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Come Out And PlayPosted by editor on September 19, 2005 at 8:03 AM PDT
Making your mark on Mustang It can be done. Outsider contributions will be in the next version of Java, and there's still time to join in. If you don't believe it, check out the forum message JDK collaboration bug fixes, cited in today's Projects & Communities section. In it, Mustang's still a long way from final, so there's plenty of time to jump in yourself. Check out the Mustang Snapshot Releases project to get the latest sources and binaries, and the How to Collaborate document to learn how to bet your own fixes in. Of course, what bugs should you get in on?
Anyone have some suggestions for Tim? The anecdotal use-case for open source contributions is that people fix the bugs important to them, but what if the act of contribution is more important than the specific fix? Surely there are some little hassles that would be amenable for small, unintrusive fixes. What are they? By the way, Tim, two points for using the term "level up". Now I'm going to have to explain that to Daniel when he reads this blog.
Also In today's Forums,
Also in Projects and Communities, congratulations to the NYJavaSIG on its 10th Anniversary! The 3,500-member group is holding a 10th Anniversary Party on Thursday, September 29, with special guests Jim Waldo and Guy Steele. Food, refreshments, and prizes will be available. Attendees must register in advance at the above link. Kohsuke Kawaguchi unveils a Maven java.net plugin in today's Weblogs: I have a lot of projects on java.net, so I needed a way to simplify the project management. That's why I came up with the maven java.net plugin. The idea is simple. Maven provides an excellent framework for managing a large number of small projects. So I wrote a plugin to perform java.net specific tasks. — Bernt Johnsen reports on JavaZone, Norway: "Norway is a small country. Still, each year, the Norwegian Java User Group, JavaBin, hosts a large Java developer conference called JavaZone." In Who, who does not want to wear a ribbon?, Kirill Grouchnikov writes: "The web is abuzz with UI approach of the next Office release. Is it revolutionary, does it spell doom for OpenOffice or is it a step back? And there's a Java demo too that shows a ribbon component." In this week's Spotlight... AJAX is quickly gaining steam as a client-side technology for web applications, but who wants to write all that JavaScript and test it across browsers? "DWR (Direct Web Remoting) is easy Ajax for Java. It makes it simple to call Java code directly from Javascript. It gets rid of almost all the boiler plate code between the web browser and your Java code." Featured in the recent article Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way, it frees you from JSF and Struts drudgeries, leaving "just you, DWR, Java, HTML and Javascript." In Also in Java Today, Sunil Patil predicts that "the Portlet API has a very good chance of succeeding servlet technology, because it is capable of using the existing application server infrastructure. You can call an EJB from your portlet, or you can start and participate in a global transaction controlled by the application server. In other words, your portlet can do pretty much everything that a servlet can do, in a much more business-logic-centric way." In What Is a Portlet, he defines this new approach to web applications, and shows how to create and deploy a portlet with Apache's Pluto server. The latest JDC Tech Tip introduces Cookie Management with CookieHandler: "As part of the implementation of the http protocol handler, J2SE 5.0 adds a CookieHandler. This class exposes how state can be managed in the system through cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored in a browser's cache. If you visit a web site and then revisit it, the cookie data is used to identify you as a return visitor. Cookies allow state information, such as an online shopping cart, to be remembered. A cookie can be short term, holding data for a single web session, that is, until you shut the browser down, or it can be longer term -- holding data for a week or a year" In today's java.net News Headlines :
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