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Go AheadPosted by editor on October 1, 2007 at 7:16 AM PDT
The consumer JRE is ready for you to try out The focus of several sessions at JavaOne 2007, and many blogs about needing to improve the client-side/consumer/user-facing Java story, the so-called "consumer JRE" is now available in an early access form for testing. Only now it's called Java SE 6 Update N. In fact, I'd be testing it on Parallels right now, if the DSL weren't out. The ambition of this release is pretty impressive, as it targets a number of long-standing problems with the Java user experience on the desktop, some of which fall under a general "Java is slow" complaint, but actually involve a number of different causes:
Further improving the user-experience, this version adds the Nimbus look and feel, along with a JRE update mechanism that doesn't make each point release look like a new item for Windows' "Add/Remove Programs" list. And for developers, a Deployment Toolkit simplifies figuring out just which versions of the JRE the user has installed. It's a pretty good bet that this will be one of the main topics of discussion this week. If you're on Windows and have an interest in client-facing Java, go get the download, and check out the testing guidelines and feedback forums. Oh hey, look: my DSL is back up. Time to start downloading Update N onto the Mini... In other JDK-related news in the Java Today section, Tom Marble has posted an update on the OpenJDK project's efforts toward Clearing encumbrances from the JDK. "It is our hope to get to 100% Free and 100% Java Compatible as soon as possible. I'd like to give you a brief update on progress on our OpenJDK projects to clear the outstanding encumbrances." The 2007 JCP Executive Committee Elections begin today with a 14-day period of voting for ratified seats. "Ratified Seats are filled by a simple ratification process. Members are selected for the Ratified Seats using a ratification ballot that is carried out starting the first week of October of each year. [...] The PMO nominates Members to fill the vacant Ratified Seats with due regard for balanced community and regional representation. Eligible Members vote to ratify each nominee over a 14-day voting period. Each nominee is ratified by a simple majority of the Community Members who cast a vote." This phase ends on October 15, with nominations for elected seats beginning on October 16. Today's Forums start with an Update N-related post, in a thread Kirill Grouchnikov kicked off about the packaging of Nimbus. In
Re: Nimbus package in JDK 6.0_05, Chris B reports a Problem writing audio to a stream with SE JP7 phones: "Has anyone tried writing audio to a stream with a SE JP7 phone such as a K800i? eg. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/thread.jspa?threadID=41168. It always returns 0 bytes."
This week's Spotlight is on the jMaki project for developing Ajax-enabled web applications, which has just announced that version 1.0 is available for download. "jMaki is a lightweight client/server framework for creating JavaScript centric Web 2.0 applications using CSS layouts, widgets widget model, client services such as publish/subscribe events to tie widgets together, JavaScript action handlers, and a generic proxy to interact with external RESTful web services. While jMaki abstracts much of the JavaScript and CSS by providing defaults for widgets, the JavaScript widgets and CSS are made easily accessible so they may be customized by a designer or page developer. jMaki focuses on the aspects of delivering JavaScript to the client allowing the JavaScript to communicate to various server-technologies including PHP, Java (JSP/JSF), and Phobos in a server-technology neutral way." In today's Weblogs. Carol McDonald Sample Application using JAX-WS, JSF, Spring, and Java This example demonstrates a Catalog Spring Bean, and the Java Persistence APIs to implement a Catalog Service which provides pagination of store items, and JAX-WS to expose this Catalog Service as a Web Service. A separate example JSF JAX-WS client shows how this Catalog Web Service can then be used remotely in a sample Store web site. Carla Mott also has a lengthy code demo in her tutorial, jMaki app using Google Gears. "I created a simple app as a demo that uses Google Gears for local storage and also sends data to the server upon user request. I showed this at AjaxWorld where there was alot of interest so I decided I would blog about it." Finally, Joerg Plewe is doing some Head banging... but don't worry, it's a good thing. "TrackIR is a headtracking device that currently is quite popular amongst gamers, especially in the simulation community. JTrackIR is my Java binding. Not a big thing, but maybe useful to somebody." Current and upcoming Java Events :
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