Starting today's highlights from the Forums, pdoubleya has more details in First impressions: quick starter. "I had the pleasure yesterday of trying out quickstarter, by simply googling for random applets around the web and trying them out. To coin a phrase, applets are fun again (don't quote me on that, it's geeky in the wrong way). No, honestly, as of this Release N I was able to visit many, many sites, some quite old, to see what their applets were about. The experience was, overall, very smooth and for the first time I didn't find myself cursing applet technology under my breath. It's kind of a revelation to have applets be usable and useful again. I was also surprised by how well applets blend into web pages with this new update, even pages that were quite old (as in "this applet requires Java 1.1" kind of old). So, first comment, great work. Now some criticisms, or comments on what I think you can improve."

Elsewhere, ernestojpg writes about web services authentication issues in Re: Holder-of-key and Truststore files. "I've tested the last WSIT Nightly Build, and it look like already works! The Server get the Client's Public Key from SAML Assertion (SubjectConfirmation), and don't look for it in its truststore. But something strange happens. I have tried this scenario, but now using a empty Trustore in the server side, and that also works! I thought that 'wssip' and 'xwss-certificate-authority' certificates would be necessary. It look like the Server verifies the wssip signature using only the KeyInfo in the SAML assertion, but the Server doesn't look for the Certificate in its truststore. Or perhaps it doesn't verify the SAML signature, I don't know. Is that normal?"

vhardy has a suggestion for getting at SVG files in Re: JSR-226 : How to Change value of SVG text? "To modify the SVG source, you can use gunzip to turn the .svgz file into a regular svg file and then search replace the mouseover/mouseout with focusin/focusout. Alternatively, I think Mobile Designer has a way to trigger events on focusin/focusout. I believe there is an SVG Timing option panel where, if you select "Event", you'll find "focus in" and "focus out" under the event type. Good luck with your project."