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Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days re-scheduled to January
Roger Brinkley has announced the re-scheduling of the Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days to January 20-21, 2009. "There were a variety of reasons for making this change. Chief among them was an extra cost of running the conference in November and the loss of key personal during the original dates. Additionally, we know that the extra time would allow those of you traveling from outside of the United States enough time to acquire the appropriate visas. The fact that we're getting an extra 2 months of planning time put the decision into a no brainer category."

JT Harness 4.1.4 Milestone Release
The JT Harness 4.1.4 milestone release fixes various bugs in the harness. The JT Harness is a general purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness very well suited for most types of unit testing. This release specifically addresses issues with the display of results and screen refresh functionality. JT Harness 4.1.4 provides complete backwards compatibility with JT Harness 4.1.3. For more information, visit the JT Harness project page.

Ted Neward, Tim Boudreau, and Geertjan Wielenga on the NetBeans Platform
In a new NetBeans.tv interview, Ted Neward interviews Tim Boudreau and Geertjan Wielenga about the NetBeans Platform. In part 1, they talk about plugin development which, it turns out, is "ridiculously easy". Then, in part 2, they talk about creating your own Swing applications on top of the NetBeans Platform, and the book they co-authored with Jaroslav Tulach, called Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform.

Weblogs

Current State of Java for HPC
At the last JavaOne I did a walk-on talk during the AMD keynote where I talked about how incredible HotSpot's performance had become - beating the best C compilers. I ended my talk with a joking comment that "the next target is Fortran". — James Gosling

Question: how to bind SOAP <-> ORM JPA ?
Few days thinking about the best way to copy values between the objects representation of SOAP message elements and JPA entities. I couldn't find a good answer, so I am sharing the question. — Felipe Gaucho

A better way for UML management
While aiming at blueMarine 1.0 for the end of the year, the effort is being put not only to stability and performance, but also on cleaning up the APIs in order to have a polished and stable version that others might use. One of the problems is with the UML diagrams - so far I've used the UML editor in NetBeans, but keeping them up-to-date is really time expensive, especially after some heavy refactoring. — Fabrizio Giudici

Forums

Re: MIDP3 status?
The mobile/wireless space is subject to competing interests and technologies - arguably more so than most other more established technology areas. Any attempt to standardize on features, APIs, or functionality occurs in this tension field. But standards are necessary to create economies of scale that allows content creation and deployment to occur efficiently and increase the value of the ecosystem for everyone involved. Java ME standardization is a difficult industry-wide effort and the process depends on the willingness of the participants to work efficiently for the benefit of the ecosystem. This is not necessarily a failure of the JCP but more a reflection of the difficult environment is must operate in. —

A list of all loaded webstart ressources/jars
I need a list of all loaded jars in my project which are defined in my jnlp file. An example is the tool "javaws -viewer". There you can list all ressources from javaws. The list should include the full path to the ressource on hdd, because I want to open all jar files with "JarFile" class to extract some information from it. Could you help me? —

Re: glassfish and logging
Point being: Talking about the glassfish administration console, you get a lot more feature than tomcat possibly offers (online log browser, the ability to set log levels for packages and classes without messing with configuration files, log rotation, syslog integration and all that stuff) so while using glassfish logging, you can leave most of the logging configuration out of your application. —

Re: System.currentTimeMillis() resolution problem.
I absolutely agree that the registry tweak is not a general purpose solution. There must be a reason for not using the software clock in the first place, so manually forcing to use the software clock probably mean a sub-optimal configuration of the device. I don't agree that the workarounds try to cover up a deficiency in the windows platform though. They are there to make Java applications more portable. The sole purpose of them is actually to try to make the runtime behave closer to the _expected_ behaviour. —