Java Today

OpenJDK to be included in Fedora 9, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Canonical and Red Hat have announced that OpenJDK-based implementations will be included in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions. Furthermore, NetBeans IDE 6.0 will be delivered as part of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. "With this announcement, developers using Fedora 9 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS can now count on free software implementations based on Java technology as a standard element of an open source developer stack that they can leverage to build the next generation of web-based applications for both consumers and enterprises. In addition this announcement opens the door for numerous Java technology-based offerings to be included in the core of these GNU/Linux distributions."

MAKEFaces Project
The recently-graduated MAKEFaces Project " is a web framework for building applications using Java Server Faces (JSF) and Java Persistence API (JPA). MAKEFaces makes developing JSF applications easy by bringing the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle to application development and by fixing many of the shortcomings of JSF." They say their mission is to fix JSF and make it rock: "We believe component oriented web development is a powerful solution, but JSF, as it stands, is at best incomplete, and at its worst: frustrating. We also think we can fix that using the awesome extensibility provided by JSF and a limited amount of cleverness. We think standards based development can be just as agile and flexible as any other kind, and strive to make the different components in the JEE stack work better together."

JavaOne RoboHACC Programming "Un-Contest"
The JavaOne 2008 RoboHACC Programming Un-Contest is designed to challenge your coding skills in Java using the Greenfoot Framework/IDE to direct a Sun SPOT equipped TrackBot through an Arena with various obstacles. You can use existing code examples or start from scratch. Collaboration is highly encouraged; so find some fellow coders and get hacking! The RoboHACC Un-Contest begins NOW, but will really take off at JavaOne where you'll interact with other participants."

Weblogs

Hudson community updates
Some of the recent developments in Hudson: SCM plugins, Google Desktop, NetBeans, Japanese community, and JavaOne session. —  Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Dead Simple Comet Example on Glassfish v3 / Grizzly
Using Grizzly's Comet APIs (now available in Glassfish v3), I create a dead simple Comet example, with about 100 lines in two files. —  Jim Driscoll

Java ME Internationalization with "home made" solution!
How to implement internationalization support on your application without JSR 238, but with a "home made" solution!! =) —  Neto Marin

Forums

Re: Announcing new BD-J Authoring Notes and Guidelines Wiki
About the wiki at http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/Blu-RayDisc - it turns out that anyone can contribute to the wiki without getting any special permissions. Just log in to java.net and go to the wiki page. It will recognize a cookie or something that gets set by java.net, and enable an "edit" button. Contributions are welcome! I'm going to try to get it set up so I get an e-mail notification when pages change, so I can keep them organized and consistent, and weed out any outright spam and such, but other than that I'm hoping for a very open wiki-like model. — 

jtreg (based on jtharness) now open source
JT Harness folk, you all may be interested in the announcement to the OpenJDK project earlier this evening, regarding jtreg. You can also see a somewhat extended version of this message on my blog at http://blogs.sun.com/jjg. — 

Re: Announcing the Wonderland JavaOne Showcase Competition
We've finally announced the winners of the Wonderland JavaOne Showcase Competition! Head over to Wonderblog to find out who won, and then come to JavaOne next week to see them live! http://blogs.sun.com/wonderland/entry/and_the_winners_are —