In today's Forums, kawaiimomo seems to be putting JavaFX's media support to serious use and has noticed some discrepencies, as noted in MediaComponent methods vs media Player methods. "I noticed a slightly different behaviour with latest drop when I go to a Form with a fade transition-in and a MediaComponent (player for capture). In previous drops I achieved better looking result by calling Player.start() and Player.stop() instead of calling the same methods in MediaComponent. Also I use the setVisible() method in VideoControl to hide the player. Is this a good approach? It's better to deal directly with the player or with the MediaComponent?"

jfanatic expresses displeasure at a [Java] BigDecimal Limitation. "I would like to point out a real limitation in Java related to floating point calculation which for such a rich language is really unfortunate. We cannot use doubles or floats if we want exact calculations, say in a financial app, because of underlying binary floating point representation, so we should use BigDecimals right? But as you know its immutable so for every bit of calculation we are creating new objects just for fun. For strings one can understand the reason behind immutability that is we do not want to create redundancy in memory for same string literals and avoid unnecessary garbage but for BigDecimal and even for Wrappers making them immutable is actually encouraging garbage as every add, subtract operation will result in a new object."

Finally, Judy Tang updates the GlassFish Community Acceptance Testing program in Re: Announcing FishCAT, a community Beta program [FishCAT members finalized]. "We got great response from community on FishCAT program, many thanks for all the people applied. We have selected 30 FishCAT members for V3 prelude release and here they are. We look forward to working with you all together to enhance GlassFish quality. https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/portal/."

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