Axel Winter

“The new status symbol,” report Matt Richtel and Laura M. Holson (nytimes.com) “is what your phone can do — count calories, teach Spanish, simulate a flute, or fling a monkey from a tree.” While some “programs can genuinely help productivity,” others are simply “jaw-dropping“ fun. The apps, say the authors, “have become a form of social currency” that is driving “a new kind of business.”

The ChenilleKit project team is pleased to announce the availability of the out first release ever.<br>The ChenilleKit project comprehend a wide series of Tapestry5 libraries in the form of Tapestry5 modules which you can use both in Tapestry5 web and standalone applications.

Many of you have commented that our NewsVac section hasn't been refreshed since the middle of last month. Others have noticed that our story volume has dropped off. Changes are coming to Linux.com, and until they arrive, you won't see any new stories on the site.

2009 is coming to your way and its time to get ready on what technology lies ahead. Joshua Partogi tells us what he believes are the technologies to watch in the coming year.

The free and open source software community has been waiting for the G1 cell phone since it was first announced in July. Source code for Google's Android mobile platform has been available, but the G1 marks its commercial debut. It's clearly a good device, but is it what Linux boosters and FOSS advocates have long been anticipating?

HtmlUnit allows high-level manipulation of web pages, such as filling forms, clicking links, manipulating specific elements, you do not have to create lower-level requests of TCP/IP or HTTP, but just getPage(url), find a hyperlink, click() and you have all the HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax are automatically processed.

Latest release of JobServer introduces ability to run jobs and SOA tasks both in-process or out-of-process JVM.

jBPM 4 is a major step towards providing a single BPM solution that can be used for different forms of BPM and workflow, in different Java environments. It can be used as a standalone server or embedded into any Java application.

Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process: they let citizens directly add geographic information to the official, high-quality GIS databases by drawing or clicking on digital maps.

Because TSS.com was set up as a free and open community, spammers find it easy to gain accounts and post spam messages in an automated fashion.

TheServerSide Java Symposium conference agenda is almost complete.

A detailed review of the book Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6 written by David Heffelfinger and published by Packt Publishing.

Agilemon Corp just released enPaper Studio 1.0 beta, a one-stop document automation solution, in Java. Download now.

The Interclue extension is supposed to give you a preview of links in Firefox before you visit them, saving you mouse-clicks and, with a little luck, allowing you to move quickly between multiple links on the same page. Unfortunately, the determination to monetize the add-on and keep its source code closed results in elaborations that make the basic idea less effective, and its constant pleas for donations make Interclue into nagware. As much as the usefulness of the basic utility, Interclue serves as an object lesson of the difficulties that the decision to go proprietary can take.

Here you have some lessons learned that should be taken into account when working with the Google Web Toolkit, Axis and any of the JPA implementations out there.

This is a sample 1.5+ web application that demonstrates some of the popular java based web frameworks as simple as it can be.