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Tell Me What You SeePosted by editor on July 29, 2008 at 6:21 AM PDT
Talking about OpenJDK and 6u10 Sometimes, it's a little hard to keep the JDKs straight. There's OpenJDK, which is working on Java 7 along with the back-port, OpenJDK 6.. and then there's Java SE 6 Update 10... and they're not the same thing, at least not yet. So one's got great user-facing features and the other's available under the GPL, and you need to decide which is more appropriate to your needs. Still, it's great that both are so active, with 6u10 particularly close to release. In the Java Today section, you'll find an announcement that the JDK team is interested in your experiences with Java SE 6 Update 10 Beta and are running a Java SE 6u10 Post-Beta (b28) Survey. The poll seeks feedback on the stability and performance of 6u10, draggable applets, the Java Kernel Installer, the Java Deployment Toolkit, graphics performance, and the Nimbus look-and-feel. Meanwhile, in a new SDN article, Roger Yeung shows how to make use of The New Draggable Applet Feature in the Java SE 6 Update 10 Plug-In. "Starting in Java SE 6 Update 10, currently in beta release, the new Java Plug-in includes a draggable feature for applets. This feature allows users to bring together their browser and desktop experience. As a Java technology developer, you can use the rich functionalities in the Java platform to create an applet and allow the user to bring your applet to the desktop. This feature increases flexibility in application deployment and takes advantage of Java Web Start technology to increase the ease of deploying Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) applets." On the OpenJDK front, Episode 33 of the FLOSS Weekly podcast features an interview with Dalibor Topic and Bruno Souza talking about OpenJDK and the open-sourcing of Java. In a discussion with hosts Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte they talk about the history of third-party FLOSS efforts like Kaffe and GNU Classpath, how Sun came around to its decision to open-source its Java implementation, how the open-sourcing is going, how the free software community will be able to use scripting languages atop the JVM, the SoyLatte project, and the importance of the project to the FLOSS community as a whole. In today's Weblogs, Giovani Salvador looks at Java, SOA and XML. "Sometimes we think we have good understanding about XML technology. We believe that parsing XML is all we need to do with XML and we have good tools to do that, especially in the Java world. But when we enter the SOA world we realize how important is to understand lots of other things related to XML like namespaces. Here I list 2 reasons why we should pay more attention to XML mainly when entering the SOA path." In New JSFOne track added Kito D. Mann announces that "JSFOne, the conference I'm hosting with NFJS, has just gotten bigger -- we added an entire new track full of quality nuggets of knowledge including portlets, security, Google API integration, and more." Most Software Development Obstacles are ______. John Reynolds challenges you to "Fill in the blank in the following statement:
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