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Deeper into image effects

The mathematics of image effects comes to center stage again, as Jeff Friesen takes another look at image embossing in the final installment of "Java Tech". But there's more than just embossing in the Feature Article, Java Tech: Process Images with Imagician. The article unveils an image effects studio application, allowing you to take an image and add one effect after another. He also shows how to provide a status bar that is wired up to all the menus and menu items, showing a lengthier description of their action at the bottom of the window.

Romain Guy wants to help you Make Swing... er... Swing! in today's Weblogs: "A good looking GUI needs a bit more than just fancy graphics. It needs life, animation! Java SE provides everything you need to make your Swing apps swing, but there's an easier way."

Jody Garnett writes about Java involvement in the Open Source Geospatial Foundation: "The Java community response to the formation of a the new: Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Can AutoDesk, the Open Source C++ world and a the Java Spatial community get along? The real question is, the question is can they keep up."

In Javadoc: How Do We Improve It?, Kathy Walrath writes: "It's been ten days since the javadoc survey came out, and the majority of developers STILL haven't given us their feedback. Come on, you can do it."

In Also in Java Today, "The upcoming JDK 6.0 (Mustang) release does not approach the magnitude of enhancements in JDK 5.0, but does offer several interesting updates. Among these updates is the incorporation of JSR 223 Scripting for the JavaTM Platform. Essentially, this introduces a standard framework to allow scripting language programs to be executed from and have access to the Java platform. It provides many of the capabilities of BSF (Bean Scripting Framework)." In Scripting Support in Mustang, Paul Jensen looks at how Mustang implements scripting support and what it can do for you.

In Plugging Memory Leaks with Soft References, Brian Goetz looks at how certain tasks, like maintaining a cache, are ideal candidates for soft references. "Soft references, like weak references, can help applications prevent object loitering by enlisting the aid of the garbage collector in making cache eviction decisions. Soft references are suitable for use only if the application can tolerate the loss of the softly referenced object."

In Projects and Communities, the 70th JavaTools Community Newsletter welcomes three projects to the community and celebrates the graduation of FengGui from the incubator. It also has a tip on getting e-mail notification of changes to your project wiki, along with tool-related news from around the web.

The JavaPedia page for RSS collects links related to using the popular web syndication with your Java application, including the article Using RSS in JSP Pages and the ROME project, which supports RSS and Atom. Since JavaPedia is a wiki, you can edit the page yourself to add more resources.

In today's Forums, a guest user asks about a problem in showing default page on starting: "Can anyone let me know how I can show a web page on my help system when it is first loaded Actually when my Help System is started it shows a blank web page. But i want to show some starting HTML page on loading, like 'Welcome to Online Help' . Where should i make the entry of this html file and how?"

In JMX to manage JAX-WS 2.0 service using NetBeans 5.0, kohsuke writes: "Among a full set of exciting features, check the NetBeans Home Page, it brings a very very cool support for Web Services. If you have not already played with web services, you should start doing so. It is becoming much simpler with JAX-WS 2.0."

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