The Java ME platform is huge, robust, and versatile. This article provides a compatibility matrix of tools, SDKs, and APIs for many of the Java ME toolkits on the market today.

This article gives an overview of running RADIOSS in a high-performance clustered environment on Sun systems. Sample performance data and suggestions for designing and configuring optimal solutions for a variety of workload sizes are presented. (Registration required.)

• Capitalism's Fundamental Flaw
  From Forbes, no less: "In 2009, 30 million people sit unemployed in America. Yet, the speculators have managed to lift the stock market up, and the media pretends that we're having a recovery." -- As I have said in every keynote for many years, when you create a system, you create the game that plays it and if the system remains unchanged it becomes the game.
  (tags: Economy Capitalism AynRand Philosophy Speculation)
• Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse
  "It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry ... as well as a plan to beat the hell out of the video-game industry with a new, even dumber rating system. ... What isn't in there? Anything about stimulating the actual digital economy." -- Awful, shameful stuff. And the fact the Tories aren't speaking against it means we can expect no better from them.
  (tags: UK Law Rights Freedom Digital Internet Economy)
• Alcohol 'protects men's hearts'
  As if Europe's men needed more encouragement.
  (tags: Health Heart Alcohol Medicine research BBC)

The Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide on docs.sun.com shows how to save system downtime when upgrading by using Solaris Live Upgrade. This guide includes instructions for creating and upgrading an inactive boot environment as well as upgrading to a ZFS root pool.

Today is Nov 21th, 2009. News shorts of interest to our communities, including: New date for EU review of Oracle/Sun acquisition, getting closer to v3 fcs, new OpenESB and OpenDS releases, Devoxx whiteboards, new customers and japanese event, and more.

Waiting for Godot
I read Waiting for Godot for HS, but I didn't expect to live it...

• E.U. Takes More Time to Review Oracle-Sun Deal

On the Road to GlassFish v3
We are getting very close. The buzz around JavaEE 6 and GFv3 at #devoxx was very positive; some more links:

• Migrating your Apps to JavaEE 6 (Wouter van Reeven)
• Adam Bien on
  • Adoption of EJB and JavaEE, Ready for Production and ... (it is) a massive rewrite.
  • Also see Adam's JavaEE Patterns and Best Practices @ Kenai, all based on GF.

New Releases
Final and Release Candidates releases:

• OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available
• DSEE 7 Download, Documentation and Upgrade Guide Available Today
• JavaCAPS 6.2 is now available (ontherecord, webpage) - Based on GlassFish 2.1p2 and OpenESB 2.1
• Fuji (OpenESB v3) Milestone 9 is now available - (Mark's note, Wiki page).

More Devoxx
Devoxx is over.  By all accounts, a successful show.

• Devoxx 2009 picassa album... with
  • Whiteboard pics - JVM, CI Tool, Persistence Layer, Build Tool, UI Framework
  • Hudson #1 in CI (113); next are TeamCity (31) and CruiseControl (30).
• Notes on Mark's jigsaw prezo (from Reinier Zwitserloot)

GlassFish Customers and Events
New customers; new events

• Mapion Co. Ltd, in Japan (chhandomay, customers) - Using GlassFish Enterprise Server, MySQL Cluster and more.
• Health Sciences South Carolina (ontherecord) - Using JavaCAPS 6 including GlassFish ESB, MDM, HL7, LifeRay and more.
• New event: Benefits of GlassFish and MySQL in Japanese (Dec 9th, 2009).  All events at GF Event Calendar.

Other News

• ICEfaces 2.0 is now available for download.
• State of OpenSource AppServers by Masoud Kalali
• The LHC is back online! (website, #LHC)

• EU delays Sun/Oracle decision
  Until the end of January instead of the middle. At this point it's all just more blows to a bruised body.
  (tags: Sun Oracle Europe)
• Questions for Lord Mandelson
  These are great questions which deserve (but won't receive) honest answers. By the way, I hate the name of this party and will not join or support it until it chooses a name which does not demean the victims of crimes at sea and give the pro-big-media lobby a perfect talking point with which to discredit these great arguments.
  (tags: UK Politics Media Internet Broadband eGovernment Law)

The early access build of Java SE 6 Update 18 (6u18ea-b05) is now available for download.

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This Tech Tip shows you how to implement the POST-REDIRECT-GET (PRG) pattern in JavaServer Faces 2.0 technology.

Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO identity provider initiated fedlet deployment. Read the article.

A new Eclipse proposal (Eclipse Development Process: Pre-Proposal and Proposal) has just been posted at Eclipse.org.

Quoting from the proposal, the scope of the Gemini project is two-fold: • Integration of existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms; and • Implementation of enterprise specifications for module-based platforms The initial emphasis is on standards developed by the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. Gemini is organized under 6 subprojects, each seeded with contributions from SpringSource or Oracle and the overall lead for the project is Mike Keith. The project mentors are Wayne Beaton, Doug Clarke and Adrian Colyer.

Are you going to be in London on the 24th of November? If so, be sure to see the Eclipse Demo Camp which will be showing the latest JavaFX support for Eclipse, in addition to other new Eclipse features.

Attendance is free but you must register with SkillsMatter. Details are on the page. The new Eclipse support for JavaFX is starting to look pretty nice.

MilaX, a small Live CD distribution that runs completely off a CD, can be a good tool for troubleshooting a non-booting Solaris installation. In this tech tip, Bernd Schemmer of the BigAdmin community describes how to convert the MilaX Live CD to a WANBOOT image, so it can be used on a WANBOOT server for troubleshooting machines that run the Solaris OS on SPARC platforms.

