• Is compilation just another test? Should it be?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50060

• Android? FX Mobile?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/
  2008/07/android_lost_in.html
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=43542&tstart=0
  

• Java Library of the Week - OFX4J
• http://ofx4j.sourceforge.net

Quick News

• The Legion of the Bouncy Castle has released version 1.4 of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API
• http://www.bouncycastle.org/

• The Little Tutorials blog has a nice introduction to using JSR 223 compliant scripting languages on the JVM to provide macro or extension capabilities for your customers
• http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/10/script-thy-java-app/

• DZone continues with the free refcard releases, this time with a glassfish refcard
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50054

• Remember former application of the week BlueMarine?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/07/various_update.html

• The EMEA Horizons conference is to be held in Munich, Germany from October 6th to the 9th
• http://wikis.sun.com/display/JavaCAPSHorizons/
  Java+CAPS+Horizons+Summit+-+EMEA+2008

• A new report from Fortify software says that Java Open Source Software projects need a stronger focus on security
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-report-
  oss-projects-need-tighter-focus-on-security.html

• JRuby 1.1.3 has been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/
  07/19/JRuby+1.1.3+Released

• The Jython team has released an alpha version of Jython 2.5
• http://jython.org

• Sourceforge has released the list of finalists for the sourceforge community choice awards
• http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-finalists
  

• SpringSource - creators of the popular Spring enterprise Java framework - have made SpringSource Enterprise generally available
• http://www.springsource.com/products/enterprise
  

• Java running on the iPhone 2.0!
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/java4iphone/entry/java_for_iphone_iphone_3g
  

• Alex Potochkin has taken over from Hans Muller as spec lead for the JSR
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/other_peoples_l.html 
• http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/
  001693_hans_muller_left_sun_for_adobe.html
  

• Apple has released XCode 3.1
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_17_2008_22224
  

• Javalobby has a roundup of several Java performance tuning and troubleshooting tools
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-performance-troubleshooti-0 
  

• Topcoder have just announced the Notus FOKYC Data Access Objects Java development competition
• http://www.wittysparks.com/2008/07/19/
  topcoder-java-development-competition-1500-in-prizes/
  

• The NetBeans site has a tutorial for using a ReST based web service
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/websvc/zillow.html
  

• JavaWorld has an article comparing and contrasting three different and popular options for Java persistence: iBatis, JPA and Hibernate
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2008/
  jw-07-orm-comparison.html?page=7

• Caoyuan blogs that he has integrated Scala's native compiler into the NetBeans Scala plugin
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/
  employ_scala_s_native_compiler
  

• Sun has released version 1.0 of the Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/
  archive/2008/07/sun_java_system.html
  

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