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This week Roger and Terrence recap some of the announcements from the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. You'll also hear an excerpt from James Gosling's MEDD keynote address. More info

'It's a continuation of the work that I've been doing the past 20 years,' affirmed Larry Augustin, one of the most respected figures in open source and the creator of SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source software development community, as it was announced this week that he had joined JBoss Founder and former CEO Marc Fleury on the advisory board of Appcelerator. More info

You're paying your application developers to write code. But are they doing what you're paying them to do? In most IT organizations, the answer is no. Industry analysts estimate that developers spend only about 20 percent of their time designing and coding. How do they spend the bulk of their time? Resolving application problems. Identifying and correcting defects discovered in the testing phase of a software project consumes 50 percent or more of your developers' time. More info

More from the JavaOne 2006 keynotes&#8230; One of the new key features in Java 6 (Mustang), available now in beta and weekly snapshots and slated for release in October, is support for alternative languages running on the JVM. In particular, Java 6 will ship with support for running JavaScript code as a first-class citizen, with complete [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=54e9d48d3738b3ab6271fb30179d8a2b"/> More info

Sun has conceded: Java will be open sourced. During his opening keynote at JavaOne 2006, newly annointed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz welcomed to the stage Rich Green, Executive VP of Software, with the hard question: &#8220;Are you going to open source Java?&#8221; After a little mock evasiveness, Green explained Sun&#8217;s latest thinking on the matter, ending with [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=3a7f3ffaacc8e2dd6bcb3a7b22ceb8c9"/> More info

Adobe (formerly Macromedia) JRun 4 was released in 2002. Since then, Java web development has moved on somewhat. JRun 4 supports Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2, while most servers are now on Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. At four years since the last release, many developers assumed development of the server had ceased. But now it [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3df10ca5a330edcc90c3f4ece35aaf95"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3df10ca5a330edcc90c3f4ece35aaf95"/></a> More info

High on my list of Java blogs is Hani Suleiman&#8217;s The BileBlog, in which he gives unapologetically abrasive reviews of popular Java projects and the people behind them. In the past, he has had been less than complimentary of the Apache Project&#8217;s various open source (&#8221;opensores&#8221;) Java offerings like Maven and Struts. Today, he took [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=22b3007ac5c2ddcb089f47c30e471a74"/> More info

GlassFish provides fine tools for load balancing across a cluster, but what if you want to make your clustering decisions dynamically? Masoud Kalali shows how JMX and AMX can be used to make runtime clustering decisions. More info

Java programmers have a number of persistence frameworks to choose from, and far from being redundant, each is based on significantly different beliefs, assumptions, and ideal use-cases. In this article, Sharad Acharya takes a comparative look at JPA, Entity EJBs, Hibernate, and TopLink, to help you understand which is right for your needs. More info