Project SocialSite
2008-05-12 03:19:19
GlassFish's Project SocialSite is delivering social networking functionality by adding social networking platform support based on the OpenSocial standard to any community site. Any social application written for the OpenSocial based social network can be seamlessly and easily hosted on a transformed community site that is powered by the SocialSite project. Project SocialSite adds social networking functionality to applications written in Java, PHP, or Ruby; with widgets, and REST APIs. SocialSite also seamlessly scales up to millions of users

java.net at JavaOne 2008
2008-04-28 02:20:15
JavaOne 2008 begins next week, and as always, java.net will be a big part of the event, as captured by our JavaOne wiki page. On Saturday, May 3, we're holding a Community Leaders Weekend, an unconference in which community leaders can discuss the online community and help shape the future of the site. Then, of course, the Community Corner on the Pavilion floor will be your place to meet up with fellow community members, see demos, and check out 20-minute mini-talks from java.net project owners and community members. The mini-talks will be recorded as podcasts, sent out during and after the show; you can subscribe to the feed at the podcast's home page, or via the iTunes link. Finally, if you're presenting a technical session, hands-on session, or BoF based on your java.net project, please be sure to add it to the list of java.net sessions on the wiki.

CEE Tutorial and Q&A: Tutorial For New Project Owners (concluded)
2008-04-25 05:50:21
Collabnet's tutorial and Q&A; for new java.net project owners, held on April 24, is now available as an WebEx recording. To learn more about setting up and managing java.net projects (including branding of left nav, project membership, roles and permissions, setting up mailing lists, etc.), check out the stream or download the entire session.

CEE Tutorial and Q&A: Tutorial For New Project Owners
2008-04-21 06:49:37
Collabnet is hosting a tutorial and Q&A; for new java.net project owners, Thursday, April 24 at 8:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (15:00 GMT). You can join the online meeting with WebEx, or just the teleconference by phone. Check out the info page for specific instructions, technical requirements, and assistance.

JavaOne 2008 Student Program
2008-04-14 02:51:00
Are you a college student? Interested in Java? Want to get into JavaOne for free? The JavaOne 2008 Student Program, hosted by Sun's Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos, is a five-day program to attend the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences in San Francisco, May 5 - 9, 2008. Participants will have full access to the conference, including general sessions, technical sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BoFs), specially developed Java University classes, a coupon for a free Java Certification Class, access to the JavaOne pavilion (come see us at the java.net Community Corner), t-shirts, lunches, the AfterDark party with Smashmouth, and more. Space for this program is limited, so interested students should download the registration PDF right away.

RoboSim Programming Contest
2008-04-07 04:49:31
Entries are now being accepted for the RoboSim Programming Contest. The contest "is designed to test an entrant's coding skills in Java using the Greenfoot Framework/IDE to direct a simulation of a Sun SPOT equipped TrackBot through a simulated maze. The winners will receive free passes to the JavaOne 2008 Pavilion." To participate, read the rules (PDF or HTML), and follow the instructions in the trackbots-greenfoot-contest-2008 project. The deadline for entries is April 14th.

java.net Community Corner at JavaOne 2008
2008-03-17 07:20:49
The java.net Community Corner at JavaOne 2008 will be your place to meet up with fellow project members and community leaders, and attend 20-minute mini-talks from fellow java.net members. Sign-ups for the mini-talks are still available, so post an abstract and you can show off your project in the booth (and to the audience of java.net podcast listeners). You can also introduce your project by means of a poster, or by scheduling a time to meet the community.

Open JBI Components
2008-03-10 06:49:27
The overall goal of Project Open JBI Components is to foster community-based development of JBI components that conform to the Java Business Integration specification (JSR 208). You can join this project as a JBI component developer or as part of an existing JBI component development team. Starting your own component project is relatively straightforward: you have the option to create your JBI component project as a regular Java.Net project. Joining an established development team might take a little longer and require additional approvals.

Kijaro
2008-03-02 18:48:50
The Kijaro project "provides an area for those interested in adding new language features to Java to try out their ideas." Starting from a copy of the OpenJDK javac compiler, the project has gone off on several interesting branches, including the First Class Methods implementation, properties, abstract enums, static implements/contracts, anonymous parameters, and list comprehensions. The project describes itself as "similar to KSL", but without the legal overhead.

OpenCable Project
2008-02-25 05:20:20
As announced in a recent press release, the non-profit industry consortium CableLabs has launched the OpenCable Project on java.net. The OpenCable Platform is a Java-based middleware software layer that "provides the opportunity for operators to deliver interactive services and applications to consumers bundled with their other service offerings. Content Programmers may also leverage the OpenCable Platform to enhance their own programming and advertising offerings and perhaps evolve new businesses around these new services."