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January 30th Webinar - Sailfin, the GlassFish Communications Server
The Aquarium has posted details about this week's Webinar on Sailfin. "This week's GlassFish webinar is on Friday, Jan 30th, 9:30 am PT (note the different date and time). Binod PG and Sreeram Duvur will provide an overview of SailFin, the Open Source Communications Server in GlassFish that supports the converged web built on HTTP and SIP. The presentation will include background material on the SIP world."

Real Invaders game
Real Invaders, a Mobile & Embedded community project, is a game where you physically move your phone to put the target on the spacecraft to fire. The game does not use the accelerometer; instead, it uses the camera for motion tracking. Real Invaders works on Nokia mobile phones that have Symbian OS series 60 and 240x320 screen resolution pixels, like the N95, N73, 6120 classic, 6110 navigator, etc.

March 17 is OpenSSO Community Day in New York City: Come one, come all! Learn, network, participate.
marinasum from Identity Management   (January 29, 2009 08:12:29 AM PST)

Free GlassFish Webinar for Students at OSUM:
arungupta from Glassfish   (January 29, 2009 06:19:13 AM PST)

GlassFish in CEUI and Campus Party:
arungupta from Glassfish   (January 28, 2009 08:47:48 AM PST)

GlassFish and MySQL, Part 3: Creating and Using a Web Service
Ed Ort and Carol McDonald continue their SDN series on enterprise application development in GlassFish and MySQL, Part 3: Creating and Using a Web Service. "In Part 3, you'll learn how easy it is to convert the controller layer of the web application, that is, the layer of the application that performs the CRUD operations -- into a web service. You'll also learn how to create a client for the web service. As was the case for the web application discussed in Part 2, the web service discussed in Part 3 uses GlassFish, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API."

Project Coin: Small Language Change Proposal Form Available
Joe Darcy announces the opening of the "Small Language Changes for Java 7" project in Project Coin: Small Language Change Proposal Form Available. "The name of the OpenJDK project hosting small language changes for JDK 7 will be Project Coin. Besides a coin literally being small change, to "coin a phrase" is to create a little bit of new language. The website for the project and its mailing lists will come into being this February. In the mean time, the initial form to use to propose a language change is listed below. If you have an idea for a change, please work on the form and post it the Project Coin mailing list once that gets started."

JCP ME Executive Committee Special Election
The JCP has announced that a Special Election will be held next month to fill an open seat on the ME executive committee. The seat is for a term ending in 2010, replacing Intel. Nominations will be open from February 3 to 17 to all JCP members. Would-be nominees should investigate the JCP's Executive Committee Info page to understand the process and responsibilities, The election itself will take place later in February, after the nominations period.

eWeek: Sun Muscles into RIA Space with JavaFX
In one of the more significant assessments of JavaFX's potential, eWeek gives a positive first review to the designer and developer tools in its article Sun Muscles into RIA Space with JavaFX. "Right out of the gate, JavaFX has some important advantages. First, it is based on the standard Java run-time, which means that--unlike Microsoft's Silverlight--it doesn't require users to download a special dedicated run-time, which gives it a chance to approach the large installed base that Flash has. It also can take good advantage of the underlying Java code, meaning that it can do more data-intensive work than other RIA platforms."

JSR 316 (Java EE 6 contents) now in public review
JSR 316, the "container JSR" for Java EE 6, has entered public review, and is available for download. This JSR defines both the full set of JSRs in the EE 6 platform, as well as a "web profile" subset. Roberto Chinnici provides an overview of the proposed spec and the reasoning behind it in his blog. The public review started on January 22 and will continue through February 23.

Substance 5.1, Flamingo 4.0 release candidates
Kirill Grouchnikov has announced the release candidate of Substance 5.1 and the release candidate of Flamingo 4.0. The new version of the Substance look-and-feel reworks the Office Blue and Office Silver skins, improves support for disabled and themed icons and for very large fonts, extends tracing of EDT violations and more. The new version of the Flamingo Component Suite provides deep improvements to the ribbon, among other improvements. Both projects expect to reach their final release on February 6.

JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 189
The latest edition, issue 189 of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is out, with tool-related news from around the web, a new community project (Hex-Editor), a graduation ( FindBugs-IDEA), and a Tool Tip about creating project dashboard with Sonar

Glazed Lists 1.8.0 Released
The Glazed Lists project has released version 1.8.0 of the popular library for list sorting and filtering. "The release has better integration with Swing, SWT, Hibernate, OSGi, Maven and SwingX. Filtering has been refined, with improved support for international languages and matching support for regex and search-engine style qualifiers. Some EventLists have new features, including runtime manipulation of the FunctionList function and GroupingList comparator. There are new classes for working with user input, including TransactionList and undo/redo support. The release fixes several bugs."

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