Java Today

Java Runtime download numbers for December
Danny Coward passes along some impressive Java Runtime download numbers for December. "You'll remember Java SE 6u10 was released for manual download in October. But the followon update release Java SE 6u11 (including some bug fixes) was pushed in the Java Update mechanism (aka the popup-bubble-software-update-thingy-for-Java-on PCs-around-the-world) on December 2nd. The results are in. [...] There were 78m completed downloads of Java SE 6u11 in December. If you include downloads of older versions as well, you get a total 95 million completed downloads of the JRE."

Developing Interactive TV applications faster and smoother
The Java TV Developers project has been introduced to enable faster and smoother tools for creation of interactive TV applications . The project enables developers with best practices presentations, guidelines, and the latest tools for introducing applications for TV as well as provides tools for migration of available mobile & desktop applications to TV. New materials and forums for discussion of content creation for TV (high definition or standard definition TV ) leveraging JavaTV as the common denominator Java platform for blu-Ray players with BD-J, Cable STB with OCAP and MHP, BrazilJavaDTV, and the China DTMS.

Aerith NetBeans project
Want to reuse the slick components from Aerith without actually building a photo browser and editor? The Aerith NetBeans project "provides the Aerith components as drag and drop widgets within Netbeans, so you can focus on what you really want." The result can be a "filthy rich client without the hassles of Swing coding".

Weblogs

NetBeans rocks the awards!
I apologize for not blogging much lately, but life has been seriously hectic. One tidbit has broken me out of my manic frenzy: The NetBeans crew ended up with an impressive stack of awards from developer.com. They've totally changed the way I develop software. —  James Gosling

Idioms for the NetBeans Platform
DZone has just published my first post in the series "Idioms for the NetBeans Platform". It's a series focused on the idioms I've found useful during the development of blueMarine, and that I'd like to consolidate and catalog in a serious way in the NetBeans Wiki in the following months. The more feedback I get, the better. —  Fabrizio Giudici

JAX-WS Commons VirtualBox module 2.1 posted
I wrote a JAX-WS client module for VirtualBox some time ago for VirtualBox 1.6.0. Since then VirtualBox made numerous improvements, and so did their web services. So this morning, I updated this module to use the latest VirtualBox 2.1 WSDL. —  Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Forums

Re: How to configure Keystore on Server side at runtime
I think the Metro team is going to be expanding WSIT configuration in their next (2.0) release to do what you want--or at least provide additional server-side configuration options. In the meantime, CXF can probably do that but you'll lose WS-SecurityPolicy functionality in the process. — 

Re: Context Menu in LWUIT
I'm assuming you mean a touch device but the answer is the same regardless. The menu is implemented as a dialog and you can take a look at the code there. If you want to dismiss by clicking elsewhere on the touch screen you can derive from Dialog and override the pointerReleased call to dismiss your dialog if it is released outside of the bounds of the dialog itself. — 

Grizzly Config one pager for review
We're approaching what we hope is the final form for the grizzly config project for v3 and would like to solicit feedback before asarch review next week. Please look over the document at https://is.gd/c0ui and reply with any feedback you might have. The schema is all but done as far we've been able to determine but if anyone finds something missing or out of place, please let us know. We're especially interested in feedback from the glassfish admin team for input as to impact and scope for these changes.  —