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Project jMaki: TheServerSide Video Tech Brief
Project jMaki is an AJAX framework that provides a lightweight model for creating AJAX-enabled web applications compatible with most server-side technologies, from Java to PHP. In Project jMaki: TheServerSide Video Tech Brief Greg Murray, jMaki's project lead, discusses how to use it and participate in its development.

GlassFish v2 RC1
The GlassFish team has promoted their first release candidate of GlassFish v2. This promotion includes Clustering functionality and Microsoft Interoperability using WSIT. The download of RC1 (AKA "b58 Promoted Build") is available as source, and as binaries for Solaris on Sparc or Intel, Windows, Linux, and Mac.

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robogeek from JDK   (August 08, 2007 05:08:15 PM PST)

How to Internationalize and Localize Portlets: A new Sun Developer Network article describes the procedures on Sun Java System Portal Server.
marinasum from Portlet   (August 08, 2007 09:38:52 AM PST)

Java on the iPod ... Whoa!:
terrencebarr from Mobile & Embedded   (August 08, 2007 02:47:29 AM PST)

Corba: Gone But (Hopefully) Not Forgotten
ACM Queue's post-mortem for CORBA, Corba: Gone But (Hopefully) Not Forgotten, cautions developers of web services and other distributed systems not to assume that all the Big Problems are already solved for them. "Using Web Services is no more a guarantee of building a good distributed system than using CORBA was a guarantee of building a bad one. Web Services cannot magically confer on a system design the ability to effectively deal with limitations in latency and bandwidth. It cannot remove the difficulties that arise from partial failures and dependencies on systems that may be temporarily inaccessible. "

Mobility Podcast 14: Java Tools Community
The latest Java Mobility Podcast takes a look at the Java Tools Community. Fabiane Nardon and Daniel Lopez, the Java Tools Community Leaders, talk about their community, mobile projects in the community, and how the Mobile and Embedded Community and Java Tools Community can work together. They also share their experiences in developing mobile applications.

JSR-297 (Mobile 3D Graphics API 2.0) Early Draft Review
The Early Draft Review is underway for JSR-297, the Mobile 3D Graphics API 2.0. "This new revision of M3G (JSR-184) will expose the latest graphics hardware features on high-end devices, while improving performance and memory usage on the low end." Among the JSR's goals are reducing the performance difference between Java and native apps, improving compression of 3D art assets, and maintaining the compactness and simplicity of the earlier version of the API. The Early Draft Review closes on August 25.

SOA Without SOAP: The Java ME Perspective
Web applications use HTTP to exchange data, which means that the HTTP-supporting Java ME is perfectly capable of using web apps. But what about the format of the data? In SOA Without SOAP: The Java ME Perspective, Eric Giguere argues that inconsistent support for the Web Services API's for Java ME (WSA) and the implicit overhead of SOAP should have pragmatic ME developers looking for alternatives, ultimately concluding that "the ideal web service for our purposes is one that uses a simple REST-like interface."

MochaCode Preview 2 Released
Yori Mihalakopoulos has released Public Preview 2 of MochaCode a Mac-only Java IDE. The new version improves syntax highlighting, error highlighting, code completion and editing in general, has a new look and feel for code completion, adds error and warning icons to the gutter and tabs, adds a crash reporter, and fixes a number of bugs. Version 2.1, released a day after 2.0, fixes a few more bugs.

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