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Java Mobility Podcast 72: Java ME SDK
Tomas Brandalik and David Pulkrabek tell about the new features in the Early Access release of the Java ME Software Developer Kit
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[February 25, 2009]

JavaFX HTTP Networking and XML Parsing
Much of the interest in JavaFX has centered about the platform's GUI capabilities and tooling. But many JavaFX applications will need to be network clients, and JavaFX provides classes to help you with common network tasks. In this article, Francesco Azzola shows how to retrieve XML data via HTTP and parse it with JavaFX's XML parser.
by Francesco Azzola
[February 12, 2009 | Discuss (2)]

Java Mobility Podcast 71: Eric Klein on Java FX for Mobile Devices
Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing, tells you just about everything you want to know about the Java FX 1.1 release that is targeting mobile devices.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[February 11, 2009]

Java Mobility Podcast 70: Bit-side
Thomas Schüppel of bit-side talks with Terrence about his companies experience developing on mobile devices.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[February 05, 2009]

(Not So) Stupid Questions 21: All Statics
This "stupid question" is about a Struts application where the developers have made all their DAO methods static, and whether that's an appropriate design decision.
[January 29, 2009 | Discuss (7)]

Java Mobility Podcast 69: Live from Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days
Daniel Steinberg did a walk about the floor at the Mobile, Media and eMbedded Developer Days soliciting comments from the various attendees.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[January 27, 2009]

JSR-286: The Edge of Irrelevance
JSR-286 updates the Portlet specification to add new functionality, but has the Portlet ship sailed? In this article, Eric Spiegelberg looks at the history of the Java Portlet spec and argues that the design and philosophy of Java web applications has moved on and left portlets behind.
by Eric Spiegelberg
[January 20, 2009 | Discuss (9)]

Java Mobility Podcast 68: OpenCable Project and Tru2Way
Phil Bender talks about the OpenCable project, its relationship to Tru2Way and his talk on the Tru2Way Roadmap and Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[January 14, 2009]

Java Mobility Podcast 67: Does Your Mobile Speak JavaFX?
Juraj Svec and Jan Sterba of the JavaFX Mobile development team are preparing for JavaFX/Mobile presentations at Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days. Here them talk about the challenges in developing this platform in this introduction to JavaFX/Mobile.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[January 06, 2009]

Java Mobility Podcast 66: Sean Sheedy, JCP ME Executive Committee Feedback
Sean Sheedy was recently elected a JCP ME Executive Committee and is soliciting feedback on what developers think the EC should be addressing.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[December 31, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 65: Eric Arseneau, Go Small or Not at All
Eric Areseneau, M&E; Governance Board member and Squawk project lead, was recently written up as a Contrarian Mind. Listen to his ideas on getting a Java Virtual Machine in small embedded systems.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[December 22, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 64: LWUIT Half Day Tutorial
Jonathan Knudsen talks about the LWUIT and the LWUIT Half Day Tutorial that he and Chen Fishbein will be giving the day after M3DD.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[December 17, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 63: Sprint Titan (JSR 232 OSGi)
Jon Bostrom of MobiNoir Consulting is currently engaged on the Sprint Titan Project, bringing OSGi to Mobile.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[December 08, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 62: Microlog
Johan Karlsson discusses Microlog, a small logging library for Java ME, with Terrence Barr.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[December 03, 2008]

Animation and Transition with LWUIT
Animation is increasingly being used by desktop and mobile applications to provide a better user experience, bringing the user's attention to changes in content or context. In this article, Biswajit Sarkar introduces the animation and transition features provided by LWUIT for mobile Java applications.
by Biswajit Sarkar
[November 20, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 61: Funambol
Funambol provides mobile sync and push email solutions powered by open source. Stefano Maffulli from Funambol talkes with Terrence Barr about the technology and license.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[November 17, 2008]

Sending Messages Using JBI Technology
Java Business Integration (JBI) offers a programming model build on assembling a group of components that can be plugged in to a collaborative system. In this article, Francesco Azzola demonstrates basic JBI development and deployment by creating an app that receives requests and sends SMS messages.
by Francesco Azzola
[November 06, 2008]

