Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, recently pointed me to the NetBeans Dream Team Blog Feed. This was after I had discovered and started following the Java Champions blog feed a few weeks ago.

Today's lead Java Today item is from the Dream Team feed, Caoyuan Deng's Scala Plugin for NetBeans - Rewrite in Scala #2: Supports Java/Scala Mixed Project. Like the Java Champions feed, the consolidated Dream Team feed is powered by Yahoo! Pipes. The members of the Dream Team are:

Clicking the links will take you to their individual blogs.

There is one person who has the distinction of being both a Java Champion and a member of the NetBeans Dream Team: Adam Bien, whose posts I've often featured in Java Today recently, and who I interviewed during JavaOne on the topic of Real World Java EE Patterns: Rethinking Best Practices.

[Correction: Michael Nascimento Santos is also both a Java Champion and a member of the NetBeans Dream Tream. If I've missed anyone else, please let me know, or post a comment below.]

Now that I've discovered (or, well, been pointed to, by Aaron) the NetBeans Dream Team Blog Feed, you can expect to see more of the Dream Team's latest thoughts and ideas highlighted on the java.net home page.

I'm becoming increasingly aware of the community aspect of NetBeans. NetBeans really isn't just a tool. I started realizing that at JavaOne -- for example, as I recorded the Java Tools SQE Roundtable podcast, which features two Dream Team members (Toni Epple and Sven Reimers). So, I have no doubt that it's going to be very interesting to follow the Dream Team, just as I've found it very worthwhile following the Java Champions.

In Java Today, NetBeans Dream Team member Caoyuan Deng's latest blog is about a Scala Plugin for NetBeans - Rewrite in Scala #2: Supports Java/Scala Mixed Project: "Java/Scala mixed project was supported partly once before, but I cannot remember when this feature got lost. Anyway, as one progressing of the rewritten NetBeans Scala plugin, I just got this feature working properly halfway: now Java source is visible to Scala one, but not vice versa. To got Scala source also visible for Java source, would pay for efficiency..."

Peligri provides the Updated GlassFish v3 FCS Schedule: "A couple of weeks we provided an update of the GlassFish v2.1.1 Schedule; it's now time to do the same with that for GlassFish v3. The key driver for GlassFish v3 is JavaEE 6. This means GFv3 leverages the expertise of the wide JCP community and our users have the benefits of a standard but... it also means we don't control all the variables - which is ultimately good, but can be painful in the short-term..."

And Danny Coward writes about JavaFX: A Musical Gathering: "There's definitely an arc in the adoption of a new technology. From skepticism, to release, the odd stumble, to the evidence of more widespread experimentation, to the first commercial applications. Indaba Music (from the Zulu indaba:  'gathering') is a collaborative music site, and debuts one of the first commerical applications of JavaFX: the Indaba music console."

In today's Weblogs, Jim Driscoll writes about Keeping focus: "Dealing with field focus in JSF 2 and ajax. It's not hard, but you do have to keep a basic rule in mind: Don't update the parent of the field with focus."

Arun Gupta provides TOTD #91: Applying Java EE 6 "web-fragment.xml" to Apache Wicket - Deploy on GlassFish v3: ""Extensibility" is a major theme of Java EE 6. This theme enables seamless pluggability of other popular Web frameworks with Java EE 6. Before Java EE 6, these frameworks have to rely upon registering servlet listeners/filters in "web.xml" or some other similar mechanism to register..."

And Terrence Barr looks at The case against Apple: "Here is an eye-opening piece The Case Against Apple about Apple turning evil with the iPhone. It really focuses many of the thoughts and comments I've heard over the past 12 months in the industry. And it reinforces not only..."

In the Forums, jsexton0 asks about Calling a Service in Glassfish via SSL from Tomcat with no DNS: "We have a problem calling a secured service in our Glassfish server. We extract the "s1as" certificate from Glassfish's keystore, and load it into the keystore on our Tomcat server, but the call fails with no AltSubjectName. I think our problem is that the extracted certificate has a CN of the fully qualified host name of the Glassfish server. But our call needs to work in an environment that has no name service. We need to be able to make the call with an IP address..."

trw1313 has questions about Metro Client Security to WCF Service: "I am having difficulty getting a java client to connect to a WCF service using wsHTTPBinding. I have followed the instructions and verified my keystore and truststore have worked with the Glassfish app server. I believe I have configured Glassfish correctly using the UI component within netbeans 6.7. Within that, I have populated the username and password as well as the key informatiion. My application throws an exception during the createDispatch() method call. I am using the generated call sequence done by netbeans. I have attached the log file as well as the wsdl to this. It appears from the logs that none of my security configuration is being populated. All the assertion logs seem to have blank data. Is this correct? ..."

And geronim123 asks about licensing restrictions on code generated by JAX-WS?: "Hi, I was wondering what license, if any, applies to code that is generated by JAX-WS. For instance, I generated web service code from wsdl and xsd files (with wsimport). JAX-WS is under the a dual license (GPL and CDDL). Is the code that it generates under that same license? Is this clearly documented somewhere? I have spent all morning searching the web, and I have not found anything that clearly answers this question..."

The current Spotlight is Mario Fusco on the Lambdaj Project: "Jim Wright interviews Mario Fusco, creator of the Lambdaj Project, in this java.net Community Corner 2009 podcast, recorded at JavaOne: "Lambdaj is a library that makes easier to manipulate collections in a pseudo-functional and statically typed way. In our experience to iterate over collection, especially in nested loops, is often error prone and makes the code less readable. The purpose of this library is to alleviate these problems..."

This week's java.net Poll asks "Which feature phone platform offers developers the greatest capability?". Today (Thursday) is the last full day of voting.

Our Feature Articles include Jeff Friesen's article Introducing Custom Paints to JavaFX, which shows how you can leverage undocumented JavaFX capabilities to support custom paints in JavaFX Version 1.2. We're also featuring Biswajit Sarkar's Using the Payment API for Microcredit and Other Applications, which describes how to apply the Payment API (JSR 229) in JavaME applications.

The latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 84: Valderi Leithardt on using SunSpots for gesture recognition.: "An interview with Ph.D. candidate Valderi Leithardt in Brazil on using SunSpots for gesture recognition."

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