2007 09:04:19 AM PST)

JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 124
The 124th issue of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is online, with tool news from around the web, announcements of new projects in the community, and a tool tip explaining why you should move your project's source control to Subversion.

Key Frame Animation in JFXBuilder/JavaFX
Jeff Martin's latest JavaFX update is on Key Frame Animation in JFXBuilder/JavaFX: "In the last week we've been adding animation support to JFXBuilder. Fortunately, JFXBuilder’s existing key frame animation model matches well with JavaFX - in particular, using the JavaFX "dur" statement. [...] JFXBuilder already has an animation panel that lets you animate almost any shape attribute: x, y, width, height, rotation, scale, skew, opacity, color, stroke color and stroke width. To define an animation, you simply draw a shape or drop a component, move the animation time slider to a different time, and change the attributes for the new time. JFXBuilder will automatically interpolate all the values between the two key frames."

The GlassFish Community Delivering a Java EE Application Server
The white paper The GlassFish Community Delivering a Java EE Application Server (620 KB, PDF) takes a high-level look at one of java.net's most active communities. "A year and a half after the initial launch, the GlassFish community has already delivered its first final release and is on its way to its second. In this article we will provide an overview of all the aspects of the GlassFish Community and the GlassFish AppServer."

Geronimo passes Java EE 5 Compatibility Test Suite
InfoQ reports Geronimo has passed the Java EE 5 compatibilty test suite. "The Apache Geronimo project has passed a significant milestone in that their latest release candidate (2.0-M6-rc1) has passed all tests in the Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 Compatibility Test Suite, making it the first open source application server other than Glassfish to pass the tests."

Nimbus L&F; Update
Jasper Potts has posted a Nimbus L&F; Update: "So it has been a while since I blogged about Nimbus, Java One has come and gone and I am sure you are all wondering whats happening to it. Well things have changed for Nimbus since it was announced at Desktop Matters conference in March. The initial plan was for Nimbus to be a open source project jointly run by Ben Galbraith and myself. In early prototype I hacked together thats available from nimbus.dev.java.net was very well accepted both inside Sun and in the swing community. As a result a decision was made to bring the Nimbus L&F; into the JDK as part of the new Consumer JRE."

Geronimo passes Java EE 5 Compatibilty Test Suite
InfoQ reports Geronimo has passed the Java EE 5 compatibilty test suite. "The Apache Geronimo project has passed a significant milestone in that their latest release candidate (2.0-M6-rc1) has passed all tests in the Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 Compatibility Test Suite, making it the first open source application server other than Glassfish to pass the tests."

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