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How You Remind MePosted by editor on January 7, 2009 at 3:07 AM PST
Oh yeah, OpenJDK 6 came after OpenJDK 7! Now I get it! If I had to explain the versioning and open-source status of Java to a total newbie, I think I'd probably have to draw a diagram. When Java got GPL'ed, Java 6 was just out the gate, and the first drops of OpenJDK were of an extremely early JDK 7. But we couldn't just wait years and years for JDK 7 to come out, open source or not, so the OpenJDK team crafted a backport of their code back to the JDK 6 spec. And in this way, OpenJDK 6 came after OpenJDK 7, the first few drops of 7 anyways. But Sun's JDK 6 continued along its own path, notably including all the "consumer JRE" goodness of Java 6 Update 10... which of course isn't in OpenJDK because it's from a different fork that hasn't been merged in. Confused yet? David Herron tries to clear things up by saying It will be (Open)JDK7 where OpenJDK==JDK. "I'm listening to the 'holidays 2008ish' episode of Javaposse and in reviewing their last years predictions they have enough fumbling around the status of OpenJDK that I want to do a little bit of explaining." Also in today's Weblogs, Ed Burns passes along a reminder and request for feedback in JSF 2.0 Public Review Ballot Starts Tomorrow. "Notice that JSF 2.0 is almost done. If you happen to have some kind of channel to one or more of the individuals on the Java EE Executive Committee, please share your thoughts with them to help inform their ballot vote." Finally, in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on the JCP Van Riper writes, "December 2008 marks the 10th Birthday of the Java Community Process (JCP) Program. Java developers in Silicon Valley are invited to join the JCP Executive Committees and the Program Office in celebrating ten years of collaborative work from companies, academics, individual developers and not-for-profits from all over the world. The party will be at the Computer History Museum on January 13th in Mountain View, California." In Java Today, The NetBeans team is happy to announce a relationship between the NetBeans and ICEfaces communities to facilitate migration for current Woodstock users. With the latest ICEface NetBeans plugin (v1.7.2SP1), you can add the ICEfaces framework to an existing project and begin to develop ICEface pages along side existing Woodstock pages. An ambitious and key part of Java EE 6, the Web Beans specification spans JSF/EJB integration, context management, dependency injection and AOP. The specification is currently in public review and the review period has been extended into 2009. An Alpha build is also available. In Web Beans (JSR-299): Q&A with Specification Lead Gavin King, InfoQ talks to Gavin King to find out more about the state of play of the specification and progress to date. Bruce Hopkins continues his introduction to the JSR-82 Bluetooth API in Working with Bluetooth and GPS: Part 2 - Parsing GPS Data and Rendering a Map. In this conclusion, he shows how to parse NMEA-formatted GPS data, request a map image from the Yahoo Maps API, and parse the received XML via the XML parsing API included in JSR-172 (J2ME Web Services).
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