• Apple's Mistake
  Paul Graham gets it spot on again. Apple's attitude is Google's biggest asset in the battle for the mobile market.
  (tags: Apple Google Zeitgeist iPhone Developer AppStore mobile philosophy future)
• Java Warehouse Developer Center - Supported Locations
  Looks like non-US developers can now submit software for the Java Store, although they can't charge for it. Glacial, but the destination is worth heading for I think.
  (tags: Java Sun JavaStore Developers AppStore)
• Gawd Help Us!
  This fits in with the populism-over-wisdom approach characterise by UK politics at the moment. Sugar is not the worst possible role model for today's connected society, but he has to come close. Another Mandelson decision, I am sure.
  (tags: UK Politics Business)
• Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto
  I agree with (the ever remarkable) Quinn here. My children are now old enough to tell me if I lived up to this ideal, which is a bit scary.
  (tags: Children Parenting Freedom Paranoia Zeitgeist)

A summary of today's news of interest to our communities. Today is Nov 19th, 2009. One more day to go at Devoxx, some Terracotta news and more GlassFish Events. The Java EE 6 specs are in voting right now, and we are still awaiting Godot. Note - this is an experiment to flush out the daily news that otherwise we can't cover due to limited time. Let us know how the format works for you.

Terracotta News

Bumped into Alex Miller's blog and it has several posts worth mentioning:

• Terracotta Acquires Quartz
• Terracotta, Ehcache, Hibernate, and more to come
• Terracotta Use Cases

Devoxx Updates

• Closures coming to JDK 7 - Samples from Cay;reactions from AlexM and StephenC.
• JDK 7 schedule extended til Sept 2010.
• Jigsaw downloads available
  • And, from last week see JDK 7 M5 and companion NB 6.8
• Hudson, the most used CI Solution at Devoxx (@rob2)
• Photos (from Picassa Album)- Happy faces: Roberto; Antonio and AlexisMP - one, two; Ludo.
• Danny's summaries on Day 1 and Day 2. Many, many tweets at #devoxx.

New GlassFish Events

• Added JSF Summit, Sao Paolo Tech Days and JSF Days 2010 to the GF Event Calendar.

While developing JavaFX applications, I always feel the great potential of transformational effects.

At the same time, I wonder how they actually work and why we need several classes and variables to perform the same transformation.

Share my experience of studying the essentials of transformations in the new technical article Enhance Your Application by Applying Transformations.

With the code samples provided in this article, you can learn how to employ transformations in your applications and combine them with animation.

Alla Redko
Technical Writer
JavaFX Docs & Training

It was a morning of keynotes examining the workings of technology professional, and a contrast of preaching styles.

Ivar Jacobson's Lutheran delivery allowed the audience to share in the nordic dispair of a participating in an industry in still seeking a single development methodology, before raising the collective spirit with a gospel of a universal one to be resurrected from the common elements of all the ones developed to-date. But it was hard for the Janitor's mundane mind to see if there was anything left in this intersection-of-methodologies except for good old fashioned common sense. And will probably Bourne in shell for saying so.

Next up was the evangleical Bob Martin whose exhortive style raised a lot of chuckles, mining such rich seams as: Developer versus Manager, and Project Trainwrecks We've All Survived. At times seeming like he might speak in tongues, the Janitor thought he was, unfortunately, glossolalia-ing over some nice practical advice about how to be more of a professional that produces write well-crafted code in which QA will find no fault.

And the day continued a stylistic Tower of Babel, with an last minute standin presenter of an excellent talk on Java classloaders having the nerves of steel to allow the audience to debug and fix his demo that had gone wrong; Stephen Chin's engaging JavaFX talk on the many excellent components in JFXtras (like the JavaFX table which performed beautifully with 16 million items), and FEST saw him running up and down the stairs asking questions and handing out t-shirts.

The stylistic nightmare that was four geeks in hats dancing to Rick Astley meant you were at the start of the live recording of the JavaPosse. There were predictably big cheers for Scala, Java EE 6's imminent (December 10th) release, mostly cheers for closures, and lots of other fun which you can catch up to when they edit the bad words out and publish it, if you weren't there.

Stephan Janssen really puts on a great show at Devoxx.

This BigAdmin article shows how to add support for booting from SATA DVDs by installing Kernel Update patch 137137-09 to the SPARC miniroot image for the Solaris 10 5/08 or 8/07 release on SPARC platforms.

• Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers
  A bit of apocalyptic sci-fi, but no less plausible than the other scenarios.
  (tags: Sun Oracle Europe)
• Closures after all?
  Closures still causing debate after all these years. As I understand it (and I'm not close to the situation so I may be wrong), work continues on JDK7 in OpenJDK. When the JCP gets unstuck, JSRs will get submitted, and the expert group will then be able to decide what to keep/add. Pragmatism, community, open source.
  (tags: Java JCP JDL Closures JDK7 Standards OpenSource Community)
• The strange death of illegal downloading
  "While the government and the music industry posture about illegal filesharing, smaller, smarter companies are simply out-competing it" -- Copyright abuse of most kinds is just a message to the market saying "business model available". We don't need new laws to protect the incumbents, we need entrepreneurs to outpace them.
  (tags: Music Download P2P RIAA Copyright)

Calling all GlassFish-related events!

We maintain a master calendar for events related to all the projects in GlassFish Portfolio at Google Calendar; if you are hosting such an event, or presenting at one, please let us know to theaquarium at sun dot com.

The calendar ID is 3722ulvfgor2qabrut1mkia5m0@group.calendar.google.com, and you can access it in a number of modes: • RSS Feed • iCal Format • HTML