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Did you ever think that Sun would open source its Java implementations...
and not under its preferred CDDL license, but rather under the GPL? Coming
just a week after the announcement of the controversial Microsoft/Novell
deal--some have said the timing is no coincidence--the move has clearly
done much to elevate the esteem of Java within the open source community,
and should make it much easier for Linux distros to include Java, or make
it available with something as simple as an Debianesque apt-get. Our
bloggers are all over the GPL release this week, as is the java.net site,
which is a collaboration between O'Reilly, Sun, and Collabnet.

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As for this week's feature articles, we're focusing on project management
approaches that work, in Satya Komatineni's "Reshaping IT Project Delivery
Through Extreme Prototyping," in which you develop your web app not
through a bunch of design documents but as a series of increasingly
functional prototypes. He writes: "By using Extreme Prototyping, you will
be able to substantially shorten the requirement cycle and also the
development cycle. Extreme Prototyping will allow you to consistently
estimate and deliver your projects faster, cheaper, and better. Extreme
Prototyping achieves these results primarily by breaking down the
dependencies between multiple teams and thereby allowing parallel
development. Extreme Prototyping continues to put extra emphasis on
executable deliverables."

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/11/15/reshaping-it-project-delivery-through-extreme-prototyping.html

A number of Java APIs use LDAP as their basic organizational concept, but
how well do you know LDAP? Have you been trying to figure it out from
what's implicit in the Javadocs? In an article from O'Reilly's SysAdmin
site, Brian K. Jones offers some help with "Demystifying LDAP Data."
Describing it as "More Than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know About
LDAP Data," he says "it's a non-trivial topic space, really. However, I
believe that the content of this article evaporates all of the
unnecessarily verbose theory and leaves behind something you can (I hope!)
refer back to in times of need."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/11/09/demystifying-ldap-data.html

In our feature article from java.net, "Integrating Maps into Your Java Web
Application with Google Maps and Ajax," John Ferguson Smart combines the
Google Maps API with some JavaScript on the client side to pull off a
popular Ajax combination. "This article is designed to give you a rapid
introduction to both Google Maps and Ajax, and to let you get your own
interactive maps up and running quickly and easily."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/10/25/integrating-google-maps-into-web-application.html

Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:

Robert Cooper - Think of a number between 1 and 10....
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/think_of_a_number_between_1_an.html

Robert Cooper - Timeline
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/timeline.html

Mike Loukides - At last! Open Source Java
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/at_last_open_source_java.html

Chris Adamson - Java Posse corrals open-source Java discussion
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/java_posse_corrals_opensource.html

Robert Cooper - Java GPLed.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/java_gpled_1.html

Sam Griffith - Language syntax's, performance, PHP, Ruby, Java and who's
better? Ahhhh!
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/language_syntaxs_performance_p.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
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Please join us again next week.

Chris Adamson, Editor
ONJava.com
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