I picked five items from today's Forums for the front page... there was just too much good stuff to leave stuff out. We begin with terrencebarr's licensing clarification in Re: License agreement and obfuscation. "LWUIT is no different in that respect than other open source projects licensed under GPLv2 with the classpath exception. If you have general questions about developing with GPL and classpath you can read up on the topic here http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt and here: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html."

LWUIT user lowi has a question about Customizing the title bar. "I would like to have a more elaborate title bar, such as a label on the left side, and a button on the right side. The most obvious solution to me seems to replace the title component of the form class with a Container having a BorderLayout. This works well on my local build, but my final application doesn't have the same size when I use my custom build instead of the binary drop 20080814."

demonduck offers a pointed allegory called Fortran, Pascal, Smalltalk and Java sitting in a vacant lot..., which begins, "Fortran, Pascal, Smalltalk and Java are sitting around a guttering fire in a vacant lot strewn with cyber-debris from bygone eras. Pascal says wistfully, "I could have been somebody -- I could have been a contender. P-code geez, what was I thinking?""

Continuing the week's most contentious thread, swpalmer questions the 64-bit obsession in Re: Java WebStart (JNLP), JavaFX on 64-bit machines. "You're right. 64-bit isn't generally "out there" - it's mainly a server thing I guess, though my company isn't running 64-bit servers. All the new Macs are 64-bit, but they have other issues when it comes to Java support... Java 6 on Mac is ONLY 64-bit :-) . I think Sun didn't screw up the priorities - this time."

robilad posts a fact check as a followup in Re: Java WebStart (JNLP), JavaFX on 64-bit machines. "OpenJDK 6 is based on OpenJDK 7. See http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/forward_to_the_past for its history. JDK 6 is not based on OpenJDK 6 - the code for JDK 6 has been branched off before OpenJDK 7, from which OpenJDK 6 was branched off."