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Posted by editor on July 6, 2005 at 10:07 AM EDT

Getting the word out

In yesterday's blog, I made the point that a good time to make project-related announcements is pretty much any of the 51 weeks of the year that don't coincide with JavaOne, as announcements from Sun tend to drown out everyone else's announcements and releases. Today, I'd like to share another tip with you:

Tell us what you're up to. We want to know.

This was the theme of a brief presentation I made at the java.net community leader meeting that preceded JavaOne. In describing the various parts of the java.net home page, I stressed the ways in which we try to use the front page to promote projects and communities on the site. Single-day blurbs, week-long "spotlights", and feature articles are great ways to get the word out about your project.

So how do you let us know that your project has just issued a 1.0 release? Don't make us find it -- there are too many projects to look through every day. Instead, drop me an e-mail at cadamson@oreilly.com.

For example, Ivelin Ivanov sent me a note to let me know that the Java Communications Community project Mobicents has announced the release of version 1.0a of their JAIN-SLEE implementation. Mobicents is the only open-source implementation of this telecom middleware specification.

Also in Projects and Communities, One of the most popular Javapedia pages last month was the entry on ServiceOrientedArchitecture, which collects definitions, opinions, tutorials and other articles on the topic.

In today's Weblogs. Rich Unger takes on the ongoing IDE holy war in Eclipse vs. NetBeans *yawn*: "OK, I got your attention. Now, can we just forget this horse-race and go back to getting some actual work done? No? Oh, fine. So, JavaOne just ended, and everyone's talking about the buzz around these 2 products. There's enough hype around here to stuff a turkey."

Is GlassFish: Too Little, Too Late? Andreas Schafer writes: "After the magical dust of JavaOne has settled the reality is reappearing and we can start thinking about the results. Especially Sun's announcement (beside buying my current employer) of open-sourcing their application server was a hot topic here even though I did not quite trust all the fuss around it. Now over the long weekend I had time to figure out what happened and the result, quite frankly, is disillusioned and I get the feeling that this was just the last phase of this application's life cycle. "

Greg Murray stresses the role of XML in AJAX - X = No Dice: "This entry brings up some questions as to using XML as the content type in AJAX. Most of the focus I seen in the AJAX world seems to revolve around the JavaScript and DHTML operations on the client. Without the 'X" in AJAX you really can't have any rich interaction."

In Also in Java Today, 15,000 developers attended the JavaOne 2005 Conference, eager to learn and share knowledge and to get a glimpse of the future of Java. The ONJava article JavaOne 2005: Participate in the Future of Java details the announced roadmaps for the newly renamed "Java SE 6" and "Java EE 5," and shows how the Java community is being invited to participate in developing the platform going forward.

JavaServer Faces provides an alternative to Struts or Spring MVC for those who want a Web application framework that manages UI events in a Java Web application. JSF is now a standard part of the J2EE specification and provides a viable alternative to non-standard Web frameworks. In Face Up to Web Application Design Using JSF and MyFaces, Javid Jamae introduces JSF and uses a JSF-based game of "Hi-Lo" to show how it works.

In today's Forums, clearthought is calling for activism in Getting TableLayout in the JDK: "Actually, TableLayout is trying to get into the JDK. Check it out at its project page. You can even petition to get it into the JDK."

nickhomeaccount clarifies his thinking in kicking off a thread Re: Java DB: "My reason for raising the idea was that I think it would make unit testing easier. I work with a framework that only supports several commercial databases. I believe if the J2SE included a minimal relation database it would be likely that frameworks would support it, and it would make creating unit tests easier. I think putting a database in an optional package would still make it likely that frameworks would support it.

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