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GlassFish and MySQL, Part 4: Creating a RESTful Web Service and JavaFX Client
The fourth in an SDN series from Ed Ort and Carol McDonald, GlassFish and MySQL, Part 4: Creating a RESTful Web Service and JavaFX Client shows how to create a RESTful web service for the web application developed in the first three parts, which is then called with a JavaFX client. "This article shows you how to use the NetBeans IDE with GlassFish and MySQL to create the RESTful web service. Specifically, you'll take advantage of features in NetBeans IDE 6.5, GlassFish Server v2.1, and MySQL 5.1 Community Server to build and deploy the RESTful web service. This article also shows you how to use the NetBeans IDE with JavaFX support to run a JavaFX client for the web service."

Language Model Changes as of JDK 7 Build 50
Joe Darcy has posted a short blog describing Language Model Changes as of JDK 7 Build 50. "To date, there have been a few API changes to javax.lang.model.* in JDK 7. Early in the release, SourceVersion.RELEASE_7 was added to correspond to any new source-level changes coming in JDK 7 (6458819). Eventually, there will be changes to support the modulue construct being added by JSR 294; changes may or may not be needed for language changes coming from Project Coin and JSR 308. Once modulues are added, the JSR 269 API elements meant to cope with the expression problem will be tested."

JSR 318 (Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1) proposed final draft
The expert group for JSR 318, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, has posted a proposed final draft. " The purpose of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 specification is to further simplify the EJB architecture by reducing its complexity from the developer's point of view, while also adding new functionality in response to the needs of the community." The new spec includes removal of the requirement for a separate local business interface, support for direct use of EJBs in the servlet container, singleton beans, support for asynchronous session bean invocation, and more.

Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 released with Support for Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly and GlassFish: Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 is now officially released and support Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly and GlassFish. Finally a Comet/Ajax Push framework you can build on top of it and deploy everywhere!
jfarcand from Glassfish   (March 13, 2009 05:24:17 PM PST)

JRuby, Rails, and GlassFish - "Easiest Rails stack in the world"!!!:
arungupta from Glassfish   (March 13, 2009 02:33:07 PM PST)

GlassFish Workshop at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Mar 20, 2009:
arungupta from Glassfish   (March 13, 2009 10:25:09 AM PST)

Flying Saucer 8 Release Candidate 1
The Flying Saucer XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 Renderer project has announced the first Release Candidate for Flying Saucer 8. "We consider this to be near-final release quality. We are not planning any more fixes or changes except for critical issues uncovered by your testing. It will help us greatly if you take the time to verify this release works on your own systems, and report back any issues you find. If no significant issues surface, we'll be releasing R8 final in about two weeks, near the end of March."

OpenJDK IcedTea project
The OpenJDK community has approved the IcedTea project, for incorporating code from GNU Classpath's IcedTea. "In due time, we hope that many of the enhancements provided by IcedTea will appear in the main OpenJDK7 development tree. In the meantime, this project will act as a staging ground for migrating work from the external IcedTea repositories to a true OpenJDK forest, thus easing the process of keeping up with OpenJDK development and simplifying the process of contributing our work back to OpenJDK7. "

ROME 1.0, ROME Fetcher 1.0 released
The ROME project has announced the release of ROME 1.0. ROME is an set of open source Java tools for parsing, generating and publishing RSS and Atom feeds. "ROME includes a set of parsers and generators for the various flavors of syndication feeds, as well as converters to convert from one format to another." The simultaneously released ROME Fetcher 1.0 is a "caching feed fetcher that supports retrieval of feeds via HTTP conditional GET." An off-site ROME 2 project has been set up to collect proposals for a second-generation ROME API.

JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 192
The latest edition, issue 192, of the JavaTools Community Newsletter is out, with tool-related news from around the web, greetings to new projects in the community, a graduation (egest), and a Tool Tip on using the Maven help plugin to inspect your settings.

JavaFX Sudoku with CSS
In a particularly helpful example posted to the JFX Studio site, Rakesh Menon has posted the game JavaFX Sudoku with CSS. "This is a Sudoku game developed using JavaFX. The objective is not really to demonstrate Sudoku, but to show Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support in JavaFX. This sample uses two CSS files - blue.css and black.css. These files have information about different user interface attributes such as color, font, shape…" Rakesh points out that by using CSS, "you can play Sudoku game and if you feel bored just change the look and continue playing!!"

Aplix wins JCP ME EC special election
The JCP has announced that Aplix has won the special election to fill a vacated seat on the JCP's ME Executive Committee. "91 or 8.93% of the elegible JCP members voted for the four candidates", with Aplix getting 43.96% of the vote. Aplix will serve out the term vacated by Intel, ending in December 2010.

LWUIT, As Seen on TV
Danny Coward has posted a collection of links describing the use of LWUIT on Interactive TV platforms, in Java ME: LWUIT, as seen on TV. "You can see LWUIT on TV in this short video. A little like the JavaFX runtime, which runs over an underlying Java SE runtime (suitably consumerized), or a Java ME CLDC runtime, LWUIT runs atop today's Java ME CLDC runtime (like, for example, on this touch-enabled Samsung F480), and now the CDC based TV platform. For developing on TV, you can get the SDK and emulator here. All works with NetBeans 6.1 or later."

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