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

Java developers are up in arms over the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, and the sudden silence from Apple regarding the future of Java 6 on the Mac. Not only did Leopard not ship with Java 6, but Apple has quietly taken down the developer preview of Java 6, and is reportedly deleting [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=ae8bd39576cbf8d4e39fd839deedef9b"/> More info

Portions of this entry were first published in the SitePoint Tech Times #139. Have you written your own AJAX framework yet? It seems all the big boys are doing it. Microsoft is bringing us Atlas for ASP.NET, Yahoo!&#8217;s User Interface Library is open source, server agnostic and beautifully documented and Adobe is working on Spry, which [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=fc26a97c5d7c8d90f0659b714c4a5d65"/> 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

This week's podcast features voices from the first ever Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. We talked to many of the people presenting poster sessions on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus as well as some of the contestants trying to win one of four SunSPOTs. 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

Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses some of the key points from his keynote address at FOSS-IN late last year in India. We look ahead to the upcoming Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. 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