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JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 134
The latest edition of the Java Tools Community Newsletter, issue 134, rounds up tool-related news from around the web, lists new projects in the community (NBString and ON), and offers a Tool Tip about web site optimization with YSlow.

Hudson adoption: JBoss: JBoss had adopted Hudson and you can now see it online.
kohsuke from Java Tools   (August 19, 2007 05:15:20 PM PST)

NetBeans to become GPL!:
joshy from NetBeans   (August 17, 2007 07:51:59 AM PST)

Rails to Java via REST: Since I've been studying the Rails framework, I've had an interest in integration with Java. Yes, JRuby is one possible solution, but if you have some large Java system that you want to integrate with, it' unlikely that you're just going to get the jar files to access that system's APIs. More likely is that system will expose itself as a service, and the service type du jour is REST. So, in this entry I'm going to expose an entity class as a RESTful web service and then create a Rails client for that entity.
bleonard from NetBeans   (August 16, 2007 03:37:32 PM PST)

A short Primer to Java Memory Pool Sizing and Garbage Collectors
A blog from Sun's Stefan Schneider offers A short Primer to Java Memory Pool Sizing and Garbage Collectors. He says the "Java SE 6.0 is doing a wonderful job in picking the right options for a system based on the available system resources." He explains the various HotSpot memory pools, their purposes, and their tuning, and then goes on to artificially misconfigure several pathological cases and show what problematic memory management looks like. But most users will never see cases like this, because 'the Java SE 6 Hotspot VM is doing an outstanding job to optimize its behaviour based on the existing hardware platform. The configuration of the maximum heap size ( -Xmx option) will be sufficient for most applications."

Mobility Podcast 15: MSpot brings the world of entertainment to the mobile phone
In the latest installment of the Java Mobility Podcast, MSpot brings the world of entertainment to the mobile phone. Derek Lyon of MSPOT shares their experience in using JavaME technologies on multiple phones, the custom frameworks the company developed, marketing, and how they identified the demographics of their target audience in delivering a whole host of entertainment products in both audio and video formats. For more information about MSPOT go to their website.

JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) in Public Review
The public review ballot begins next week for for JSR-286, Portlet Specification 2.0. The new version aligns with the standards introduced by J2EE 1.4, along with introducing access to CC/PP data (via JSR-188), portlet filters, inter-portlet communication and render parameters as defined by WSRP 2.0, enhancements to caching support and the portlet tag library, and more. Balloting begins Tuesday, August 21 and ends on August 27.

Poll: What Do You Want To See in the Consumer JRE?
The JavaDesktop Community page is linking to a poll launched by Dieter Krachtus' blog AOT-CL and Democracy in Java - let's vote! The poll asks readers to "Tell us your 5 'Greatest Hits' for the future Consumer JRE", and includes choices relating to the JRE download and startup times, performance, modularity, self-updating behavior, and other proposed features. A good road-map to the current efforts may be found in Chet Haase's blog Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java.

Your Balcony in GlassFish Screencast Theater
Arun Gupta has set up a wiki page collecting all the known screencasts about GlassFish. In Your Balcony in GlassFish Screencast Theater, he writes: "These screencasts range from Getting Started to Web services development, jMaki-enabled Mashups, JRuby, and Clustering feature." Readers are invited to edit the page and add their own GlassFish-related screencasts.

Java Programming Language: Design Principles and Proposals
"In light of some of the recent discussions about potential enhancements to the Java language, there has been general concern that the Java language will get too complicated and will be filled with esoteric features that only a few people want and will use." Danny Coward looks at current proposals and the ideas behind them in Java Programming Language: Design Principles and Proposals. "As stewards of the Java Programming Language, we welcome such discussions and highlight some proposals here. " The article highlights the work being done in the Kitchen Sink Language project, and also links to some alternative views.

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