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Recently the Apache MyFaces project released its second beta release and yesterday the Apache OpenWebBeans project released its M4 release.
These are great milestones in the direction of JavaEE at Apache!
A few month ago Bernd Bohmann and I were giving a JSF2 + X presentation in Muenster, at the JUG. The presentation was great and we [...]

Just a reminder that this blog has now moved to Wild Webmink where you will be most welcome to join me from now on.

Recently I played with the Apache Wink REST Client to access the Twitter Streaming API. Yesterday Jean-Francois Arcand announced the availability of Ning’s new Async Http Client. The blog looked interesting and the Twitter stream is a perfect example to combine the two. If you are behind a firewall you need to set a proxy-server [...]

After nearly 10 years, I've now left Sun. Thanks to everyone for following my blog for all these years. Please follow my new blog, Wild Webmink, where I have posted a career retrospective.

I've now turned off the automatic posting to this blog from Delicious. Daily links will now only appear over on my new Wild Webmink blog, and I once again encourage you to subscribe to it!

We're using Mercurial. Our release engineering servers run web servers, so we can browse our repositories, just like the public NetBeans ones at http://hg.netbeans.org, and pull down new changesets anonymously. However, for authentication purposes, we also use ssh, so all pushes to the repository has to go through ssh.

$ cat .hg/hgrc

[paths]

default = http://our.server.sun.com/our/repository

default-push = ssh://our.server.sun.com//our/repository

(P.S.

The "on the Java road" part of my job@Oracle is starting with a busy time:

• I'll be starting off at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. I'll be doing a keynote and a panel. EE 6 will be front and center. With luck, the Demo Gods will smile ;~)
• Then I'll be at Tech Days in Hyderabad, India.
  

Java EE 6 & GlassFish are swimming across the globe to participate in three different conferences in March 2010.

• BBC blocks open source software from iPlayer video service
  This is a very sad development from the UK's public service broadcaster.
  (tags: Flash BBC

• U.K. bill would 'outlaw open Wi-Fi'
  At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK governmnet on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.

A reminder: If you are following me here on blogs.sun.com, please change your bookmarks and feeds to read http://webmink.com instead, as I have moved all my blogging there. I'll be turning of the daily link posts early next week. There are several new posts on the new site, especially on ACTA, so you really do want to move!

Imagine you have some services which frequently triggers your backend to process some data and you need to display these changes on the UI… The most reasonable pattern is using Comet!
ADF Faces has great and flexible support for Comet with its ADS facility. This post quickly describes you to push data from a backend to [...]

• Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty
  While this is all good, it is not sufficient as ACTA will address far more than just "garduated response". This looks to me like a co-ordinated action by the Commissioners in response to obvious concern, to try to prevent the Parliament forcing their hand in the negotiations.

• EU Data Protection Supervisor Warns Against ACTA, Calls 3 Strikes Disproportionate
  Very welcome - and beuatifully-constructed - from Europe's data protection supremo.

With the change from Sun in the UK almost complete, I've decided to move my blog. Please adjust your feed, and read on over at Wild Webmink.

Oracle announced a new datasheet for "Oracle GlassFish Server 3", yep no "v"!

Here are some key points from the datasheet:

BENEFITS

• When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
  Remember I mentioned the "Special 301" list yesterday, that US corporations can use to place pressure on places where they find it hard to compete? Well, it seems that it's being used to get the US to attack states that prefer open source software - places like Brazil and India.

Here is an opportunity to hear the latest & greatest about Java EE 6 & GlassFish in Atlanta and Dallas.

• Time To Change (Or Ditch) The USTR Special 301 Process
  Special 301 is a nefarious mechanism that allows US corporations to request diplomatic action against foreign competitors on the flimsiest of grounds.

• WhoseTube?
  This is an interesting and useful article by a musician (from OK Go) whose work rose to great success through "viral" word-of-mouth video (the one with the people on running machines) but who now can't succeed with the same approach becuase their dinosaur record label EMI insists on "monetising video streams" and thus prevents them letting fans embed their new videos

• Copyright Undercover: ACTA & the Web
  "This issue is an embarrassment for all concerned, a naked bit of crony-capitalism that has so much more at stake than mere copyright.

• A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v.