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The Best Of What's AroundPosted by editor on September 26, 2007 at 8:42 AM PDT
Two years in the making, jMaki 1.0 hits the street Continuing what's been a busy month of 1.0 releases, jMaki has just announced its first full-version release. jMaki is one of those things where the name may be better known than the particulars of the project (hint: think "Ajax made easy"). Fortunately, the project is pulling together a guide to the many docs and blogs that explain what it is and how it works. A good place to start for absolute beginner information is the Why Use jMaki? document, which makes the case for jMaki's simplifications, standardizations, and flexibility. Recently on the O'Reilly editor's list, we had a discussion trying to track where the Ajax market is going. There's a sense that a lot of developers have built DIY Ajax systems with hand-rolled JavaScript on the client and their choice of server-side frameworks... and have come away from the experience saying "I'm never doing that again." And as a result, there's now a great interest in getting a handle on all the various Ajax frameworks out there... do you want DWR or GWT or jMaki or something else entirely? jMaki's in a busy part of the webapp world right now, and it will be interesting to see what kind of a niche it can carve out for itself. Also in Java Today, Javalobby has just posted an Interview with Tom Ball, openjfx compiler lead. After briefly discussing Project Jackpot, he talks about his new role on openjfx, the differences between JavaFX and JavaFX Mobile, the challenges of living up to community demands, the schedule for delivering JavaFX, the role of the open-source community in JavaFX's development, and more. A pair of entries on The Aquarium portray the history and future of GlassFish in graphic form. First, in How Did We Get Here? GlassFish v2 History, Part I, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart writes, "Rich has written a nice Historical Recap going through NetDynamics, KivaSoft, Netscape, iPlanet, Forte SynerJ, SunOne, Sun Java System Application Server, and then, GlassFish. He captured it all in this picture." Then the entry Branches, Branches... GlassFish Branches... looks ahead: "Nice post from Abhijit where he captures graphically, and in more detail, the Future GlassFish Releases. Abhijit covers GFv2 UR1, GFv2.1 (tentative name) and GFv3. Read his Detailed Entry or go directly to the Diagram."
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@Webservice and JMS @Resource, Kelly O'Hair checks on with OpenJDK's source-control switchover in today's Weblogs. In OpenJDK Mercurial Transition Update 3, he writes, "Build 20 now contains a separate "langtools" (javac, javah, javap, apt, and javadoc) directory in the Build 20 source bundles. Build 21 (could be 22) will have separate corba, jaxp, and jaxws directories. Build 22 continues to be our target for the last JDK7 promotion built via the TeamWare workspaces, the Build after this one would be done via Mercurial repositories." David Herron thinks about the real story behind the rise of scripting languages in Re: Stop the Insanity. "A few weeks ago Phil Toland wrote Stop the Insanity about the "rise" in popularity of languages other than Java. Last year it seemed you couldn't turn around without reading another blog entry saying Ruby was going to kill Java, etc. Now the named languages are Haskell or Erlang, but the story is the same. I think the rise of JRuby demonstrates something, however." Frustrated with the non-availability of JDK 6 on Mac OS X, John O'Conner wonders aloud about Solaris for Java development? "Considering all the tool support, I'm really interested in Solaris again. I noticed that a new version was released yesterday, Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07. It has a new installer that includes drivers for more wireless cards. That seemed to be one of the big hindrances in the past. I know the latest JDK will be there, and NetBeans IDE too. So that's already two big pros to consider." Current and upcoming Java Events :
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