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Woodstock Migrates to ICEfaces
The NetBeans team is happy to announce a relationship between the NetBeans and ICEfaces communities to facilitate migration for current Woodstock users. With the latest ICEface NetBeans plugin (v1.7.2SP1), you can add the ICEfaces framework to an existing project and begin to develop ICEface pages along side existing Woodstock pages.

Web Beans (JSR-299): Q&A with Specification Lead Gavin King
An ambitious and key part of Java EE 6, the Web Beans specification spans JSF/EJB integration, context management, dependency injection and AOP. The specification is currently in public review and the review period has been extended into 2009. An Alpha build is also available. In Web Beans (JSR-299): Q&A with Specification Lead Gavin King, InfoQ talks to Gavin King to find out more about the state of play of the specification and progress to date.

Working with Bluetooth and GPS: Part 2
Bruce Hopkins continues his introduction to the JSR-82 Bluetooth API in Working with Bluetooth and GPS: Part 2 - Parsing GPS Data and Rendering a Map. In this conclusion, he shows how to parse NMEA-formatted GPS data, request a map image from the Yahoo Maps API, and parse the received XML via the XML parsing API included in JSR-172 (J2ME Web Services).

Weblogs

It will be (Open)JDK7 where OpenJDK==JDK
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... — David Herron

JSF 2.0 Public Review Ballot Starts Tomorrow
Notice that JSF 2.0 is almost done. If you happen to have some kind of channel to one or more of the individuals on the Java EE Executive Committee, please share your thoughts with them to help inform their ballot vote. — Ed Burns

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on the JCP
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. — Van Riper

Forums

Re: Newbie: Should I run Glassfish when Tomcat is enough?
I have to say also that I'm with Gili on that one, and ,in my case, I'm not using GF because it does not suit my "development style". I have many medium-sized applications and I change between them quite often so I need to be able to "mount" an application very easily, and for me easy means editing one line in a config file. I don't want need a GUI for that. Moreover, I don't package my applications as war files, for the memory problems already mentioned, so I need to "mount" directories. This option is usually not very well documented. —

private static final variable issue
I came across one intersting bug in our application. We had declared one variable as private static final CURRENT_YEAR which holds the current year when the class is loaded. The application is up and runnning from last year 2008 but, when it changed to new year 2009, still the value of this variable was 2008. We had to undeploy and redeploy the application to take new year. How to tackle this kind of problems? Please advice. —

Questions about EffectsPlayground demo
Looking at http://javafx.com/samples/EffectsPlayground/index.html 1) Why is it that some effects such as motion blur will get choppy if you drag the slider back and forth but CPU usage remains low? What bottleneck is causing this choppiness? 2) When I drag the applet out of the browser I notice that the non-rectangular window drags very choppy over the desktop. Why is that? Does this problem affect all non-rectangular windows or is there some problem with this specific application? —