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 Editor's Daily BlogOh My Golly!Posted by invalidname on April 11, 2008 at 04:52 AM | Comments (0)One heck of a deal for college students Wow, you don't often see serious giftage like the announcement that Sun sent me yesterday. T-shirts? Books? DVDs? Lovely tote bags? Meh. If you're a college student, how does a free, all-you-can-eat pass to pretty much all of JavaOne sound? Yeah, I was pretty surprised too. But it's the real deal. The JavaOne 2008 Student Program, hosted by Sun's Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos, is a five-day program to attend the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences in San Francisco, May 5 - 9, 2008. Participants will have full access to the conference, including general sessions, technical sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BoFs), specially developed Java University classes, a coupon for a free Java Certification Class, access to the JavaOne pavilion, t-shirts, lunches, the AfterDark party with Smashmouth, and more. If you want to tally this up in monetary terms... this is the equivalent of a full conference pass (a US$1,595 value), plus it includes special Java University classes, so it's arguably worth even more than that. Space for this program is limited, so interested students should download and fax the registration PDF right away. Oh, and come see us at the java.net Community Corner while you're there. Also in Java Today, NetBeans.org has announced the availability of the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Release Candidate, which is now available for download. The final NetBeans IDE 6.1 release is scheduled for late April, and feedback is welcomed and encouraged on the mailing lists. Also you can win $500 USD by blogging about your experience with the NetBeans IDE 6.1; details are on the Blogging Contest page. The SigTest project is based on Sun Microsystems' signature testing and API conformance tool of the same name. The SigTest tool makes it possible to easily compare the signatures of two different implementations of the same API. It verifies that all of the members are present, reports when new members are added, and checks the specified behavior of each API member. Originally developed to help in the creation of TCK test suites, it has since evolved into a general purpose tool that can be used to compare any two implementations of an API to determine their differences. The SigTest project is being created in order to develop a community that will improve it, further its development, and use it to develop test suites. We encourage you to browse, download, contribute, and get involved. The latest java.net Poll makes the most of poll anonymity in asking the question "How far have you ever taken a dispute over code?" Arguing, yelling... fighting? Cast your vote on the front page, then visit the results page for current tallies and discussion. In today's Weblogs, Van Riper calls for Java support in Google's new platform, in Google App Engine: Request Java Runtime. "Google App Engine sounds like a real sweet and free web application hosting environment. The problem is the only runtime supported initially is Python. Read the full post to find out how you can help get Java runtime support added." In Nexus - my next Maven repository manager, John Ferguson Smart reports "the lads at Sonatype have just released a new Maven Repository Manager, called Nexus. And it looks good!" Finally, Harold Carr announces a call for papers in CFP DOA 2008. "I'm on the program committee (my fourth time) for the Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications conference (DOA'08) being held in Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 10 - 12, 2008. Here is the Call For Papers. Submit something or plan on attending and discussing cutting edge middleware research." SwingX topics top today's Forums, starting with Amy Fowler's background story Re: SwingXSet3 ... "SwingLabs fans might be wondering why I rolled many of my own components instead of using those available in swingx (particularly ironic, since I had something to do with the creation of SwingLabs and swingx). I'll just come clean here. I started out thinking that since SwingSet3 would be an advertisement for what Swing offered out of the box, it should constrain itself to the confines of that box. Immediately I wrote my own rudimentary hyperlink and animating collapsible panels. And down the road when I realized I couldn't live without JXPanel, I realized the futility (and utter silliness) of this restraint." Meanwhile, Kleopatra talks about animation and window-sizing issues in Re: JXCollapsiblePane.CollapsiblePaneContainer question. "That's basically the RightThing (TM Kirill), in fact explicitly calling pack (or resizing to some previously stored size - users might have changed the dialog) is the only way to "visually validate" a top-level container. What happens here is that the animation interferes: the collapsed property change is fired before the animated size change is completed, so the pack is done on the old size. I remember that a couple of years ago I tried to use a collapsible for the details part of an ErrorPane and gave up (being impatient) Thingies could have changed since then - do we get a property at the end of the animation phase?"
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