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Packing up for the drive to CodeMash... also:
Java Today: OpenMQ webinar Friday, M3DD newsletter #4, and OpenSSO policy agents
Weblogs: Styles for JavaFX, effects in JavaFX, and freezing JTable columns
Forums: JavaFX apps on USB drives, http proxies and Metro, scripting languages in Wonderland, and GlassFish to-dos

December 2008 marks the 10th Birthday of the Java Community Process (JCP) Program. Java developers in Silicon Valley are invited to join the JCP Executive Committees and the Program Office in celebrating ten years of collaborative work from companies, academics, individual developers and not-for-profits from all over the world. The party will be at the Computer History Museum on January 13th in Mountain View, California. See the full post for registration information.

December 2008 marks the 10th Birthday of the Java Community Process (JCP) Program. Java developers in Silicon Valley are invited to join the JCP Executive Committees and the Program Office in celebrating ten years of collaborative work from companies, academics, individual developers and not-for-profits from all over the world. The party will be at the Computer History Museum on January 13th in Mountain View, California. See the full post for registration information.

I'm listening to the 'holidays 2008ish' episode of Javaposse and in reviewing their last years predictions they have enough fumbling around the status of OpenJDK that I want to do a little bit of explaining. OpenJDK 6 != JDK 6...

Here's a handy list from Storage Stop, the Sun OpenSolaris Storage News blog.

Notice that JSF 2.0 is almost done.

If yes, please register that at Ohloh.

Where's Java going in 2009? Also:
java.net Poll: What was the most important Java news of 2008?
Java Today: Calling JavaFX from Swing, criteria for small language changes, and JavaTools Commuinty Newsletter #187
Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 66: Sean Sheedy, JCP ME Executive Committee Feedback
Spotlight: Forum for ME EC discussion topics
Weblogs: Dragging nodes and windows in JavaFX, client/server Grizzly, and do you distribute your builds?
Forum posts: GlassFish or Tomcat, load balancing strategies, LWUIT drawing strategies, and new JavaTV forum

The first installment in a new series on the filter effects package in JavaFX...

In this entry, I show how to implement a JTable that allows the user to freeze a column for the horizontal scrolling, similar that what common spreadsheet applications allows you to do. Let me know if you think this JTable is extreme...

When a developer needs to create applications based on a framework (Struts, for instance), what does he do? Does he read the entire documentation to understand how to benefit from the framework's extension points? What if the documentation is not fully available? What if he has a tool to guide him on the proper steps of using a framework? Does it help? So that's what this post is about.

I wanted to use a template as input for my Code Generator, but the problem was to find one that worked in a stand alone mode, not a web based one. In my research a found few that do what I wanted. Apache Velocity and Eclipse JET/JET2. I'll explain in details theses Template Code Generator with a little application

Now that 2009 has just begun, it's fun to read back a few predictions for 2008 and see how those crystal balls fared.

BGGA spec proposes a way to implement closure (no syntax war here) by translating closure into parameterized types. Recently, the JSR292 VM prototype allow to get a handle on a method without using reflection. This blog entry shows how closure can be implemented using these method handles.

JavaFX aims to reduce the gap between coders and designers, to the extent that controls can be styled using CSS-like files. Examples are thin on the ground, however; so before the year ends (and on the assumption I'll be too hung over tomorrow to care/remember) here's a quick guide to creating your own styled controls.

New version of SwingX have been released.

Egyptian Java User Group is organizing a Free NetBeans platform training by Geertjan Wielenga.

When organisations first set up a Continuous Integration environment, distributed builds are often fairly low down on the list - more in the "nice-to-have" category, or considered too advanced to look at initially. However, distributed builds are actually more than...

Some companies make their living off of formatting mobile content correctly, others don't. Should you bother adding support for "mobile devices" in-general? Should you remove support for aging mobile standards?