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JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 168 A new edition of the newsletter is available, with news, new projects and tips! If you want to receive the newsletter by email, please subscribe the announcements mailing list - or read the current issue here.   (May 10, 2008)

Another Java Power Tools Bootcamp at Welington, New Zealand
After the success of the first Java Power Tools bootcamp, another bootcamp has been scheduled in Wellington for the 25th-28th of August. —  John Ferguson Smart
  (May 15, 2008)

Hudson@JavaOne
Kohsuke and I talked about "Improving the Engineering Process Through Automation by Hudson" at JavaOne last week. —  Rama Pulavarthi
  (May 15, 2008)

Grizzly's OSGi bundles
Grizzly has OSGi bundles available for a while, but we haven't made any noise about it yet. Since OSGi is the current buzz, let's the monster enter the buzz circus... —  Jean-Francois Arcand
  (May 15, 2008)

WAR-based Packaging and Deployment of Rails on GlassFish - Goldspike, RailServlet, Warbler, Rack, ...
WAR-based packaging and dispatching of Rails application on Java Application Servers is going through third iteration based what is used for packaging and dispatching: Goldspike + RailsServlet: The first iteration was WAR-packaging of Rails app as defined by Goldspike plugin (nee Rails-integration) and using RailsServlet (part of... —  Arun Gupta
  (May 15, 2008)

Forum and mailing list dedicated for webtier in GlassFish
We now have a mailing list - webtier@glassfish.dev.java.net and forum dedicated to discuss user issues for the webtier of GlassFish. The intent is to use the mailing list and forum for discussing the webtier technologies including Servlets, JSP, JSF, JSTL,... —  Rajiv Mordani
  (May 15, 2008)

A short primer on Java enums - part 1
In his JavaOne talk this year, Josh Bloch gave some very useful tips about using enums in Java. Here is my take on enums, and how to use them to represent simple value lists which would otherwise be stored in code tables. —  John Ferguson Smart
  (May 15, 2008)

JSR 315 Needs YOU: Response to Greg's blog
The other side of the coin to Greg Wilkins blog describing the pluggability / auto-scanning feature in servlet 3.0 —  Rajiv Mordani
  (May 15, 2008)

Upcoming ICEFaces/Grizzly/Comet talks in Canada
Our ICEFaces/Comet/Grizzly Framework sessions at JavaOne were well attended and we have decided to give a couple of replay across Canada. Here is how to register... —  Jean-Francois Arcand
  (May 14, 2008)

Rich Internet Applications Pavilion Floor Debate
Josh and Rachel again hit the pavilion floor and get caught up in a debate over rich internet applications, their purpose, their usefulness, and, once again, what exactly they are... —  Rachel Hill
  (May 14, 2008)

JAXB RI 2.1.7 releas
JAXB RI 2.1.7 is released yesterday. —  Kohsuke Kawaguchi
  (May 14, 2008)

The Duke starring in 2001!
Special appearance: The Duke meets HAL. —  Christian Frei
  (May 14, 2008)

Servlet 3.0 pluggability
This blog talks about the pluggability extensions being defined in servlet 3.0. —  Rajiv Mordani
  (May 14, 2008)

J1 is awesome!
JavaOne rocks! My impressions and some pics in this post. —  Bruno Ghisi
  (May 14, 2008)

"Miles to go ..." in Japanese
GlassFish Globalization team in Japan has started translating some of my blogs (on reader's request basis) in Japanese. The first installment is now live on GlassFish Wiki. It's interesting to see that the first two translated entries are on Ruby-on-Rails. As of this morning, there are... —  Arun Gupta
  (May 14, 2008)

JAX-WS RI 2.1.4 Released
JAX-WS RI team is pleased to announce the release of 2.1.4 version. It is also included in Metro 1.2 —  Jitendra Kotamraju
  (May 14, 2008)

Securing the integrity and authenticity of links
Form hidden fields, query string arguments, and cookie values are frequently used as parameters to keep session state on the client of web based application. In this blog, I explore an option for securing those values. The key to this approach is that even if the developer is unaware of the problem, they are safe, thanks to the underlining framework. —  Elie Levy
  (May 13, 2008)

Rich Internet Applications
Click to Play play_blip_movie_909710(); Panel Discussion on Rich Internet Applications at the RedMonk Unconference at CommunityOne 2008Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) —  Rachel Hill
  (May 13, 2008)