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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.
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. "
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."
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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 Kawaguchi
jMaki Extensions
With version .9.3 jMaki makes another step toward 1.0 with the latest release. Included in jMaki is a extension mechanism that mirrors the widget mechanism. —
Greg Murray
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. —
Jean-Francois Arcand
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Re: [JAI] using JAI to create a thumbnail as a JPEG
I can't find any documentation for the "imageread" operator. Is it bundled with the standard 1.4 SE distribution or is it something I have to add? If so, how do I add the ImageIO plugin to my JAI configuration and where can I find documentation for it? Thanks again for your response, I was incredulous about a newer API (JAI) not being able to do what an older one could do (ImageIO) - I figured they didn't want to make the effort when another API could already provide the functionality. —
Re: swingWorker question (application decoupling)
The general approach is to build a framework around SwingWorker that minimizes the work involved in reusing it for diverse purposes. The main architectural goal is to decouple all the "domain logic" from the "ramework logic". Domain logic is the stuff inside doInBackground() and done(). Framework logic is the code that sends and receives progress updates, cancellations, etc. This involves defining a set of interfaces and abstract base classes for models that provide cancelable tasks or progress updates. The main design goal here is to minimize the complexity of writing models that offer cancelable tasks or progress updates. Some of this is already done in the concurrency framework (as the other poster has exaplined). —
Updates from Hideya
Hello Community Members, sorry for the long absence -- I have been involved in an urgent company project (unfortunately not related to LG3D), which fully occupied me since around the end of last summer... I missed interactions with you folks a lot! Now, I'm wrapping it up, and at the same time, I'm changing my job. Actually, today is my last day working here at Sun. I just wanted to tell you folks that I will still keep myself involved in LG3D even after I moved to a new company (how nice LG3D being an opensource project!). I'm looking forward to seeing you folks again when I'm back once I get settled in the new place! —