Integrating GLPbuffer and Java Graphics2D
In bringing a mathematical visualization app to Java, Joshua A. Davis and Thaddeus Keenan Simons found that using OpenGL, via JOGL, offers huge benefits for 3D rendering. However, they wanted to make sure that the JOGL components would coexist with the rest of the Java GUI. In this article, they show how they integrated OpenGL pbuffers into ordinary Graphics2D rendering contexts to achieve a balance.
by Joshua A. Davis, Thaddeus Keenan Simons
[October 30, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 60: Heart Patient Monitoring
The third in a series of podcasts from the Brazilian Month of Java, Edilson Prudencio, a researcher with Dr João Cândido Dovicchi at the Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina, talks about his project of monitoring heart patients using bluetooth monitors, Marge and a JavaME phone.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[October 24, 2008]

Creating a NotifyingBlockingThreadPoolExecutor
Thread pools are easy enough to understand, but in practice, do they provide the appropriate behavior? Specifically, what should the pool do when its threads are all in use? What should the caller do? In this article, Amir Kirsh offers a design for a comprehensive approach to this problem.
by Amir Kirsh
[October 23, 2008]

An Introduction To Servlet 3.0
After years of simpler maintenance releases, the Servlet API is getting a major overhaul for Java EE 6, improving ease of use, configurability, pluggability, security, and more. In this article, Deepa Sobhana offers a detailed overview of what's changing and why.
by Deepa Sobhana
[October 14, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 59: CoSMo - Conference Scheduler for Mobile
The second in a series of podcasts from the Brazilian Month of Java, Neto Marin discusses CoSMo the conference scheduler for mobile devices.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[October 10, 2008]

Pitfalls of the Java Permissions Model
Is Java a good choice for creating applications with configurable security? Denis Pilipchuk argues that Java's permissions-based security model is a relic of its browser days and lacks the configurability, expressiveness, and efficiency that enterprise Java developers need. In this article, he looks at the problems of the permissions model and considers some alternatives.
by Denis Pilipchuk
[September 30, 2008]

Using Styles, Themes, and Painters with LWUIT
The LWUIT brings a great deal of customizability to Java ME GUIs, offering the ability to combine specific combinations of colors, fonts, images and opacity into styles and themes, and have GUI elements use those settings. LWUIT also offers a SwingX-like Painter for applying custom painting across components. In this article, Biswajit Sarkar looks at how you can employ styles, themes, and painters in your LWUIT application.
by Biswajit Sarkar
[September 25, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 58: Diamond Powder - data collectors for MIDP
The first in a series of podcasts from the Brazilian Month of Java, Renato Bellia discusses his recently promoted project Diamond Powder and it's data collector facilities.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[September 25, 2008]

JSR 310: A New Java Date/Time API
Java SE's Date and Calendar classes leave much to be desired. Will the third time be the charm? JSR 310, tracking for inclusion in Java SE 7, once again tries to offer a comprehensive date and time API, borrowing much of its design from the popular Joda Time API. In this article, Jesse Farnham takes a look at JSR 310's concepts and how they may yet bring sense to dates and times in Java.
by Jesse Farnham
[September 18, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 57: Shawn Fitzgerald and Microbus project
Shawn Fitzgerald, a regular participant in the Mobile & Embedded forums, talks about mobile development and the Microbus project.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[September 16, 2008]

The Open Road: javax.annotation
Annotations were introduced in Java 5, and now that the community has had time to try them out and get used to them, Java 7 is preparing to adopt them aggressively. In this installment of The Open Road, Elliotte Rusty Harold looks at the annotations proposed by JSR 305 and how they'll make your code more amenable to static analysis, compiler checks, and other tools to improve safety and robustness.
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
[September 11, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 56: PhoneME port to Play Station Portable
Max Mu shows off his Play Station Portable that is running a port of PhoneME. They are currently working on a port to Nintendo DS.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[September 11, 2008]

Java Mobility Podcast 55: Back to School Special
Diane Wolff and Melanie Crouch of Virgina Western Community College are starting a new degree program of mobile programming at their community college that is geared to meet the needs of the Roanoke, VA business community.
by Daniel H. Steinberg
[September 02, 2008]