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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

IntelliJ IDEA is now available in two editions.TheCommunity Edition (JavaSE-focused) is nowAvailableunder OpenSourceatJetBrains.org,while the Ultimate...

IntelliJ IDEA is now available in two editions.TheCommunity Edition (JavaSE-focused) is nowAvailableunder OpenSourceatJetBrains.org,while the Ultimate Editionis JavaEE-focused(Supports GlassFish)remains for-fee.See this detailedcomparison chart.Too many variables going on right now to guess how important this development will be for IDEs,but competition is (almost always) better for consumers.

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JSR 330 Approved - Dependency Injection for Java

TheExecutive Committee for SE/EEof the JCP has approvedJSR 330,Dependency Injection for Java.This specification, led by Bob Lee @ Google and Rod Johnson @...

TheExecutive Committee for SE/EEof the JCP has approvedJSR 330,Dependency Injection for Java.This specification, led by Bob Lee @ Google and Rod Johnson @ SpringSourcewas submitted in May 09and moved through the JCP process very quickly.The finalvote resultwas 14-1-1.Congratulations to the leads and the EG on this important spec.There are still a few specs left to approve that will go into the umbrellaJavaEE 6 JSR.The next major one is probablyJSR 299,which was submitted...

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OpenWorld 2009 Keynotes - Scott and Larry

The first 4 recordings of the keynotes from Oracle OpenWorld arenow available.The recordings are very well done:they are available for download in multiple...

The first 4 recordings of the keynotes from Oracle OpenWorld arenow available.The recordings are very well done:they are available for download in multiple formats (flash video/audio, mp4, mp3, ppt, txt) and the web viewer synchronizes video, audio, slides and transcript; nice!One of the recordings is ofScott's Keynote.He did a bit of a retrospective on Sun, including some early days clipsand a couple of top 10's.Scott's biggest applause was for his...

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One More Update on OpenWorld and GlassFish

Oracle OpenWorld started today.Family commitments didn't let me go there today (do checkOpenWorld Live)but I'm planning to be there Mon-Wed.I just tried to...

Oracle OpenWorld started today.Family commitments didn't let me go there today (do checkOpenWorld Live)but I'm planning to be there Mon-Wed.I just tried to capture a few of the events I want to attend and it is as bad asJavaOne -actually, OOW seems worse, but I'm just sampling it, while I try to be exhaustive with J1.I created aMini-Calendarto help me track what I want to attend (ha!); you are welcome to check it but beware I've not had time to double check it yet and I need...

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Recent Releases: Sun Communications Suite 7

Jim Parkinson's team has delivered the newest version (7) ofSun Communication Suite.This solution provides Mail, Messaging, Calendar, Address book and others...

Jim Parkinson's team has delivered the newest version (7) ofSun Communication Suite.This solution provides Mail, Messaging, Calendar, Address book and others and isintended for large deployments, being very scalable and currently supporting hundreds of millionsof mailboxes in many ISPs.I've never worked in the Comms team but I've worked with Jim several times over the years,and, as you can see, he isvery proud of this release,more than a year afterReleasing Suite 6.The...

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Friday Fun - Oracle OpenWorld, The Videos

I've never been atOracle OpenWorldso I'm very curious about how it feels.In preparation,yesterday I poked around a bit and found several videosthat may (or not,...

I've never been atOracle OpenWorldso I'm very curious about how it feels.In preparation,yesterday I poked around a bit and found several videosthat may (or not, we will see) convey a bit the mood...check them out and let me know what you think.If you only have time for one, I recommend the last one.•Keynote Preview Series:Applications,Virtualization,DataBases,Middleware.•Overdressed at OOWSeries:[1],[2],[3],[4],[5]and[6].•OOW 08 Party - they take overHoward Street,like the...

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QR Codes for GlassFish.org and TheAquarium

I recently bought my first smartphone and I chose aBlackBerry Tourbecause it has a keyboard and I wanted to keep up w/ my kid's SMS typing...The latest goodie...

I recently bought my first smartphone and I chose aBlackBerry Tourbecause it has a keyboard and I wanted to keep up w/ my kid's SMS typing...The latest goodie for the BB is theBB Messenger 5.0which can generate and scanPINsencoded asQR Codes.Turns out these codes seem to be extremely popular insome markets and may catch up in the others...Soo, I generated codes forGlassFish.org(QR Code)andTheAquarium(QR Code).And, if you want to generate QR Codes, I foundi-nigma useful.

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JCP 2009 Elections are Now!

The 2009 JCP Elections are here.The JCP has been trying to improve transparency with the newJSR 215rules (JCP 2.7 MR);now it is your turn.Between now and Oct...

The 2009 JCP Elections are here.The JCP has been trying to improve transparency with the newJSR 215rules (JCP 2.7 MR);now it is your turn.Between now and Oct 14th you can nominate names for the two open seats(Java SE/EE and Java ME)here.Then, from Nov 20th til Oct 2nd, you can vote on the seats.Check out theCall for votesand theElection Overview.

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Java.Net Availability Still Unfolding

As wereported yesterday,Java.Net is under aDDOSattack(seems somewhat similar tothis one).The Sun and CollabNet teams are working hard to address this but it's...

As wereported yesterday,Java.Net is under aDDOSattack(seems somewhat similar tothis one).The Sun and CollabNet teams are working hard to address this but it's taking longer than we all want,so here are a few useful links that apply to GlassFish and Hudson.First, because the services used by our projects come from multiple infrastructures, some sites have not beenaffected(knock on wood- or toca ferro).The following seem to be...

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