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Interview With Java Champion Heinz Kabutz
The SDN has launched a series of interviews with Java Champions, with the first installment, Becoming a Better Programmer: A Conversation With Java Champion Heinz Kabutz. Kabutz is best known as the creator of the free Java Specialists' Newsletter, targeted to expert Java developers. Since its inception in November 2000, the newsletter has grown from an initial audience of 80 friends and colleagues to, after 150 issues, one that includes more than 30,000 programmers in 114 countries.

Bean Properties M1 Release
The bean-properties team is "proud to announce the release of milestone 1 of the bean properties API and implementation as part of our roadmap for a full scale release in 2008. Bean-properties is one of the first and most extensive Java properties implementations that requires no language change or bytecode instrumentation. Bean-properties allows RoR like productivity while maintaining Java's hallmarks of type safety and compiler checking." A Web Start demo of Bean-properties is also available (requires Java SE 6).

Why do Java developers hate BPM?: I work on a lot of BPM projects, and I work with a lot of other folks who work on a lot of BPM projects, and we have all encountered resistance from traditional Java developers.
johnreynolds from Community   (October 10, 2007 04:40:33 AM PST)

How to Run PHP With Quercus in Sun Java System Web Server: Great tip from Sun engineer Sriram Natarajan.
marinasum from Java Enterprise   (October 09, 2007 02:51:14 PM PST)

Java 6: Update N Nice but: I have tried the Update N of Java 6 today and rated it with 2. 2 because i was not able to get the Nimbus look and feel running on my Win XP machine
alexanderschunk from JDK   (October 09, 2007 11:05:34 AM PST)

Long Running Web Process (LRWP) in the Java Platform using GlassFish
A new SDN article looks at Long Running Web Process (LRWP) in the Java Platform using GlassFish. "The Long Running Web Process (LRWP) is a protocol used by a web server to communicate with its peers. LRWP is similar to CGI, but faster, since the peer is persistent across requests." The article moves on to considering Java implementations, to run on GlassFish: "the design for implementing the LRWP protocol in the Java platform uses a servlet container to handle HTTP requests and also to make use of servlets to handle the LRWP processing. "

Monitor and diagnose performance in Java SE 6
Java SE 6 focuses on performance, with expanded tools for managing and monitoring applications as well as diagnosing common problems. The article Monitor and diagnose performance in Java SE 6 outlines the basis of monitoring and management in the Java SE platform and provides detailed information about the relevant enhancements in Java SE 6.

JSR-310 and Java 7 language changes
Stephen Colebourne's Weblog has an entry about JSR-310 and Java 7 language changes with examples of what he considers Java limitations. "Part of the difficulty I'm finding with designing JSR-310 (Dates and Times) is that I constantly come across gaps in the language of Java. My concern is that these gaps will shape the API to be less than it should be." Among these are concerns about using BigDecimal to represent durations, and a lack of immutable classes. He also makes a case for self-types and operator overloading being appropriate for JSR-310's purposes.

Announcement of the Autumn 2007 NetBeans Governance Board Members
The Autumn 2007 NetBeans Governance Board Elections have ended. All of the votes have been counted and the board members have been announced: the community representatives in the new NetBeans Governance Board are Wade Chandler and Tom Wheeler . The third member and Sun Microsystems appointee to the Governance Board is Brian Leonard. The election organizers offer "congratulations to Wade, Tom, Brian and all of our respected fine nominees!"

Constitutional conversations commence
Mark Reinhold's Constitutional conversations commence recaps the initial activities of the OpenJDK Governance Board. "The OpenJDK Governance Board held its first two meetings this past July. The minutes have just been posted (for 2007/7/12 and 2007/7/17); herewith the highlights. The primary mission of the current GB is to write a Constitution for the OpenJDK Community. These initial meetings served to set the stage, both procedurally and philosophically, for that work."

NetBeans OpenLaszlo Support project
The NetBeans OpenLaszlo Support plugin adds support for OpenLaszlo, a Flash-based Rich Internet Application web framework. It allows you to develop RIA applications using XML and Javascript on the UI and Java on the server, without any knowledge of Flash itself. Current features include bundling the OpenLaszlo 4.0.2 library into NetBeans's libraries list, providing the main OpenLaszlo 4.0.2 sample application (with full developer documentation) as a sample project under "Samples / Web", recognizing .lzx files as XML and opening them in the XML editor with full Navigator support, providing XML code completion, and more.

Portal Pack 2.0 Beta is now available
The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta is now available. The zip archive of Portal Pack plug-ins can be downloaded from Portal Pack project site. These plug-ins are also available on NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 Auto Update Center. Features include support for both Portlet 1.0 (JSR-168) and 2.0 (JSR-286) standards, a new wizard to create portlet filters, an option for adding a new Public Render Parameter through UI, and drag and drop support to map Public Render Parameters/Filters to portlets.

JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 141
The latest issue, number 141, of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is out, with tool-related news from around the web, announcements of new community projects and graduations (AntUtility and Textile-J), a reminder about the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference, and a ToolTip about SCPlugin, which brings Subversion access to the Mac OS X Finder.

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