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JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 198 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.   (Jun 27, 2009)

What is new with Apache Pivot?
Discusses some aspects of the forthcoming Apache Pivot 1.3 release. —  Greg Brown
  (Jul 01, 2009)

JSR292 backport - First release
First release of JSR292 backport. You can now test invokedynamic with your old :) JDK (1.5 or 1.6). —  Rémi Forax
  (Jul 01, 2009)

NetBeans 6.7 is here. Grab your copy and explore tens of new features
Top Features of this release are Integration with project Kenai,issue tracker and Hudson integrations; and enhancements to Java, PHP, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++. Highlights of the 6.7 release include support for JavaScript 1.7, Ruby Remote Debugging, and integration of the Java ME SDK 3.0. —  Masoud Kalali
  (Jun 29, 2009)

A First Look at NetBeans 6.7
A few days after Eclipse Galileo, Netbeans released its latest offering, Netbeans 6.7. Here is a first look, as always from my entirely biased perspective. —  Cay Horstmann
  (Jun 29, 2009)

Trident animation library - overview and roadmap
Introducing Trident - an animation library for Java-based applications. —  Kirill Grouchnikov
  (Jun 26, 2009)

Upgrading to Eclipse Galileo
I installed Eclipse Galileo and report on my upgrade experience--what I had to do to get plugins to work, and what new features I noticed. —  Cay Horstmann
  (Jun 26, 2009)

Running GlassFish V3 with Apache httpd
GlassFish V3 has improved the way to front GlassFish with Apache HTTP Server. Unlike the V2 way where users had to copy tomcat-ajp.jar and commons-*.jar, you can just enable mod_jk in V3 using the network-listener's attribute "jk-enabled" without copying any additional jars into its lib directory. —  Amy Roh
  (Jun 25, 2009)

Finally a portable implementation! The Bayeux protocol now supported by the Atmosphere Framework
The work done by the Cometd team, the java implementation of the Bayeux Protocol, can now run on top of the Atmosphere Framework. Under the hood, the proper Comet API is as usual detected! —  Jean-Francois Arcand
  (Jun 19, 2009)

TOTD #85: Getting Started with Django Applications on GlassFish v3
GlassFish v3 is an extensible App server. Basically the core App server functionality can be easily extended using add-ons such as an OSGi module. This allows to keep the core light-weight and install the required features on demand. The add-ons can be easily... —  Arun Gupta
  (Jun 18, 2009)

Learning JSF 2
It's come up a few times recently, so I thought I'd go over how to learn JSF 2 before the books come out, and before the new tutorial is released. —  Jim Driscoll
  (Jun 18, 2009)

The Java Store, a Q&A
One of the big announcements at JavaOne was the Java Store. I'm especially proud of it because I've been secretly working on the project for the past few months. Since the announcement I've gotten a lot of questions on the... —  Joshua Marinacci
  (Jun 17, 2009)

New JCP.org debuts, JSF2 DataSheet Published, Try the JavaEE 6 SDK
New JCP.org debuts, JSF2 DataSheet Published, Try the JavaEE 6 SDK —  Ed Burns
  (Jun 17, 2009)

JavaFX Script tip: The Single Assignment per Method rule (and more)

In this blog I discuss binding in depth and propose a best-practice & performance rule for JavaFX Script programming (and even for Java, as a bonus).

JSF 2.0 Refcard available
DZone just published the JSF 2.0 version of my JSF refcard. It provides updated summaries of the tags and attributes needed for JSF programming, along with a summary of the JSF expression language and a list of code snippets for common operations. —  Cay Horstmann
  (Jun 16, 2009)

JSR 255 (JMX API 2.0) is postponed
Here is the text of the message I recently sent to the JSR 255 Expert Group, in my capacity as Specification Lead. —  Eamonn McManus
  (Jun 16, 2009)

OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate 2 Ships
Take a look at the capabilities and send your feedback. —  Marina Sum
  (Jun 15, 2009)

Atmosphere 0.2 GA now available
Finally, Atmosphere 0.2 released with support for annotations for REST application, improved support for Tomcat/Jetty/GlassFish, native support for JBossWeb 2.1.x, and EJB/External components broadcast lookup available. —  Jean-Francois Arcand
  (Jun 13, 2009)