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Ready For ItPosted by editor on September 16, 2008 at 6:46 AM PDT
Java and the Linux desktop A couple of our bloggers today make a note of investing more significantly in Linux for their day to day work. This is kind of interesting, given that the whole "Linux on the desktop will take off real soon now" claim has pretty much become a punchline (heck, I used it back in January). But maybe from a Java POV, it's a valid claim? After all, Linux is one of the operating systems targeted by OpenJDK, NetBeans, and pretty much all the other major Java open-source projects. When these projects drop a new release, it's available for Linux on day one, without the long "when will the port be done... hey, is anyone porting this at all?" agony that the Mac users and other platforms sometimes face. The first of our bloggers getting deeper into Linux is Fabrizio Giudici, who says in today's Weblogs that he may be saying Bye bye, Mac OS X:
Already over on Linux, Cay Horstmann finally gets one of Java 6 Update 10's flashiest features working, as he describes in Applet Dragging in Linux. "Being a Linux user, I watched those applet dragging demos with envy when they only worked on Windows. When the release candidate of JDK 6 update 10 (now there is a product name only a mother could love...) came out, I was eager to try it out on Linux. Initially, I was held back by a factor entirely beyond my control, i.e. my cluelessness and unwillingness to read the docs. Thanks to Aaron Houston and Ken Russell for helping me out. Here are the steps..." Also in today's Weblogs, Kumar Jayanti notes Support for Programmatic Authorization in WebServices With Metro 1.3. "Starting with Promoted Build 36 of SailFin, Metro 1.3 users can perform Programmatic Authorization decisions inside their SEI Implementations." In Java Today, Kirill Grouchnikov is announcing the release of new versions several of his Swing projects, starting with version 5.0 of the major performance issues and to ensure the long-term code health of the project" Flamingo component suite 3.1 is also available. "The goal of the project is to provide a small and cohesive set of powerful UI components with functionality similar to or superseding that of Vista Explorer and Office 2007, and this release closes many gaps towards realizing this goal." Today's releases also include a number of Substance plug-ins for other projects. Ed Burns is putting out a call for input on which JSF 2.0 issues are most important. " We have 37 open spec issues, not including some ones floating around on the EG list that I need to put into the issue tracker. Of those 37, there are 20 that I’ve classified as “hard”, with help from FOJSF Yara Senger. If you care to help, please look at those hard issues and use the java.net “vote for this issue” feature to help us choose which of those hard ones to do first." In the latest installment of the SDN's "From the Trenches at Sun Security" series, Security for Web Services, Marina Sum talks to Sidharth Mishra, technical product manager for identity management at Sun. They talk about the specific challenges of securing web services, the standards for message-level security, and how OpenSSO can be used to provide message-level security.
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