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JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 191
The latest edition, issue 191 of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is out, with a reminder about Duke's Choice Awards nominations, tool news from around the web, announcements of new projects in the community, and a Tool Tip on "Git: a new approach to version control".

TweetBox: Twitter client built in JavaFX
The latest novelty posted to the JFXStudio site is TweetBox, a cool Twitter client built in JavaFX. Creator blokmark writes, "for quite some time now, I have been "noodling" this Twitter client in JavaFX to teach myself JavaFX and really go way beyond hello world. I had to go through the painstaking process of migrating to many JavaFX preview SDK code to 1.0 code, but that also tought me a lot about the changes too." A Web Start version is available, as is source.

NetBeans 6.7 Milestone 2 Now Available for Download!
The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7 Milestone 2 (M2). New features include greater Maven integration, an "ergonomic IDE" performance improvement, enhanced self-diagnosis, SVG improvements in Mobility, and improvements to the profiler, C++ tools, and the Mac look and feel. Visit the download page to choose and download the NetBeans bundle that's right for you.

Atmosphere: state of the union: The goal of Project Atmosphere is to bring Comet to everyone, everywhere. What the status of the project? Read on...
jfarcand from Glassfish   (February 26, 2009 09:14:51 PM PST)

JAX-WS RI 2.2 Status: Its been a long time I blogged. You might be wondering what we are up to with JAX-WS RI lately. We are busy implementing the JAX-WS 2.2 RI.
ramapulavarthi from Java Web Services and XML   (February 26, 2009 02:34:48 PM PST)

Deploying SGMP Connectors built using JAX-RS (Screencast): This is a follow-up to the blog "Developing SGMP Connectors using JAX-RS" where I focus on how to deploy an SGMP connector developed using JAX-RS. Once again, rather than bore you with words, I will attempt to entertain you with a screencast. The screencast will show you how to build your connector using Netbeans and how to deploy and configure your connector using the GlassFish admin console.
spericas from Glassfish   (February 26, 2009 11:42:12 AM PST)

Top Ten Things you need to know about JavaFX (Devoxx keynote video)
In this Devoxx keynote video, JavaFX: The Platform for Rich Internet Applications, Danny Coward presents the Top Ten Things developers need to know about JavaFX, from graphics to video, NetBeans to the JavaFX Production Suite, and offers a variety of slick demos and a roadmap for the future of the platform.

JSR 316 (Java EE 6 contents) passes public review
The JCP SE/EE Executive Committee has voted (12 yes, 1 no, 1 abstain, 1 not voting) to approve the public review of JSR 316, the Java EE 6 "container JSR". The spec adds JSR 196 (Java Authentication SPI for Containers), JSR 299 (Web Beans), JSR 311 (JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services). EE 6 also introduces a "profile" concept for defining task-specific subsets of the EE stack, such as a "web" profile that omits parts of EE that would not be useful for or relevant to web-based applications.

Voting begins for JCP ME special election
The Planetarium passes along the announcement that voting begins today for the JCP special election. "There's a vote now, to fill a vacant seat on the Java ME EC. There are 4 candidates fighting for this seat. Aplix, who build Java implementations for mobile phones, Cox Communications, big in home entertainment (particularly TV), and two active Java ME developers Shawn Fitzgerald and Marlon Luz, standing as individuals." JCP members (as individuals or primary contacts for their company or organization) should have received voting information from the JCP earlier today.

Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0. Part 1
O'Reilly Inside RIA blogger Yakov Fain wonders if JavaFX can replace Flex for him, and tries it out in Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0. Part 1. "We decided to contribute to Java community and invest some time and resources to figure out what JavaFX 1.0 is capable of. Most of the Java developers know what Pet Store application is. For many years this reference implementation has been used by Sun Microsystems as a part of Java BluePrints program for Java EE platform. [...] We re-used the existing back end of the Pet store, but performed a little facelift by replacing the UI developed with AJAX/JSP/JavaServer Faces with JavaFX 1.0."

JavaFX Featured on RIA Weekly #44
JavaFX developer Josh Marinacci is the featured guest on the RIA Weekly #44 podcast. They discuss JavaFX 1.1 and its mobile support, partnerships with handset makers, what developers are already doing with JavaFX, download statistics, designer-oriented tools for JavaOne, and some of what we'll see from JavaFX at JavaOne.

OpenJDK 6 in FreeBSD Ports collection
Dalibor Topić reports on the appearance of OpenJDK 6 in FreeBSD Ports collection. "As of today, there is an OpenJDK 6 package in the FreeBSD Ports collection. The port was created by Brian Gardner, who backported the changes from the BSD porting Project of OpenJDK 7 to the latest OpenJDK 6 build. Brian is looking for testers."

Status of Swing Application Framework?
Anthony Goubard complains that work on the Swing Application Framework seems to have seized up again. In the Javalobby post The Swing Application Framework Still in Coma, he writes, "As already said a few months ago, there is no activity on JSR 296 (SAF) and nothing much has changed since then. Note that this JSR is a candidate for inclusion for Java 7. In the meantime Alexander Potochkin has taken the Spec lead and worked a bit on it a few months ago but for a least the last 3 months it's again quiet from Sun."

JavaFX for Java, JavaScript programmers
A. Sundararajan has posted a slide set introducing JavaFX for Java and JavaScript programmers. "I missed attending and speaking at Sun Tech Days at Hyderabad due to a personal reason. In fact, I prepared slides for a talk titled "JavaFX for Java, JavaScript programmers". This is much like my earlier language comparison blog entries such as Java, JavaScript and Jython, Java, Groovy and JRuby etc. The idea is to learn a language by language comparison - and not to conclude "better"/"worse" language and so on. [...] Although I could not attend Sun Tech Days, I am posting the slides here : slides in a .pdf file"

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