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House of WolvesPosted by editor on March 25, 2009 at 8:09 AM PDT
GlassFish makes a splash at EclipseCon It's still a little weird seeing Sun as a top-tier EclipseCon sponsor, with the GlassFish community prominently present at the conference, considering the deep integration that's long been offered for GlassFish by the Sun-staffed java.net affiliate community NetBeans, a competitor to the Eclipse IDE. But maybe times have changed, and co-existence is more palatable to the community as a whole. For NetBeans to succeed, it is not necessary for Eclipse to fail, and vice versa. It's certainly nice to see that SWT-versus-Swing evangelism seems to have largely disappeared, as that was a tiresome and unhelpful schism in the desktop Java community, and perhaps a reason that no form of desktop Java ever achieved the kind of success a lot of us expected it to. So GlassFish actually made a major announcement at EclipseCon yesterday: the project released the GlassFish Tools Bundle For Eclipse. This bundle includes Eclipse 3.4.1 Java EE IDE, GlassFish v2.1 and GlassFish v3 Prelude pre-configured, and optionally, a JDK 1.6. Arun Gupta has a preview of the bundle and startup tips in his blog, along with a number of helpful links. Arun is at the Sun booth at EclipseCon, and invites you to come by and try out the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse for yourself. Regardless of a user's IDE preference, it makes sense to make GlassFish adoption easy for them, so this should help more would-be GF users take the plunge. Also in Java Today, Joe Darcy says that Project Coin's set of small language changes for Java 7 is shaping up. In Project Coin: For further consideration... , he writes, "while there is a bit less than a week left in the call for proposals period, there has been enough discussion on the list to winnow the slate of proposals sent in so far to those that merit further consideration for possible inclusion in the platform." The items likely to be sent forward for development in Java 7 are Strings in switch, Improved Exception Handling for Java, Automatic Resource Management, Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation, Elvis and Other Null-Safe Operators, and Simplified Varargs Method Invocation. The SIP Communicator project has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code program as a part of its 2009 edition. If you're a student and you want to write open source this summer (and get paid to do so) pick up one of the SIP Communicator summer of code projects. Deadline for applications is April 3! In today's Weblogs, Masoud Kalali provides techniques for Monitoring GlassFish application server's HTTP Service using VisualVM. "If you are using GlassFish and you want to monitor your Server HTTP Service performance from your desktop computer then this entry is for you. The entry shows how one can use VisualVM utility of JDK to monitor HTTP Service of a GlassFish application server." Marina Sum has posted a few OpenDS News Tidbits, "as shared by community manager Ludo Poitou." Moving on, in Keep your FX Code Clean (My version), Richard Bair writes, "Exploding Pixels has an example of FX code and a suggestion for code formatting in FX. Throwin' my opinion out there too!"
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